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INTERVIEW: Raven Johnson and Ta'niya Latson Talk WNBA Draft, S.C. Gamecocks, College & Early Career Adversities + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Every day wakes up the Breakfast Club finish for y'all. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's the world no thing this morning to show the
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast Club Charlamade, the God dj n be just hilarious
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  Speaker 2: out to day. Laura Lerossais here, But we got two
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  Speaker 2: special guests in the building.
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  Speaker 1: They are getting ready for the w NBA Draft, Raven
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  Speaker 1: Johnson and Tania Latson.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, what the hell I knew that? Lat How
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  Speaker 4: are you? Tanaya?
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  Speaker 3: Great?
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  Speaker 4: What's going on? How y'all feeling amazing?
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  Speaker 1: Nine days ago y'all was competing for the national Championship.
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  Speaker 1: Now y'all getting ready for the w NBA Draft. How
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  Speaker 1: has that whirldwin been?
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  Speaker 5: Man, it's crazy, like a dream come true. You know,
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  Speaker 5: you dream of this moment and now you're here see
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  Speaker 5: take us today.
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  Speaker 4: But then it feel like y'all was just in college yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, basically yes, Yeah, it's a quick turn around.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, is do you do you have to adjust to, like,
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  Speaker 1: I guess being an adult now the college don't be
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  Speaker 1: feeling like the real world doing.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like closing one chapter and trying to like
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  Speaker 7: get into another one.
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  Speaker 6: Like it's like a quick quick turnaround.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what emotions are hitting you today? What emotions are
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  Speaker 1: hitting you today?
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  Speaker 4: Keep tonight your god, damn it. That's why every time
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  Speaker 4: I see no, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 6: I'm excited. I mean, it's a blessing, It's a dream
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  Speaker 6: come true.
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  Speaker 4: Like Raven said, what about you, Raving.
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  Speaker 5: Man, I'm happy. You know you work towards this moment
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  Speaker 5: and now it's here. Just spending with loved ones and
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  Speaker 5: you know, do a team get you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm ready? Whatever?
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  Speaker 4: What's that right there? Why y'all got the w N
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  Speaker 4: B A hoodies on already?
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  Speaker 5: We went to the Empire State Building, gave us a
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  Speaker 5: new collection or whatever you dropped.
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  Speaker 3: We're rocking it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, gets a.
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  Speaker 3: Little bit of hockey. You're all ready for tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: You ain't got no fire fits though, for tomorrow, for the.
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  Speaker 6: Draft to draft today?
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  Speaker 4: Oh ship, god damn, what the hell is going on?
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  Speaker 3: Exciting coming?
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  Speaker 8: How long y'all been playing in the outface.
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  Speaker 3: A long time?
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  Speaker 1: Since the night after the championship, not before that, before that,
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  Speaker 1: before that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we're coming hard, don't worry.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, who plays for that coach?
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  Speaker 5: Shout out the coach, shout out. The city trains a
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  Speaker 5: lot of sponsorships.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, City Trains, yep, the store, right, yeah, city.
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  Speaker 4: City Trains, but I mean City Trains is great, but
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  Speaker 4: you can't wear that for a draft fit.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, they like sponsoring the party.
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  Speaker 4: Oh got you got, you got, you got, you got,
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  Speaker 4: you got, you got Coach Don Stanley. Absolutely No, the
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  Speaker 4: brand Coach.
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  Speaker 8: Oh I thought you were talking about Don Stall. You
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  Speaker 8: said Coach Coffee. The fashion house. They're dressing you guys
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  Speaker 8: for your draft dressing you. Who's so, who's dressing you?
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  Speaker 6: I'm wearing Revolved?
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  Speaker 8: So yeah, got some brands under there. Revolve is like
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  Speaker 8: so Revolve is like a big brand. CARDI B has
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  Speaker 8: a whole partnership with them, but they have a lot
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  Speaker 8: of like big other fashion brands under them, from designer
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  Speaker 8: to like just really good non designer brands. They little pricey,
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  Speaker 8: but they got good price points. But they do a
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  Speaker 8: lot of like custom collaborations and capsule collections. So it's
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  Speaker 8: just gonna be like a long running partnership with you
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  Speaker 8: and them.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know, we just got to stay
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  Speaker 6: tuned and see period.
