THE END OF DAWN STALEY & SOUTH CAROLINA GAMECOCKS? THE REBIRTH OF UCONN HUSKIES? WNBA CLEVELAND

Estimated read time: 1:20

Summary

The video discusses the proposed re-emergence of the Cleveland Rockers in the WNBA and debates the legacy and coaching capabilities of Dawn Staley and Geno Auriemma. It critiques the name 'Rockers' as outdated and considers the potential expansion of the WNBA to 20 teams. Concerns about roster depth, product dilution, and market saturation are raised alongside critiques of various coaches' reliance on stacked rosters. The future of women's basketball and its sustainability is examined amidst economic and political uncertainties.

Highlights

The Cleveland Rockers might return to the WNBA, but the name feels dated despite historical ties. 🎸
Expansion to 20 WNBA teams is on the horizon, sparking excitement and concerns over talent depth. 🏗️
Concerns abound regarding roster sizes and dilution of player talent in an expanded WNBA. 😨
Dawn Staley's coaching prowess is questioned against Gino Auriemma's success with a competitive roster. 🔍
Economic and political uncertainties create a cloud over the WNBA and women's basketball future. 💭

Key Takeaways

The Cleveland Rockers name is considered outdated despite its connection to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 🎸
WNBA's expansion plans include moving back to Cleveland, potentially growing to 20 teams by 2028. 📈
Concerns exist about player talent pool and product dilution with rapid expansion. 😬
Dawn Staley's coaching methods are scrutinized, particularly when matched against equally talented teams. vs Geno Auriemma. 🏀
Future economic and political uncertainties could impact the WNBA's growth and sustainability. 🌍

Overview

The video starts off with a discussion on the nostalgia of the Cleveland Rockers, one of the founding WNBA teams. Although tied to Cleveland's rock history, the name seems antiquated, especially in today’s music landscape. There are plans to bring the team back by 2028, utilizing the Cleveland Cavaliers’ facilities in the meantime.

The WNBA plans significant expansions, eyeing a roster of 20 teams in the near future. The video raises alarms about the depth of talent available to sustain such growth without degrading the quality of play. Various older teams, including those in Detroit and Houston, are also eyed for reinvigoration. Striking a balance between excitement and caution in expansion is crucial.

Dawn Staley's coaching stint is put under the microscope, critiqued for lacking effective adjustments in high-pressure games against teams like UConn. The video stresses that having equally talented teams test a coach’s true abilities. In parallel, Geno Auriemma’s consistent command and strategic prowess are used as benchmarks for coaching excellence.

Chapters

00:00 - 10:00: Introduction to Cleveland Rockers The chapter titled "Introduction to Cleveland Rockers" discusses the early franchise of the Cleveland Rockers basketball team, highlighting its place as one of the original eight franchises from 1997 to 2003. The chapter notes the team's recognition for having two players in the Hall of Fame, reflecting on the historical significance and legacy of the name despite its datedness.
10:00 - 20:00: Challenges and Opportunities for the WNBA The chapter discusses various challenges and opportunities faced by the WNBA, with a focus on Cleveland. Despite having notable Hall of Famers like Lynette Woodard and Isabelle Kowski come through, the league faced issues such as franchise retraction due to lack of ticket sales, indicating challenges in maintaining team operations and audience engagement.
20:00 - 30:00: Expansion Plans and Considerations The chapter discusses the challenges faced due to declining ratings, resulting in financial losses. There is a shift in focus with the arrival of a significant figure, LeBron, which brings new energy and considerations for the future. Despite these changes, Cleveland remains a central point of focus during this period of transition.
30:00 - 45:00: Coaching Challenges and Criticisms This chapter discusses various challenges and criticisms faced in the coaching world, particularly in the context of professional sports in Cleveland. It touches on the thriving sports scene with teams like the Cleveland Indians, Cavaliers, and Browns, and how these dynamics influenced coaching pressures. Additionally, it highlights the period around 2005 to 2007, mentioning the struggles faced by the WNBA during that time. The chapter paints a picture of the competitive and often challenging landscape that coaches had to navigate during this era, as well as the broader implications on sports culture and team dynamics.
45:00 - 61:00: Conclusion and Summary The speaker reflects on their expectations about a move to Cleveland, admitting they anticipated something different, like Cincinnati. They express their dissatisfaction with the name 'rockers' due to the decline in rock music's popularity, despite the connection to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

