But through a series of circumstances since the Comets won their fourth championship last summer, Swoopes and Cooper aren't with the team and Arcain didn't arrive from Brazil until Monday. That makes a lineup card as valuable for fans attending Comets games as their balloons, streamers and noise-makers. Chancellor is in the midst of a metamorphosis. He is working harder than during the inaugural WNBA season, when he knew little about the 55 players who showed up for open tryouts and even less about what would be required to compete in the neophyte pro league. There's going to be a world of difference.
LA knows who their starters are, who all their subs are.
Sacramento, Phoenix and Utah, they do, too. But, what makes the adrenaline flow for me as a coach is the challenge of bringing in different groups of players and seeing if we can make this work. To ensure that it does, practice the first two weeks of training camp has often resembled boot camp. Scheduled two-hour workouts almost always last nearly an hour beyond, at the least. Even when organized drills are complete, it is not uncommon to see small groups of players being tutored by assistant coaches Kevin Cook and Alisa Scott or receiving intense individualized instruction from one of several personnel from the Rockets.