The Sun could end up in rebuild with Miller gone. A new coach may want to go small, not bring back Bri Jones, Hiedeman and trade one of Bonner or J Thomas.
When Thibault was fired it seemed the players were not happy with that, and Donovan stepped into a mess. They need to hire (or at least try to hire) Reeve if they want to avoid another debacle. TBH - it's hard to think of another HC who would be as good for the Sun. It just about has to be a HC who has won a championship: Reeve, Wade, Hammon, Thibault and Brondello are the only ones who are now active and most can be eliminated from consideration pretty quickly: Hammon has a ring and million reasons not leave LV; they fired Thibault and he's got good a good young team; Brondello is under contract, and an underperformer. That leave Wade and Reeve unless they go for a retread - like Agler (too much baggage), Laimbeer (better at building teams than winning rings lately at least), Hughes (maybe - but he is retired).....and a few others....
Yeesh. Hiring VJ at a time like this sounds like a terrible idea for the Sun.
BTW: Idk if it was ever brought up on here, but it sounds like Cheryl Reeve was the main reason why Alyssa Thomas was on Team USA’s World Cup roster. Even if Reeve ends up staying with Minnesota, don’t be surprised if she tries to trade for AT in free agency.
…for her entire WNBA career, [Alyssa Thomas has] stayed away from USA Basketball. The summer pursuits of gold at the Olympics, or the World Cup, like this one in Australia, typically fall during the one break in Thomas’ calendar, between playing in the U.S. and in the EuroLeague during the fall and winter.
But Team USA’s new coach, Cheryl Reeve, called Thomas in February and asked her to consider taking a spot on the latest iteration of the most dominant basketball program on Earth, a program in transition as pillars Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi had stepped away.
After the Americans beat China 83-61 Saturday in Sydney to win their fourth consecutive World Cup, Thomas, because she said yes to Reeve on that call, and gave up her summer space, is a champion. And she enjoyed all the spoils that came with it.
“I’m happy I was a part of this,” Thomas said in a phone interview with The Athletic before the Americans’ flight back to the U.S. “I really had no intention of playing. That call (from Reeve) is what got me back into it, and now I’m a gold medalist. I almost can’t believe it.”
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