Lexie, you are a winner also. Might I boldly say a beautiful winner. Smart winner. You, Caitlin, Boston, Mitchell, and X will be so fun to watch. Looking forward to the 2025 season and wishing the Fever all the best. ❤
Les I you are a class act and true professional. You should be proud of what you have done. Y ou have a formula for success . Mental toughness is number one. I have feeling you will win a championship one day. As a pro athlete myself. We all support you.
Christy was a terrible coach. Never standing up to the baseless fouls on Caitlin. She could’ve been more vocal with refs. Poor coaching is why she’s gone.
Biggest difference for us is how she talks about her players ("Caitlin has bad habits") compared to how Steph White talks about the players. You can really see the difference in Lexie's face when she talks about Sides and Steph in this interview
Every loss Sides would NEVER take accountability. She always threw her team and certain players under the bus. Many of those losses (most of them really) were because of poor coaching. She kept trying to force the players to fit her system (inside out) rather than finding the system that best fits her players strengths. Stupid plus never called timeouts when team was struggling but often called timeouts when Fever was on a roll. Made zero sense.
Her 3pt avg of 67.3, combined with her backcourt of CC and Mitchell is such a great mix when defenders couldn’t stop the guards and she was a deadly option from 3 was the nail in the coffin of opposing teams. I’m glad she gets the recognition she deserves.
Fever need to bring in a scrappy enforcer who is willing to do the dirty work and get ejected and suspended if need be..all the fouls against Caitlin Clark was attempts to injure her
Fever needs an effective power forward. I hope they go after Satou. And yes she’s right they need experience. Sides did what she could, it was a Tough schedule for a young team. Hope they go much deeper next season. Fever is an exciting team to watch.
When Lexie is having a good night she drop 3's , defends the paint, and is a huge asset. I just hope she keeps improving and I believe 2025 will be a great season for the Fever . Even Michael Jordan had to play hard for 5+ seasons before his first ring.
Ok here goes in gonna be 76 soon so give me some slack , please . I love the Fever , and all their players . But i want a signature basket ball with Lexie and Catlin both signing it ................Please , lol not for free i will buy it as soon as you put it up for sale. gl in 2025 ladys
The rest of the team could take a page from Lexis play, to be aggressive on defense, and hustle to the ball, you can’t win, if you don’t know where the balls at!
Lexi was a bench warmer if it wasn't for Sides no one wouldn't know who she was unless you followed her in college. She is definitely a good role player, not great on offense creating her own shot but a streaky 3 point shooter. Her effort and hustle was exceptional probably the best on the team. They got rid of Temi so unless they replace her with a defensive person the fever will probably look worse than they did last year defensively
@@montrealabrancherto3301I think she realized it during the break and let CC run the offense. Sides needed help with solving defenses. Otherwise the team would have won more games.
In the beginning, Boston showed up way out of shape. Once she started playing her way into shape, things started getting better. I think the team had to figure it out on their own, because I really didn’t have a coach.
I also believe Mitchell had a little bit of the veteran jealousy with Caitlin. One Mitchell got the ball in her hands she wouldn't give it up. She would dribble in circles for a shot no matter how good the look was. The all star break and her taking Wheelers spot in the skills competition. You know everyone wanted Clark but Caitlin stuck to her decision of not participating in any of the skills challenges. Then they got in the gym for what was really their first time to bond together and we all know the August Kelsey, Clark, and the whole team had. The basketball ball good, exciting, and fun to watch. The Dallas game is one of the best basketball games I ever watched, men's or womans. What a shoe both teams put on.
Even great coaches get fired. Not that Sides is great, but the Fever definitely needed a complete change to get to the next level. I like what the new coaches are showing, but we'll have to wait and see.
