Caitlin Clark, Kelsey Mitchell, Christie Sides after Fever win over Mercury; three players scored 20 

Simple but she is a nut!

Let your pg control the game

Truth

@@v2807 Fire Sides 30 Times!!

and talk Mitchell that CC22 is the leader of the team. and she need to do screen when CC22 Need it. and she need to pass the ball.

*Boston 10-17 for 23 points & 13 rebounds. Nothing but good things happen when you feed Boston. Smith 6-13 14 pts & 10 rebs. Mitchell 11-19 28 pts & Clark 8-16 20 pts &13 asst.*

Like getting to know these players. Never watched the WNBA until Caitlin. Kelsey Mitchel, Aliyah Boston are also great players. Love their humbleness.

A'ja Wilson, 33 points, 18 reb.

@@donaldsvnnh3161 someday, very soon cc: will meet or surpass - wont take CC 6 years to get to AJ's level

She knows WHEELER takes the momentum and chucks it. She does it EVERY time....

It’s Sides who kills momentum by playing Wheeler.

load management is the trend nowadays. Sides with the 300 IQ move looking 10+ years ahead.

Wheeler isnt a big deal tho its that Sides just wont adjust

They could have won against ACES if they played well in the 4th quarter. CC is thinking about winning WNBA not ROTY.

She doesn't have a clue. She will never figure it out!

Sides coached in the 4th “not to lose” instead of finishing them off. She’s the worst coach in the W.

@@keiththompson5193narcissist blames everyone never takes accountability!! Waste

Why she's still there? Is beyond me.

If Christie sides just held like a press conference and gave a 3 hour long speech all about how great Caitlin is would that finally be enough for people to stop pretending like she hates Caitlin?! She always compliments CC… in all these postgame interviews a few times a week and the pre-game ones. She just doesn’t kiss her ass obnoxiously for the whole interview because it’s not productive to talk about and because she has a whole team of good players, not just one and it wouldn’t exactly make them like her or like Caitlin if she didn’t choose to talk about them all in the same way. Caitlin Clark is no damsel in distress and she is a confident pro athlete who is highly aware of her talent and she hasn’t even needed any validation from freaking social media people themselves or any praise elicited from other people in the wnba or fans of it. You are NOT helping Caitlin out by demonizing her coach and teammates which not only isn’t helpful.. it’s harmful to our team. They all like eachother.. they don’t treat her like the goddess of basketball and fawn over her endlessly. They are actually really friends to her which is undoubtedly the way she wants it. Maybe try being supportive of people to do like instead of seeking out who you think should be an enemy.

​@@Zarab923not sure how many times Sides will have to "pull the plug" on wins before you see SHE IS the cause of win blunders and mess-ups by putting in sub standard players and doing plays excluding CC.

You know, that brings up something I thought about tonight when they were up 30 points and the game seemingly was in the bag (Coach Sides made sure I was wrong on that). I thought it would be funny if Clark drove to the basket just one time and started missing 4 or 5 shots under the basket to pad her rebound stat. I'd have laughed.

tired of sides 😩

💯 she seems to keep making these weird decisions in every game. Makes u wonder. I'm sure the players wonder too.

Coach suides is terrible. Bad players rotation

Well, Mercury adjusted their D and their offence started to click. There were some big plays. Blaming the coach for this…. It’s as if you’ve been watching basketball for a week…

to be fair, Griner leaving the game did help

It's all sides plan.

Wheeler is the Fever killer. she can't runs the offense

Wheeler played 9 minutes, had a plus/minus of -16. Yikes.

Coach does this on purpose. Put wheeler in to lose lead. Every single time. Mitchell is good but needs control. Leave Caitlin as point guard. Wheeler sucks. 3 quarters just amazing. Coach tries to throw game again. Grrrr

Wow this is incredible because you know I love sports and I love playing them although I'm not very good hahaha and when I was younger I even coached girls elementary basketball and I'll tell you what I didn't have a winning season but if we had coach sides as an opponent coach I guarantee we would beat them LOL

She played 38 minutes. She leads the team in minutes by almost four minutes. That’s a lot. Are you saying she should never get a blow?

​@@donsmthYour 💯 correct on CC playing all those minutes she looks completely gassed at times. Olympic break can't come.soon enough for her

@@donsmth she was talking about mitchell getting benched for wheeler

@@donsmth It is when wheeler and Clark are on the court at the same time. It has nothing to do with clark's minutes. Wheeler totally throws off the offense.

@@LavaKimocorrect, Sides takes the ball out of CCs hands and has Wheeler handle the ball. Then has CC stand in the corner. For what? Either Sides doesn’t know what she is doing or she’s doing this intentionally. Either way she needs to go!

So, so true. And the fact that EVERYONE sees this except Sides... It drives me nuts. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Exactly. Wheeler kills the offense. Maybe one of these so called journalists could ask her about it. We’ve all seen this game after game throughout the season.

This happens every damn game. Infuriating to see it happen over and over. What CHEMISTRY? Team missing or giving up easy layups. After the 1st quarter the icing Clark out began till it erupted in a terrible 4th

The offense slows down to a screeching halt with Wheeler in the game. If you have a run and gun offense you can’t switch pace just because you’re up. It throws everyone off.

