The new President and GM of the Fevers are standing on business and I love it. Sides is not ready to coach at this level. She got to go back a recreational league to learn the basics of a being head coach
I don’t think Sides had anything to do with team chemistry either, I think was all Caitlin. Her personality just won them over after a while. Sides was basically just the event planner to force them to interact off the court.
It seems to me that the story of Christie Sides is one of a successful assistant coach who, in being given the top job, was promoted beyond her level of competence.
That’s such a great way to put it. And honestly I think she should be an assistant again if that’s what she loves. The Fever still owe her a million dollars so she’s fine financially. She can assist for whatever team will have her and she has a really positive attitude which some teams could really use. But yeah, not ready to coach Caitlin Clark. She’s not your average player.
Not to mention she couldn't bring herself to speak out against CC getting openly assaulted on a regular basis. She also followed the WNBA doctrine of "don't praise Clarke, but if you do you have to imention along with the other rookies as well".
All eyes in this post mortum are on Lynn Dunn. Choosing an incompetent, inexperienced coach for $500k, max contracts for slightly above and below average player skills.
If not for CC Sides would have left Lexi’s skill to rot on the bench with Saxon and Berger. Sides is a nice person; however, as a HEAD Coach she is incompetent
I agree. Berger and SAXTON are 2 very competent players who can hold their own just not given any true resemblance of an actual opportunity to demonstrate that
@@joejenjustWhen sides let Saxton on the court she looked good on defense and she should have played more. I hope the new coach sees she has 2 talented players in Saxton & berger. Clear out the deadweight. Go with youth
The creepy way Sides would constantly have her arm draped all the way around Clark I've never seen a coach do before, it just had a creepy lezzy vibe. Just unprofessional to do to anyone but especially the biggest female superstar on the planet and it appeared to make CC very uncomfortable in her expressions and body language.
I'm sorry but in what world would anyone be confused on the Mabrey play? CC has a great IQ and she failed no excuses. No Sides fault on this play. This was all CC's fault.
I will disagree slightly. If CC had not been drafted by the Fever, Sides would still be coaching there. Still bottom of the league, still acting like a coach but coaching badly like most WNBA teams. CC put the spotlight on Sides, under which she was revealed as a bad coach. Most any WNBA coach would have flamed out too, including Reeve. The league is that bad. And this is why the WNBA hates CC and her legion of new fans. She revealed the grotesque league culture, dysfunction, and product. For example, refereeing. Despite being fully exposed as both corrupt and unprofessional, NOTHING has been done about it since the finals became its last straw. Sue Blauch is still the league’s Head of Referee Performance and Development. No review of the season has been conducted. Nobody fired. Not one word from Englebert or their patron, the NBA. Still dysfunctional, corrupt, and unprofessional. Sides was a blip.
Without Clark, Fever are near the bottom of the league again, you don't think Fever would've replaced Sides like all of the other lower seeded teams have/are? I think in that scenario, if Dunn is replaced, so is Sides with or without Clark.
Sides answer to strategy question has always been, "we'll have to figure it out." WTF! A coach is paid to know what and how to do and the players to do it.
Sides revealed her coaching weakness every time she said about game issues: “I don’t know…we’re going to have to figure that out.” No, Sides! You’re the coach, you’re supposed to see what’s going on and have a response. If you get a salary for having the team “figure it out,” I’m applying for the job.
The players on Indiana Fever and the advice Bluder gave Indiana Fever were what created the good team chemistry... Coach Sides created division at first between old and new players... maybe, not deliberately... but despite it the young women became friends by the middle of the season...
EVERYBODY was saying this. Everybody knew CS was crap. But her staying wasn't her fault, it's the GM's fault for keeping a highly inadequate coach around. #smh
Jesus, Mary and the Saints; I don't know what's driving this nonstop dumping on a departed coach who's -- if nothing else, a decent human being -- and the irresistible urge to keep repeating everything she did wrong; every mistake; every shortcoming; every time her hair ribbon was askew. I hope I never trip and drop a plate if the Mick is in the dining room.
