{"id":145,"date":"2026-11-04T02:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T02:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirandaboen.webhostingforstudents.com\/cis1410\/wp\/?p=145"},"modified":"2026-11-04T04:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T04:44:09","slug":"game-plan-finding-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirandaboen.webhostingforstudents.com\/cis1410\/wp\/game-plan-finding-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Plan: Finding Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the news of head coach Chris DeMarco&#8217;s firing after just one season, it appears that the New York Liberty still have more questions than answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:594px;\"><div style=\"padding:0;margin:0;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2162512723\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div><div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:66.66667% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/2162512723?et=uNkY41E2SK1J1C8vbt9Xmg&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=56DZjWzE_Weni_eSHNjEkpxKvtm_QBoukb6onPgzHk0=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;margin:0;\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is well worth mentioning that if there is any failure to note, it lives somewhere within the front office. DeMarco, experienced with the NBA but a self-admitted fresh face to the WNBA, was in no good position to find success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, the Liberty performed a historic sweep of the no. 1 seeded Minnesota Lynx in the first round of the playoffs. Yes, they were champions of the Commissioner&#8217;s Cup. And still, questions plagued the first-timer&#8217;s short tenure as far as his fit with what is supposed to be a title-contending team.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMaking the last seed was only possible with her contributions.\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite reaching the semifinals, the up-and-down nature of the Liberty&#8217;s season reflected injuries as well as growing pains as the players adapted to a new coach&#8217;s system. The latter is likely to happen again, further challenging whoever comes next regardless of experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At some point, a franchise needs to look inward first. It may allow itself one more season to see if the old adage about third times and charms holds true &#8212; but should 2027 fall short of expectations just two years after firing Sandy Brondello (a coach that took them to a title yet still got dropped)&#8230; it will be better late than never to reflect on what bigger issues may exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-79fb870f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(0.984rem, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 1.173), 1.5rem);\">It would be a disservice to one of the best to play the game of basketball not to take this window of time seriously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:594px;\"><div style=\"padding:0;margin:0;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2294931977\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div><div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:67.171715% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/2294931977?et=WznT9Li8SMpZS9GSMSg15A&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=XzybZuhoTiNgXhieaP3rSkuVBITRI0XHww42szd9mZw=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"594\" height=\"399\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;margin:0;\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the news of head coach Chris DeMarco&#8217;s firing, it appears that the New York Liberty still have more questions than answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,23,4],"tags":[6,44,43,7],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ny-liberty","category-sports","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-chris-demarco","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirandaboen.webhostingforstudents.com\/cis1410\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirandaboen.webhostingforstudents.com\/cis1410\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirandaboen.webhostingforstudents.com\/cis1410\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirandaboen.webhostingforstudents.com\/cis1410\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirandaboen.webhostingforstudents.com\/cis1410\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mirandaboen.webhostingforstudents.com\/cis1410\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/mirandaboen.webhostingforstudents.com\/cis1410\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirandaboen.webhostingforstudents.com\/cis1410\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirandaboen.webhostingforstudents.com\/cis1410\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirandaboen.webhostingforstudents.com\/cis1410\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirandaboen.webhostingforstudents.com\/cis1410\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}