Twelve games into the 2024 WNBA season, the Seattle Storm are making progress at 8-4 and are currently seeded at No. 4 in the league standings—right around where Swish Appeal staff predicted they’d be in the site’s preseason power rankings.
One has to wonder what the Storm would be looking like if they didn’t have the Minnesota Lynx on their schedule—Seattle dropped yet another game to Minnesota last weekend, falling to 0-3 against the Lynx on the season—but they’ve been otherwise solid since a slow start. Seattle is 4-1 in its last five games and is outscoring its opponents by 11.2 points per 100 possessions during that span.
Whereas some of the WNBA’s other top teams have had to overcome injury issues early in the season, for Seattle, it’s been more about establishing chemistry between its star players. Even though the Storm signed guard Skylar Diggins-Smith and forward Nneka Ogwumike, two of the most-decorated players in league history at their respective positions, for 2024, there’s still been a bit of an acclimation period as the franchise shifts gears from long-term player development and rebuilding (11-29 record in 2023) back into a win-now mentality.