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  Speaker 2: I Revolve out.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, Okay, I like to see that though, because I know,
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  Speaker 8: like with the w n B A and all the
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  Speaker 8: tension that people are are paying to it now, Like
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  Speaker 8: the tunnel fits and all that matters, but the partnerships
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  Speaker 8: and the businesses really matter as well too. So exactly
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  Speaker 8: happy that y'all going into it early.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all played in high school together.
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  Speaker 1: Did y'all reunited for y'all senior years at South Carolina?
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  Speaker 1: What was that reconnection?
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  Speaker 7: Like?
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  Speaker 6: It was just like a surreal moment.
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  Speaker 7: We didn't think we was gonna play college basketball again together,
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  Speaker 7: like well played together at all again. So being able
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  Speaker 7: to play in our last year together, it was fun.
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  Speaker 7: We had a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 6: We dreamed of moments like this, So just to be
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  Speaker 6: able to do it with her, it means a lot.
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  Speaker 4: What about you?
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  Speaker 5: When she hit the transfer portal, I was like, Tanaya,
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  Speaker 5: let's three do this like you know, you know how
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  Speaker 5: it is. I wanted to play with her. It just
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  Speaker 5: feel like, I don't know, like a dream come true.
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  Speaker 5: Like in high school. I wanted to always, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to go to college with her, but that
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  Speaker 5: didn't happen. She went to Florida State and was very successful.
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  Speaker 5: I went to South Carolina and I was successful too.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, God does things in a way to
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  Speaker 5: bring clothings back together, and it's no better feeling to
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  Speaker 5: just play with her the last season and do what
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  Speaker 5: we did well.
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  Speaker 1: That conversation, Like y'all senior years in high school and
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  Speaker 1: y'all decided to, I guess not go to college together.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Raven a year older than me. So she left
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  Speaker 7: and went off before I went off. So I moved
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  Speaker 7: back to Miami and played basketball in high school there.
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  Speaker 7: But you know, I just wish her the best. I
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  Speaker 7: know she was gonna do great things, win championships, but
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  Speaker 7: she knew I was going to Florida, say too, And
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  Speaker 7: I just went to go make a name for myself.
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  Speaker 4: Did you ever consider South Carolina at all before Florida?
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  Speaker 6: Say nah, I didn't. I did not consider South Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: Why just because you're from Florida, you now, I just really.
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  Speaker 6: Wanted to do my own thing. I wanted to venture out.
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  Speaker 7: I wanted to make a name for myself, and it
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  Speaker 7: is I am from Florida, so it's like, you know, hometown.
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  Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean they had everything that I needed
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  Speaker 7: and in order for me to be the best player
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  Speaker 7: that I could be.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't try to convince her.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I tried.
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  Speaker 5: I tried my best, but we had like what sixteen
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  Speaker 5: players on the rosters did. I was I was thinking
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  Speaker 5: of her like being successful to home playing, and I
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  Speaker 5: know that's what she wanted. So I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: what she committed to was a great decision.
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  Speaker 3: Is it all right? She came to South Carolina and
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  Speaker 3: it was meant to be.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever Raven sat back and thought about all
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  Speaker 1: the adversity you had to go through and especially now
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  Speaker 1: when you're you know, to night of the draft and
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  Speaker 1: you know everything you went through in college, But have
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  Speaker 1: you ever thought about what that freshman year was and
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  Speaker 1: even how you rebounded from that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I think about it all the time.
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  Speaker 5: It's crazy because we had like a little seminar and
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  Speaker 5: Tina Thompson was talking about adversity and she brought me up.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like again, but yeah, I think about it all
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  Speaker 5: the time. Like I went through a lot, a lot
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  Speaker 5: of high with the highs, a lot of lower lows,
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  Speaker 5: and just to be where I am today, it was
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  Speaker 5: hard to get through those phases. But I couldn't be
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  Speaker 5: here without loved ones. Are people that was in my
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  Speaker 5: ear supporting me because that could have turned out another way.