THE END OF DAWN STALEY & SOUTH CAROLINA GAMECOCKS? THE REBIRTH OF UCONN HUSKIES? WNBA CLEVELAND Transcription

00:00 - 00:30 all right so I want to talk about the Cleveland rockers I think the name is Antiquated is dated it was good for its time one of the eight original franchises 1997 to 2003 known for his two Hall of
00:30 - 01:00 Famers um Lynette Woodard and Isabelle Kowski French player so they got two Hall of Famers that came through Cleveland and it it folded you know the league had to do retraction it folded the people of Cleveland just wasn't showing up anymore and they couldn't sell enough tickets
01:00 - 01:30 and obviously ratings weren't good and so the energy fell off and uh you know you start burning money and losing money and obviously you had the new king and that came to town talking about LeBron obviously uh and later on and so you just start really focusing on a lot of that and at that time you know Cleveland is still a
01:30 - 02:00 football City but it's a lot of stuff going on you at that time you had the Cleveland Indians and when they were C the Indians you got the Cleveland Indians you got the Cleveland Cavs you got the Cleveland Browns and at that time you know the WNBA was going through things especially when you get to the Year 2005 and like 2007 so the writing was on
02:00 - 02:30 wall and did I believe that they would go back to Cleveland I didn't think Cleveland I thought maybe they would do something different and maybe try Cincinnati just for something different but what I can say is that I'm not a fan of the name rockers I understood it then because the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame obviously but now rock music is dead it's
02:30 - 03:00 Antiquated okay if no one listens to rock unless it's classic rock right but no one really listens to rock It's it's metal right it's golf Metal Dark metal metal no one even really uses the term heavy metal anymore so it's just really like goth metal just metal which is what I like so the whole rocker thing I understand
03:00 - 03:30 the significance of it and how it connects with the city because the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but it's just like yeah the Cleveland rockers I guess you could throw up the rock symbol it's like yeah stick out your tongue yeah Rock and Roll Baby like I don't know I just I don't like the name and the logo I'm guessing he's going to keep the logo again and it's just sort of antiquated to me so now the WNBA wasn't going to pass it up because
03:30 - 04:00 you're talking about $250 million right a quarter of the billion dollars and so the WNBA wasn't going to pass that up um that's going to help the wnb out tremendously and so I'm super happy about that obviously they get to play where the Cavs play and they get to use those locker rooms and they'll probably able to be able to use the Cavs facility to train in
04:00 - 04:30 until they decide to give the Cleveland rockers their own exclusive training facilities and all of that until that happens and they have plenty of time for that because they won't be a part of this league until 2028 so they have plenty of time to build these women their own facilities and that's if Donald Trump don't screw everything up he's screwing everything up right now this this dude might ban the WNBA and just
04:30 - 05:00 say it's Dei this dude might ban the NBA I mean he's sick he's Twisted that's that's assuming that this leag even makes it to 2028 that America is even around you might be in a world war it could be World War III this dude is causing so much friction and tension and everything with these other countries and
05:00 - 05:30 he's pissing everyone off and he's trying to make America the 1800s and this dude is dumb he's stupid so WNBA might not even be around in 202 America might not even be around this dude is he's making everyone team up against America because everyone hates America now because of Donald Trump Canada and Europe and Mexico and China and he's doing solids for Russia Russia
05:30 - 06:00 wants to take over Europe and starting with Poland after they run through Ukraine and they go to Poland and it's going to be a mess and so everyone knows this he wants to get rid of NATO and he's doing solid for Israel he's trying to take over Gaza and turn it into beachfront property and the the nations are saying we will never let you displace the Palestinians from Gaza that's their land and so so this dude is
06:00 - 06:30 trying to cause a World War and then what he's doing on us soil he's breaking everyone and he's making America poor and he's making the poor even more poor he's making the lower class even more lower class he's robbing the middle class and he's he's only looking out for the top 1% and he's pissing off Americans which can start a Civil War and and he's he's stoking up things for race Wars and segregation with all of this Dei woke stuff and then the people
06:30 - 07:00 who voted for him they're pissed at him because he's robbing and he's taking away things that they need and farmers and Republicans of Maga who's on Medicaid and Medicare and Social Security and magga people who are on food stamps EBT SNAP and all of this and housing and destroying the Department of Education and special needs they just
07:00 - 07:30 shut down some special needs uh schools and stuff like so he's just really pissing everyone off and so listen man like 2028 is it's a long ways away dude like I know it's like was three years no no no it's like 3,000 years away just based off of what Donald Trump is doing what I'm saying is that it might not be
07:30 - 08:00 reality 20 the Cleveland rockers may never make it to the WNBA because of that freaking idiot Donald Trump and his administration and we may never see the Cleveland Rockets the this dude might be like yo the WNBA is a th% Dei is too woke it's too many lesbians it's not D it's not diverse enough it's too many black women and he'll just come out blunt and just say that and he this dude might find a way to get rid of the WNBA
08:00 - 08:30 he might find a way to get rid of the NBA like that dude is sick and twisted man he's a freaking idiot you know so you just never know with him man you just never know will the WBA even be around in 2028 like Jesus Christ y'all elected the wrong person the wrong person and now everyone really knows it but some of his supporters are just holding on because they're hoping for the glory years of the
08:30 - 09:00 1800s you know these people are sick they're freaking stupid idiots man so yeah but like I said the WNBA wasn't going to pass up on $250 million like that wasn't going to happen they were not going to pass up on $250 million like ever so there's that um we'll see where it goes I'm just I don't like the name rocker yeah
