From 11-29 and an 11th-place finish in 2023 to 25-15 and a fifth-place finish in 2024. Sounds like a successful season, right?
A win percentage of better than 60 percent, a top-five defense and two 2024 All-Stars (as well as two All-Star snubs and, down the stretch, the French Olympic hero), yet not a single playoff victory. That sounds like a bit of a disappointment, no?
The 2024 Seattle Storm are a conundrum. Their offseason additions—Nneka Ogwumike and Skylar Diggins-Smith—helped the team quickly escape the league’s cellar and re-emerge as a surefire playoff team, making it easy to see their season as a success. But, the lack of a postseason victory, combined with some subpar performances over the season’s final stretch, cannot be considered adequate for a team on the edge of the “superteam” conversation. They were the forgotten contenders that forgot to win a playoff game.
Was 2024 merely a mixed bag of a first season for a star-laden team that will cohere into contender in 2025? Or, did this season prove that the revitalized Storm don’t quite have what it takes to be a true title threat?
What went right for Seattle?
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