Can someone explain to me how CC is only 22, Kate Martin is 24, Lexi is 25 and both Paige Buckets and Van Lithe are older than CC 23 and still in college 😮
CC, Paige, and Van Lith are all in the same high school class (roughly born 2001 / 2002). CC played 4 years in college. Van Lith is on her 5h year. Paige is also on her 5th year but she is actually eligible for a 6th year (combination of her 1 year injury and the special covid rule)
@ just seems strange to have 17/18 year olds playing against 24/25 year olds in college. I get it though the pandemic, red shirt injuries etc. With NIL money college sports is now more like professional sports with the major schools and the minor leagues with smaller schools. The truth is there probably never was a level playing field to begin with. The money was always there, now it’s just out in the open and called NIL name image likeness 🧐🥹🤫
Sides held back the development of the Fever by not playing Hull enough until later in season and by forcing CC into the wrong style of play. CC took over later and forced the rest of the team into a faster transitional pace, getting more shots in rhythm for the team.
One thing that would win more games, is to learn to box out more on rebounds! You cannot get take aways, or put backs without boxing opponents out from the rebounds.
More fabrications: The show starts with Lexie talking about giving up on the season, but if you watch the Locked On interview with Hull, she was talking about the 2022 season, the 5-win season (before Sides), not 2024. And she qualified that comment in saying that in spite of the disappointed feeling, they developed a sense of hope and resilience that year. As for the 2024 season and "EXPOSES MAJOR...SECRETS," there are none in the Locked On interview. It's actually for the most part a very superficial interview -- and there's nothing from the locker room to speak of. Why does the Indiana Fever draw so many liars? Is it the Caitlin Clark effect, or that UA-cam pays (or both)?
It made no sense at all for an NCAA champion to be on the bench with KL, KW and EW playing +20 minutes. Christy held this team back every way possible...and they still made it to the first round. Cant wait until the new season!!🎉 Lets go Lexie!!
Make no mistake, CC knows basketball. It is a team sport. Her teammates are good players, and she involves all of them in the game. Result: Everyone plays to their potential, and has fun. It would have been interesting to see Sides retained for another year. Think that would have been ok.
Sides lead them to the plyaoffs and a season turnaround. In the middle of CC euphoria. I think all things considered she is a solid coach. Got no problems with CS.
... everyone expecting them to be better in '25 will be even more pressure... are they to have the 'complete-squad' needed to go further than last season.. will they avoid injuries... is the league to stop all on-court-nonsense happening last season ... a very important upcoming season for the Fever... and for the WNBA... the wait to-be-long
😂😂😂 they will win a championship around 2030 Sides wasn't all that bad she took a team that nobody wanted and a job that she didn't even want. the best thing about Christy sides is that she did not kiss butt 😅😅😅🏀 from the top when side said she sees some bad habits that need to be broken that clan base went off.... it's true there is no I in team....🏀
There are some really DUMB PEOPLE in this world,,, but for the smarter people would KNOW that if a coach takes a 5 win team to a 20 win team in two years and in the playoffs is a good coach,,,
No need to put down people who have a different opinion than yours. I can't speak for other people but I can tell you why I don't think Slides is a good coach even though the did end up with 20 wins and made the playoffs. She was terrible at calling timeouts when the other team would go on runs. Typically in the 3rd quarter when the Fever had bid leads going into the half. It was mostly Caitlins unwillingness to lose that they would barley hold the lead or come back in the 4th qtr to win the game. She was also terrible at player rotation. Seems lime she the starters breaks predetermined and bot when the flow of the game dictated the best time to rest them. She can't make in game defensive adjustments to slow down the opponents. These are the big reasons I don't think she is a top tier head coach and sgree the Fever needed a change. Now I will cover if her better qualities as a coach. She developed a great team chemistry when it couldn't of been easy to do with the way Clark entered the league snd the huge spot light she brought with her. The season could have been very different if Mitchell didn't buy in. I don't think she did earlier in the season and it showed. She would refuse to pass the ball to Clark. I think Caitlin not performing in the skills competition at the all saltar game went a long way in that. Especially when Wheeler couldn't get there and Mitchell replaced her. You know everyone want Clark to do it. Then they had 3 weeks to practice and this where Slides team building skills and games brought the team together. In summation, I think Slides is a good coach, just not a good head coach at this time. Doesn't mean she won't or can't be later, but for now, not a goid fit for the Fever. I do agree with Slides statement after she was fired, leave it better than yiu found it. She definitely did
Let's go Lexie!!!
