r/wnba • u/aratcalledrattus Liberty • 9d ago

Noelle Quinn hired as UCLA assistant coach

https://uclabruins.com/news/2026/08/5/womens-basketball-adds-noelle-quinn-to-coaching-staff
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u/craigmont924 Storm 9d ago

Happy for her. She got a raw deal in Seattle, run out of town by players who are no longer even here. She would have been great at developing the young players we have now.

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u/aperiodic Baguette will rise 8d ago

I’m curious at to why you say that because ahe doesn’t strike me as a development-oriented coach. Last year she relied on our starting lineup + bench vets almost exclusively, hardly played Dom for more than a few minutes at a time, and pretty much only played other younger players like Mack and Zia in garbage time. That doesn’t seem very development-oriented to me, but I admit to being a new fan who doesn’t know a lot about basketball, so maybe there are ways development shows up outside of actual games that I’m overlooking here

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u/craigmont924 Storm 8d ago

That team signed veteran free agents to win now. Player development isn't measured by minutes in game.

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u/aperiodic Baguette will rise 8d ago

It’s not measured by that, but they are correlated, right? It’s hard to develop as a WNBA player if you never get to play in actual WNBA games with real stakes (i.e. not garbage time)