New Dishin & Swishin Podcast: New Connecticut Sun coach Curt Miller

[DishNSwish]

It is a pleasure to welcome Curt Miller back to Dishin & Swishin for the third time. Miller’s previous head coaching jobs, at mid-major Bowling Green and power five conference Indiana featured success that brought him on the podcast then.

Topics covered in the podcast include:

• Expectations of success in Uncasville
• Coaching a professional team versus a college team
• Talking to and working with the Sun roster, and the importance of communication
• Going from Ogwumike (Nneka) to Ogwumike (Chiney), seeing Alex Bentley in the Big 10 conference
• His success at Bowling Green, and the success of mid-majors in this year’s college season
• Being the first out gay man to be a head coach of a pro sports team and what that means to him
• UConn, his friendship with Geno Auriemma and embracing the Huskies’ program to learn from their success

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[psconn]

Thanks David, nice job. I met Coach Miller at the season ticket holder event and he seems to be a good guy. As he pointed out then, and in your interview, it will be all about building chemistry and tweaking the roster this year. One of the problems he recognizes is that many of the Sun's best players operate in the same area of the court - Chiney, Kelsey, Alyssa, Liz all want to be in/around the arc under the hoop. Of that group, only the true center, Kelsey, has even a glimmer of a mid-range shot. Among the bigs, only Camille can truly be called an outside threat. I could see a roster move to try to achieve some balance. Stewie, of course, would have been the magic solution to that problem, but it was not to be.