Its not over, its the beginning of an ERA with Caithlin Clark and the Fever! Stand Proud guys you have come this far and many more Playoffs to Come with CC. Shes young and talented.
The bottom line is that if Kelsey and Caitlin are both not shooting well, we are going to lose. Add in all the terrible officiating and “equipment malfunction” only on Fever possessions, with phantom calls on Aliyah Boston, we won’t win either.
Christie Sides, as a huge Fever fan and CC fan, I'm SO disappointed in you not protecting your players...especially your star, your rock, your cornerstone. How could you NOT get in the refs' faces when Caitlin was gouged...blatantly assaulted and the game basically took a turn for the worse? Where the heck were you?!? Stop worrying about what your peers think about you and get out there and protect your people. If the coach doesn't back her players, nobody will. Any other experienced coach would have sent a message at that moment. You did as well...the Fever are weak.
Glad to hear Sides saying they need to fix D so they can contest shots. That was the biggest hole, along with Sun’s transition. KM & CC are bound to shoot better, so locking down on defense as well gives us a great shot at this. Go, Fever! 🔥
When she won “coach of the month” and said her assistant coaches deserved it…she wasn’t joking. I’m sure people thought it was humility, it was not. She could only have been more accurate if she had credited the Clark and Mitchell.
@@thatoneperson77742 Everyone except the defensive coach. That assistant coach must be terrible. He or she can't even teach them perimeter defense. Teach them how NOT to keep doubling up on someone when it's not needed.
We ignoring the intentional eye poking? Should be called out. Should have been a call to sun coach and commish. If that isn’t addressed, then any other actions are irrelevant.
@@stephenwilson9480 From the various angles, it looked intentional especially after Mabrey made a joking stabbing motion with her hand and both were laughing. Now Carrington denied it. Referees called nothing. Game is over. All of fans and players have to move on and win Wednesday
Of course CC is going to take the high road and not accuse DC that it was intended. And nothing more than a denial expected from DC. It looked bad and nothing was called, so we move on and play the next game and hope it gets better!
Sides, Nalyssa, Samuelson, Wheeler.... let's get 4 great ones to replace these humans. We need a better bench: a backup p.guard; a stretch 4- type player, and another Lexie! ❤ let's go new president!!🎉
Naaaah. She was screaming at the ref. As awful as it was, it wasn’t wise to use the review on that play when they had the whole game to go. It should’ve been a ref review- it’s on the refs that the dirty play was allowed.
@meganharmon2923 you can't challenge a non call so she couldn't challenge it anyway and if you win your challenge you get another one so we were in the same position with challenges after they changed the foul from AB to Lexie
@@ashleym8676 right but I think the bigger problem is that the officiating has been hot trash across the board all season long. It has been especially bad against CC. So it has nothing to do with Sides allowing the eye poking (as the original comment infers) and it has everything to do with the officiating being crap.
We'll all be watching. And, maybe some watch parties. Maybe, Dantas , Temie and Saxton. Good reach, for all of them. Saxton is fast by the basket. Go Fever! It was one game that everyone learned from.
From what little we've seen from Saxon, she can at least catch the ball and finish. She should've been getting Nalyssa Smiths minutes during the regular season!
Coaches block out bs, like many of these comments here. Coach isn't listening to silly noise. Geez people, it is the team channel. Support coach and players for the win.
I'll support a coach who deserves to be supported. Sides would deserve support if she supported her players. Her LACK of support was pathetic. I'm here on this channel saying this because it needs to be said and it needs to be read. No experienced coach would have allowed this to happen without sending a CLEAR MESSAGE. Coach Sides' message was clear...we don't care about our stars. Go ahead and take them out. We're just happy we made it THIS far.
@@grb024 What is she supposed to do to meet your standards? She got a T. She was even close to another one, but a good coach isn't going to get herself thrown out at the top of the game. Coach Sides calls out the strengths of her players all the time. Yes, sometimes she mentions errors they make, and CC makes them too. And maybe Coach needs to refine some media skills here and there, but she's not unsupportive of the players. Have a sense of proportion about all this. Why the need to divide and conquer the coach from the players? It's not going to help them tonight to do that. Respectfully, grb.
Reporters need to do a MUCH better job of asking about their defensive schemes. Fever give up the most 3pt shots of pretty much every team in the league.
Hey "Coach" Sides how about sticking up for your team when they get hurt you have called replays on some stupid shit but this is serious so f it let it go
Hey coach, pretty please with sugar on top call a timeout before letting a team go on a huge run on your team. The minute your team looks confused and the other team are scoring unanswered points
Sides should have said: "The Sun guard differently. When they are trying to block a shot, their hands are in a clawing position instead of normal, fingers straight."