Exactly!!

Wheeler really needs to go.

Terrible player. I’d love if the press would really double down on how shit Wheeler is and her ability to disrupt the game in the worst way possible

It seems like everyone but sides can see the offense goes to shit when wheeler is on the floor. She came in and the offense slowed down and everything was out of sync.

That's her girl.

Sides should also develop Berger and gave her more minutes

Wheeler another loser on that team

I love wheeler as a person she does alot of great things outside of the game charity wise and she has a great positive personality..however, I 100% agree with you

Same opinion, she seems like a great teammate and a good person in general. But she just kills the whole flow of the offense when she's running the point with overdribbling and not shooting when she's open, especially when Caitlin is moved to SG position.

​@@patricklarson7564It's really astounding, isn't it, that we've all seen this happen over, and over, and over, and over again, yet Sides still needs to "figure it out". If that's not an incompetent coach, I don't know what is.

Sides why didn’t you ever give Celeste a change when you are so weak on defense. Clean up EW! She’s the common denominator for when we fall apart! You have better people left on the bench than EW!

Is it sad that CC is basically the head coach at this point? She's oftentimes contributing half of the team's score with her points and assists.

And hopefully she will have a better coach in 4. She can sign somewhere else. Because I don't see Indiana willing to fire Sides.

They both got an assist today too so they’re learning how to make smart passes from Caitlin so that’s great! We’re lucky to have some players that care about getting better and putting the hard work in to get there

@@IcyTeathat is just something that most often if not always comes with being a generational athlete. Her vision of the game is so superior that she sees things that her coach just can’t and if she wants that team to be as good as her then she’ll have to be there to push them

I haven't really been excited about basketball since the Spurs dynasty ended with Duncan, Parker and Ginóbili. I am more of a football 🏈 guy now but being exited about female professional 🏀 takes a special kind of athlete to do that and this kid humility and concentration on the game blocking all the outside BS coming her way makes her awesome to watch! I believe that we should give Sides some time even if I believe she may be unqualified to coach this caliber player. The fever needs to invest in a better coaching staff. CC's physical condition needs to improve because they are coming after her! At this stage, talent is not enough, even Tom Brady improved his physical condition to keep up with the intensity of the game.

Is she? She seems lost.

I've been aware of CC's very unique, almost endless vision and potential for a very long time, and I'm a new fan lol.

Grace didn't look great to start the year when she got minutes, but honestly, they need to give her another opportunity or try something different, because it's clear throughout the season that having Wheeler at PG and Caitlin at SG DOES NOT work well

I watches Grace when she was at Indiana during her college years and she is a good defensive player and she can score points. You can literally see her in every game sitting on the bench looking dejected and somewhat depressed.

You can always count on tbat!

I don't doubt that, all I'm saying she struggled earlier in the year. But at this point if you they are going to attempt to steal some minutes for Clark at SG, then they need to try something different like giving Grace another shot. Because as many have mentioned. The Wheeler PG/Clark SG lineup does not work.

THEY didn't collapse. WHEELER brought her chaotic no scoring, low vibrational energy and the scoring stalled like it does EVERY TIME.

Wheeler is a game killer.

No one asks tough questions

I like Wheeler....I know she dribbles a bit.... but she does work hard or seems so to be part of the team & do the best she can be

As soon as Wheeler comes into the game. I just have the worst feeling!!!

​@timothywdillon121 working hard and being good are two different things. Dribbling around not knowing what to do is working hard. It doesn't win games.

Yeah she is which is why it’s so weird how obsessed fans and media are with making everyone admit she’s great, even her haters. I don’t think it’s necessary but it definitely does make people dislike her even though she doesn’t want or need them to validate her. She’s insanely self aware

That's the understatement of the year! The reverse it true-- Clark does not deserve a coach like Sides (i.e., she deserves a coach who can make the most of the gift she's being given in a player like that).

Yes. Sometimes. Like in the 4th qtr.

💯 agree. She doesn't have that killer instinct like college right now shooting. Not sure is its fatigue or what. Played 38 minutes again

100%

She said in post game interview that she does indeed look to pass perhaps more than she should. And it's not lack of killer instinct, she has that more than most, it's simply her desire to get her teammates involved.

Yes

I wondered what happened there. Pretty crazy with the other team creeping up and almost winning if that's the case. 🤯

I'm sure that's what happened.

@@katelynk3132 Yeeesss!!! I CAN'T UNDERSTAND A COACH THAT ARE EXPERIMENTING WITH HOW TO MAKE POINTS NOT USING THE BEST PLAYER OF THE LEAGUE! This world is going crazy!!!

yes totally agree! She stopped the flow of attacking the rim and passed off too much in the fourth quarter.

They used her as a decoy which would’ve been a good plan except the mercury wasn’t fooled by them pretending they were going to throw cc the ball… should’ve countered and actually thrown the damn ball but whatever

They won right? It happens

Sides wasn't there for the first half.

She was a Bad B coach need to wire sides coach

​@@kc718201it shouldn't happen!

Basketball is about runs. It happens all the time. Good teams weather them and win.

