2025 Running WNBA thread

[PCLoadLetter]

Thanks for the only title we've ever won. Now get out

https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/i...ty-fired-whats-next-coach-candidates-analysis

Tough one. She won a title a year ago... but got laughably outcoached in the playoffs, and after a hot start the Liberty was essentially a .500 team despite being absolutely loaded.

I'm seeing a lot of outrage over this, but if I owned the team and watched that performance in the playoffs I'd probably fire her too.

 

[BTExpress]

They did have a ton of injuries this season. Stewart and Jones each missed 13 games. Sabally missed half the season. Ionescu was hurt at the end of the season. Harrison missed nine games.

The starting five at the beginning of the season only played 11 games together, none from July 27-Sept. 10.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Neat league.

https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/46292074/dan-wetzel-wnba-connecticut-sun-sale

Can’t imagine anything like this happening to an MLB team in, say, Montreal. Or an NFL team in Cleveland or Oakland.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Can’t imagine anything like this happening to an MLB team in, say, Montreal. Or an NFL team in Cleveland or Oakland.

Guess this means the WNBA is now a legit pro league, screwing over its fanbase.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

They did have a ton of injuries this season. Stewart and Jones each missed 13 games. Sabally missed half the season. Ionescu was hurt at the end of the season. Harrison missed nine games.

The starting five at the beginning of the season only played 11 games together, none from July 27-Sept. 10.

All of that is fair, but a lot of teams dealt with injuries with far less talent. The Fever is in the second round of the playoff with six players out for the season.

By the time the playoffs hit the Liberty had essentially their full roster and were wildly outclassed by the Mercury, which really shouldn't happen. The Liberty showed no effort at all and Brondello doesn't make adjustments. It was a terrible look.

 

[BTExpress]

Fever have been absurdly resilient. White's return as coach was a home run.

 

[Alma]

Can’t imagine anything like this happening to an MLB team in, say, Montreal. Or an NFL team in Cleveland or Oakland.

Did the NFL mandate Modell and Davis move their teams?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

WNBA isn’t doing that. They are trying to make the tribe sell to the league so the league can make the profit by selling to their preferred buyer.

At any rate, it’s all in the same ballpark.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Did the NFL mandate Modell and Davis move their teams?

I don’t like the way the league is handling this at all… but every proposal involves moving the team. No one is paying to keep a team in Uncasville.

 

[Della9250]

 

[PCLoadLetter]

She’s an embarrassment. She absolutely lost her **** on the floor over a clean steal, had to be held back from going after the ref, and then did this at the postgame.

She faces an elimination game on Sunday and she could easily be suspended from it.

 

[BTExpress]

I guess the Lynch coach believes the officials should be Lynxed.

 

[MileHigh]

That will be a major fine but they won't suspend her, but they should.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

She absolutely lost her shirt on the floor over a clean steal,

I feel like if she lost her shirt, it’d somehow be a ratings boost.

Might be wrong.

 

[Starman]

No union for WNBA coaches. The league can do whatever they fukkall like to her.

And if they don't, every coach in the league will be going berserk every game next year. Why not, if they won't do anything about it??

And, of course, she's not wrong -- WNBA refs, by and large, suck. The league could probably do worse than shltcan the whole crew and bring in a whole new cast of clowns.

But they have to back up whoever they put out there for each game -- with an iron fist.

 

[BTExpress]

Well, my first reaction was great steal, good non-call.

And while it was a great ball poke/steal, Thomas did basically slam into Collier's leg in a vulnerable as hell position.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I feel like if she lost her shirt, it’d somehow be a ratings boost.

Might be wrong.

Ooof. Blame our new fundamentalist overlords for that one.

 

[micropolitan guy]

So, I don't watch the WNBA at all. Is it the thugball she alleges?

Three f-bombs in a 1:48 clip, that's impressive.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

So, I don't watch the WNBA at all. Is it the thugball she alleges?

Three f-bombs in a 1:48 clip, that's impressive.

It's not. It's a physical league. It's hardly a free-for-all, and the officiating isn't nearly as bad as the losing coaches would have you believe.

The coach of the top-seed lost her mind because her team was about to fall behind in the series. The steal was clean.

 

[sgreenwell]

So, I don't watch the WNBA at all. Is it the thugball she alleges?

Three f-bombs in a 1:48 clip, that's impressive.

It's kind of like watching late 1990s NBA. It's just ugly, with no flow, because there is too much "play on."