GOOD FOLLOW - Sandy Brondello Fired From New York, Zero Black Women Headcoaches In The W, A’ja’s 4th MVP & More!
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Hey, what's up, everyone? Welcome to Good Follow, presented by DraftKings. I'm Roz Gold on what day, and that is five-time WNBA All-Star Angel McCautry. Angel, what's good, girl? I'm in the New York City studios.
You coming to us from the LA studios? I mean, hey, we halfway across the world, Roz, but we getting it done.
You're getting it done coast to coast because this show never stops. Basketball never stops. Sports never stops. So we're bringing you the coverage. Here is the menu we have for you today on this episode of Good Follow. Breaking news. Head coach Sandy Brandello is out in New York for the Liberty. And there's no black female head coaches left in the WNBA. Asia Wilson, four-time WNBA MVP now. Is her excellence causing apathy and fatigue?
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Thank you, Angel. Absolutely. Let's do this. Let's do it. You nailed it. All right, here we go. Breaking news out of New York. Sandy Brandello is out for the Liberty. Shocking for a lot of people. She is only one year removed from winning the championship with New York. The press release coming out of New York noted that. They said thank you to the winningest head coach in the history of the New York Liberty, bringing them a championship and wished her well, Angel.
Wow. Well, Roz, you've covered the Liberty all season. So I'm really anxious to know, like, what do you think of all of this?
I think first and foremost, Sandy Brandello is deserving of thank yous, flowers, respect. And, you know, the tone of the goodbye from the Liberty delivered that. But I also saw from fans, from media members, you know, even if you think about the reaction from players, like there is a lot of love for what Sandy did for the New York Liberty. And I, too, hold that for Sandy Brandello. This is the winningest coach in Liberty franchise history. It took the Liberty 28 years, the entire existence of the WNBA, to get their first ever championship. They had been close other times, but Sandy got them over the hump. It's their only chip. You look at the last three seasons for Sandy Brandello. 2023, she made the finals.
They fell short. The very next season, they run it back, make the finals again. They win the chip. This season, they fall short. They lose in the first round. You know, look, she also had a season this year, and I've been there covering the team all season, riddled with injuries to literally starters, star players, did not have the roster continuity, consistency, fatigue, lack of practice, really practice time for the team to be able to be coached, tough scheduling.
What happened with Sandy Brondello and the New York Liberty?
And I do think the injuries were really significant and, you know, still trying to overcome that. So I think there were real reasons why the Liberty fell short this season that were largely outside of their control and that Sandy has very commendable achievements and admirable achievements for the franchise.
I'll just, yeah, from hearing all that, I just want to know how that justifies the,
a fire because I feel like do we think that it's supposed to be a fairytale season every season Roz like because you have some great points there if I'm here to put on a hat of objectively looking at why this may have happened and again this is breaking news that just happened honestly minutes ago there could be signals right so some missteps that Sandy had this season um You know, given the talent, the team often had effort and urgency issues this season. And it was very public, discussed by the coach and the players publicly this season. There were multiple times they did not come ready to play. There were some really bad head-scratching losses. And perhaps, you know, brass and the executives upstairs thought it showed a lack of preparedness for a team with that much talent.
Another misstep during the playoffs is there was critique that there were very few rotations in the playoffs. In these games, the starters did not have it at times.
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