2025 WNBA Off-Season

[JellyBean]

As a Sky fan, after two seasons, I just don’t see it happening between Angel & Kamilla together. They're too limited offensively and neither of them being able to stretch the floor does us no good. It’s hard to build an offense around two players who are paint dominant, at least one should be comfortable on the outside (which is why not drafting Rickea still doesn’t make sense to me).

I think it’s time for Chicago to move on from one of them (preferably whoever gets us more in return).

I could see it working with Angel and Kamilla. One high and one low. There were stretches this season where Angel was in the pinch post and things were clicking between her and Kamilla/Elizabeth or whoever was in the paint. It is a timing thing and something that has to be worked on during practice and off-season. Sadly, Chicago may move on from Angel because I do not see how she stays with the Sky after comments about the team and front office. So, we will see what develops.

As far as them drafting Rickea. Would that have worked out for them in Chicago, if she would have been available? Who knows. There is so much to unpack with that because then you are looking at overall team structure of who stays or goes in that 2024-25 season into this season, as well as what other teams were thinking about which players to take, other than Indiana and Caitlin Clark. The rest of the draft was "would it be Cameron or Kamilla as the second pick?"

 

[cancontent]

 

[darrell]

This is insane. Makes whatever the Sky is doing look like a children’s playground. This is how you invest in your athletes.

 

[JellyBean]

Well done, LA Sparks ownership, front office, coaches, and players.

 

[cancontent]

Well done, LA Sparks ownership, front office, coaches, and players.

And about time. Personally, I think the LA Sparks missed an opportunity to establish this franchise as a brand, similar to the Lakers. Will never understand why as they were owned by the Buss family up until recently.

 

[azfan]

Sure, Sandy's never been viewed as a top tier coach and has stretches of underachieving but I'm not sure who NY can grab that'll be better.

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Sandy Brondello ranks sixth on the WNBA's all-time wins list for coaches.

She has accumulated 271 regular season wins and 40 playoff wins, which ranks her second in career playoff wins.

One of 7 coaches to win 2 or more championships.

One of 2 coaches to win championships with multiple franchises.

She has a career regular season record of 271-181 over 12 seasons, and a 40-32 playoff record, according to The Seattle Times. She led the Phoenix Mercury to a WNBA championship in 2014 and the New York Liberty to their first championship in 2024. Brondello was named WNBA Coach of the Year in 2014.

During her tenure with the Liberty, she went 107-53 and led the team to its first WNBA Championship in 2024.

Can't help but wonder what it takes to be considered a top coach.

If her current and former players were polled I suspect they'd fall agree she's a top coach. Oh, right that's what Stewie and Sabrina said.

Wonder how long it takes this not so top coach to be offered another position.

Oy

 

[bballnut90]

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Sandy Brondello ranks sixth on the WNBA's all-time wins list for coaches.

She has accumulated 271 regular season wins and 40 playoff wins, which ranks her second in career playoff wins.

One of 7 coaches to win 2 or more championships.

One of 2 coaches to win championships with multiple franchises.

She has a career regular season record of 271-181 over 12 seasons, and a 40-32 playoff record, according to The Seattle Times. She led the Phoenix Mercury to a WNBA championship in 2014 and the New York Liberty to their first championship in 2024. Brondello was named WNBA Coach of the Year in 2014.

During her tenure with the Liberty, she went 107-53 and led the team to its first WNBA Championship in 2024.

Can't help but wonder what it takes to be considered a top coach.

If her current and former players were polled I suspect they'd fall agree she's a top coach. Oh, right that's what Stewie and Sabrina said.

Wonder how long it takes this not so top coach to be offered another position.

Oy

I don’t think she should’ve been fired and she certainly has her place in WNBA history but when has she ever widely been considered as being among the best coaches in the league aside from 2014?

 

[azfan]

I don’t think she should’ve been fired and she certainly has her place in WNBA history but when has she ever widely been considered as being among the best coaches in the league aside from 2014?

Odd?

Do the widely considered have some insight a la the magical realists such as Gabriel García Márquez. Perhaps an alternative to reality?

Assuming there have been 135 head coaches in WNBA history:

2nd in playoff victories
6th total victories
2 Championships

One might easily assert that of the 135 coaches in the NBA history she would be in the top 10%? Top 6%?

Perhaps the widely considered have read 100 Years of Solitude too many times.

 

[NycUcWbbFan]

I don’t think she should’ve been fired and she certainly has her place in WNBA history but when has she ever widely been considered as being among the best coaches in the league aside from 2014?

Sandy Brondello:

• 2014: COY
• 2015: Tie (4th to 6th place) - COY
• 2020: 5th place - COY
• 2023: 3rd place - COY
• 2024: 2nd place - COY

 

[TheFarmFan]

I think two things can be true at once: Sandy is one of the most accomplished coaches in the W AND she may not have been the right fit to guide the Liberty in their next phase. Somehow I'm not sold she's not one of the league's best coaches but I also was fairly underwhelmed by the Liberty all season, and her excuses about injuries and "failing to gel" didn't make sense when teams like the Valkyries regularly had 3 of their 5 starters out with injuries, lost 1/3 of the team to Eurobasket, and ended with 6 players who either missed training camp entirely or joined midway through the season on a series of 7 day contracts. Nat never made excuses, the players never made excuses, and the product on the Court actually got better even as the injuries and the rotating cast piled up. Much of the same was true for Phoenix, and they too weathered that storm without any excuses.