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WNBA Rookie Sonia Citron Breaks Down Her Highlights with Candace Parker _ Film Study, Ep. 5 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to film Study. I'm Canis Parker.
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  Speaker 2: I am so excited to sit down with this rookie
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  Speaker 2: who everyone knew was going to be a star in
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  Speaker 2: the WNBA, the number three pick in the draft. Washington
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  Speaker 2: Mystics hails from the Notre Dame Irish Sonya cetron Man.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks thanks for sitting down and being a part of
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  Speaker 2: film study.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so give us the secret. You're you're kind
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  Speaker 2: of like got your rookie year underway. Can you tell
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  Speaker 2: us what you've learned, what surprised you, like, what has
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  Speaker 2: your adjustment from college in those short few weeks into
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  Speaker 2: training camp and now into the first part of the season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think it's been good.
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  Speaker 4: I was definitely really nervous coming into this season, just
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  Speaker 4: I mean, everybody tells you kind of what to expect,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, you never know how your game is
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  Speaker 4: going to translate or how you're going to do. So
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  Speaker 4: it's been going pretty well, and I think I have
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  Speaker 4: my coaches and my teammates to thank for that, just
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  Speaker 4: because I think I'm in a unique situation where the
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  Speaker 4: rookies on this team get a lot of opportunity. And
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  Speaker 4: while that can be like kind of nerve wracking, I
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  Speaker 4: think again, the coaches and our teammates have just been
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  Speaker 4: empowering us to just feel confident in just not being scared,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like knowing that we're going to make a
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  Speaker 4: ton of mistakes. There's a lot of room to grow,
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  Speaker 4: but not being scared and just I mean playing through
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  Speaker 4: the mistakes, just playing hard. And again it's just credit
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  Speaker 4: to our coaches and our team for disbelieving on us
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  Speaker 4: and giving us this opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been going well.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you and Kiki are proving that you guys have
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  Speaker 2: a dynamic duo in the making. I got to read
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  Speaker 2: off a couple of these stats because you're being a
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  Speaker 2: little humble and I like that.
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  Speaker 1: But we're gonna give you your flowers.
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  Speaker 2: First rookie the WNBA to reach one hundred points this
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  Speaker 2: season in seven games, Fastest Mystics rookie to reach one
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  Speaker 2: hundred career points since Stacey Dale's in two thousand and two.
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  Speaker 2: Were you born in two thousand and two?
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  Speaker 3: You were two thousand?
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  Speaker 1: Were born?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Current stats, you're averaging thirteen point seven points per game,
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  Speaker 2: four point four rebounds per game, and two point two
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  Speaker 2: assists per game, So you're a stat suffer.
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  Speaker 1: We saw that at you know, at Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, you played with a tremendous backcourt in Olivia Miles
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  Speaker 2: and Hannah Hidalgo, So I don't know if you were
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  Speaker 2: able to showcase this much of your game. But what
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  Speaker 2: do you think the welcome to the WBA moment has
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  Speaker 2: been for you in this short season.
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  Speaker 4: I think everybody knows it's definitely. I guess it was
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  Speaker 4: a pretty my preseason game, so before the season even started.
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  Speaker 4: But the screen by BG, I think I think I'll
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  Speaker 4: remember that forever, like ten years from now, if somebody
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  Speaker 4: asked me what my moment was, it's this moment is
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  Speaker 4: always gonna stick out to me. But yeah, definitely the
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  Speaker 4: hardest screen I ever got hit by. But I tell
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  Speaker 4: BG that it taught me a valuable lesson, Like when
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  Speaker 4: I'm pressuring the ball now, like up the court, I
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  Speaker 4: check my back now. So I would have rather learned
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  Speaker 4: it before the season started than now. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: just gotta look at the positives.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you definitely have to keep your head on a swivel.
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  Speaker 2: And I love the teammate you are because you didn't
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  Speaker 2: yell at anybody for not calling the screen. You took
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  Speaker 2: it on yourself. So yeah, I chuckled because I kind
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  Speaker 2: of knew that that was going to be. You're welcome,
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  Speaker 2: all right, So let's get let's get to the place.
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  Speaker 2: So the thing I love about your game is that
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  Speaker 2: you do things that are kind of like a vet,
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  Speaker 2: Like the subtleties that.
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  Speaker 1: You do really unlock what you're trying to do.