09:00 - 09:30 rockers baby like I don't like that I think it's dated no one listens to rock music unless you're someone who love classic rock like '90s rock or 80s rock or 70s rock no one listens to rock and roll anymore they just don't it's metal music or goth metal no one cares about rock anymore it's not a thing and so I think that's a stupid name but we know that it's the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in Cleveland and so I get it
09:30 - 10:00 but now what I will say is that the WNBA uh got trademarks on the Detroit shock Cleveland rockers this is before they announc the Cleveland rockers the Houston Comets and the Miami Soul so everyone is believing that those like Philly is they're not going to do Philly right now I told you guys that I believe I said this before anyone was
10:00 - 10:30 talking expansion you know I was the first one to put the word out there that the WB needs to expand I was doing this like over six s years ago I was making videos about expansion how the WBA needs to expand and it's like seven years ago so I was the first one to start talking expansion and I came up with ideas like increase the roster size until your league grows
10:30 - 11:00 enough where you can expand because there's too many great players not in this league because there's no expansion and there's not enough roster spots and then I said if you increase the roster spots you have to increase the minutes per game from 40 to 48 and I explain why the eight extra minutes is important okay because it's good for the networks that's eight extra minutes that they can show commercials okay it's good for the players because that's
11:00 - 11:30 eight extra minutes some of these players can get playing time and then it's also good for the game and for the teams because it allow comebacks that's eight extra minutes for your team to come back and win the game so it just works for everyone 13 players per team that right or 15 players per team which is what I proposed I actually proposed 15 players and I said you can use those three EXT players obviously as
11:30 - 12:00 reserved players so you don't have to dip into free agency that way these three players are familiar with your system your developing them in house and you don't have to go and dip into free agency in the states or someone overseas and they don't know the system they don't have a rapport the chemistry is off because they're new to the franchise and this allows these great women from college to be able to grow in the w NBA and so it's sort of like your
12:00 - 12:30 own each team has their own developmental League it's like a it's sort of like the shadow developmental league if you will inside the WNBA with three extra players per team and that's when Rebecca Lobo blocked me because she stole it from me and tried to pitch it like it was hers when I tagged her and sent that message to her I sent it to Carolyn peek and sent that message to Lisa bler
12:30 - 13:00 and even even I made I was making those videos every year I sent it to Kathy eberg when she took over at uh not Lisa BL I'm talking about Lisa blue Lisa borders I sent it to Lisa borders and then I sent it to Kathy when she got on and then Rebecca copied me and so I I showed how Rebecca how I sent that video to Rebecca and tagged her and how Rebecca stole it from me and then Rebecca got and block me so then I made
13:00 - 13:30 a video calling out Rebecca she tried to plagiarize my idea and try to pretend that it was her idea I'm the first one that came up with increased roster size to 15 and develop those three players so you don't have to dip into free agency okay I'm the first one that ever talked about increasing the minutes per game from 40 to 48 and I explained why it was important okay and I was the first one to to ever talk about expansion no one
13:30 - 14:00 ESPN no one no player no coaches no journalists no fans no one was talking about expansion except for me I started talking about expansion what seven years ago um listen I was talking about capping the age at 35 36 that way it could give room to younger players to enter this league you know I was calling
14:00 - 14:30 certain players dinosaurs I was saying they need to retire and they're selfish and they're holding on to the these contracts and they're trying to wait into a new CBA so they can get more money meanwhile they're steing roster spots from promising young players and I was doing all of these things man I was calling out teams for poor facilities before anyone else I highlighted how the Indiana Fever was having their players to be in cold tubs and inside the janitor the maintenance room and
14:30 - 15:00 throwing medicine balls against the wall in the hallway and all of the man I was doing all of this stuff and calling people out for these things and before anyone else was doing it and I would always tag people I would tag the heads in ESPN and Disney and the higher ups in the WNBA I would tag certain influential journalists and and this is when my channel well this is going back to my
15:00 - 15:30 SSN Channel and you know I got 90 plus thousand subscribers millions of views hundreds of thousands of views and videos going viral and I was the only one doing WNBA content at that time really and even before when I got started in 2013 I was literally the only one but you know and that's just sort of what it was so like everyone knew about my Channel at that time cuz I was really the only Channel doing it anything to be quite honest
15:30 - 16:00 with you but uh yeah so I brought up Miami soul I brought up the Houston comments I was the first one to ever pitched the ESPN 30 for30 the idea of doing a 30 for30 on the Houston Comics I pitched that idea when Lisa borders was the president I pitched that idea to 30 for 30 ESPN I kept sending it to him when you going to make a 30 for30 on the Houston comments they won four championships in a row the first four Champion chips of the WNBA like that's
16:00 - 16:30 crazy that's never happened before in sports regardless of genre and so you know I pitched that idea to them and I talked about bringing back the Houston comments I knew that the WNBA would have to put a team in Florida because it's great for an allar game and obviously there's no state taxes so I figured that they would put a team back in Miami now I know the new commissioner
16:30 - 17:00 for uh the upshot League which is a new women's pro basketball league beginning May of 20126 40 Game season 11 players per team 5x5 5v5 it's a real pro league they're in four markets Savannah Jacksonville Florida Greensboro North Carolina Charlotte North Carolina and the investment is so robust that they're moving to two extra markets they got major investors from major Holly will film
17:00 - 17:30 producers actresses and actors uh Business Leaders like zorya group uh major famous women's basketball Legends like sh Miller and an Meyers Dale and the former WNBA president Donna arenda from 2005 to 2010 and she's an investor but she's also the commissioner of That League and so you know um like I said before listen like I figured that