Dumping on Sides -- now that she's gone -- is petty, undignified and pointless. Agree that it's time to move forward with positivity. Goes for the whole country.
Sides was definitely clueless and it was obvious to anyone that knows anything about basketball 🏀.I thought they should of fired her @ the Olympic break.They probably would of made a deeper playoff run if they had.But The Fever have the right people @ the right position to sustain a run of hopefully multiple Championships,🙏.
Basically that's how Iowa played: score 90 plus a game and dare the other side to keep up. Worked pretty good. Iowa did have some defense but the main thing was run run run and gun gun gun.
A lot of blame falls on the support staff too. Sides doesn't deserve a pass as her job was to top down hold others accountable...which the front office did. The IQ gap between the coaching and players in the W is significantly smaller than in college or lower levels.
Like you said, the only positive talks about Sides were when asked direct questions but most notably, the compliments by the players NEVER included basketball. It was always off-the-court qualities that were praised.
She was. Spoon stood up for all of her players and she never disrespected her main star. She catered too much to Reese but she at least did that. Sides constantly attracted her players - especially Clark.
Sides comes to the games for the court side seat and to get her cardio in on the sideline but coaching, not her job. Fevers are not winning because of Sides, they are winning in spite of Sides. Whats the sense of the new GM getting bonafide ballers on the Fever’s bus next season and giving Sides the driver keys to drive off a cliff? Someone please call Mark Jackson Sides’ couching errors are basic techniques a coach learn in jr high school
What's so amazing about Christie Sides is how even none of the assistants seemed to have a clue on how to coach team defense. When the boss is clueless, and the assistants are clueless, that's a sign that lack of basketball IQ isn't the only problem. It's also a sign that the boss can't judge talent.
When Fever players were accused of bad defense, I was saying it was because there was no consistent strategy. I hardly ever saw a decent work through on a screen. Actually it happened on offense too. I have no idea how the team was expected to win except for player desire.
The first major red flag on sides was Celeste Taylor. She literally got zero playing time despite being drafted for her defense. Gets released Then goes to phoenix and averaged 14 minutes a game for a playoff team. But remember behind the incompetent is an enabler. Linn Dunn allowed this and the reality is that if the team had not replaced higher ups and moved Dunn out..Sides would still be HC lol.
Not just Sides, but also the GM Dunn. They thought they knew how to capture her talent instead of unleashing her. Just seeing the aggressiveness and optimistic expectations of the next season, let alone the foreseeable future is what was demanded. Many of us saw the difference of CC entering the W, and Michael Jordan, Koby and LeBron, in that order, of entering there careers. The NBA had enough players and teams that it would take them some years to figure it out with when and how to take over. Not so in the W. The harness and lack of respect to Caitlin from her own coach and GM restrained how much more could have been accomplished. If not for them and worried about the veterans, who early on were not stepping up as a team to protect their star, who knows how much the team and her accomplished. I believe there were a minimum of 5-6 wins not realized to poor coaching and managing that team. 😢
Sides using CC as a decoy time and time again and Sides not stopping the crazy runs and losing a few extra games than they should have...not using Berger and Saxton more probably hurt a lil bit also
Dunn is supposed to be a great coach and has a great mind for basketball, the fact that she vouched for Sides is incredibly dumb! When the W gave Side a “Coach of the month” it completely went over her head. Makes me question women’s basketball.
90% of what creates a good basketball team happens in practice. Sides never showed a hint of basketball IQ. I'm sure Fever practices were mostly a huge waste of opportunity. What success the Fever did have came directly from the players. Thankfully the new Fever upper management were not confused on this topic. Sides was never coming back, nor was her enabler Lin Dunn.
Asking a team to improvise is good. As long as players move the ball. And doing screen-and-roll plays.. And having a few players downcourt for defense. While the others catch- up. From playing offense. A coach could start as an assistant coach. And learn from a main coach. Then, echoing that to become a better coach. At this level, teaching players is important. Constantly teaching them is what a coach needs to do. Ironically, they had their best record, since 2016. And, All Star players on their team. And, Caitlin's records as a rookie.