I think the league needs to investigate game one .phantom foul on ab sun arena clock crew. Their plan was to slow down the fever and it work. Whose paying the refs .Com on w
Coach Christie Doc Rivers Side It's not Blake's Fault It's not Christie's Fault It's not Caitlin's Fault It's not just on Caitlin It's on all of us 😮😅❤❤❤
Yeah, don’t go after the source of the problem you know darn well that game was set up, the officiating and you’re letting Carrington get away with this when that was a criminal act that was a weapon like I said before a pencil was a weapon. I’m 64 years old and I still have a piece of lead in my back for my kid putting a pencil in my back in grade school can you imagine is this what she’s gonna have is this not gonna change the WNBA rules that they’re allowed to have pointed fingernails so all the players pretty much on the defensive side will be able to get their nails done with points on them and how the outcome is so be it. I really think it’s time for a change. Nobody cares my Fever tickets are done. I don’t care do what you want. That’s what they want you to feel the owner of the WNBA. Has everybody running scared real nice
I am sorry, but the Fever will be out of the playoffs tonight. Something has been incredibly wrong with the consistency of play all season long. There has never been a "starting five" who could and would run the ball with Caitlin Clark. There is still no staring five and the Fever are in the playoffs. At times the team seemed to revert to the 1950's slow down offense where the offense goes through the center, the big girl in the middle, which makes no sense considering that the Fever actually drafted Caitlin Clark. What the hell, it seems like maybe they drafted her so that no one else would have her. That it might be true is evidenced by the fact there was no immediate concerted effort to build an offense around Caitlin Clark and from the often disjointed play one has to wonder if there has ever been a serious effort to build the Fever offense around Caitlin Clark. Can that be blamed on incompetent coaching? Seriously, what else could it possibly be. There is no starting five which is absolutely necessary with a running offense. There is no dependable bench that is used in any way that makes any sense. Compared to the "better teams" in the league the Fever, as a team, do not know how to share the ball and fight for rebounds. When the fever lose, they usually lose to teams that have more team assists and more team rebounds than the fever, not just one or two players sharing and fighting for the ball. One does have to question if there really is a "team" and not just a bunch of women who have contracts in which they agree to trot up and down the gym floor for 40 minutes in what is sometimes called a basketball game. Caitlin has the ability to make other players look better, but that is not the same as the other players really being better, the players (and the coach) really have to want to be better. Next year will be the same, with the same players, with even the same ones who complain about not getting "enough" touches, and the same coaching staff, and like this year the team will struggle to win 20 games and make the "playoffs", Like this year the Fever will be out in two games of the first round and again, be able to enjoy the comfort of a long off season.
Why is the team figuring it out they should be there and able to execute what a coach tells them they need coaching they didn't pressure ball up the court Boston falls short against bigger players u need Damiris Temi in that paint and hull on scorer and Caitlin has to get her ass down on defense offer weak side help all of ypu should stop the ball they stare as shots in the air not find their man and box out no ball movement on offense same old 4 players at the arch so defenders can guard 2 players because ypur so grouped up
Christie Sides...READ THESE COMMENTS. We don't know how else to reach you, but these things need to be seen. This team can be GREAT, but you're the anchor. Sorry...I think you have some strong points, but strategy and backbone are not them. I'm sure you brought this team together in a "Kumbaya Moment" and that's great, but if you can't pull together some decent coaching, it's all for naught. This team can WIN, but you're keeping that from happening. You. Go read all these comments, have a good cry, then learn how to protect and back your players, learn how to teach defense, learn when to call time outs and start sending a message to the rest of the league that you're ready to coach from a position of strength instead of fear. No coach ever won from a position of fear.
Its not over, its the beginning of an ERA with Caithlin Clark and the Fever! Stand Proud guys you have come this far and many more Playoffs to Come with CC. Shes young and talented.
The bottom line is that if Kelsey and Caitlin are both not shooting well, we are going to lose. Add in all the terrible officiating and “equipment malfunction” only on Fever possessions, with phantom calls on Aliyah Boston, we won’t win either.
Christie Sides, as a huge Fever fan and CC fan, I'm SO disappointed in you not protecting your players...especially your star, your rock, your cornerstone. How could you NOT get in the refs' faces when Caitlin was gouged...blatantly assaulted and the game basically took a turn for the worse? Where the heck were you?!? Stop worrying about what your peers think about you and get out there and protect your people. If the coach doesn't back her players, nobody will. Any other experienced coach would have sent a message at that moment. You did as well...the Fever are weak.
