Which NWSL coaches are in the hot seat, and how this WNBA season’s rookie class continues to stand out

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Claire talks this week’s NWSL snapshot through the context of the league’s coaches, discussing her early coach of the year shortlist, with both surprises and steady performances. She also breaks down which coaching seats might be getting a little hot, and they might not be the names you’d expect. Then, she turns to the first full week of WNBA action, giving out superlatives for the strongest performers thus far. She takes a look at how the 2024 rookie class is doing, and makes a pitch for how Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever could start to turn things around.

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0:00.0	The fever themselves as a team are having some trouble and it's some very high profile trouble,
0:04.6	but that's more about team cohesion and comfort running their offense and defense that goes beyond just individual performances.
0:09.7	We're seeing this learning curve for Clark on a very, very big stage. We're talking about
0:13.4	little things with her that I think perhaps with fewer eyeballs on her, she
0:17.7	would be given a lot more space to figure out. We're getting very much into the
0:20.9	nitty gritty of how starting guards play in the
0:23.2	W MBA which I actually like I think I've actually seen a lot of people
0:26.0	including myself get better and better at even just analyzing basketball through
0:29.7	watching her change little things about how she's played in the first three games of her
0:33.0	season but I think yeah I think good is is where we're starting and I think
0:36.8	everyone would like to see Indiana put it together a little bit more but I think
0:40.2	people have to be kind of happy with what they're seeing from Clark so far.
0:42.8	Hello everybody and welcome to this week's edition of the late sub.
0:49.5	I am your host Claire Watkins.
0:50.8	We are recording on Monday, May 20th, and we have a lot of
0:54.7	NWSL and WMA and a variety of different results from around the world of
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