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  Speaker 3: I could have quit.
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  Speaker 5: I could have just been a person that I probably
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  Speaker 5: you know, it wasn't even people who didn't even know
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  Speaker 5: who I was.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they was like, you gain what twenty thirty pounds?
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  Speaker 4: Which I thought it was forty?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't want to say that.
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  Speaker 4: What you mean it's a story of now actually just
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  Speaker 4: say fifty. You should put forty fifty pounds.
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  Speaker 3: I remember when tonight and seeing me, She's like, dang, that's.
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  Speaker 4: A real friend, a real friend.
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  Speaker 6: I mean I had to tell her, you know, but
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  Speaker 6: she did.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I was just happy that she got it
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  Speaker 7: off for her, you know, said each other. It's like,
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  Speaker 7: you're looking a little big now.
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  Speaker 4: She did?
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  Speaker 3: She did snatched? Now, snatched?
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  Speaker 4: Did that motivate you to get in shape? When she
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  Speaker 4: said that, you are you already had that motivation? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: No, I was trying to get back right, but I
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  Speaker 3: lost myself for a minute like she had.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes you got to go through those load like the
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  Speaker 5: bottom of loads, to get to the hot hoght, the
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  Speaker 5: hoigh high and be successful, honestly, And I think I'm
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  Speaker 5: glad I went through that diversity honestly because it made
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  Speaker 5: me mentally strong.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it's some type of depression. Probably said it right,
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, which caused you to gain the weight of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Like what what was it?
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  Speaker 1: Because it was just the injury. It's not like you
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  Speaker 1: couldn't bounce back from an injury, Like, what was it
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  Speaker 1: that really put you.
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  Speaker 4: In that mode?
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  Speaker 3: Social Media?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you know what this generation social media is
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  Speaker 5: could be a good and a bad thing. And I
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  Speaker 5: think you know, if you live by social media, you
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  Speaker 5: gotta die by it too. And I think you know,
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  Speaker 5: I went viral on social media, like every time you
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  Speaker 5: got on social media, see Raven Johnson, blah blah blah
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  Speaker 5: blah blah, you did that and the third and it
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  Speaker 5: wasn't for good reason. It's for a bad reason. So
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  Speaker 5: you know I didn't want to go. I didn't want
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  Speaker 5: nobody to see me because everybody look at social media
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  Speaker 5: and you know, everybody just joke on our book.
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  Speaker 3: Try to bully this person.
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  Speaker 5: Don't even know the person outside of basketball, Like I'm
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  Speaker 5: more than just an athlete, Like you just don't know me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the sweetest person if you get to meet me.
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  Speaker 5: But you know it made me like lose myself, Like
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  Speaker 5: I just I never went through anything like that, but
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  Speaker 5: you know, everything happens for a reason.
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  Speaker 3: It's all God's play.
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  Speaker 4: How was that when you saw your dog going through that?
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  Speaker 7: I mean I watched that game, you know, when she
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  Speaker 7: got waved off and stuff like that. Obviously I text
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  Speaker 7: her immediately after the game. I remember texting you and
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  Speaker 7: I was like, oh, nah, like you need to you know,
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  Speaker 7: get your confidence back, like get back to the Raven
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  Speaker 7: Johnson that I know, especially the one I played with
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  Speaker 7: in high school. So I mean, I just tried to
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  Speaker 7: instill confidence in her and you know, give her, you know,
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  Speaker 7: you know, some type of pick me up, because I
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  Speaker 7: know she was feeling down in that moment. I know
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  Speaker 7: she was going through a lot of emotions too, so
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  Speaker 7: I just had to try to remind her who she was.