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  Speaker 2: And so obviously on the defensive end, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: an adjustment adjusting to the pick and roll, to the
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  Speaker 2: defensive three seconds, all that stuff. But obviously being a
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  Speaker 2: young team, mystics, you guys have some vets.
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  Speaker 1: You guys look pretty good on the defensive end for
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  Speaker 1: a young teams.
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  Speaker 2: You're smiling, but a little bit surprised how how quickly
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  Speaker 2: you guys adjusted on that end.
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  Speaker 4: Not really, I think we like as a team, we
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  Speaker 4: always had high helpes and our coach really, I mean
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  Speaker 4: all of our coaches like really harp on defense, like
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  Speaker 4: we can't even get to offense if we don't get
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  Speaker 4: a stop first.
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  Speaker 3: So that was.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of like a big point of emphasis all through
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  Speaker 4: training camp, and it's something that we work really hard on.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm just happy that, like it's it's showing at
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  Speaker 4: least a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's play this play Coming off the screen,
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  Speaker 2: there's Rina Maybrey. You come across and get a help
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  Speaker 2: side block heavy draw to dish this right here, to
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  Speaker 2: me is not a rookie, So you you, you little
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  Speaker 2: you a little late.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell. I'm gonna tell you're covering some grounds.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna give you you're a little bit late. But
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  Speaker 2: your ability to understand that she's split in this to
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  Speaker 2: get over into to block this shot without fouling and
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  Speaker 2: then take it coast to coast. The big thing transition
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  Speaker 2: is drawing too. What do you try to do? What
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  Speaker 2: do you see when you're pushing tempo?
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  Speaker 4: Our team really emphasizes pushing but not forcing. So I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to push the floor the ball up the
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  Speaker 4: floor because I knew we had numbers. But I saw
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  Speaker 4: Kiki running obviously she's a great rim runner, but they
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  Speaker 4: covered that and then I had I kind of had
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  Speaker 4: my shot if I wanted it, but I knew that
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  Speaker 4: Steph was trailing, and Steph is an amazing three point shooter.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to Stephanie won a championship with her in Chicago.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, she's amazing. So I mean, especially that trail three
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  Speaker 4: for her is money. So I want to share the
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  Speaker 4: ball and she made it, so I was happy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the next play.
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  Speaker 2: I had Kiki on early in the year and I said,
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  Speaker 2: the thing that you were going to make your bread
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  Speaker 2: and butter off of is that pocket pass. If you
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  Speaker 2: look at Asia Wilson, you look at Brianna Stewart, you
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  Speaker 2: look at a piece of Collier in that four position,
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  Speaker 2: that pocket pass.
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  Speaker 1: I mean shoot NBA as well.
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  Speaker 2: Look at Miles Turner in the finals, you look at Hartenstein, Like,
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  Speaker 2: it's all off the pocket pass. That's how you beat
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  Speaker 2: the defense. So this is one of my favorite plays
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  Speaker 2: because it's it's you know, as a post player, you
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  Speaker 2: practice it, but you have to have people that can
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  Speaker 2: get you the ball. And so this downscreen action dribble
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  Speaker 2: hand off, it's pocket ish right there with the back cut.
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  Speaker 2: But like, I think, the thing right here that I
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  Speaker 2: love is your ability to stay under control. You had
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  Speaker 2: you got screens at Notre Dame, but I think you're
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  Speaker 2: coming off a lot more action with the ball in
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  Speaker 2: your hands. Not just to catch and shoot, but actually
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  Speaker 2: to put the ball on the floor. So how has
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  Speaker 2: that adjustment been?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's been good.
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  Speaker 4: I think I definitely have a lot of room for
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  Speaker 4: improvement on just reading more. Like I tend to pick
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  Speaker 4: up the dribble when I don't have anything right away,
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  Speaker 4: and that's definitely something I'm working on where if I
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  Speaker 4: don't have it, it's okay, like I can pull it
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  Speaker 4: as long as I keep.
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  Speaker 3: My dribble, it's still alive.