17:30 - 18:00 they would go back to Florida Donna orenda and her team was trying to get the WNBA to come to Jack Jacksonville Florida but the WNBA wanted more of a sexy spot which is Miami because of South Beach and the Miami NTI and all of that and it would just be great WNBA allstar game Miami 2028 you know it just it would just be
18:00 - 18:30 sexy for them and so they just decided to choose Miami and uh so now they went and got trademarks to for all of these names to make sure that any other new leag couldn't take that Nam Soul or rockers or comets um I made sure that I bookmarked it it was another journalist who put that out like 2 days ago if I'm not mistake or um excuse me like two weeks ago a week or two weeks ago if
18:30 - 19:00 I'm I book I book marked it uh today it was from a journalist and he showed how they trademarked Miami Soul Cleveland rockers Houston comments and another team it was another team but it wasn't the charlott the the Detroit shop so the WBA just trademark this is before they put out that the Cleveland rockers are the next new expansion team
19:00 - 19:30 uh they went and trademarked all of these names again these original franchises so they used to be in the WNBA Miami Soul Detroit shock now we know that the Detroit shock is really the Dallas wings but they just kept the name they wanted to make sure that they were able to get that name back because they're going back to Michigan Detroit so you got Detroit shock Cleveland rockers Miami soul and Houston Comets and that's
19:30 - 20:00 what it looks like to me and so this upcoming season they'll have 13 teams that's the Golden State Valkyries right in 2026 they're adding the Toronto Tempo and the Portland fire okay so at that point that's 15 teams you want to get it to 16 and here comes the Cleveland rockers in 2028 that's 16 teams but because the
20:00 - 20:30 WNBA trademarked three e three franchises that used to be in the WNBA three extra ones with the Cleveland rockers this thing looks like it's going to eventually get to 20 teams because when you add those three extra teams that make in 19 Detroit shock Houston comments Miami soul that makes at 19 I
20:30 - 21:00 doubt that they put two teams in Florida so what that leads me to believe is that Denver is going to get a team or because they really want to move into that Denver market so it's either going to be Denver Philly St Louis of Kansas City okay or
21:00 - 21:30 or Charlotte now the upshot league is in Charlotte already and they are they're they're going to do their seasons in May right along with the WNBA so now there was a journalist a Charlotte journalist who yes who two days ago put out a tweet with a link for you to read this article about the WNBA hopefully potentially bringing back to
21:30 - 22:00 Charlotte sting so we'll see where that goes but it looks like they want to get it to 20 teams now when you move it to 20 teams what you're doing is that you have to increase the games the networks love this idea because they're looking for more product the problem with the WNBA with only having 12 teams and only having at one time 34 games and then 36
22:00 - 22:30 games and then 38 games and 40 games it just wasn't enough product to sell different networks and so they were just stuck with two networks okay ESPN and CBS Sports Network those were the main ones but when they start moving the games to 42 games and 44 games obviously you can sell some product to ion you can sell some product to Amazon right and so what helped the WNBA now you're adding
22:30 - 23:00 this new media rights deal with NBC and all of this stuff and so the WNBA they have more product but it's still not enough product okay and this is why you need more teams because with more teams you have to increase the games that means more product to sell right that means you get a bigger medeor rights deal which the league and the players would love because this is making sure that these players will
23:00 - 23:30 eventually be able to have generational wealth and the WNBA will end up being a multi-billion dollar uh lead and with these major medeor rights still but you need more product to sell which means you need more teams because more teams brings more games now the dangerous part about that is product dilution onc Court dilution with the product because the college game doesn't have a
23:30 - 24:00 good talent pool to support 20 teams which is where the WNBA wants to be by 2028 or 2030 okay so that's going to be problematic now obviously they can go overseas and get Talent from overseas with some of this Collegiate talent and they can also use the upshot league as their official development league if they decide to do a deal with
24:00 - 24:30 the upshot League zya group and Donna arenda if they want to do that they could bring in players from the upshot league and obviously athletes unlimited and just to make sure that the product is good quality okay because right now just depending on College and sprinkling in some players from overseas that's just not good enough it just isn't that's just too many teams and
24:30 - 25:00 you're talking about 12 players per team right now maybe the WNBA would do like what the upshot league is doing they're only allowing 11 players per team okay because what that does that just keeps the product potent it keeps it highly concentrated when you start adding 20 teams which is where it's going to go and 12 players per team that's a massive problem that's massive major product dilution which will turn away casual
25:00 - 25:30 fans okay and it will cause anxiety with sponsors and shareholders and owners and even hardcore fans seeing that the product is now depleted it's diluted that's a massive massive problem that means more turnovers sloppy play poor fundamentals uh low team field goal percentage really low team threo
25:30 - 26:00 percentage poor defense everything looks funky and that's what you don't want the WNBA at this point starts to look like D1 college basketball okay and it's just like we've seen this season in college it's damn near unwatchable outside of some Marquee teams with some Marquee players is pretty bad basketball that's what will happen to the
26:00 - 26:30 WNBA if they get to 20 teams 12 players per team and then you're talking about moving the games to any probably to 60 games which because they wanted 60 games because there's just more product to sell the networks right when you get 60 games you could charge NBC more you can charge ESPN more you can charge CBS more you can charge ion more and that's you
26:30 - 27:00 can charge Amazon more but you can also bring in a new network like Fox okay and have games on FS1 and on Fox as well because that's 60 games that's enough product for you to sell that's enough teams to go around to make these networks unique where you're not dealing with redundancy right monotony okay things being mundane and just the same teams over and over again right and