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  Speaker 8: Was it hard to be receptive of stuff like that,
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  Speaker 8: even though it was from somebody that loved you, because
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  Speaker 8: you were actually going through it at the time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm close with her, but I know she means
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  Speaker 5: it from her heart. But when it's people that I
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  Speaker 5: don't know, you know, I don't know if it's genuine
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  Speaker 5: or I don't know if it's like, you know, they
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  Speaker 5: feel bad or they just trying to play in my face.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, I was getting I was listening to
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  Speaker 5: people that were close to me that I trust, like
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  Speaker 5: loved ones. But I also was listening to my teammates
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  Speaker 5: at the time, which was Latitia and me. Here those
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  Speaker 5: Zayah Cooks live Boston coach Daley, who's one of the
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  Speaker 5: best people you can even be around, Like he was
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  Speaker 5: in my ear too, So yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They meant a lot to me.
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  Speaker 4: What was y'all first honest impression of each other.
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  Speaker 6: Raven was bubbly, Like she invited me. I was from
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  Speaker 6: Hawaii at the time.
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  Speaker 7: I was living in Hawaii and we met at a
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  Speaker 7: camp in Vegas at a McDonald's, and I remember she
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  Speaker 7: was telling me she was from Atlanta and she was
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  Speaker 7: older than me, but she always embraced me as a sister.
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  Speaker 7: And I feel like, you know, when you're young, you
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  Speaker 7: can just make friends easily. I mean, it's not hard.
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  Speaker 7: So you know, the day we got back to camp,
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  Speaker 7: we were just like stuck like glue. After that, like
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  Speaker 7: we ain't leave each other's side everywhere I went, she went,
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  Speaker 7: so just her her energy and who she is as
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  Speaker 7: a person, Like she's a kind hearted person, what was
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  Speaker 7: your first impression.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, so we were at McDonald's if McDonald's, if
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  Speaker 5: you see this, Yeah, yeah, we were at McDonald's.
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  Speaker 6: McDonald's building relationships.
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  Speaker 3: We was at McDonald's. I met her and I was like, like,
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  Speaker 3: where are you from?
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  Speaker 5: She said Hawaii? You know that just shocked me right there.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, I never met somebody from Hawaii, like Hawaii?
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  Speaker 5: Like why are you hearing from Hawaiian? And now I
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  Speaker 5: used to I was asking her like how is Hawaii?
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  Speaker 5: I was asking her a lot of questions. I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: she's annoyed. I didn't I didn't really care, but I
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  Speaker 5: was asking her questions. And ever since then, we've been
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  Speaker 5: like close, like we've been locked in, like it's been
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  Speaker 5: genuine friendship, like like this is my blood, blood sister.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm glad I met her, honestly.
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  Speaker 4: So you was the one that opened up first off
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  Speaker 4: off the court, like.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I walked up to her. I remember, he was like,
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  Speaker 5: she's quiet. But let me tell y'all, she ain't no quiet.
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  Speaker 6: I've grown, she says, she's grown. I've grown.
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  Speaker 8: So you said it's kind of hard making friends at
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  Speaker 8: a certain point, right, Yeah, but you I mean you
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  Speaker 8: would think because y'all are playing basketball, you got your
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  Speaker 8: team members that like that kind of becomes your family instantly.
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  Speaker 8: Even then it's still it's still hard.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, like obviously your teammate is gonna be your friends,
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  Speaker 7: like you gonna make You can make friends on your
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  Speaker 7: team like easily, but outside of basketball, like just finding
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  Speaker 7: genuine people that really want to mess with you for
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  Speaker 7: who you are and not for what you do.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the hardest part, I feel like. And then
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  Speaker 6: we don't have a lot of time either.
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  Speaker 7: Our schedules are jam packed, so it's hard to like
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  Speaker 7: really have a social life outside of basketball and build relationships.
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  Speaker 7: But you know, trying to get on campus meeting new people,
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  Speaker 7: I feel like, especially going into the league too, Like
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  Speaker 7: just meeting new people.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like that's what's gonna be like the biggest
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  Speaker 6: thing for me.
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  Speaker 4: That's gonna be so hard, I know.
