Kamilla Cardoso made a statement to the WNBA during Friday\u2019s blowout victory over the Portland Fire: she\u2019s one of the league\u2019s great players.<\/p>\n
Cardoso notched a record-breaking and jaw-dropping performance on Friday, snapping a decade-old feat formerly held by Nneka Ogwumike. She set the league\u2019s all-time record for most made field goals without a miss, going a perfect 13 for 13 from the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHer level of attention to detail lately, her trust in her teammates, her trust in herself, it has been evident in the last four games\u201d head Coach Tyler Marsh said on Friday night. \u201cI think she\u2019s played incredibly hard on both ends. I think she\u2019s been committed to defense as much as she has to the offensive end. She hasn\u2019t let woes on one side [of the court] affect her on the other.\u201d<\/p>\n
She finished the night with a career-best 30 points and became the first-ever center to score that many points while shooting 100% from the field.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s clear that Cardoso is continuing to break through; she scored one shy of her career high on June 20 in a hotly contested matchup against Dallas. She\u2019s among the league\u2019s leaders in blocks and rebounds and is vying for her first-ever All-Star appearance.<\/p>\n
Games like Friday\u2019s should be ample enough of a case for her All-Star eligibility.<\/p>\n
In her third season in the league, Cardoso is displaying a passion for playing alongside her team, thriving off their energy and building her voice on and off the court. When she gets it going, Cardoso is unstoppable.<\/p>\n
While the Sky have faced adversity in the face of injuries in the past two seasons, Cardoso has been a steady presence. She\u2019s the longest-tenured player in Marsh\u2019s scheme alongside veteran Elizabeth Williams, giving her a unique perspective on the team. That familiarity with the system builds an additional level of confidence in her game, one that is clearly emerging.<\/p>\n
In her last four games, Cardoso is averaging 21.3 points, 9.8 rebounds and 1.8 blocks while shooting an absurd 77.8% from the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe coaches have emphasized me rolling fast and holding my seal,\u201d Cardoso said of what\u2019s been working over these past few matchups. \u201cIt\u2019s working really well.\u201d<\/p>\n
It got even better for Cardoso on Friday, when Hall-of-Fame point guard Courtney Vandersloot made her return from injury. That game showcased to fans what a pairing of the two can look like this season. The fact that both players had record-breaking performances is no coincidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has been playing awesome and has the capability to [replicate this game],\u201d Vandersloot said. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna ride this wave and keep expecting this from her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kamilla Cardoso made a statement to the WNBA during Friday\u2019s blowout victory over the Portland Fire: she\u2019s one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-730621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}