27:00 - 27:30 so it just adds a little more variety but 60 games also sort of encroaches and it can hurt ratings cuz now you're bleeding into other professional leagues that's going to eventually start up and that's and they're more popular than women's basketball and that's going to take eyes off the product you're dealing with potential injuries because of attrition and all sorts of things like that but the main problem would be product
27:30 - 28:00 dilution because the women's collegia game it just hasn't caught up okay it just hasn't it hasn't caught up to support 20 teams um and like I said they would have to dig overseas and these a lot of these foreign players overseas they're under heavy contracts and they have these massive exclusive deals where some of them they're banned from playing in Estates and so you have to find overseas players
28:00 - 28:30 that don't have that type of language in their contract and see about them and like I said you would have to hit up the upshot League you would have to hit up the upshot league and sort of use them as your de facto development league and try to get some Talent like that athletes unlimited and so the pro the problem with rapid expansion like I said is just product dilution on court dilution and the product isn't good on
28:30 - 29:00 the court ratings go down attendance go down and the WNBA is starting to look like 2004 2005 2007 you know when it got really wild the product wasn't good people started turning away and it just got messed up right and you don't want to go back to that 20052 2007 2007 days that's what you don't
29:00 - 29:30 want to do okay uh but it's going to happen because of product dilution it's going to happen because of product dilution and that really really really is sad so but like I said everyone wanted in on it some teams only paid $50 million I believe the Toronto Tempo paid 50 million if I'm not mistaken or maybe it was Golden State Valkyries either go to state valkyrie's ownership pay 50 or a
29:30 - 30:00 little less than that and I believe Toronto Tempo pay 50 or maybe a little more than 50 million so the fact that you got the Cleveland Cavaliers coming in to revise to resurrect the Cleveland rockers and they're paying a quarter of a billion 250 million this is one of the reasons why everyone wanted to get in right now because it's better than owning purchasing an NBA team or NFL
30:00 - 30:30 team because you're going to be spending billions of dollars right and it's not good the NBA isn't trying to expand I don't believe it costs too much money ratings are down attendance numbers are down interest is down and so purchasing an NBA team is a bad investment okay NFL is just too expensive it just it's entirely too expensive it's a it's a profitable business but it's just too
30:30 - 31:00 expensive and so the smart thing in MLS it's a good league but soccer isn't an American it's not something that Americans really care for they have a appetite for it but not like they do for American football and basketball it's more sort of a overseas kind of love for s ER and so it just
31:00 - 31:30 makes sense to focus on women's basketball you got the most popular player in sports in North America Caitlyn Clark okay you have all of these Superstars that people have fallen in love with inside of the WNBA because Kay and Clark opened that window allowed them to see some of these other women then you have these new superstars in college and it's just going to continue the the on court product is really good because there's only 12 13
31:30 - 32:00 teams and these women play with more fire more passion more intensity more emotion they're more fundamentally sound it it reminds you of the basketball you grew up watching if you're an older person because you still got the paint game the post game high low post fundamentally sound very skilled it's it's mostly underneath the rim but cousin it's underneath the rim everyone must be really skilled and fundamentally
32:00 - 32:30 sound and plus these women just played with more fire and passion than the man and every game looks like it's the final four or the national championship game and so they W in on it it's great product the product has always been that way but no one was paying attention because they were only receiving 4% media coverage with all women sports
32:30 - 33:00 combined and then in what 2021 or 2022 they moved it to 15% okay on top of narratives and you dealing with misogyny and sexism and racism and all of these other things and and so it took someone like Kate and Clark to open the windows and everyone can see wow this is amazing basketball and that's why the ratings were so good in the playoffs when Indiana got knocked out in the first round the ratings just kept going up and up and up including
33:00 - 33:30 the finals right uh because everyone just fell in love with just great basketball okay so the WNBA listen they were like everyone wants in on it let's go let's go let's go let's go let's go but you have to be proactive instead of reactive and you can't be greedy okay and sometimes the turtle wins the race you got to be methodical you got to
33:30 - 34:00 matriculate and you just got to be careful you can't just sort of just metastasize this way because it can be bad rapid expansion can be extremely bad and so that's what you don't want to do but that's what they're doing because everyone wanted in on it you mean to tell me all I got to give you is $50 million or 30 million right now 250 million that's it and I get I get to make money hand over fist
34:00 - 34:30 seriously like really okay and you mean to tell me all I got to do is build like a $38 million to a $60 million training facility for these women seriously that's all I got to do so wait wait a second hold up I can give you 50 million and spend anywhere from 30 to 60 million on a practice a training facility and I just get to make all of this money because anytime the Indiana fever are coming to town we're going to sell out
34:30 - 35:00 every game and then when Paige Beckers gets in and gu guu and Hannah hogo and bu oh my gosh are you serious I just get to make all of this money this is insane this is a great deal and so everyone wanted in on it and I told you guys this two years ago um you know and so this is just what it is in the WBA got greedy their eyes bigger than their stomach and now it's a problem because it looks like it's going
35:00 - 35:30 to get to 20 teams and they didn't think about that college hasn't caught up just yet to support that they don't have that kind of talent pull and that's a massive massive problem it really is so w you got to be careful man you got to be careful WNBA now let me get back to talk about Don Staley real quick okay let me talk about Don Staley real quick