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  Speaker 1: And y'all getting to the money, like you're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: know who want to be around y'all just for who
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  Speaker 1: y'all are, as opposed to what they think y'all got.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I want to say, y'all haven't had that conversation
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  Speaker 8: because y'all have been out there and popping right, but
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  Speaker 8: now it's like it levels up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I look at everybody like, you know, I like
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  Speaker 3: meeting new people, but you should though.
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  Speaker 4: I only saying don't expect you from other people is
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  Speaker 4: what I would say.
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  Speaker 3: And that's crazy.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm kind of like the friend had to tell her, like, nah,
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  Speaker 7: watch out for this person. Yes, yes, because Raven can
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  Speaker 7: be too sweet sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: Have that kindness of been taken for weakness?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, once you cross me once, it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not trusting you no more. I try to get
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  Speaker 5: people a benefit of the doubt because you just never know,
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  Speaker 5: you never know what they go through, what's their situation.
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  Speaker 4: So how was y'all bond off the court helped the
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  Speaker 4: chemistry on the court.
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  Speaker 7: Should We have a lot of like real conversations with
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  Speaker 7: each other, Like we can talk about any and everything
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  Speaker 7: from relationships, basketball, just.
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  Speaker 6: Life in general.
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  Speaker 7: So I feel like that connection in that sisterhood definitely
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  Speaker 7: translates on the court. I mean, we both take our
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  Speaker 7: craft really seriously, so we can hold each other accountable too,
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  Speaker 7: And you know, it's just a real friendship outside of
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  Speaker 7: just being teammates.
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  Speaker 6: And long term teammates.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we.
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  Speaker 5: Balance each other, like with our personalities, like for two
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  Speaker 5: different people, but we balance each other, like she tells
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  Speaker 5: me when to you know, not say that thing or
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  Speaker 5: say or when to say it or how to say it.
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  Speaker 5: And then I'd be like, tonight, all right, show them,
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  Speaker 5: you know, bring more more, like you know she can
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  Speaker 5: bring more. So I think we balance each other right there.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that's that's why we're so healthy, Like
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  Speaker 5: it's a healthy friendship relationship.
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  Speaker 7: So yeah, I feel like even throughout this process, like
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  Speaker 7: being here for the draft and stuff, like I'm her
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  Speaker 7: comfort person.
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  Speaker 6: She's my comfort person.
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  Speaker 7: Like we look for each other when we like too
• 13:41
  Speaker 7: far apart or we feeling like you know, I need
• 13:43
  Speaker 7: I need a break, We look for each other.
• 13:45
  Speaker 6: So yeah, how do y'all?
• 13:47
  Speaker 8: I mean, I guess you can, I know if you
• 13:48
  Speaker 8: can plan it, But have you guys started thinking about
• 13:50
  Speaker 8: like as you go into the w NBA and schedule
• 13:53
  Speaker 8: change and things get a little bit different, Like how
• 13:55
  Speaker 8: y'all still keep that like protection and safe space that
• 13:58
  Speaker 8: y'all have for each other.
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: Hopefully the teams drop us together, but how that's gonna happen?
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: With both of y'all projected to go in the top.
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: Ten trade yeah.
• 14:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but if not, like we're just gonna keep in
• 14:13
  Speaker 7: touch like we did when I was at Florida State
• 14:15
  Speaker 7: and she was at South Carolina, you know, continuously calling
• 14:18
  Speaker 7: each other, texting each other, checking up on each other.
• 14:21
  Speaker 7: I feel like this bomb will never like never shake,
• 14:23
  Speaker 7: Like this is like my sister for life.
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: I seen y'all moms together. I didn't know your moms
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: are so cool.
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, the way back like when we first
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: met exactly goes back.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: In this world right where athletes are constantly judge how
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: important is it to have somebody around you who like
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: actually knows the real youth.
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: Oh it's super important.
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: I mean, like you just know it's it's genuine, Like
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: you can go to them about any little thing. Like
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: when you're comfortable around somebody, you can be yourself. And
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: I think that's really the main thing you really want
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: to do when you meet new teammates or have somebody
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: on your team and you know you have that support,
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: So I think that goes a long way, and being
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: yourself is the main thing.