Glad to hear Sides saying they need to fix D so they can contest shots. That was the biggest hole, along with Sun’s transition. KM & CC are bound to shoot better, so locking down on defense as well gives us a great shot at this. Go, Fever! 🔥
Coaching is a skill not everyone has it.
When she won “coach of the month” and said her assistant coaches deserved it…she wasn’t joking. I’m sure people thought it was humility, it was not. She could only have been more accurate if she had credited the Clark and Mitchell.
@@thatoneperson77742 Everyone except the defensive coach. That assistant coach must be terrible. He or she can't even teach them perimeter defense. Teach them how NOT to keep doubling up on someone when it's not needed.
We ignoring the intentional eye poking? Should be called out. Should have been a call to sun coach and commish. If that isn’t addressed, then any other actions are irrelevant.
CC just said it wasn't intentional move on I'm a CC fan but some of you other "fans" are extremely annoying and you make the normal fans look bad.
How was it intentional lol. She wasn't even looking at Clark when she caught her eye. Stop with all this rubbish. It's sport people get injured
@@stephenwilson9480
From the various angles, it looked intentional especially after Mabrey made a joking stabbing motion with her hand and both were laughing. Now Carrington denied it. Referees called nothing. Game is over. All of fans and players have to move on and win Wednesday
Of course CC is going to take the high road and not accuse DC that it was intended. And nothing more than a denial expected from DC. It looked bad and nothing was called, so we move on and play the next game and hope it gets better!
@@sheesshhhhhh Another CC hater pretending to be a CC fan. Even a Carrington supporter can see that was intentional.
Fever can definitely learn from this game. POKE THEIR EYES OUT BEFORE THEY POKE YOURS OUT!!
And wear eye protection. It's time to break out the goggles.
Why is it only now that coach sides talk about d? That should have been emphasized at the onset of the season.
She's always talked abt it. Not new.
Sides, Nalyssa, Samuelson, Wheeler.... let's get 4 great ones to replace these humans. We need a better bench: a backup p.guard; a stretch 4- type player, and another Lexie! ❤ let's go new president!!🎉
Hey coach Sides, run a drill on eye poking, it works, after all, you allowed it.
Naaaah. She was screaming at the ref. As awful as it was, it wasn’t wise to use the review on that play when they had the whole game to go. It should’ve been a ref review- it’s on the refs that the dirty play was allowed.
@meganharmon2923 you can't challenge a non call so she couldn't challenge it anyway and if you win your challenge you get another one so we were in the same position with challenges after they changed the foul from AB to Lexie
@@ashleym8676 right but I think the bigger problem is that the officiating has been hot trash across the board all season long. It has been especially bad against CC. So it has nothing to do with Sides allowing the eye poking (as the original comment infers) and it has everything to do with the officiating being crap.
We'll all be watching.
And, maybe some watch parties.
Maybe, Dantas , Temie and Saxton. Good reach, for all of them.
Saxton is fast by the basket.
Go Fever!
It was one game that everyone learned from.
From what little we've seen from Saxon, she can at least catch the ball and finish. She should've been getting Nalyssa Smiths minutes during the regular season!
Coaches block out bs, like many of these comments here. Coach isn't listening to silly noise. Geez people, it is the team channel. Support coach and players for the win.
I'll support a coach who deserves to be supported. Sides would deserve support if she supported her players. Her LACK of support was pathetic. I'm here on this channel saying this because it needs to be said and it needs to be read. No experienced coach would have allowed this to happen without sending a CLEAR MESSAGE. Coach Sides' message was clear...we don't care about our stars. Go ahead and take them out. We're just happy we made it THIS far.
@@grb024 What is she supposed to do to meet your standards? She got a T. She was even close to another one, but a good coach isn't going to get herself thrown out at the top of the game. Coach Sides calls out the strengths of her players all the time. Yes, sometimes she mentions errors they make, and CC makes them too. And maybe Coach needs to refine some media skills here and there, but she's not unsupportive of the players. Have a sense of proportion about all this. Why the need to divide and conquer the coach from the players? It's not going to help them tonight to do that. Respectfully, grb.
Reporters need to do a MUCH better job of asking about their defensive schemes. Fever give up the most 3pt shots of pretty much every team in the league.
Hey "Coach" Sides how about sticking up for your team when they get hurt you have called replays on some stupid shit but this is serious so f it let it go
Hey coach, pretty please with sugar on top call a timeout before letting a team go on a huge run on your team. The minute your team looks confused and the other team are scoring unanswered points
Sides should have said: "The Sun guard differently. When they are trying to block a shot, their hands are in a clawing position instead of normal, fingers straight."