Defense is mostly effort. They are a lazy defensive team and they have been tat way for years. CC got caught playing poor defense on the regular. It was a lack of effort.
Your videos are sooooooo strong when you are talking about the actual game of basketball, especially basketball coaching. From my side of the computer, it's pretty clear that the Fever's defensive strategy when it got the lead was to slow down their own offense to give the opponent fewer scoring opportunities. That slow-it-down strategy obviously bit the team in the butt during the season, and eventually cost the coach her job. I also suspect that the coach determined before the season began that it was going to treat its superstar/generational talent exactly the same as it treats the 12th player at the end of the bench. The 12th player with 0 minutes played got minimal credit for team wins, as did the team's best player.
BAD LINEUP! CC is almost playing with one other shooter all the time! When she needs to play Four-Out, or even Five-OUT. Mitchell needs to dribble to shoot,SMith CANT SHOOT,cant even make free throws. SO if they keep their lineup, Only LEXI IS THE OTHER SPOT-UP SHOOTER. Imagine Kelsey Plum as the shooting guard. You have Lexi still on the corner, and instead of Smith, you have Liz Ktley on the other corner. Leaving BOston in the paint. THAT WOULD BE A CHAMPIONSHIP LINEUP
How is the FEV ER going to work on all these problems? That’s only two weeks before the season do they practice together earlier or what exactly is the schedule for practicing? I can’t believe it’s only two weeks. What is the timeline please?
Two weeks? The Fever are in the WNBA and it a long way from the next season. The league in 2 weeks is a 3v3 league a few players and investors formed to give the players extra income instead of having to go overseas. I believe this Unrivaled league was set up to give the players leverage in CBA negotiations with the WNBA and they were gonna strike CC made the WNBA actually popular though. The Unrivaled league in January is just 6 new teams with 36 players but they only have 33 players. I believe it will fold because Clark, Aja, Ionescu, Plum, Mitchell and Chennedy are not even playing in it and those are some of the best scorers and players
@@Mellowyellow3 For the WNBA if you started camp any earlier none of your rookies woukd be there as the NCAA finishes not long before the WNBA season starts
It's hard to have a plan when your best players absolutely refuse to play defense by not keeping the player they're guarding in front of them, cheating away from their defensive assignments to try and grab a cheap rebound and are physically incapable of fighting through screens. Absolutely lazy on defense with no desire to get better. You have to WANT to play defense. No amount of coaching will change that if you don't have the heart to do it.
Why are we still badmouthing Christie Sides months after her leaving the Fever (and being replaced) was announced. I don't get it. It seems like "punching down," to me, and pointless. She's gone; we have a new coach; we have a new GM; we'll have new players on a reconstituted team. I just don't get the point of disinterring Sides' corpse every week, slapping her face, and doing a victory dance. Did she kick your dog, or what? The gossip is pointless, and it's a bore.
I think your reading TOO much into it! Christie Sides was the EXACT coach at the the time to get the fever from last place.... how ever she was out coached later by her own success!
@Mick this is where you’re at your best. When you TALK HOOPS. Bc you’re knowledgeable as fuck. When you speculate, talk percentages, Reddit/twitter gossip that’s where you lose me.
Sides comes to the games for the court side seat and to get her cardio in on the sideline but coaching, not her job. Fevers are not winning because of Sides, they are winning in spite of Sides. Whats the sense of the new GM getting bonafide ballers on the Fever’s bus next season and giving Sides the driver keys to drive off a cliff? Someone please call Mark Jackson Sides’ couching errors are basic techniques a coach learn in jr high school
This is exactly what Awful Coaching repeatedly said. The Fever was not being coached properly, especially on defense.
Christie Sides was Awful Coaching's #1 content.
You watch him also? Lmao!!😂 Kudos
and he said her coaching is why he'll never bring a child into this world.
What defense?