35:30 - 36:00 right Don Staley and this this is the truth Don Staley got exposed because the playing field was even in terms of personnel it was even they were able to match Dawn stter for starter death for
36:00 - 36:30 death and then Dawn was but naked why do I mean what do I mean by saying that she was left all alone it was up to her and it showed which coach prepared their players more which coach was more diligent which coach assiduously prepared their players got into the details the mons the
36:30 - 37:00 scars and that's not what da did that's not what she did okay the game plan was sloppy it was cheap it was Merit trious and she got exposed the conditioning was poor preparation was poor and in the game minute allocation was poor rotation was poor substitution package was poor timeouts were
37:00 - 37:30 poor adjustments was poor matchups was poor all of it was just poor even coming into the second half it actually got worse it actually got worse in the second half so she didn't even make any adjustments out of half time and Gino just exposed her he just looked like the master and she looked like the
37:30 - 38:00 student okay now obviously everyone was hoping that the old man would finally learn his lesson and go away with his walker and go into a nursing home and da it's DA's territory and it's over with now old man retire and go away and gin was like no no no no no mm- the body
38:00 - 38:30 ages and not everyone gets dementia so Gino's mind is sharp the body is aging but the mind is sharp and he knows basketball so he's one of those older men still quick witted clever and still knows basketball better than 99% of everyone else in women's collegia basketball and Don Staley got exposed Don Staley got Exposed on all fronts all
38:30 - 39:00 fronts and it was just bad basketball it really was it was bad basketball and then Gino got everyone back healthy pretty much I mean ice Brady didn't play but I think another player didn't play but Gino pretty much had a full healthy roster everyone was back the basketball was moving and the cutting and the down screen and the it was it was amazing
39:00 - 39:30 they were also playing downhill they were moving the ball in transition the conditioning was great motion offense it was beautiful it was beautiful basketball to watch it really was they were hitting their threes and they were passing up good shots for great shots and it was unselfish and it really wasn't a lot of I so it just looked like beautiful team basketball it was beautiful basketball to watch and with
39:30 - 40:00 Don Staley it just looked out of sorts it looked erratic it looked immature it looked sloppy it looked cheap okay and she got exposed this game came down to coaching she was butt naked she was butt naked she was exposed she had nowhere to hide okay so she looks great coaching against teams with lesser Talent with lesser depth okay so she can look good against
40:00 - 40:30 Notre Dame because Notre Dame they don't have her depth she can look good against Tennessee Tennessee doesn't have the starters or the depth she has okay she can look good against USC she can even look good against UCLA even though they lost the UCLA right because most teams don't have da Staley's depth right but when you get to Yukon in a
40:30 - 41:00 pretty much fully healthy Yukon they have the Stars you have if not better and they have the depth you have if not better and so now it's about coaching okay so now you're exposed how good are you Don when the playing field is level and even Personnel for person Personnel starters for starters depth
41:00 - 41:30 for depth we're pretty much even we're equal now who's the better Coach and Gino destroy her Don Staley got exposed she got exposed right when everything is pretty much even and equal who's the better Coach and she got exposed she just did okay so is Neil Ivy a better Coach Don we won't know until Neil Ivy
41:30 - 42:00 and the Irish get a Balan even roster like the Gamecocks is Corey close a better Coach than Don she beat her already this year but we won't surely know until Corey gets an even roster like the Gamecocks is Lindsay gotlet a better Coach than Dawn well we don't know until she gets an even roster like like the Gamecocks and this exposes coaches when everything
42:00 - 42:30 is even how good of a coach are you this is the situation with Stephanie white like I told you guys with the Indiana Fever and Becky Hammond I told you guys this Becky Hammond's first year with the aces we don't know how good of a coach Stephanie white is because Stephanie white has always had stack rosters her first time with the fever stack roster she bailed after Tama Catchings left she
42:30 - 43:00 don't like rebuilds she goes to Vanderbilt she sucks trash right then sha Petty comes on and Vanderbilt looks amazing I'm the first one that ever do videos on Vanderbilt this year the first one to ever do videos on Michaela Blakes and Pierre and all of them and I'll make that video public again as well no one was talking about them I was like y'all need to watch out for Michaela Vanderbilt and all of them so now everyone is paying
43:00 - 43:30 attention but I told yall about Vanderbilt so but Shay Ralph comes to vanderbild and vanderbild is is amazing right now so when she doesn't have a stack roster she sucks then she comes back to the WNBA on a stack roster with future Hall of Famers and she looks great she wins coach of a year she goes deep into the playoffs her second year everyone is going to leave and she bails
43:30 - 44:00 and she goes to another stat roster and make sure she's stacked it even more with these amazing hall of fame veterans okay and that's what it was and so we don't know if Stephanie white is a good coach because she's only had success with stack rosters when she didn't have a stack roster in college she was pure trash so how good of a coach is
44:00 - 44:30 Stephanie white seriously so you can just I guess you can judge her in the WNBA just based off a playoff her first two years she never won the WNBA Championship obviously she didn't make it to the finals her first year she didn't make it to the finals her second year with Connecticut okay and so she's going up against teams with even rosters of better rosters and she's getting out coached okay so you don't if Stephanie white is a good coach she's hiding Stephanie is hiding you guys okay the
44:30 - 45:00 same thing happened with Pokey Chapman Pokey Chapman looked really good with the Chicago Sky okay because she had syvia fouls Elena delodon all of these great players and they go to the finals and she looks good but soon as Elena delodon leaves and syia fouls leave and everyone leaves she looks terrible and then she gets fired and then she goes goes to the Indiana Fever and she doesn't have a stack roster and she's