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  Speaker 4: It's definitely like I mean, once I pick it up,
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  Speaker 4: the defenders all over me and it creates nothing. And
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  Speaker 4: I kind of did that here, which is why I
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  Speaker 4: was really happy that I worked out because I picked
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  Speaker 4: it up right away thinking like I saw Asia coming
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  Speaker 4: to contest me. And I told Kiki after this it
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  Speaker 4: was funny because I look at her, and I don't
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  Speaker 4: think you can see it in this, but I looked
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  Speaker 4: at her and gave her like a face like like
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  Speaker 4: what are you doing? Like why aren't you rolling? Because
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  Speaker 4: and she said that she didn't really do a lot
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  Speaker 4: of dhos. It's kind of situation. So I told her, like,
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  Speaker 4: if you're doing a DHO with me and I'm coming
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  Speaker 4: off and my defender's chasing and you see your post
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  Speaker 4: players step up. That's a role right away because if
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  Speaker 4: they have to contest my shot, then she got their ave.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she she did.
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  Speaker 4: I like yelled at her through my eyes and that's
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  Speaker 4: why she ended up back dooring and we got that.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it's it's been really fun like learning how
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  Speaker 4: to play with her and just in chemistry. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean again, I was happy I got that because
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  Speaker 4: I picked up my trip so well.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have a lot of chemistry thus far, and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it has to do with her athletic
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  Speaker 2: ability in cutting, yes, and your vision and so I know,
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  Speaker 2: I played alongside an amazing athlete in Mekka Gumaky, and
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  Speaker 2: our high low was so much fun because sometimes I
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  Speaker 2: would just throw the ball to see where she could
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  Speaker 2: go get it. And it seems like for you you're
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  Speaker 2: able to take a lot of those chances because you
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  Speaker 2: have Kiki who is extremely.
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  Speaker 1: Athletic and can go up and get the ball.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a nice cut against the Vegas defense, y'all
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  Speaker 2: almost had this game.
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  Speaker 1: I watched this came down to the wire.
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  Speaker 2: You guys almost were able to pull that out against
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  Speaker 2: the aces, but right here, I would love to kind
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  Speaker 2: of talk about this because a lot of it is
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  Speaker 2: included in the high low, and it is included in
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  Speaker 2: you dishing to Kiki. So we see this like weak
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  Speaker 2: side screen right here with Brittany Sykes coming off Atlanta
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  Speaker 2: kind of doesn't really force sideline.
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  Speaker 1: They kind of let you come off to the middle.
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  Speaker 2: And so you guys are doing a great job of
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  Speaker 2: staying spaced on the weak side.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll let this play here.
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  Speaker 2: So Kiki's rolling obviously here sometimes it's a cut and
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  Speaker 2: then again drawing too and understanding that you're underneath the
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  Speaker 2: rim and not gonna be own to make it. And
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  Speaker 2: so this is what I'm talking about, Like, this isn't
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  Speaker 2: something that is taught. You guys have developed this through
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  Speaker 2: just playing together. So talk me through this play right here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean our team and our coach again, we
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  Speaker 4: love to cut, and my coach like really gets on
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  Speaker 4: us about cutting hard, like don't just cut to just run,
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  Speaker 4: like run through the lane, but really cut hard because
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  Speaker 4: if you're not open, then you might get someone else open.
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  Speaker 4: So that's I mean, that's what I do here. And
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  Speaker 4: Steph again throws an amazing pass leading me, so it's
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  Speaker 4: somewhere that only I can catch the ball and Ryan
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  Speaker 4: is kind of behind, so it's a tricky ball for
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  Speaker 4: her to steal. And then again credit to Kiki because
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  Speaker 4: she could have just stayed where she's at and I
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  Speaker 4: would have never been able to make that pass, but
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  Speaker 4: she had the awareness to cut to the middle, and
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  Speaker 4: that made it an easy pass for me. Like I
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  Speaker 4: saw her numbers, I saw like just split the defense
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  Speaker 4: and that was honestly just an amazing read by her
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  Speaker 4: because if she didn't do that, then that probably would
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  Speaker 4: have been a turnover.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you guys is connection man.
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  Speaker 2: I can only imagine it when when we're talking next
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  Speaker 2: year and the year after.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: So again, the thing I love about you is and
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  Speaker 2: this is how you could tell that you were adjustment
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  Speaker 2: to the NBA was going to be not seamless, because
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  Speaker 2: I don't think any adjustment from one level to another
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  Speaker 2: is seamless. But better than the rest is because you
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  Speaker 2: play at your own pace, Like you're not catching the
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  Speaker 2: ball immediately putting the ball on the floor, you're literally
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  Speaker 2: reading what the defense is doing. And so right here,
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  Speaker 2: going into your dribble hand off, you're not only able
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  Speaker 2: to receive a dribble handoff, you're now able to set
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  Speaker 2: the screen.
