You're always kinder to Coach Quinn than I would be. What happened in the locker room at half time? Clearer Dallas' coach had a strategy for his team stopping the Storm. The Storm seemed to have come out with no strategy.
Thanks, Jeff, for speaking the hard truth about this team, and especially the FO/coaching. A regime change seems imperative, and for most organizations, in most sports, it would have happened awhile ago. I appreciate that ownership hasn't taken a knee-jerk approach to things, but some that deliberation feels like a desire to be nice and to be loved. Those desires are fine, up to the point where they preclude making tough decisions, which is where we're at with this franchise.
Your points about Haley Jones are interesting. The Storm could have used her size, defense, court vision, and passing ability, but that jumper has never been reliable, even back at Stanford.
I feel like our lack of bench depth is a function of the coaching as well. With how little we play our bench (and rarely in meaningful minutes, why are we subbing in a player for the last 15 seconds of a half?) then you end up with a bench that has no opportunity to play in rhythm, let alone develop in the case of our younger players. The fact that this held true even in the year where it was Jewell vs the world let alone when we’ve had better depth is pretty damning on the coaching.
You're always kinder to Coach Quinn than I would be. What happened in the locker room at half time? Clearer Dallas' coach had a strategy for his team stopping the Storm. The Storm seemed to have come out with no strategy.
Thanks, Jeff, for speaking the hard truth about this team, and especially the FO/coaching. A regime change seems imperative, and for most organizations, in most sports, it would have happened awhile ago. I appreciate that ownership hasn't taken a knee-jerk approach to things, but some that deliberation feels like a desire to be nice and to be loved. Those desires are fine, up to the point where they preclude making tough decisions, which is where we're at with this franchise.
Your points about Haley Jones are interesting. The Storm could have used her size, defense, court vision, and passing ability, but that jumper has never been reliable, even back at Stanford.
I feel like our lack of bench depth is a function of the coaching as well. With how little we play our bench (and rarely in meaningful minutes, why are we subbing in a player for the last 15 seconds of a half?) then you end up with a bench that has no opportunity to play in rhythm, let alone develop in the case of our younger players. The fact that this held true even in the year where it was Jewell vs the world let alone when we’ve had better depth is pretty damning on the coaching.