WNBA player are going back to campus – as women’s college basketball coaches

There is a moment after every player moves to the coaching chair when they begin to realize the error of their ways. Something that they used to give a coach grief about now draws their ire when the tables are turned.

For Rachel Banham, it was pick-and-roll reads. The Minnesota Lynx guard is pretty confident in her ability to make the right play out of ball screens (she’s averaged 0.905 points per possession as a pick-and-roll handler over the past three seasons, what Synergy would classify as “very good”), but it’s something Banham and Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve have gone back and forth about during her three seasons on the team. Read More