Awful Coaching is legendary..his Fever videos are on my playlist..brutal..honest..hilarious and accurate...lol
I can't imagine the frustration the players must have felt throughout the season & playoffs.
The new President and GM of the Fevers are standing on business and I love it. Sides is not ready to coach at this level. She got to go back a recreational league to learn the basics of a being head coach
Nepotism is a funny thing.
Clark had a great season despite having a bad coach. Its scary to think about what she might of done with a good coach
And FAIR refs.
Watch for year 2!
@@quasarrad1464 Clark 2.0. Better,stronger, faster. But above all wiser.
How many more basketball IQ points will she have by the end of next season?
Now we have confirmation that any offence we saw was CC’s offense. CC installed her own offence the way brilliant quarterbacks do
Yep. Take what the defence offers you.
It was obvious
I don’t think Sides had anything to do with team chemistry either, I think was all Caitlin. Her personality just won them over after a while. Sides was basically just the event planner to force them to interact off the court.
Christy Sides was a pawn of the leaders in the WNBA, and I'll push it further the referees were pawns too.
Especially in the playoffs
the refs still are until they prove they aren't
It seems to me that the story of Christie Sides is one of a successful assistant coach who, in being given the top job, was promoted beyond her level of competence.
That’s such a great way to put it. And honestly I think she should be an assistant again if that’s what she loves. The Fever still owe her a million dollars so she’s fine financially. She can assist for whatever team will have her and she has a really positive attitude which some teams could really use.
But yeah, not ready to coach Caitlin Clark. She’s not your average player.
It is the Peter Principle
@@Mirror_of_the_Soul00 Indeed.
Not to mention she couldn't bring herself to speak out against CC getting openly assaulted on a regular basis. She also followed the WNBA doctrine of "don't praise Clarke, but if you do you have to imention along with the other rookies as well".
All eyes in this post mortum are on Lynn Dunn. Choosing an incompetent, inexperienced coach for $500k, max contracts for slightly above and below average player skills.
I really admire your ability to turn a 30 second video into 8 minutes lol
If not for CC Sides would have left Lexi’s skill to rot on the bench with Saxon and Berger. Sides is a nice person; however, as a HEAD Coach she is incompetent
Exactly
I agree. Berger and SAXTON are 2 very competent players who can hold their own just not given any true resemblance of an actual opportunity to demonstrate that
@@joejenjustWhen sides let Saxton on the court she looked good on defense and she should have played more. I hope the new coach sees she has 2 talented players in Saxton & berger. Clear out the deadweight. Go with youth
@@ads2686 Please stop trying to make it seem like Victoria is a good player.😂
let go of Celeste that played 15-20mins in playoffs to keep bench warmer that never gets in the gamew in Saxton.
Sides' defensive strategy was TRADING a great defensive player!
and also not letting a good defensive player in Victaria Saxton get hardly any game time.
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
ChatGP would not use Caitlin Clark as a decoy.
Go back to Micks first takes on Clark. Hindsight is 20/20.
And let's not forget- Wallace and Wheeler were starting for too long.
And Katie
and Katie Lou too.
While producing nothing.
And smith. Temi should’ve been in that spot
EW started 2 games. Wallace started 15.
The creepy way Sides would constantly have her arm draped all the way around Clark I've never seen a coach do before, it just had a creepy lezzy vibe. Just unprofessional to do to anyone but especially the biggest female superstar on the planet and it appeared to make CC very uncomfortable in her expressions and body language.
Agreed.
I'm sorry but in what world would anyone be confused on the Mabrey play? CC has a great IQ and she failed no excuses. No Sides fault on this play. This was all CC's fault.