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: Like you can't be yourself around somebody, then you need
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: to be around that person.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, facts now correct me if I'm wrong, But I
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: feel like after that championship game, right, I feel like Raven,
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: you felt more bad for tonight.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah I was. I was upset. I felt I did.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Actually I felt it hurt.
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: It hurt me because I told her that I wanted
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: to win a championship for her, Like she didn't come
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: here for no reason.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: I know she made a lot of.
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: Sacrifices throughout the season, like I beat, like I have
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: so much heart for her, like things she doesn't win
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: it hurts me, or things she doesn't receive, like it
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: hurts me because I know her sacrifices. I know how
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: hard of a worker she is, so not winning that championship,
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: it meant it was bigger than just me, Like it
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: was for people that came here Medina, like they came
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: here doing the national championship. It was for coach Staley,
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: like she goes through a lot, like she run through
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: walls for us girls.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: So I feel like just to.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: Reward her with a championship would have meant so much.
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: But I mean we paid, we wore her in another way,
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: like we were great human beings to her, fought, we
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: fought for her like she fight for us, and I think,
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: you know, there's no better way if we could have
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: won a national championship, but we rewarded her in another way,
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: and that's just been great human beings and great girls.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Would would you say y'all over achieved the last couple
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: of years, even though you know, being a Game cop fan,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: it feels like we should be in the championship every year,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: But it feels like the last couple of years they
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: haven't necessarily projected y'all to be there, but y'all always
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: make it.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: That's fine.
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: I feel like, you know, I like to be honestly,
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: I like to be on the not the underdogs. That
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: makes sense, like you don't come in with a lot
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: of pressure. But I feel like with this team, we
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: didn't look into all that like we wanted. We had
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: one goal now to win a national championship. We might
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: not win the SEC championship, or we might have lost
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: some games throughout the season, but that didn't stop us
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: from one mission, and that was get to the national championship.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: And I think those games made us closer. Those games
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: made us actually realize, like what we need to work on.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: Everybody needs to get better at one specific thing. Everybody
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: need to start playing together. It was like little things
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: like that, like we had a whole new start in
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: five I was the only starter that came back or
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: new starters. They don't even know the They had to
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: get used to the system. They had to get comfortable
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: with their roles, Like it's different roles. She came from
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: Florida State scoring what fifty balls sixty They had to
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: compromise scor a twenty ball or eleven ball all night.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: And she's not used to that. But that takes a maturity,
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: Like she has to be mature to be in a
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: role like that. Then, Madina, she's not used to the pressure.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: She's not used to being that dumb. And you know
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: host players that came before her, Leah Boston, Camilla, Ajo Wilson,
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: like she's holding a legacy like people in front of her.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: So she I don't even think she understand like what
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: her position meant. She was just out there playing. She
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: had a lot of high with the highs and lower
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: the lows. But you have teammates and girls like us
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: who's genuine that want to see her succeed, and a
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: coach like coach Staley once again a great person who's
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: helping her through those tough battles. And I think that
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: means a lot with this team, and that's why at
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: the end of the day, we made it to the
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: national championship. With a lot of doubters that came to
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: our bun. They came to we wanted to go play
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: for each other. I think that goes a long way
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: when you're trying to make have a team makes a
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: national championship tonight.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Do you appreciate the process?
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: I feel like, you know, I had everything going from
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: myself at Florida State, and I wanted to challenge myself.
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: I asked got for a challenge and he gave me that,
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: so you know, it was a sacrifice.
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: It was obviously hard, but I wouldn't change change my
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: decision at all, one hundred percent do it again because
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: I know going into the league, I'm gonna need those
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: things to prepare me training camp, coming up playing with
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: other pros. Not taking as many shots, You're gonna hit
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: that wall, But I'd rather hit it in my senior
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: year than in training camp, you know what I mean.
