Muhl will be fine. No way you could have expected her to come in & be a key rotational piece in that lineup immediately. She'll be moulded to the player they need or end up in a better situation sooner or later.
I would not expect her to be a key rotational piece in her first year but I would have expected her to get at least a few minutes in many games in much the same way that Jade was handled last year. This is a quote from The Next article today talking about how the Mystics are developing their young players:
тАЬYou can only get experience by being in the experience,тАЭ Sanders said. тАЬYou have to be out there. You have to get reps at finishing games. You have to get reps at playing against certain opponents.тАЭ
тАЬYou can talk about it, but you can't replicate the storm entirely, the weight of the moments when you have a lead and a team is making a run,тАЭ Bernard added. тАЬтАж So it's just tremendously valuable. Now it's our job to be able to help them transfer those learnings forward. And I don't think it'll be a straight line, but they are getting reps.тАЭ
Jade is so lucky she ended up in Washington. I feel sorry for Nika Muhl.
Muhl will be fine. No way you could have expected her to come in & be a key rotational piece in that lineup immediately. She'll be moulded to the player they need or end up in a better situation sooner or later.
I would not expect her to be a key rotational piece in her first year but I would have expected her to get at least a few minutes in many games in much the same way that Jade was handled last year. This is a quote from The Next article today talking about how the Mystics are developing their young players:
тАЬYou can only get experience by being in the experience,тАЭ Sanders said. тАЬYou have to be out there. You have to get reps at finishing games. You have to get reps at playing against certain opponents.тАЭ
тАЬYou can talk about it, but you can't replicate the storm entirely, the weight of the moments when you have a lead and a team is making a run,тАЭ Bernard added. тАЬтАж So it's just tremendously valuable. Now it's our job to be able to help them transfer those learnings forward. And I don't think it'll be a straight line, but they are getting reps.тАЭ
Nika Muhl is just not getting reps.