sides cant take this team to its full potential. she doesn't have assertiveness with controlling momentum or calling a timeout and she keeps experimenting with rotations and our game style. she doesn't benefit the team
I don't believe in dog piling on people but between not calling time outs when you are getting punched in the mouth and bizarre rotations, if feels to me like she is either inept or threw in the towel and emptied the bench. Almost as if the game didn't matter. It also feels to me like Clark is getting increasingly out of sorts and doesn't seem to be getting along with Sides. On Court confrontation between them is NOT normal. Clark coming out half way through the first quarter was very strange. She just played 45 minutes in the previous game. Something unhealthy is brewing.
I think CC was rattled with Aces fielding 8, against Fever's 5. One way to stop it might be to get the whole team of starters to react to a ghost foul and get disqualified/ejected. The W may be forced to take notice of the cheating then if CC & the rest of the starters don't play for the last two games of the regular?
i couldn't be a head coach for a generational talent like caitlin and not have the team set hard solid screens for her. all these soft ghost screens have been allowed by sides all season.
Yeah, totally agree that IF are ignoring the elephant in the room, After the Aces defeat, it looks like Sides is instilling a defeatist attitude rather than admitting her strategy was wrong. They are sacrificing the rocketing careers of CC, AB, KM, LH, TB & others to allow the coach to learn on the job. I don't have a problem with CC complimenting other teams/players after the game but I think neither CC nor Sides should be complimenting apposing teams/coaches/players BEFORE a game, unless the opposition are the underdog. ESPN had it 70/30 in favor of Aces before the game. IDK
@@charlesax8140Dunn needs to go too. She's the one who hired Sides. And I'm sure she's the one guiding Sides to structure the offense around the archaic slow half court model of points in the paint played through the post.
When Sides says the team is young, developing, and it's a process, she is indirectly referring to herself. She's making excuses and covering for her performance. She has short-term goals, but she doesn't have a direction for long-term which puts her over her head doing this job. How dare they embarrass the team and her by giving her coach of the month! She's makes a good summer camp leader, but pray tell how she jumped to a pro coach w/a superstar? She's not balsy enough like a Dawn Staley.
Sides is not a coach who earned coach of the month… they gave that to her. She gets exposed over and over. Does anyone in the Fever organization know what good basketball looks like?!
Caitlin did not make a political statement... she was set up by a woman saying that she saw Caitlin's "like" on Taylor Swift's photo holding a cat that said to Go Vote. The woman was setting Caitlin up in a no win situation by asking who Caitlin is going to vote for. This woman and a man have been throwing out no win questions at Caitlin's other press conferences, too. Either way she would have answered would have made 50% of fan base mad. Caitlin responded well and just said that it is important to "Go Vote". These questions are Caitlin's own business. Press should only be allowed to ask BASKETBALL questions. Caitlin is 22 years young! She has lived her short life in a gym. She is not a political figure. What else are they going to throw at her to try to lose fans... religious questions next?? Abortion?? World peace??
Money Mike is right, the Sides and Dunn goal was to barely make the playoffs this year and don't have any expectations beyond that. Sidesnis interviewing for her next assistant job
Sides will get exposed in the playoffs. probably 0-2 first round. i hope im wrong. i want CC to win the championship. Sides is the #1 defense against CC. Linn Dunn needs accountability as well
I knew when they got tid of Tayor, the GM and Sides did not have faith in a playoff run this year. What sides are doing with the bench is getting them minutes...its not about winning. CC should go to Europe...GM is not getting rid of sides.
President of fever resigned when fever finally getting good w the best player in the league bringing in millions. No sense to that unless she was told to leave. Once president leaves dunn and sides already on the hotseat. Cc not dealing w sides anymore and probably not dunn either. So it is either cc stays a d sides and dunn go...or cc goes. Cc not plying for sides or dunn anymore. Cc can call her shots..pun ..in all ways at this point.
Interesting, Tony. Very interesting. President Allison Barber announced on Wednesday (Sept 4) that she is stepping down from her role as President of the Indiana Fever at the end of the season. $Mike stated from the start big changes would occur. People this year won't be seen next year.
CS is over her head and dont know how to be a good headcoach. No use of timeouts, crazy rotations, slows the game down. And her biggest flaw as a coach is no ingame adjustments.
Following a loss idk why Sides laughs other than insecure on insincere. omg "growth, the young talent, figuring all that out, their leadership, the way they've grown". Snooze fest.😴Wait. There it goes, "it takes time." Where did we hear that. Dunn. LOL $Mike! 🏇🏾🏇🏾 You're not wrong. Give your best observation. If it's right, it's fact. Fever played hard. Erica Wheeler came through. Let her cook! Play Grace Berger. Thanks, $Mike!
