2024 WNBA Discussion Thread

With College Basketball season in full force and the NBA games kinda of a weird time frame to start a 3 on 3 league. Glorified streetball.
I’m not sure what to make of it yet, so I’ll tune in to check it out. But there’s literally no other time they can do it. Gives them rest after the WNBA season, and also gives them rest time before the start of the next season.
 
Is this kinda like the Big3 that Ice Cube started a few years ago, except the WNBA active players player instead of retired ones?
I mean more in the sense of the alternative football leagues that keep popping up in the NFL off season. They just can;t get enough media oxygen against the established sports calendar.
 
I mean more in the sense of the alternative football leagues that keep popping up in the NFL off season. They just can;t get enough media oxygen against the established sports calendar.
Difference is pop up football leagues are made up of NFL reject and wanna be players. This is the Ws best players w a couple of exceptions. Many have at least a modest following.

The timing against college season is going to be a big problem tho. Dark is right, there’s just no other time.

One encouraging thing is Alex Bazell running it. He knows his way around pro hoops and has great connections.
 
Wow! Another W firing. This time, Indiana Fever's Christie Sides.
Probably means Stephanie White is taking that job. That's the rumor. Also rumored Curt Miller to the Sky. That would be a movie.

IMO the last two, Sides and Tibbets, were unfair. Both teams got improved significantly over the course of the year and Sides got the Fever to the playoffs.
 
Probably means Stephanie White is taking that job. That's the rumor. Also rumored Curt Miller to the Sky. That would be a movie.

IMO the last two, Sides and Tibbets, were unfair. Both teams got improved significantly over the course of the year and Sides got the Fever to the playoffs.
Tibbets hasn't been fired yet. Either White or Former Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder is getting the Fever job.
 
So that's why Teresa Weatherspoon got fired from the Chicago Sky as well. Makes sense..
Cardoso and Carter are the only 2 players they ran plays consistently for, so I doubt that’s the case, I have a list of reasons Spoon was fired and that’s not one of them. And also the Sky didn’t have a roster to win anything with only 1 AllStar, Indiana had 3 AllStars and u should compete for a Championship with that.
 

Reposting the reasons behind Spoon getting fired from. I have to give @VolBall09 credit for calling out the fracture in the Sky locker room. It had to be bad for someone as reserved as Izzy is to speak to the media about it.
 

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Probably means Stephanie White is taking that job. That's the rumor. Also rumored Curt Miller to the Sky. That would be a movie.

IMO the last two, Sides and Tibbets, were unfair. Both teams got improved significantly over the course of the year and Sides got the Fever to the playoffs.
Sides is an out of the blue one for sure. The Fever a great 2nd half of the season. Stuff going on behind the scenes or do they think that White is too much of an upgrade to pass up?
 
Sides is an out of the blue one for sure. The Fever a great 2nd half of the season. Stuff going on behind the scenes or do they think that White is too much of an upgrade to pass up?

Oh yeah, she did wonders at Vanderbilt.
CC's fans didn't like Sides, thought she wasn't worthy of their queen. The Fever knows where the vein is in their goldmine. They've put Lin Dunn out to pasture and I keep hearing new front offices want to hire their own coaches. Apparently that played a big role for both Curt and TSpoon's firing.

Indeed White was awful at Vandy. As was her asst Carolyn Peck. She's very defense oriented but coaches offense like Kara Lawson. That was a big prob for the Suns this year. I guess the Fever think they don't need to be coached offensively.

All these coaching vacancies gotta get the show on the road within the next few weeks. Draft lottery drawing is Nov 17 and after that things start happening quickly. Protected players have to be submitted within a week or so after that and the expansion draft is in early Dec. Then free agents will start making decisions. Will want coaches aboard by then.

Whoever wins the lottery drawing will suddenly become a much more attractive job.
 
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CC's fans didn't like Sides, thought she wasn't worthy of their queen. The Fever knows where the vein is in their goldmine. They've put Lin Dunn out to pasture and I keep hearing new front offices want to hire their own coaches. Apparently that played a big role for both Curt and TSpoon's firing.

Indeed White was awful at Vandy. As was her asst Carolyn Peck. She's very defense oriented but coaches offense like Kara Lawson. That was a big prob for the Suns this year. I guess the Fever think they don't need to be coached offensively.

All these coaching vacancies gotta get the show on the road within the next few weeks. Draft lottery drawing is Nov 17 and after that things start happening quickly. Protected players have to be submitted within a week or so after that and the expansion draft is in early Dec. Then free agents will start making decisions. Will want coaches aboard by then.

Whoever wins the lottery drawing will suddenly become a much more attractive job.
On white, sometimes coaches look and talk the part to such an extent that they keep getting new chances despite less than stellar results. She may have a players coach rep.
 
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Sides is an out of the blue one for sure. The Fever a great 2nd half of the season. Stuff going on behind the scenes or do they think that White is too much of an upgrade to pass up?

Fever won in spite of Sides. Not because of her.

Right move all the way. It was clear she didn’t have the stuff and she and Clark were not on the same page. Clark will call the shots on almost anything due to her earning ability for the organization.
 
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Fever won in spite of Sides. Not because of her.

Right move all the way. It was clear she didn’t have the stuff and she and Clark were not on the same page. Clark will call the shots on almost anything due to her earning ability for the organization.
I know! Sides would occasionally sub Clark! The nerve! She should be flogged for such a sacrilegious act!
 
Sides was between a rock and a hard place. As a professional coach, she just couldn't let a rookie come in and take control of the team. Not only would it look bad from a coaches standpoint, but the other players would have gone nuts. I think Sides knew CC had the potential, but what guarantee would she have that CC's game would work almost immediately. Not only did she have to navigate the fans reactions, but also the rest of the team. I think she finally figured it out, the team figured it out, but the fans did not. I think the firing was to massage the fans interest, and not because she did a poor job.
 
Sides was between a rock and a hard place. As a professional coach, she just couldn't let a rookie come in and take control of the team. Not only would it look bad from a coaches standpoint, but the other players would have gone nuts. I think Sides knew CC had the potential, but what guarantee would she have that CC's game would work almost immediately. Not only did she have to navigate the fans reactions, but also the rest of the team. I think she finally figured it out, the team figured it out, but the fans did not. I think the firing was to massage the fans interest, and not because she did a poor job.
I believe the firing was to open the door for a proven post-season coaching name-giant...right now they've got the rook and some newly renown players,,,what they need now to finish the cake is the top Baker"
 
Sides was between a rock and a hard place. As a professional coach, she just couldn't let a rookie come in and take control of the team. Not only would it look bad from a coaches standpoint, but the other players would have gone nuts. I think Sides knew CC had the potential, but what guarantee would she have that CC's game would work almost immediately. Not only did she have to navigate the fans reactions, but also the rest of the team. I think she finally figured it out, the team figured it out, but the fans did not. I think the firing was to massage the fans interest, and not because she did a poor job.
I am not sure Sides had even those degrees of freedom. That opening season run of games was brutal. Clark began the season in a shooting slump, she and teammates were not in synch on her passes and Boston seemed out of shape to start the season. Sides kept the team together through that adversity and figured out how to unleash Clark by playing up tempo. She had laid a good foundation for next season but I guess the early exit from the playoffs was the proverbial straw.
 
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