GOOD FOLLOW - What Kind Of Coach Does The Liberty Need? Evaluating New WNBA Head Coaches & More!
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Welcome to Good Follow Show presented by DraftKings. I'm Roz Gold on Wood A. And I am here with five-time WNBA All-Star, two-time Olympic gold medalist, Angel McCautry. And you can see we're amped up. We got the practice clap going for any of my former athletes or fellow athletes. You know about the practice clap. Here we go.
What new head coaches have been hired in the WNBA?
So here is the menu. A whole bunch of head coaches and new coaching hires have happened in the WNBA. We are going to evaluate them. And then we have a new game alert. We're going to build you a New York Liberty coach because they haven't yet hired theirs at the time of taping.
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All right, let's dive into this thing. Let's talk about these coaches. So in the past couple of weeks, we've seen the Seattle Storm, the Portland Fire, the Dallas Wings and the Toronto Tempo sign new head coaches. And that would just leave the New York Liberty as the only team with the remaining vacant head coaching position at the time of taping has not been named. But we are going to break down all of the coaching hires that have come in. And let's start with the Dallas Wings. The new head coach is Jose Fernandez out of South Florida. He was there 25 seasons. He helped build USF into a consistent postseason threat. He has also worked with mid-range shooter Courtney Williams at USF, who's now in the WNBA.
We all know her. Good friends with Gino Auriemma. So first, Angel, let's just... Let's just start with like the number one draft pick that we have in the building here at Good Follow Show. You've lived that life as a former number one pick. What does Paige Beckers need right now in year two from her head coach?
She needs a coach with head coaching experience. And Jose Fernandez has that. He's been a head coach for 25 years. She needs a coach who's going to communicate with her and build around her and ask her questions. what she wants. You know, when I was in Atlanta, I was never asked like, what do you need to be successful? That's what you have to do with your franchise players. There has to be a dynamic of communication. And hopefully, Jose has already called. Paige had a meeting, getting to know her, building that relationship. My only concern is Jose has never had pro experience. Okay. And with not having pro experience, you cannot treat these grown women who have graduated college like college players. You have to treat it like a pro level.
So hopefully he'll kind of come in understanding that. I've known Jose for many years. I played against him way back in the Big East when I used to score 40 on USF. He remembers. But he is a respected coach and he's very likable. You've never heard anything bad about Coach Jose. So I'm really hoping that this could be a great dynamic Now, a good hire doesn't mean success, right? I feel like all these coaches are good hires, but which coaches can be successful? And that's what we can dive into.
Yeah, absolutely. And I think you made a number of great points there. But one thing that Coach Fernandez is being tasked with is he's kind of rebuilding a culture there and an expectation. And there's going to be a lot of youth in Dallas. So this isn't like he's coming into a team with returning champions. Huge expectations, huge big-name veteran players. Like, this Dallas season was mostly about a whole bunch of rookies and young players, unexperienced players, and Paige Beckers at the center of it all. The one thing we know is that Dallas is building around Paige and is likely to be young. And I actually think bringing a college coach in... you know, could be the right voice to help young players and bring them along.
He's experienced with that, developing them. And, like, look at this. Look at the success that Carl Smezko had in Atlanta with the dream this last season. Absolutely. Coming in as a college coach at Florida Gulf Coast. He had 22 years. Much—20— You know, two decades, much like Jose is bringing in of college experience.
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