June you're laying out the correct foundation and timeline. Sides has to believe the Fever can win the WNBA champion. Sides speaks about the future and doesn't realize she may not be a part of the Fever future success.
You are 100% correct about CC not getting wide open catch and shoot looks! Plum, Lloyd, Cooper, Ionescu etc… get WIDE OPEN catch and shoot looks. CC leads the league in creating her own made shots - 67% of the time - she has no help in getting open.
dude i watch a lot of people thinking they know what is wrong with the team. But you was spot on. I listened to sides interviews and i have watched a lot of coaches in every sport and i have never heard a coach who blames her star players. Coaches need to take the heat off their players by taking the blame themselves. When she says " we was rushing the plays and shooting from too far" who the hell can it be other than Caitlin? Now by saying "we will be good in 2 or 3 years. Sides is basically saying "give me a job for 2 or 3 years until then it is these inexperienced players to blame" SHe is writing off this season's playoffs. What kind of coach is that? CC has said "I want to win. I did not come here to get into the playoffs" Maybe make CC the coach and send Sides and the garbage players she signed for max money off on holiday. I am still shocked she payed 195k for wallace and max for katie lou when she is terrible
I agree with you that Sides lacks a championship mentality. She's not thinking about how to win, she's just keepin' on keepin' on dreaming of next year being just a little bit more improvement over this year. Proof that she lacks the mind of a champion: after her decisions made Fever lose a 31 point lead in a Mercury game, she said in her press conference that they'd never had a 31 point lead before and didn't have experience on how to keep it.
In this game, her options for people to pass to were limited. Caitlin wasn't shooting well, Lexie and Aliyah were in foul trouble, NaLyssa's scoring is inconsistent, Katie Lou's shooting has been crap, Temi's shooting hasn't yet come back since her injury... In this game, the best odds of getting a score from Kelsey's perspective would be to take the shot herself. Kelsey has been passing more in recent games. But in this game, I agree with her decision to keep the shots for herself.
I don’t understand why she is so dumb in making changes, she throws the players under the bus. She never reviewed the bad foul on Caitlin Clark, they were out to kill the fever and the coach admitted it
There’s a term you should learn. It’s REBUILDING. I should explain this term for you-as you’re obviously new-but I won’t. Look it up. Aja was obviously slowed by her injury or it would have been worse. Count your blessings for that. The Aces are a problem as they use three very good guards at once. Why is this a problem? Because it forces Clark to guard one of them and work even harder. Now Sides should force Clark to sit an take breathers-that is what a coach can do, but she can’t play the game for her players. This year, the Fever have neither are as good as they looked in August or as bad as they looked in May, but somewhere in between. Their perimeter defense. Is awful and they don’t pass the ball enough to beat the good teams. Yes, that means Clark has to give up the ball for the good of the team. Their power forwards are unpredictable and average. And they have little for a bench. After 4 years they are still in rebuilding mode. Also, how can Clark fans be so naive to believe their torrid shooting would continue? Things in life eventually come back to an equilibrium. You can’t have 10 hot shooting games and the one bad game and say we’re even. This is the 2nd game in a row Clark has shot 20 percentage points below her teams average. Not Sides, Clark. Any thoughts on that?
sides cant take this team to its full potential. she doesn't have assertiveness with controlling momentum or calling a timeout and she keeps experimenting with rotations and our game style. she doesn't benefit the team
perfectly said. nothing to add.
Christie Sides doesn’t believe the Indiana Fever can win the WNBA CHAMPIONSHIP
you got it right sides is not a winner and that's how she's coaching the team
I don't believe in dog piling on people but between not calling time outs when you are getting punched in the mouth and bizarre rotations, if feels to me like she is either inept or threw in the towel and emptied the bench. Almost as if the game didn't matter. It also feels to me like Clark is getting increasingly out of sorts and doesn't seem to be getting along with Sides. On Court confrontation between them is NOT normal. Clark coming out half way through the first quarter was very strange. She just played 45 minutes in the previous game. Something unhealthy is brewing.
I think CC was rattled with Aces fielding 8, against Fever's 5. One way to stop it might be to get the whole team of starters to react to a ghost foul and get disqualified/ejected. The W may be forced to take notice of the cheating then if CC & the rest of the starters don't play for the last two games of the regular?
i couldn't be a head coach for a generational talent like caitlin and not have the team set hard solid screens for her. all these soft ghost screens have been allowed by sides all season.
or Clark can learn to be effective without needing 100 screens a game
@@ricorogers9319 I'm pretty sure she's done that....out of necessity.