I will disagree slightly. If CC had not been drafted by the Fever, Sides would still be coaching there. Still bottom of the league, still acting like a coach but coaching badly like most WNBA teams. CC put the spotlight on Sides, under which she was revealed as a bad coach. Most any WNBA coach would have flamed out too, including Reeve. The league is that bad. And this is why the WNBA hates CC and her legion of new fans. She revealed the grotesque league culture, dysfunction, and product. For example, refereeing. Despite being fully exposed as both corrupt and unprofessional, NOTHING has been done about it since the finals became its last straw. Sue Blauch is still the league’s Head of Referee Performance and Development. No review of the season has been conducted. Nobody fired. Not one word from Englebert or their patron, the NBA. Still dysfunctional, corrupt, and unprofessional. Sides was a blip.
Without Clark, Fever are near the bottom of the league again, you don't think Fever would've replaced Sides like all of the other lower seeded teams have/are? I think in that scenario, if Dunn is replaced, so is Sides with or without Clark.
Sides answer to strategy question has always been, "we'll have to figure it out." WTF! A coach is paid to know what and how to do and the players to do it.
Sides revealed her coaching weakness every time she said about game issues: “I don’t know…we’re going to have to figure that out.”
No, Sides! You’re the coach, you’re supposed to see what’s going on and have a response. If you get a salary for having the team “figure it out,” I’m applying for the job.
Sides was NOT the one that created good team chemistry
Sides was polarising.
The players on Indiana Fever and the advice Bluder gave Indiana Fever were what created the good team chemistry... Coach Sides created division at first between old and new players... maybe, not deliberately... but despite it the young women became friends by the middle of the season...
🤔 Mick for assistant coach on the fever would be 🔥
Waiting to hear when Clark actually said this instead of Mick just yapping.
EVERYBODY was saying this. Everybody knew CS was crap. But her staying wasn't her fault, it's the GM's fault for keeping a highly inadequate coach around. #smh
Sides is gone. We know her shortfalls. Time to move forward with positivity and quit shoveling dirt on her.
Yeah let’s move on. I want to know who is going to be on this team with this new coach. That’s all we need to know.
Yes!
Agreed
Jesus, Mary and the Saints; I don't know what's driving this nonstop dumping on a departed coach who's -- if nothing else, a decent human being -- and the irresistible urge to keep repeating everything she did wrong; every mistake; every shortcoming; every time her hair ribbon was askew. I hope I never trip and drop a plate if the Mick is in the dining room.
Dumping on Sides -- now that she's gone -- is petty, undignified and pointless. Agree that it's time to move forward with positivity. Goes for the whole country.
Sides was definitely clueless and it was obvious to anyone that knows anything about basketball 🏀.I thought they should of fired her @ the Olympic break.They probably would of made a deeper playoff run if they had.But The Fever have the right people @ the right position to sustain a run of hopefully multiple Championships,🙏.
Who would replace her mid season? It’s possible they tried and couldn’t find anyone suitable at the time.
Basically that's how Iowa played: score 90 plus a game and dare the other side to keep up. Worked pretty good. Iowa did have some defense but the main thing was run run run and gun gun gun.
A lot of blame falls on the support staff too. Sides doesn't deserve a pass as her job was to top down hold others accountable...which the front office did.
The IQ gap between the coaching and players in the W is significantly smaller than in college or lower levels.
Like you said, the only positive talks about Sides were when asked direct questions but most notably, the compliments by the players NEVER included basketball. It was always off-the-court qualities that were praised.
No way u think sides was worse than T.Spoon
She was.
Spoon stood up for all of her players and she never disrespected her main star. She catered too much to Reese but she at least did that. Sides constantly attracted her players - especially Clark.
Duh. Obviously. As do all Clark fans. To simplify T-spoon put her whole career on Angel, and Sides did the opposite.
@@tonyedwards3938 they were both awful in different ways, not really much point further than that.
Sides comes to the games for the court side seat and to get her cardio in on the sideline but coaching, not her job. Fevers are not winning because of Sides, they are winning in spite of Sides. Whats the sense of the new GM getting bonafide ballers on the Fever’s bus next season and giving Sides the driver keys to drive off a cliff? Someone please call Mark Jackson
Sides’ couching errors are basic techniques a coach learn in jr high school
Lmao 😂😂😂
What's so amazing about Christie Sides is how even none of the assistants seemed to have a clue on how to coach team defense. When the boss is clueless, and the assistants are clueless, that's a sign that lack of basketball IQ isn't the only problem. It's also a sign that the boss can't judge talent.
