The countdown to the beginning of the 2025 WNBA season is underway, and it is time for the teams to put their feet in the gas. In what can be the most competitive season in the history of the WNBA, the teams cannot stop a single day. At this time, it is time to move from the fashion of the training camp to the regular season mode.
The coaches await at least 100% of their players every day, and some are not afraid to say it as when they do not understand it. Minnesota Lynx chief coach, Cheryl Reeve, knows what is needed to build a championship team, and sometimes that means a hard love. After Lynx’s practice on Monday, Reeve called his team for not taking his game to the practice of that day.
“That is why we are here so early,” he told reporters after Lynx concluded his practice.
“The way they appeared today, seemed that they were not interested in being really here and working on anything,” Reeve added with a sarcastic laugh.
Cheryl Reeve in the practice of Lynx changing to the regular season
“The way they appeared today seemed that they were not interested in being really here and working on anything, so … I was still in the training field, they maintain it” “” “@Terryhorsstman Question what improved that through … pic.twitter.com/bl4H6qxp6u
– Andrew dukowitz (@adukemn) May 12, 2025
Difficult? Maybe. Effective. Very likely. Reeve is one of the most respected coaches in female basketball, and if it is disappointed in you … well, I know that I would take a look at the mirror and have control.
Minnesota is trying to return to the WNBA finals this season after losing in the series of late last year 3-2 against New York. It was an ATEGHT series and could have easily gone the other way, and let the Lynx win its first WNBA championship since the days of Maya Moore in 2017. Instead, they went home with empty hands and their first title.
This year it will be more difficult, since freedom has uploaded its list in several ways, and the Aces Vegas are already threatening in the preseason. Indiana’s fever has promoted the surrounding list around Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston, and many other teams are waiting for the Fringe to take care of a place that contains the championship in the power ranking of the League.
As a result of all that, it is not surprising that Reeve is waiting for such a high level of your team, no matter what day of the week it is. They will have to be 100% every minute of each game to compete with the high level of talent with which WNBA is currently operating.
To mention that to journalists is not just an excavation with the hands in the effort of the team in practice, it is a way to hold them. Sometimes, a bit of public shame to the media is what players need to start.
Moreover, from a coach as respected as it reeves if public comments feel less to be bad and more simply in being fair. She tells him how it is, and if you are not ready for that, well, there are about 100 players of recent training camps ready to enter and take your place on the list.