Totally Amazing-The simple Fundamentals to set proper screens for shooters
Yeah, totally agree that IF are ignoring the elephant in the room, After the Aces defeat, it looks like Sides is instilling a defeatist attitude rather than admitting her strategy was wrong. They are sacrificing the rocketing careers of CC, AB, KM, LH, TB & others to allow the coach to learn on the job. I don't have a problem with CC complimenting other teams/players after the game but I think neither CC nor Sides should be complimenting apposing teams/coaches/players BEFORE a game, unless the opposition are the underdog. ESPN had it 70/30 in favor of Aces before the game. IDK
100% Agreement with your Response
Nothing will happen to Sides. The owner hired a 200yr old dinosaur and she hired Sides. The owner doesnt give a fuck about the team. Such a shame.
Sides must go, but Dunn we will not let her go, Sides is the worst coach in the WNBA
@@charlesax8140Dunn needs to go too. She's the one who hired Sides. And I'm sure she's the one guiding Sides to structure the offense around the archaic slow half court model of points in the paint played through the post.
When Sides says the team is young, developing, and it's a process, she is indirectly referring to herself. She's making excuses and covering for her performance. She has short-term goals, but she doesn't have a direction for long-term which puts her over her head doing this job. How dare they embarrass the team and her by giving her coach of the month! She's makes a good summer camp leader, but pray tell how she jumped to a pro coach w/a superstar? She's not balsy enough like a Dawn Staley.
Good thing the wnba season is only 40 games, because Christie Sides is running out of excuses--she just might make it thru these last 3 games.
Cs is breaking CC and demoralizing her
Frustrating experience
Sides is not a coach who earned coach of the month… they gave that to her. She gets exposed over and over. Does anyone in the Fever organization know what good basketball looks like?!
Yes, Sides will be possibly coach of the year
Caitlin did not make a political statement... she was set up by a woman saying that she saw Caitlin's "like" on Taylor Swift's photo holding a cat that said to Go Vote. The woman was setting Caitlin up in a no win situation by asking who Caitlin is going to vote for. This woman and a man have been throwing out no win questions at Caitlin's other press conferences, too. Either way she would have answered would have made 50% of fan base mad. Caitlin responded well and just said that it is important to "Go Vote". These questions are Caitlin's own business. Press should only be allowed to ask BASKETBALL questions. Caitlin is 22 years young! She has lived her short life in a gym. She is not a political figure. What else are they going to throw at her to try to lose fans... religious questions next?? Abortion?? World peace??
Smart decision by Caitlin
How do you not put Temí on Aja and free up Boston. Sides doesn’t know how to coach
Money Mike is right, the Sides and Dunn goal was to barely make the playoffs this year and don't have any expectations beyond that. Sidesnis interviewing for her next assistant job
Aja ankle looked brand new. 😂 is it possible the aces load management aja just for this game ? How much of a threat is clark ?
Absolutely Load Management
Sides will get exposed in the playoffs. probably 0-2 first round. i hope im wrong. i want CC to win the championship. Sides is the #1 defense against CC. Linn Dunn needs accountability as well
Excellent Response
Dunn was the one who convinced Sides to be a head coach. She ain’t going nowhere.
Not as long as Dunn still has a job, she needs to be fired.
I knew when they got tid of Tayor, the GM and Sides did not have faith in a playoff run this year. What sides are doing with the bench is getting them minutes...its not about winning. CC should go to Europe...GM is not getting rid of sides.
Broken Clock Sides with her antiquated half court nonsense will lose in the 1st round.
President of fever resigned when fever finally getting good w the best player in the league bringing in millions. No sense to that unless she was told to leave.
Once president leaves dunn and sides already on the hotseat.
Cc not dealing w sides anymore and probably not dunn either.
So it is either cc stays a d sides and dunn go...or cc goes. Cc not plying for sides or dunn anymore.
Cc can call her shots..pun
..in all ways at this point.
Great Point
Interesting, Tony. Very interesting.
President Allison Barber announced on Wednesday (Sept 4) that she is stepping down from her role as President of the Indiana Fever at the end of the season. $Mike stated from the start big changes would occur. People this year won't be seen next year.
CS is over her head and dont know how to be a good headcoach. No use of timeouts, crazy rotations, slows the game down. And her biggest flaw as a coach is no ingame adjustments.
Following a loss idk why Sides laughs other than insecure on insincere. omg "growth, the young talent, figuring all that out, their leadership, the way they've grown". Snooze fest.😴Wait. There it goes, "it takes time." Where did we hear that. Dunn. LOL $Mike! 🏇🏾🏇🏾 You're not wrong. Give your best observation. If it's right, it's fact. Fever played hard. Erica Wheeler came through. Let her cook! Play Grace Berger. Thanks, $Mike!
June you're laying out the correct foundation and timeline. Sides has to believe the Fever can win the WNBA champion. Sides speaks about the future and doesn't realize she may not be a part of the Fever future success.