EXACTLY!!!!

Facts

She needs to pass to Catlin and she will get the ball back...

@@cliffkessler2504I thought she learned this lesson a few games ago… but she keeps reverting. But I’ll tell you what, Smith has learned this and has been funneling to Clark consistently for quite a while now.!

Not just to Caitlin, I recall 2 plays where Nalyssa was wide open in the paint for an easy layup but Kelsey opted to shoot. I love K-Mitch but if she had an eye for the open man(woman) they’ll give teams problems

Did u notice the three she shot in transition when smith was standing under the basket? That was at a time when we needed a sure basket to stop the run also. Astounding.

@@SirKay88X thats the way of basketball today. 3 is more than 2. There were also a couple times kelsey penetrated the defense and made passes to wide open shooters who missed. I dont remember the last time katie lou or lexie made a three.

"We got to figure out how that happened " - Christie Sides 😂😂😂 coach is delusional

I like how you think you somehow know what went wrong in their game plan when you’re not involved in it… but you said it with so much confidence so that just has to mean you’re right…. FUCK NO IT DOESNT. We don’t know how they do things. It’s always technically the coaches fault even when it’s not really but it’s not a coach’s job to tell the media. They have to take responsibility to her players and fellow coaches and staff, they hold eachother accountable because nothing is ever just one persons fault and every good game or bad game is an excuse to work on your craft. But that is all obvious so I am not at all understanding why people are the in the comments angry because she didn’t take responsibility… do you only think she’s taking responsibility if she says the words ‘it’s on me. This was my fault’ or can you not just assume that her being the head coach of a professional sports league means she knows where the blame always goes.. on the coach. There’s just no point in stating the obvious.

Yeah. She’s one of the few coaches who DOESNT take ANY responsibility for who she puts on the floor. If she’s still the coach next season, I’ll be surprised. Coach is actually holding the team back. Hull and Katie Lou need to stay in. And NaLyssa actually seemed to play with a little more aggression tonight. Haven’t seen her do that very often this season.

🤔

No shit!

Welcome to the world of sports.

These reporters do not ask the tough questions. Soft questions that let Sides off the hook.

In every sport all the time

She has ZERO assists.

Kelsey absolutely knows CC opens up the floor for her.

And assists on so many easy buckets for her!

@@v2807 that's not her role. She's a scorer and then absolutely need her. How would they win without KM's 28 points. c'mon.

Caitlin double doubles are more meaningful that REESE since they are assist and points because is helping the team to win !! Assist are points added to the scoring !! Go CAITLIN ROTY 👏👏

I'm not a league expert, but right now, A'ja Wilson is the best, followed by, probably Stewart and Collier. After them, it may depend on what you're looking for, but I'm not sure that any other player has CC's skill set and potential. Maybe, present value, I might take Jackie Young or Alissa Thomas in addition to those three. You can debate CC with Ionescu or Plum, but I think Cait is better all-around. So yeah, I'm thinking she's already top 7-10, and on the rise.

OMG. God forbid no one gets injured risking your starters up 30 😵‍💫

She loves it .

NOT to play Wheeler at all please

Amen!

She’s still in a job due to an idiotic GM who literally said it’s not the coaches job to get CC good shots. wtf! These people are insane. Dunn did a crap job in Seattle and she’s crap for the Fever.

You are totally right.

Probably because she's their "big money" player - and aren't willing to sit her with all the money they're paying her? She only played 9 minutes. I'd hardly call that a cause for concern. But, I mean it's not like Mitchell passes the ball, either. And no one's going to sit her.

@@TechGuy774 it was a cause for concern. We blew a big lead. The game changed the minute Wheeler went on the court.

@@pauladesmond5671 So how was it her fault when her team was 2-8 shooting while she was in late 3rd quarter through a little over 5 min. left in the 4th when she was 1 for 1 during that time, and didn't have either of the two turnovers her team made during that time? Unless you're suggesting that she should have taken more of the FG attempts, herself?

The Stat the game… When Eric Wheeler was on the court Caitlyn had 0 scores and 0 assist. The team scored 5 points. Wheeler is the Catlin killer.

Christie Sides come from Atlanta and brought Wheeler with her and got her the $200,00/per season, one of the highest paid in the W. Dunn agreed. 😖

@robintay1449 I'd understand if Kelsey Mitchell was the Highly paid one. But Wheeler just dribbles and fouls. Sides is one very "CLEVER" Coach.

She signed a year contract with Sydney

Lord, learn to spell! 😂

@@rhwinner hey she is a couch !!! lol

​@@rhwinnerI thought the same thing. Learn how to spell😂

Well Sides should be on a couch for sure. Not everyone has English as their primary language. Relax

You gotta remember some of these comments are from kids too!

Every freaking game! Wank wank wank!

And don't forget Mitchell.the most selfish player on the team.she makes my blood boil

@@kathyshea2444Mitchell is a shooting guard they don’t call plays and pass balls know bball at least

​@@kathyshea2444Ms. 1-on-5!

Lynn Dunn Christy Sides Erica Wheeler Need to be gone already.. Mitchell Should Come off the bench with needed...

Yep