We love you Lexi. So proud of you. You’re a great player because you worked hard and stayed focused. Good job kid.
Lexie, you are a winner also. Might I boldly say a beautiful winner. Smart winner. You, Caitlin, Boston, Mitchell, and X will be so fun to watch. Looking forward to the 2025 season and wishing the Fever all the best. ❤
Lexie is fantastic on Defense. She will fit with Whites coaching style perfectly. Can't wait for the season to start!
Lexie is a great person.
Classy woman right there, wishing Lexie and the Fever much success this year. Other WNBA women should take notes.
Love lexi she is awesome and a real scrapper always going to get the ball!
Following her shot too=Offensive rebounds!
Les I you are a class act and true professional. You should be proud of what you have done. Y ou have a formula for success . Mental toughness is number one. I have feeling you will win a championship one day. As a pro athlete myself. We all support you.
Christy was a terrible coach. Never standing up to the baseless fouls on Caitlin. She could’ve been more vocal with refs. Poor coaching is why she’s gone.
Biggest difference for us is how she talks about her players ("Caitlin has bad habits") compared to how Steph White talks about the players. You can really see the difference in Lexie's face when she talks about Sides and Steph in this interview
Every loss Sides would NEVER take accountability. She always threw her team and certain players under the bus. Many of those losses (most of them really) were because of poor coaching. She kept trying to force the players to fit her system (inside out) rather than finding the system that best fits her players strengths. Stupid plus never called timeouts when team was struggling but often called timeouts when Fever was on a roll. Made zero sense.
@@chad85100100% agrees.
@@BasketballTopStoriesChristie was following the scripted narrative already in place before CC upended the original story.
@@chad851001st game after Olympics was the perfect match to what you just said. 35 points and running=*TIMEOUT!!!!!
Her 3pt avg of 67.3, combined with her backcourt of CC and Mitchell is such a great mix when defenders couldn’t stop the guards and she was a deadly option from 3 was the nail in the coffin of opposing teams. I’m glad she gets the recognition she deserves.
Fever need to bring in a scrappy enforcer who is willing to do the dirty work and get ejected and suspended if need be..all the fouls against Caitlin Clark was attempts to injure her
💯 Fact.
If the refs had called those fouls, they'd have scored points on some of them. The league was not square in 2024.
@@JaimeTanner-b2i#Officiating!
Fever needs an effective power forward. I hope they go after Satou. And yes she’s right they need experience. Sides did what she could, it was a
Tough schedule for a young team. Hope they go much deeper next season. Fever is an exciting team to watch.
Lexi Hull is an outstanding Player ,, Will get better
When Lexie is having a good night she drop 3's , defends the paint, and is a huge asset.
I just hope she keeps improving and I believe 2025 will be a great season for the Fever . Even Michael Jordan had to play hard for 5+ seasons before his first ring.
Love everything about Lexi’s game. So happy for her growth and the recognition she is receiving. Looking forward to what 2025 will bring.
They got as far as they did despite the coach, not because of the coach.
Ok here goes in gonna be 76 soon so give me some slack , please . I love the Fever , and all their players . But i want a signature basket ball with Lexie and Catlin both signing it ................Please , lol not for free i will buy it as soon as you put it up for sale. gl in 2025 ladys
CC ignited the entire team. Lexi and CC play the court well.
The rest of the team could take a page from Lexis play, to be aggressive on defense, and hustle to the ball, you can’t win, if you don’t know where the balls at!
Following your shot.
