.The Indiana Fever fired trainer Christie Sides on Sunday, the organization announced.Sides went 33-47 in her 2 times with the team, featuring going 20-20 this time. The High temperature created the playoffs as the 6th seed as well as were actually brushed up in the preliminary due to the Connecticut Sun.Indiana is actually the 6th crew to make a training adjustment this offseason, signing up with Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington and Los Angeles. Every one of the coaches release had three years or much less adventure.Indiana High temperature head train Christie Sides reacts during the course of Game 2 of a first-round WNBA basketball playoff collection against the Connecticut Sunlight, Sept. 25, 2024, in Uncasville, Conn
. Jessica Mountain/ AP.Whoever takes over the High temperature is going to have a tough young core to collaborate with, led by Caitlin Clark as well as Aliyah Boston. The pair have succeeded the last 2 WNBA Rookie of the Year honors.
" We are very thankful to Coach Edges for welcoming the obstacle of leading our company via an essential transition duration over the last pair of seasons, while additionally placing us properly for potential development," High temperature head of state of baseball operations Kelly Krauskopf said." While choices like these are never simple, it is additionally crucial that our experts remain vibrant and also assertive in the search of our goals, which includes maximizing our skill and also bringing yet another WNBA champion back to Indiana. Coach Edges was actually an awesome rep of the Fever and also our community, and we prefer her just effectiveness down the road.".
Krauskopf came back to the Fever previously this month after hanging around along with the Indiana Pacers.Indiana High temperature guard Caitlin Clark (22) is greeted through train Christie Sides after a nasty throughout the first fifty percent of the team's WNBA basketball video game against the Los Angeles Triggers in Los Angeles, Friday, Might 24, 2024.
Ashley Landis/ AP.Sides was actually a longtime associate in the game, hanging out with Chicago (2011-16), the High Temperature (2017-19) and Atlanta Georgia (2022) before acquiring the head mentoring task. She replaced Marianne Stanley and also her interim follower, Carlos Knox, that trained in the 2022 season.Sides had two years left behind on her contract.The Fever haven't had a head instructor last for more than three years given that Lin Dunn, that trained from 2008-14. Since then, they have actually possessed Stephanie White (2015-16), Pokey Chatman (2017-19) and also Stanley (2020-22).
Indiana had a harsh timetable to begin the period and lost eight of their 1st 9 video games. The Fever eventually started after the Olympic break, gaining 7 of 8 to enter into playoff contention.
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