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  Speaker 1: Slower bigs, we hate this.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just tell you, slower bigs, we hate this because
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  Speaker 2: guess what, When you're able to hit this screen and
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  Speaker 2: then get out, there's nothing anybody can do. Like Brianna
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  Speaker 2: Stewart used to get me with this all the time
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  Speaker 2: because she's such a mover off the ball, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean. And so to watch you utilize this
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  Speaker 2: part of your game and see this part of your
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  Speaker 2: game unlocked as well has been super special. Would you
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  Speaker 2: rather set the screen receive the screen?
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  Speaker 1: Does it matter?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I don't set a lot of screens.
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  Speaker 4: I never really have, just I mean being the two
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  Speaker 4: or three guard, but I do love to set screens.
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  Speaker 4: And our coaches were actually really happy with this because
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  Speaker 4: it was like, this is not a play or something
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  Speaker 4: we practice. It was just like a in the moment
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  Speaker 4: kind of thing. I know Emily was playing the four
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  Speaker 4: right now, but she's very guard like and she has
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  Speaker 4: she's an amazing passer like she always finds me. So
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  Speaker 4: when I was dribbling to her and pasted it, I
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  Speaker 4: was like, if I cut, there's a ninety percent chance
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  Speaker 4: that Emily is gonna find me, and she did because again,
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  Speaker 4: she's one of the best passers on our team. And
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  Speaker 4: I also think because it's not part of the offense
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  Speaker 4: and it's not scripted, I think the defenders didn't really
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  Speaker 4: know what to do either, like do they switch this.
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  Speaker 3: Do theybus stay away?
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  Speaker 4: Technically, yeah, yeah she was playing I think, yeah, she's
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  Speaker 4: playing the four right now.
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  Speaker 3: But like you said, she's also a guard.
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  Speaker 4: So just kind of causing that confusion was something that
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  Speaker 4: our coaches were really happy about. And just playing free
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  Speaker 4: like it wasn't scripted, like just do like doing things
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  Speaker 4: like this confuses them just as much.
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  Speaker 2: So it was well like playing out of broken plays.
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  Speaker 2: I think you will see that more in the WBA.
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  Speaker 2: You have to because defense is so good, athleticism all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. But I think the thing I want to
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  Speaker 2: note on this as well is a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: pick and roll, and you take your big foot and
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  Speaker 2: you roll your butt into the defender when you know
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  Speaker 2: that they're.
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  Speaker 1: Not underneath you.
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  Speaker 2: I love the way that you just ran out of this,
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  Speaker 2: so it's an over the shoulder immediate that's really hard
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  Speaker 2: to guard as opposed to you were giving the defender
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  Speaker 2: another second if you drop your foot and roll on this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so good job, good work. So this again.
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  Speaker 2: You're in this action a lot, sometimes with the dribble
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  Speaker 2: handoff with the post player at the top, sometimes just
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  Speaker 2: a straight down screen. Here you got my real rookie,
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  Speaker 2: Chelsea Gray on you. Okay, I'm a critique, Chelsea. She
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  Speaker 2: didn't get up in your body enough, so I won't
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  Speaker 2: tell her. She does a good job making you kind
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  Speaker 2: of go backdoor.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing back screen.
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  Speaker 2: And then because of the screen you set, you were
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  Speaker 2: able to get the defender on top because they have
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  Speaker 2: to switch the guard to guard switch.
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  Speaker 1: And this is an underrated skill.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes people ask me who the best screener in the
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  Speaker 2: NBA is, and I think at times Steph Curry might
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  Speaker 2: be that. And the reason why he gets open is
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  Speaker 2: because he sets great screens. It makes the defense have
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  Speaker 2: to make a choice. And right here, yep, you're able
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  Speaker 2: to get Jackie hung on on top. And then instead
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  Speaker 2: of just coming up off the handoff, you understand this
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  Speaker 2: is kind of like that San Antonio Monogenobili action.
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  Speaker 1: You weren't born then either.
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  Speaker 2: But that back cut right there is this This is
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  Speaker 2: a set drop out of time out right.
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  Speaker 4: This play, Yeah, it's one of our yeah sets and
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  Speaker 4: it has different reads to it.
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  Speaker 3: And so I mean I can try and curl it.
