The two start with Curt Miller who was introduced on Friday as general manager and executive vice president of of basketball operations for the Dallas Wings. Our Sydney Wingfield wrote more about that here. Dallas is still without a coach after firing Latricia Trammell in October.
“They need somebody who’s going to be able to make Dallas successful from a roster construction standpoint, because, as we’ve seen over the last few years, the rosters that have been put together have not really been great,” Costabile said. “There’s been flashes of greatness, and there’s obviously star players that they’ve been able to bring in, but it’s never reached an extremely successful place.”
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Then, in the second segment, they turned their sights to the Indiana Fever who hired Stephanie White as head coach after parting ways with Christie Sides, and Tyler Marsh who landed with the Chicago Sky.
Since she’s based in Chicago, Costabile offered some additional insight into her own reporting process around these two coaching changes in particular as well as how she thinks Marsh fits into the Sky franchise after three years as an assistant with Las Vegas.
“A lot of people have questioned, well, Tyler doesn’t have head coaching experience, and you’re right,” Costabile said. “There’s going to be a learning curve there, but he does come from a championship background, and so he knows what the standards should be, and I think that is going to translate exceptionally well here in Chicago again, when you consider that things have not been running smoothly over the last year and a half.”
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