Lexi was a bench warmer if it wasn't for Sides no one wouldn't know who she was unless you followed her in college. She is definitely a good role player, not great on offense creating her own shot but a streaky 3 point shooter. Her effort and hustle was exceptional probably the best on the team. They got rid of Temi so unless they replace her with a defensive person the fever will probably look worse than they did last year defensively
Christy was better as an assistant coach not head coach
she never wanted to be a head coach she was talked into position by the GM. nobody wanted the Indiana Fever after the other coach left. 🏀
@@montrealabrancherto3301I think she realized it during the break and let CC run the offense. Sides needed help with solving defenses. Otherwise the team would have won more games.
@irenearmenta5423 coach Stephanie is a heavy defense coach .. so they are going to come up in that area 🏀
In the beginning, Boston showed up way out of shape. Once she started playing her way into shape, things started getting better. I think the team had to figure it out on their own, because I really didn’t have a coach.
I also believe Mitchell had a little bit of the veteran jealousy with Caitlin. One Mitchell got the ball in her hands she wouldn't give it up. She would dribble in circles for a shot no matter how good the look was. The all star break and her taking Wheelers spot in the skills competition. You know everyone wanted Clark but Caitlin stuck to her decision of not participating in any of the skills challenges. Then they got in the gym for what was really their first time to bond together and we all know the August Kelsey, Clark, and the whole team had. The basketball ball good, exciting, and fun to watch. The Dallas game is one of the best basketball games I ever watched, men's or womans. What a shoe both teams put on.
Temi has the weak hands problem.
@@Derek_AZ A really big shoe!
Even great coaches get fired. Not that Sides is great, but the Fever definitely needed a complete change to get to the next level. I like what the new coaches are showing, but we'll have to wait and see.
Love lexie! Shes the "jerry the mouse"on the court. Whatwver it takes she will get that ball!
Hustle works wonders.
Can someone explain to me how CC is only 22, Kate Martin is 24, Lexi is 25 and both Paige Buckets and Van Lithe are older than CC 23 and still in college 😮
CC, Paige, and Van Lith are all in the same high school class (roughly born 2001 / 2002). CC played 4 years in college. Van Lith is on her 5h year. Paige is also on her 5th year but she is actually eligible for a 6th year (combination of her 1 year injury and the special covid rule)
@ Ok 👍 Thank you for explaining. I wish them all well 🏆
You're welcome. Thanks for watching and happy holidays!
CC actually could have come back for one more year (covid year ) this year but she opted to go to WNBA. Paige because of injuries.
@ just seems strange to have 17/18 year olds playing against 24/25 year olds in college. I get it though the pandemic, red shirt injuries etc. With NIL money college sports is now more like professional sports with the major schools and the minor leagues with smaller schools. The truth is there probably never was a level playing field to begin with. The money was always there, now it’s just out in the open and called NIL name image likeness 🧐🥹🤫
Sides held back the development of the Fever by not playing Hull enough until later in season and by forcing CC into the wrong style of play. CC took over later and forced the rest of the team into a faster transitional pace, getting more shots in rhythm for the team.
One thing that would win more games, is to learn to box out more on rebounds! You cannot get take aways, or put backs without boxing opponents out from the rebounds.
I can't wait!!!
Sides was worse than incompetent
$500,000 implicitly incompetent?
One game at a time. That's how you get there. Focus on the now not dreams and wishes.
Agree they need an enforcer
Your coach gave up on you. No reflection on Sides as a person. She was simply in over her head to coach at the WNBA level.
There's two words for Lexi Hull "FREAKING AWSUME"
HULL YEAH!!! 😊
We all knew Sides was bad Lin Dunn hired her this is why Lexi didn’t start not because she said Sides was bad you said that !
It's funny how the league pounded there schedule you start.. like they wanted her to fail. She made it through that tough beginning.
More fabrications: The show starts with Lexie talking about giving up on the season, but if you watch the Locked On interview with Hull, she was talking about the 2022 season, the 5-win season (before Sides), not 2024. And she qualified that comment in saying that in spite of the disappointed feeling, they developed a sense of hope and resilience that year. As for the 2024 season and "EXPOSES MAJOR...SECRETS," there are none in the Locked On interview. It's actually for the most part a very superficial interview -- and there's nothing from the locker room to speak of. Why does the Indiana Fever draw so many liars? Is it the Caitlin Clark effect, or that UA-cam pays (or both)?