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  Speaker 4: I can if they top lock me, don't just I
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  Speaker 4: can set the screen for the post. I can backdoor
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  Speaker 4: like it kind of gives me a lot of freedom.
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  Speaker 3: But I remember this game.
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  Speaker 4: Uh they wanted me to go back door yep and
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  Speaker 4: set this page her.
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  Speaker 1: On top, and yes, but I just love that you
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  Speaker 1: don't rush.
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  Speaker 2: There's I mean, you could have rushed this saw that
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  Speaker 2: she was on top, but you take your time and doing.
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  Speaker 1: A do a great job of setting that up.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna watch this make space again this action.
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  Speaker 2: This time the culprit is Jewel Lloyd. You just set
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  Speaker 2: the backscreen. Now Jackie Young does a better job of
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  Speaker 2: not getting on top, right because they know it's coming.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you went back door before. Now you're setting it up.
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  Speaker 2: I love this when I tell you move in a
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  Speaker 2: counter move is all you need in the WBA and
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  Speaker 2: your ability to on the play before, set a meme, backscreen,
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  Speaker 2: get her on top, backcut, get the layup, and then
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  Speaker 2: you put the defense on their heels. This time you
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  Speaker 2: scream and then you come out for the three. These
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  Speaker 2: are all just reads, you just reading and reacting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Uh so just again, they wanted me like I could've
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  Speaker 4: used the screen, but this game specifically, uh because the
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  Speaker 4: backscreen was working. My coaches were like, just go back door,
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  Speaker 4: don't don't even use the screen. Go into the back
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  Speaker 4: screen and then it's just me and my teammate playing.
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  Speaker 4: So I try to read, like if they switch, just
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: try and shoot.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Out of it. Sometimes I get a.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Little stuck, like what, I kind of got stuck over there, cause,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: like you said, she switched not better this time, but
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: switched on the other side. And yeah, I think again,
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: stef is setting a great screen for me. So Jackie
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: and Chelsea don't know if they're switching or not, cause
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: I'm kind of in that gray area and Steph does
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: a great job of kind of boxing Chelsea out, so
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: I get that open shot.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: I'm just laughing because if you just look at Chelsea's face,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: you knows she'dnet messed up.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Look, let's watch it when we're not right here. Look
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: at Jaggie's face. Jaggie knows she's like switch, but you're
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: supposed to switch to touch.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: I know Becky played this in film over and over
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: late is look at this, look.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: At Telsea's face.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: All right, we've broken down your game on the court.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Now I want to give you a few situations and
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: you can tell me how you've handled them.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Now that you're a pro.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna grab my coach bag. Oh okay, yes are different.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Now I have a coach bag. And that was a rookie.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: All right, and read the scenario aloud, then discuss how
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: you would react to it.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: You are constantly getting hacked by your defender playing physical.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: How do you stay within your game and what adjustments
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: do you make? I think this is something that I'm
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: actually not struggling with but learning.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: To play through right now. The first two.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Games I kind of got by with just doing what
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: I wanted and then they were like okay, no like
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: and now they're just playing way more physical as they
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: as they should.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: But I think the first thing is.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: I've learned, and I'm learning from my coaches and s
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Uh Brittany psych Slim has really been helping me too,
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: is a physical defender is actually easier to beat sometimes,
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: and that's yo you have to use their physical against them.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: So I'm kind of learning how to do that, and
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: like you said in the film, like doing counter movements.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: So if you want to go left, go right first.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: So kind of is doing I think little tricks like
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: that has been helping me, and I gotta do that more.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: I think sometimes it does speed me up, So I
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: just need to learn like I don't have to go
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: fast to get open or to get past a physical defender.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: If anything, I should take my time, get into their body,
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: not let them initiate contact, but me initiate it, and
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: then counter movements like.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: You talked about.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: So that's what I would do, but I would love
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: to hear what you would do so I can get
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: better at it.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Well, I think your pace is excellent. I think you
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: just cantinue to play at your own pace. It doesn't
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: have to be the fastest man doesn't win. And you know,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I think just being able to change your pace really
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: puts the defense on the heels. So you're continuing to
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: learn that. And Sonya, thank you so much for sitting down.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I have had so much fun watching you play. I
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: cannot wait to see how your.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Game continues to evolve. And you and.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Kiki got something special Bruin for the Mystic so I
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: cannot wait to check out a game this year.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Good luck, stay healthy and enjoy your rookie.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you so much