I think the league needs to investigate game one .phantom foul on ab sun arena clock crew. Their plan was to slow down the fever and it work. Whose paying the refs .Com on w
Coach Christie Doc Rivers Side
It's not Blake's Fault It's not Christie's Fault It's not Caitlin's Fault It's not just on Caitlin It's on all of us 😮😅❤❤❤
Hopefully DJ Scissorhands hasn't sharpened her claws for tomorrow.
Give conneticut credit? For what getting away with assault?
Irrelevant softball questions that ignore the DJ Mustard weaponized dagger nails assault on CC. Ridiculous.
Really worried about Caitlin's eye. Think where Carrington's nails have been. Smith's ,,,,,,,,,,.
Come on Girls bring it back home GO FEVER
Yeah, don’t go after the source of the problem you know darn well that game was set up, the officiating and you’re letting Carrington get away with this when that was a criminal act that was a weapon like I said before a pencil was a weapon. I’m 64 years old and I still have a piece of lead in my back for my kid putting a pencil in my back in grade school can you imagine is this what she’s gonna have is this not gonna change the WNBA rules that they’re allowed to have pointed fingernails so all the players pretty much on the defensive side will be able to get their nails done with points on them and how the outcome is so be it. I really think it’s time for a change. Nobody cares my Fever tickets are done. I don’t care do what you want. That’s what they want you to feel the owner of the WNBA. Has everybody running scared real nice
Keep the ladies focus coach
Cozy job. Not very good at it
Whos gonna lay one on Carrington?
I am sorry, but the Fever will be out of the playoffs tonight. Something has been incredibly wrong with the consistency of play all season long. There has never been a "starting five" who could and would run the ball with Caitlin Clark. There is still no staring five and the Fever are in the playoffs. At times the team seemed to revert to the 1950's slow down offense where the offense goes through the center, the big girl in the middle, which makes no sense considering that the Fever actually drafted Caitlin Clark. What the hell, it seems like maybe they drafted her so that no one else would have her. That it might be true is evidenced by the fact there was no immediate concerted effort to build an offense around Caitlin Clark and from the often disjointed play one has to wonder if there has ever been a serious effort to build the Fever offense around Caitlin Clark. Can that be blamed on incompetent coaching? Seriously, what else could it possibly be. There is no starting five which is absolutely necessary with a running offense. There is no dependable bench that is used in any way that makes any sense. Compared to the "better teams" in the league the Fever, as a team, do not know how to share the ball and fight for rebounds. When the fever lose, they usually lose to teams that have more team assists and more team rebounds than the fever, not just one or two players sharing and fighting for the ball. One does have to question if there really is a "team" and not just a bunch of women who have contracts in which they agree to trot up and down the gym floor for 40 minutes in what is sometimes called a basketball game. Caitlin has the ability to make other players look better, but that is not the same as the other players really being better, the players (and the coach) really have to want to be better. Next year will be the same, with the same players, with even the same ones who complain about not getting "enough" touches, and the same coaching staff, and like this year the team will struggle to win 20 games and make the "playoffs", Like this year the Fever will be out in two games of the first round and again, be able to enjoy the comfort of a long off season.
F Sides needs to know how to coach first but God Bless the players they don’t get any help from Sides, Dunn, and Smith -Fire them please!!
😅 No idea. Talking about the past. Not focused. Dead bench. 2 game sweep.
Its terrible to ignore violence on the court. Both coaches Sides and White should be fired! Carrington and Thomas are injuring players deliberately.
Report that eye poking to Comish coach Sides!!!
Why is the team figuring it out they should be there and able to execute what a coach tells them they need coaching they didn't pressure ball up the court Boston falls short against bigger players u need Damiris Temi in that paint and hull on scorer and Caitlin has to get her ass down on defense offer weak side help all of ypu should stop the ball they stare as shots in the air not find their man and box out no ball movement on offense same old 4 players at the arch so defenders can guard 2 players because ypur so grouped up
Fire Sides ‼️
Yeah she's got a middle school level bball info cache and analytical level
The fever won't win anything ever with Christie Sides😪
Christie Sides...READ THESE COMMENTS. We don't know how else to reach you, but these things need to be seen. This team can be GREAT, but you're the anchor. Sorry...I think you have some strong points, but strategy and backbone are not them. I'm sure you brought this team together in a "Kumbaya Moment" and that's great, but if you can't pull together some decent coaching, it's all for naught. This team can WIN, but you're keeping that from happening. You. Go read all these comments, have a good cry, then learn how to protect and back your players, learn how to teach defense, learn when to call time outs and start sending a message to the rest of the league that you're ready to coach from a position of strength instead of fear. No coach ever won from a position of fear.
Fever lose, i'm out...