It made no sense at all for an NCAA champion to be on the bench with KL, KW and EW playing +20 minutes. Christy held this team back every way possible...and they still made it to the first round. Cant wait until the new season!!🎉 Lets go Lexie!!
Fever Fab Four Lexie, CC, KM, AB
I like Lexie Hull, but I fear she may be used in a trade to improve the Fever.
We love her!!!!
I am so in love with Lexie Hull! Why, if I was 50 years younger, I’d give her boyfriend a run for his money. 😉🤣
And come the third of every month, I’m flush with cash from my Social Security check. 🥳🤣😉
This could have been a great video. You just needed to play the interview.....and not interrupt with all your comments 😢😢😢😢
Lexie is so cute 😍
Lets go love me some lexi
Make no mistake, CC knows basketball. It is a team sport. Her teammates are good players, and she involves all of them in the game. Result: Everyone plays to their potential, and has fun. It would have been interesting to see Sides retained for another year. Think that would have been ok.
NO!!!! #FireTheRefs.
Who is this dude? I need to see this whole sermon!
Is there a reason she never singled out Caitlin’s contribution?
In the regular season, they need OT games to toughen up their psyche.
Sides lead them to the plyaoffs and a season turnaround. In the middle of CC euphoria. I think all things considered she is a solid coach. Got no problems with CS.
... everyone expecting them to be better in '25 will be even more pressure... are they to have the 'complete-squad' needed to go further than last season.. will they avoid injuries... is the league to stop all on-court-nonsense happening last season
... a very important upcoming season for the Fever... and for the WNBA... the wait to-be-long
Lexie is my Barbie and well CC22 Queen
😂😂😂 they will win a championship around 2030
Sides wasn't all that bad she took a team that nobody wanted and a job that she didn't even want. the best thing about Christy sides is that she did not kiss butt 😅😅😅🏀
from the top when side said she sees some bad habits that need to be broken that clan base went off.... it's true there is no I in team....🏀
In other words Side was a newbie.
There are some really DUMB PEOPLE in this world,,, but for the smarter people would KNOW that if a coach takes a 5 win team to a 20 win team in two years and in the playoffs is a good coach,,,
No need to put down people who have a different opinion than yours. I can't speak for other people but I can tell you why I don't think Slides is a good coach even though the did end up with 20 wins and made the playoffs. She was terrible at calling timeouts when the other team would go on runs. Typically in the 3rd quarter when the Fever had bid leads going into the half. It was mostly Caitlins unwillingness to lose that they would barley hold the lead or come back in the 4th qtr to win the game. She was also terrible at player rotation. Seems lime she the starters breaks predetermined and bot when the flow of the game dictated the best time to rest them. She can't make in game defensive adjustments to slow down the opponents. These are the big reasons I don't think she is a top tier head coach and sgree the Fever needed a change. Now I will cover if her better qualities as a coach. She developed a great team chemistry when it couldn't of been easy to do with the way Clark entered the league snd the huge spot light she brought with her. The season could have been very different if Mitchell didn't buy in. I don't think she did earlier in the season and it showed. She would refuse to pass the ball to Clark. I think Caitlin not performing in the skills competition at the all saltar game went a long way in that. Especially when Wheeler couldn't get there and Mitchell replaced her. You know everyone want Clark to do it. Then they had 3 weeks to practice and this where Slides team building skills and games brought the team together. In summation, I think Slides is a good coach, just not a good head coach at this time. Doesn't mean she won't or can't be later, but for now, not a goid fit for the Fever. I do agree with Slides statement after she was fired, leave it better than yiu found it. She definitely did
Dunn & Sides were horrible & detrimental to many players.
If Lexi shot 66% from three that's the highest ever in history .
Can't be true