45:00 - 45:30 terrible and she gets fired from the Indiana Fever so Pokey was hiding she was hiding behind Hall of Fame players with the Chicago sky and then she got exposed when she didn't have stacked rosters Becky Hammond comes into the WNBA and she gets a stack roster especially when she added Chelsea Gray that's a stack roster
45:30 - 46:00 you're dealing with three number one overall picks right on top of having Dereck and hamy and then you add Chelsea Gray and some other pieces and you bring in this whole pace and space even though you didn't bring that in that was really Walt Hopkins that was really doing that before you did it and what they got rid of him so they can get a sexy man like Sandy brondello who's also Terrible by the way she needs to hide behind stack Roost too so anyway you know I had to
46:00 - 46:30 say that because Becky Hammond is like I brought this to the leag no no no no no number one they was doing that in 2014 if we're being honest but the one who really brought it back back was Walt Hopkins with the New York Liberty he wanted to do some other things it was Mutual you know some players didn't like that he was yelling at them and all of that he was kind of he coached the players pretty hard but he was he was a shape shifter he had a hybrid team and long players
46:30 - 47:00 they all can shoot threes pace and space shoot threes and transition all of that was Walt Hopkins okay so anyway back to Becky H so she has a stack roster people forget about dear Hy as well you know stack roster all of that and boom you win a championship and in your second year you stacked the roster with Candice Parker and Kayla George GE this you know Kayla George is going into the Hall of Fame in
47:00 - 47:30 Australia you know all of these other players Alicia Clark and boom boom she stacked the roster even more okay and you win a championship so then your third year and I made a video and I told you guys Las Vegas Aces they were not going to win a w Championship I told you guys this I was at the river and I made a live video and I told you guys this it would happen right so your roster isn't stacked anymore
47:30 - 48:00 this is even this is before they got Tiffany Hayes when I made the video your roster isn't stacked anymore okay you have a bunch of role players outside of your starters essentially everyone is a role player and they're not really impressive at all and you're in big trouble you're in big big big trouble you need to hit up for agency you need to make some trades you need to do something and they able to bring in Tiffany Hayes and all of that and they helped them out but it just wasn't
48:00 - 48:30 enough because she didn't have a stack roster she was topheavy her starters were great and then she was able to go little extra too deep on the bench Alicia Clark and then Tiffany Hayes okay and Alicia Clark is falling off she's long in the two so she's not be Alicia Clark a year ago or the year before that or in her Seattle days and that's not who Alicia Clark is she's long in the tooth she's on her way out she had her
48:30 - 49:00 truly last Glory year was the second year under Becky hmond and uh she's her tank is almost empty we're seeing that in athletes unlimited she's breaking shots all over the place getting Exposed on defense and so that's what it is and so I'm looking at it I'm just like you're topheavy with the starters and you could really only go too deep on the bench yeah you could throw in Megan GS but she has
49:00 - 49:30 deficiencies okay and Kia Stokes isn't the Kia Stokes from two years ago that's not the same Kia Stokes like things have changed you're you're not going to get much out of Sydney Coulson and Kirsten Bell isn't going to do much for you like it's it's a bad roster it's a predictable roster you don't have rayana Williams you don't you thought da je was going to be a new Conor Williams until I made a video exposing the Asia fair that
49:30 - 50:00 she's a volume shooter and if you look at her percentages all through college her field goal percentage overall was in the 30s she was just a volume shooter and that's why she was able to get those numbers well you can't be a volume shooter and your piss poor career with your career with field goal percentage and three-o percentage okay because you're not going to be able to get those type of opportunities to shoot 25 28 30 shots in a game like you were
50:00 - 50:30 doing in Syracuse okay you know it's just not going to fly that way right and so the truth comes out in training camp that dafair isn't good she's not ready for the she's even getting she looks crazy in athletes unlimited she's just not ready because she's a volume shooter she was never efficient okay and so we all what they thought DEA fair was going to be there withu Williams and it just didn't turn
50:30 - 51:00 out that way it just didn't turn out that way at all okay so that was rather embarrassing so when Becky Hammond doesn't have a stacked roster Becky gets exposed Becky was hiding behind stack rosters you look at the NBA when Greg papovich got sick and he allowed Becky Hammond to coach Beck Hannon lost and she lost miserably she was good in the
51:00 - 51:30 summer league but that's summer league you get into the big boy the Big Man league the NBA and Greg papovich is sick and he lets you coach and you look like pure trash okay and you come to the WNBA and you were hoping that the third time will be the charm before the season started I played for you guys that video when she was in North or South Dakota this before the season start started this past season and the journalist the reporter
51:30 - 52:00 asked her if the NBA Came Calling would you go to the NBA and she said yeah and I told you they purposefully depleted the roster of quality depth so Becky could look more impressive winning three championships in a row okay because she felt that this would get her in the door with the NBA and the NBA would be so impressed that third Championship was with the worst roster she had since she
52:00 - 52:30 was in the WNBA right and it would make her look even more impressive and the NBA will come calling and I made sure I played for you guys that video when she was in I believe South Dakota before the season started and she said she wants to go to the NBA right and they purposefully depleted the roster of quality depth so that the third championship in a row the three Pete could look more impressive because it would be the weakest roster she had
52:30 - 53:00 since she's been with the Aces and it blew up in her face and so Becky just doesn't look like a great coach she needs all kind of talent to look great okay and so that's Don Staley what we've been seeing when Don Staley was at Temple she had some success but it didn't go anywhere she gets to South Carolina she's building it from scratch she's in uh