Congrats on 40k!!
Motivational speaker?🤣🤣🤣 Yes, of course!😂😂😂 That's why they always started the third quarters so focused!🤪
Sides was not the worst coach in the WNBA. She would have to get in line. She just was revealed.
When Fever players were accused of bad defense, I was saying it was because there was no consistent strategy. I hardly ever saw a decent work through on a screen. Actually it happened on offense too. I have no idea how the team was expected to win except for player desire.
The first major red flag on sides was Celeste Taylor. She literally got zero playing time despite being drafted for her defense. Gets released Then goes to phoenix and averaged 14 minutes a game for a playoff team. But remember behind the incompetent is an enabler. Linn Dunn allowed this and the reality is that if the team had not replaced higher ups and moved Dunn out..Sides would still be HC lol.
Christie Sides makes Ted Lasso look like Sir Alex Ferguson.
if the fever had any other coach then sides they might of had a better record then 20/20😊
Christies Sides, Tank Commander! 🤣🤣🤣
Sides a dork
Not just Sides, but also the GM Dunn. They thought they knew how to capture her talent instead of unleashing her. Just seeing the aggressiveness and optimistic expectations of the next season, let alone the foreseeable future is what was demanded. Many of us saw the difference of CC entering the W, and Michael Jordan, Koby and LeBron, in that order, of entering there careers. The NBA had enough players and teams that it would take them some years to figure it out with when and how to take over. Not so in the W. The harness and lack of respect to Caitlin from her own coach and GM restrained how much more could have been accomplished. If not for them and worried about the veterans, who early on were not stepping up as a team to protect their star, who knows how much the team and her accomplished. I believe there were a minimum of 5-6 wins not realized to poor coaching and managing that team.
😢
Spor on analysis of the fever's defense under sides! They looked lost on D. Lexie hustles her tail off on D, though.
Sides using CC as a decoy time and time again and Sides not stopping the crazy runs and losing a few extra games than they should have...not using Berger and Saxton more probably hurt a lil bit also
Well the Fever had no idea how to defend around a screen and very seldom could they set a good screen on offense.
Dunn is supposed to be a great coach and has a great mind for basketball, the fact that she vouched for Sides is incredibly dumb! When the W gave Side a “Coach of the month” it completely went over her head. Makes me question women’s basketball.
90% of what creates a good basketball team happens in practice. Sides never showed a hint of basketball IQ. I'm sure Fever practices were mostly a huge waste of opportunity. What success the Fever did have came directly from the players. Thankfully the new Fever upper management were not confused on this topic. Sides was never coming back, nor was her enabler Lin Dunn.
Been watching your content for a few months now, finally subbed. Great vid today.
They should not have lost that game. period.
Asking a team to improvise is good. As long as players move the ball. And doing screen-and-roll plays.. And having a few players downcourt for defense. While the others catch- up. From playing offense.
A coach could start as an assistant coach. And learn from a main coach. Then, echoing that to become a better coach.
At this level, teaching players is important.
Constantly teaching them is what a coach needs to do.
Ironically, they had their best record, since 2016. And, All Star players on their team.
And, Caitlin's records as a rookie.
To be fair, I fact checked and its not true that Christie Sides didn't play basketball before - she did
Are any of the coaches in wnba any good
BUT SHE DOES HAVY ANOTHER JOB ! CHRISTIE SIDES IS ASSISTANT COACH OF THE ATLANTA DREAM !
They had no game plan against anyone.
I would not want Sides coaching 7th and 8th graders. 👎
And then she sabotage her team by bringing out those whose hands are hot, always do it to Hull and Fagbenle😂
Defense is mostly effort. They are a lazy defensive team and they have been tat way for years. CC got caught playing poor defense on the regular. It was a lack of effort.
I would love a job like hers, no idea what I am doing and getting half a mil for it. Living large.
