Dallas Wings head coach calls team selfish after loss to Minnesota Lynx
The Dallas Wings dropped their second straight game, a 90-86 loss to the Minnesota Lynx on Thursday, and head coach Jose Fernandez didn’t mince words when talking about one problem he’s seen with this team: Selfishness.
“I mean, it’s real talk and it’s accountability. That’s what I told them, I know there’s selfishness in this locker room. There is, and you gotta look in the mirror and be accountable on how you played, and don’t get upset if you think that you should have played more, or you didn’t play enough, or you didn’t get the shots that you think you should have gotten. Really good teams, they don’t give a [expletive] about that. Know what they give a [expletive] about? Give a [expletive] about winning, because that’s what matters,” Fernandez said.
The team had 11 assists in the first quarter but only 11 for the rest of the game. Fernandez talked about what changed for the Wings (1-2).
“[We had] extra passes, ball moved. The ball moved from side to side. Didn’t matter who took shots,” said Fernandez. “We had how many assists in the first in the first quarter, 11 of our first 12 baskets were assisted? At halftime, we had 16. What did we finish with, 22? So we go from 16 assists in the first half, 11 in the first quarter, six in the second. Go back and watch the game, ball didn’t move like it should.”
Fernandez said the team needed to fight through adversity and stop caring about who was taking shots.
“We got to continue, guess what, doesn’t matter how much I score, doesn’t matter how much I play, if this thing’s going to change, right? It’s gotta change first in everything that we do, right? It was all fun, and it’s all excited. We’re scoring 90, 100 points. Everybody’s having a good time. Everybody’s playing. Now It’s a lot different, right? You gotta get through adversity if you’re not playing well yourself on the other things that you need to do,” said Fernandez. “I saw a changing in the middle of that fourth (quarter) when the ball didn’t get in the basket, you gotta get stops, and you got to get stuff on the glass,” Fernandez said.
The Wings were a team that WNBA executives thought would be the league’s most improved. While three games hardly make a season, there seems to be some soul-searching needed in Dallas.