53:00 - 53:30 obviously a more Elite conference and she's struggling along the way until she was able to get Welch to buy in and you was able to get Tiffany Miu and then Elena Colts and you're getting in Asia Wilson and boom boom boom boom and things start picking up right South Carolina start looking sexy bigger players wanted to come there and all that and that's when Don start having success and you get to
53:30 - 54:00 2017 when she won her first championship not sure if she would have won that Championship if Mississippi State my team didn't do her a solid and beat Yukon for her because up up until that point she hadn't beaten Yukon and so it took Mississippi State to get Yukon out the way and she owned the viig schaer she owned the viig schaer uh his little freaking dribble Drive BS she owned Vic schaer and so it was an easy win for her
54:00 - 54:30 and they win that Championship Asia Wilson gets a statue right and then Don Staley starts showing some inconsistencies right she can't win backto back championships if you will or she can't win three in a row so there's not this sustainability sustain success of winning championships and so it's just sort of inconsistent while Gino was consistent
54:30 - 55:00 four championships in a rle during the Stewie days right you get to Pat Summit multiple championships in a row and so this sustains success right and so Dawn couldn't do that with the Gamecocks that's what shows that you're really a great coach is when you could win three in a row four in a row Like Pat Summit like Gino Dawn can win one and then she goes on the Hiatus and then
55:00 - 55:30 she can win another maybe she can get two in a row and then she goes on a Hiatus again right because Don Staley doesn't look like she's a truly Elite coach when the playing field is leveled when everything is even talent for talent depth for death and this is when coaches get exposed okay this is when coaches get exposed I think one of the greatest seasons ever in
55:30 - 56:00 women's Collegiate basketball was the 2018 National Championship winners the Notre Dame Fighting Irish under muffin McGraw because she was dealing with injuries the whole year and they won that Championship with like eight players okay eight players that's all she had available to play was like eight players and obviously they beat Mississippi State in the nation championship game off of buzzer beater
56:00 - 56:30 from mque and some sus calls from the officials but also listen Mississippi State going to back toback National Championship games and Vic schaer had a terrible roster outside of a few players it was just his system okay so his system worked his defense and it worked and his Personnel just being tough gritty taking charges all of these other things and it work for Vic schaper so he's a good coach he
56:30 - 57:00 just has hard he has a predict his offense is pretty predictable because he does the same thing and so teams figure it out and then Don Staley has his number uh but that it's impressive because he got the back-to-back championships with an inferior roster you know so he's impressive because of the system right but I felt that muffin McGraw had the best run because she only had eight players so that's really what I got to
57:00 - 57:30 say about Don Staley and the gcx listen better Player Development is necessary they need to be more versatile Khloe kits it was clear that they wanted Khloe kits to play a little point forward and she wasn't she wasn't looking good at that because her handles isn't where they need to be and so she doesn't have confidence like that she's not a good three-point shooter yet so she's not a threat she's not a threat facilitating that's not who she is right
57:30 - 58:00 now there's something that they want to do with her to prep her for the WNBA so they're trying to get her handles right where she can have a good ISO package and create for herself and create space they're trying to expand her game in terms of perimeter shooting more threes but she's not efficient yet because she hasn't been doing a lot of that they're trying to show that she can be a point forward but she's not a great facilitator and so that was the wrong time to test your point forward and Khloe BBY excuse me Khloe kits out it
58:00 - 58:30 didn't work Taha pow pal is not athletic like the Yukon guards and so she got exposed as well Tess Johnson was just off and she looked a bit nervous okay listen Saia Fagan look traditional limited just a two Lev player or not she wasn't really doing anything on a second
58:30 - 59:00 level and just got exposed and Joyce looked good you know maybe her defense could have been better but she looked pretty solid she came through Malaysia came through she was kind of funky at first getting into foul trouble but she kind of came through uh later on Raven was terrible you know Raven is uh Raven is going to end up getting a training camp contract or going in the third round is pretty bad for Raven I feel bad
59:00 - 59:30 for her you know and then listen she goes to the bench and the bench isn't stepping up either it just it was just bad Don didn't have a game plan it was it was just bad basketball and Gino was speeding her up on offense and players were looking funky because they're not confident because Don doesn't really have them versatile like that sayaa Fagan is predictable okay even though she's Wing hype for the W that's a wing so she should have Wing skills and she don't
59:30 - 60:00 she doesn't and so she should be doing things aah Edward it's doing but that's just not what's going on you know and and say Joyce Edwards is pretty predictable she's just a two-l threat right now she's good at it but she's just a twole threat okay so like no one is really impressive you know everyone is pretty predictable and if they're not making the threes it's Hall doesn't really scare anyone because
60:00 - 60:30 she can't put you on skates and that's her problem she can't put you on skates and so she's like I said tahina is controllable because her athleticism isn't upper echelon and so her handle isn't upper echelon either and so she's pretty predictable and that's just what it was you know they have this depth but you get exposed when you're playing
60:30 - 61:00 teams like Yukon cuz they have depth too and they're more versatile and more skilled than you are because their handle is good their passing is good their understanding of the game is good their athleticism is good they're able to do more with the basketball in their hands they're able to create for themselves and others they're more versatile than you okay and so just got exposed just got exposed man but yeah that's essentially what I have
61:00 - 61:30 to say about it and so what I'm about to do is end the video that's it yeah listen man like I just felt that I had to like make this video over again so people can know what's going on anyway let me get it back out of here let me get up out of here