I blame DUNN 😢
Your videos are sooooooo strong when you are talking about the actual game of basketball, especially basketball coaching. From my side of the computer, it's pretty clear that the Fever's defensive strategy when it got the lead was to slow down their own offense to give the opponent fewer scoring opportunities. That slow-it-down strategy obviously bit the team in the butt during the season, and eventually cost the coach her job. I also suspect that the coach determined before the season began that it was going to treat its superstar/generational talent exactly the same as it treats the 12th player at the end of the bench. The 12th player with 0 minutes played got minimal credit for team wins, as did the team's best player.
We knew that by watching
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
Kind off lets go
Gee I'm shocked! /s
BAD LINEUP! CC is almost playing with one other shooter all the time! When she needs to play Four-Out, or even Five-OUT. Mitchell needs to dribble to shoot,SMith CANT SHOOT,cant even make free throws. SO if they keep their lineup, Only LEXI IS THE OTHER SPOT-UP SHOOTER. Imagine Kelsey Plum as the shooting guard. You have Lexi still on the corner, and instead of Smith, you have Liz Ktley on the other corner. Leaving BOston in the paint. THAT WOULD BE A CHAMPIONSHIP LINEUP
Christie Sides,Ifeel.sick.gotta puke!.just sayiin
How is the FEV ER going to work on all these problems? That’s only two weeks before the season do they practice together earlier or what exactly is the schedule for practicing? I can’t believe it’s only two weeks. What is the timeline please?
Two weeks? The Fever are in the WNBA and it a long way from the next season. The league in 2 weeks is a 3v3 league a few players and investors formed to give the players extra income instead of having to go overseas. I believe this Unrivaled league was set up to give the players leverage in CBA negotiations with the WNBA and they were gonna strike CC made the WNBA actually popular though. The Unrivaled league in January is just 6 new teams with 36 players but they only have 33 players.
I believe it will fold because Clark, Aja, Ionescu, Plum, Mitchell and Chennedy are not even playing in it and those are some of the best scorers and players
The coach is communicating with them until their two weeks before the season start but that's it.
@@Mellowyellow3 For the WNBA if you started camp any earlier none of your rookies woukd be there as the NCAA finishes not long before the WNBA season starts
Mick knows basketball didn't notice?
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Algorithm comment 😊
It's hard to have a plan when your best players absolutely refuse to play defense by not keeping the player they're guarding in front of them, cheating away from their defensive assignments to try and grab a cheap rebound and are physically incapable of fighting through screens. Absolutely lazy on defense with no desire to get better. You have to WANT to play defense. No amount of coaching will change that if you don't have the heart to do it.
I said from day one that Sides was the female Darvin Ham
Well we all know it was because of CC took Fever to the playoffs. Not Sides. She always been incompetent since day 1
Why are we still badmouthing Christie Sides months after her leaving the Fever (and being replaced) was announced. I don't get it. It seems like "punching down," to me, and pointless. She's gone; we have a new coach; we have a new GM; we'll have new players on a reconstituted team. I just don't get the point of disinterring Sides' corpse every week, slapping her face, and doing a victory dance. Did she kick your dog, or what?
The gossip is pointless, and it's a bore.
Just another way to get views. She doesn't deserve this.
I think your reading TOO much into it! Christie Sides was the EXACT coach at the the time to get the fever from last place.... how ever she was out coached later by her own success!
Uhhh no. The players did that themselves.💀
@Mick this is where you’re at your best. When you TALK HOOPS. Bc you’re knowledgeable as fuck. When you speculate, talk percentages, Reddit/twitter gossip that’s where you lose me.
Sides comes to the games for the court side seat and to get her cardio in on the sideline but coaching, not her job. Fevers are not winning because of Sides, they are winning in spite of Sides. Whats the sense of the new GM getting bonafide ballers on the Fever’s bus next season and giving Sides the driver keys to drive off a cliff? Someone please call Mark Jackson
Sides’ couching errors are basic techniques a coach learn in jr high school