for starters, we simply performed a back-to-back…
👉🏽7p sport Thurs night time in MN
👉🏽left our apts at 5:15A Friday morning for a industrial flight to IN
👉🏽performed a 7p sport THAT NIGHT— Natalie Achonwa (@NatAchon) July 16, 2022
Reeve stated she known as the WNBA to alert it to potential points early Saturday and didn’t obtain a immediate response. The eventual response, Reeve defined Sunday, was to assist with arranging flights as a substitute of probably pushing the sport time again.
“The better disappointment was a scarcity of assist that we felt when it comes to unresponsive messages to the league,” Reeve stated. “From our standpoint, there was no communication with the management of the Minnesota Lynx. And so, to me, that’s an epic fail. So was there consideration given? I don’t know. It was leaked to me in a while that there was communication to Washington. There wasn’t communication with Minnesota, and I’m undecided how that may occur.”
Thibault stated the league contacted the Mystics about transferring the time of the sport, however due to a close to sellout because the staff staged Japanese Heritage Day, they determined towards a change. Thibault, Washington’s coach and normal supervisor, stated each staff within the league has to cope with journey points. WNBA groups do not charter flights and should fly industrial, which is a sore spot for players.
“I’m bored with listening to about it,” Thibault stated. “Bored with studying about it on Twitter. It occurs to each staff, and I get it. Each staff want to are available totally refreshed, however they acquired right here final night time. They didn’t play yesterday. And I do know it’s an extended day, however all people goes by way of them. That’s simply life. I’d prefer to really feel sorry for them, however I’m sorry — I don’t.”
For many who did not see it, this is the crying movement Mike Thibault made when requested concerning the Minnesota Lynx’s journey points in pregame. pic.twitter.com/q7NPrvAM3G
— Tyler Byrum (@theTylerByrum) July 17, 2022
The WNBA didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The Lynx have been notably pissed off with a brutal stretch of schedule: Sunday was their fourth sport in six days.
“I believed we deserve extra respect, and I believed I deserve extra respect than that,” Reeve stated. “We’re not blissful. We’re not blissful that there was no consideration given to us.”
The Mystics have had loads of journey issues this season, together with having to take a prepare and a bus to Connecticut after flight points.
“It’s not like they have been arriving this morning,” Thibault stated. “I do know it was an extended day touring, however we’ve all had them. We actually weren’t ready to essentially accommodate them until there was a way more mitigating circumstance than there’s proper now.”