Oh well better luck next year. This team is no longer fun to watch with this coach and horrible bench
Sides is not good enough for this team
Sides doesn't have enough experience
Listen the future is now.
Learn the new game do not go to the same old borning game.
You are 100% correct about CC not getting wide open catch and shoot looks! Plum, Lloyd, Cooper, Ionescu etc… get WIDE OPEN catch and shoot looks. CC leads the league in creating her own made shots - 67% of the time - she has no help in getting open.
dude i watch a lot of people thinking they know what is wrong with the team. But you was spot on. I listened to sides interviews and i have watched a lot of coaches in every sport and i have never heard a coach who blames her star players. Coaches need to take the heat off their players by taking the blame themselves. When she says " we was rushing the plays and shooting from too far" who the hell can it be other than Caitlin? Now by saying "we will be good in 2 or 3 years. Sides is basically saying "give me a job for 2 or 3 years until then it is these inexperienced players to blame" SHe is writing off this season's playoffs. What kind of coach is that? CC has said "I want to win. I did not come here to get into the playoffs" Maybe make CC the coach and send Sides and the garbage players she signed for max money off on holiday. I am still shocked she payed 195k for wallace and max for katie lou when she is terrible
That's what you want to hear from your coach, not thinking she can win the championship
I agree with you that Sides lacks a championship mentality. She's not thinking about how to win, she's just keepin' on keepin' on dreaming of next year being just a little bit more improvement over this year.
Proof that she lacks the mind of a champion: after her decisions made Fever lose a 31 point lead in a Mercury game, she said in her press conference that they'd never had a 31 point lead before and didn't have experience on how to keep it.
It will bite them when CC can play for a different team.
That would be a disaster
That's like blaming the Bears coach for losing to the Chiefs. Get a grip, people!
Problem is if CC passes the ball for someone else to bring up, she never gets it back
no way. Too many positives over the season.
Mitchell doesn’t have assists she has problems passing
Mitchell assists total has to increase to win the WNBA Championship
In this game, her options for people to pass to were limited. Caitlin wasn't shooting well, Lexie and Aliyah were in foul trouble, NaLyssa's scoring is inconsistent, Katie Lou's shooting has been crap, Temi's shooting hasn't yet come back since her injury...
In this game, the best odds of getting a score from Kelsey's perspective would be to take the shot herself.
Kelsey has been passing more in recent games. But in this game, I agree with her decision to keep the shots for herself.
@@JE-IC I agree I’m just not sure that the coach agrees I think she’s trying to teach it CCL lesson
The thumbnail! Sides grabbing CC by the wrist? I think 99% of us would react differently.
You are 100% correct 👍🏿
I don’t understand why she is so dumb in making changes, she throws the players under the bus. She never reviewed the bad foul on Caitlin Clark, they were out to kill the fever and the coach admitted it
Sides doesn't fight for her team
Stop double teaming, play straight defense, giving up too many open 3s.
There’s a term you should learn. It’s REBUILDING. I should explain this term for you-as you’re obviously new-but I won’t. Look it up.
Aja was obviously slowed by her injury or it would have been worse. Count your blessings for that.
The Aces are a problem as they use three very good guards at once. Why is this a problem? Because it forces Clark to guard one of them and work even harder. Now Sides should force Clark to sit an take breathers-that is what a coach can do, but she can’t play the game for her players.
This year, the Fever have neither are as good as they looked in August or as bad as they looked in May, but somewhere in between. Their perimeter defense. Is awful and they don’t pass the ball enough to beat the good teams. Yes, that means Clark has to give up the ball for the good of the team.
Their power forwards are unpredictable and average. And they have little for a bench. After 4 years they are still in rebuilding mode.
Also, how can Clark fans be so naive to believe their torrid shooting would continue? Things in life eventually come back to an equilibrium. You can’t have 10 hot shooting games and the one bad game and say we’re even.
This is the 2nd game in a row Clark has shot 20 percentage points below her teams average. Not Sides, Clark. Any thoughts on that?
Well so much for that MVP talk CC is no where on aja level when is you all going to realize that.aja MVP ❤❤
Side is a great coach it's The players you can teach them everything you know but you can't play for them.they got to use what they been taught
@@EddieBuie-fk6gi I agree but the challenge is preparation for situational game adjustments
Yeah. Not putting Temi on Aja sooner? Putting Katie Lou and Wallace in together? And basically saying we are to young to win. Awful
They need to stop double teaming and play straight up defense, too many wide open 3s...
How do you not put Temí on Aja and free up Boston. Sides doesn’t know how to coach
That was the game
Yes, Sides Mental Freeze when making adjustments.
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