Lots of Caitlin faithful are repeating the mantra: 'F**k Christie Sides.' The world of professional sports is very unforgiving, and I don't think it needs to be that way. Listing all Coach Sides's shortcomings, I don't think any one of them is unforgivable. But obviously I wasn't there, and it's Caitlin's way not to go off the deep end about anyone or anything; if she had, I for one might have felt more resentful about the Coach.
I don't know enough about the game, but from the great distance from which I watched the whole season, it seemed very much as though, because of the particular package of skills that Caitlin brought to the game, coaching Caitlin (and her teammates) needed some advanced coaching skills that a typical coach may not have, and poor Christie would have had to figure these out on her own, or talking to her support group over the phone, or whatever.
Meanwhile, she was facing relentless criticism from all over the WNBA, and the fans, and the bookies, and who knows who. Only someone who has had to handle this sort of situation can know what it's like. I think Christie was playing way out of her league, and, I might add, doing a fair job of it. Now, it appears, her predecessor has come back to coach the Fever, and we can only hope that she can deliver what that team deserves, and we can only hope Caitlin returns to play with them.
Kay, keeping her fingers crossed
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