If there’s one thing Latricia Trammell is confident about heading into her first season as a WNBA head coach, it’s that the Dallas Wings’ days as a poor defensive team are over.
Any player who joins a Trammell-coached team will be up to the task defensively within a month, she says. In fact, her belief is so strong that you don’t even have to be a WNBA player to succeed in her system. “I can pull you in and you and I will be a great defensive team,” Trammell joked over Zoom earlier this offseason.
Trammell and the Wings won’t have to rely on any writers this season, which is good news considering her task ahead is already formidable enough: change the culture of a franchise that has historically eschewed defense and knit together a new-look roster as a first-time head coach on the WNBA level.
A basketball lifer who began her coaching career at Midwest City High School in Oklahoma in 1994, Trammell was entrusted with that responsibility for her player management skills as much as the wealth of on-court knowledge she’s accumulated over the years.
“She is such an unbelievable basketball mind and such an unbelievable person in terms of relationships,” Wings president and CEO Greg Bibb told CBS…