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: So mentally, I think it made me stronger and it
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: challenged me and it made me grow cool.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: So what did this year teach you about basketball beyond
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: just scoring buckets?
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah? You know you can do that.
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah that, Like the intangibles matter, like rebound and getting
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: to still making an impact in other ways than just scoring,
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: because when you're playing on the team full of pros,
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: you may not have to go score twenty a night
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: to win a game, like you can go get a
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: rebound or still that can change the whole the whole
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: momentum of a game.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: And just being like a good teammate too.
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: Like I feel like I was a little selfish back then,
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: Like I always thought about me, me, me, me, me,
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: and not we. So I think coming to South Carolina
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: it definitely changed my perspective on a lot of things.
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: I saw you say coming to South Carolina was the
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: best thing that prepared you for the w n B. A,
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: Yeah it did.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: It did.
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: I feel like just everything from the coach and the resources,
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: the nutrition, how to take care of my body, the resources.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: So I feel like that's definitely gonna translate to the league.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Hot Wings nutrition was hot Wings.
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: Well, y'all, y'all get dalance it rights.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: One day, the salary the next day. She's from Atlanta,
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: so hot wings in her blood.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Hot wings. You're gonna run it off.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: Off, you know.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: I wanted to ask you you being a point guard
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: playing for Dawn Stead.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: That's a different level of pressure, like what it looks
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: like accountability on a different level.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Can you can you talk to us about that?
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: It's hard, Like I I came to her and I'm like,
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: why is she yelling at me? She need to yell
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: at the people that's making mistakes, Like I get yelled
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: at for a little like other people mistakes And I
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: had to get used to that. And sometimes it messes
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: my head up. I think, you know, calling calling plays
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: at the top of my head. Sometimes she may call
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: this play and I may call se I may see
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: something different and call another play, And I think that's
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: where you know, you gotta trust your point guard on
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: the floor, try to kind of be a version of
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: her on the floor. But I think, you know, when
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: it comes to my teammates, they trust me with leading them,
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: calling the right sets and when to call them. But
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: it's hard, Like you, you gotta the marginal room for
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: era is very small at that point guard spot, Like
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: you better know you better know your p's and q's
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: when it comes to the plays. You better know where
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: people like the ball. You better you better just be
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: somebody that can win, win the game honestly and who
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: she can trust. And I think you know that comes
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: with time.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: A game manager.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that comes with time.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: Like from my freshmen to what fifty year senior year,
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: I think that came with time. They have people in
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: front of me like Henny ty Harris, not even that
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: I cooks. He showed me a lot too. So having
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: people like that that showed me a lot of great
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: ropes before it was my time or trusting the process.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: So when new players come into this system of South
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Carolina right game Cock women's basketball, you know, what do
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: you tell him about being a part of that basketball?
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Coach?
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: You gotta have you better be ready, mentally prepared.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: It's basketball.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Like you if you love basketball, you commit to South Carolina,
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Like you got to be about basketball. Like they're serious
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: about basketball, They're serious about winning.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: I think it's just a standard. Like it's a standard there.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: They create pros, they create first round picks, and if
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: you want to be that, then you're gonna go there.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: And you got to realize that it's not it's not
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: no gimmick, Like you're not going there to have fun.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: You're going there to be about business, about winning national
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: championships because the standard is high, and if you don't
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: hold that, if you don't get held to that standard,
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: or if you don't hold that standard, because it's people
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: in front of you that you're playing for. It it's
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: a legacy that you're trying to build, and it's bigger
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: than you. It's bigger than just a South Carolina on
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: your chest. And I think, you know, I think that's
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: what people honestly, when they get there, that's what they realize. So, yeah,
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: it's gonna be hard. It starts in like our practices
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: are super hard. We beat up on each other like
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: it's that hard, and it's starting the summer. We was
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: playing one on one, what two on two, three on threes,
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: and everybody was attacking each other like we got a season.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Ahead of us, like y who was doing the most
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: cooking in the one on one?
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: It was very competitive, like super like people were people
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: are a little pushing each other for the ball, like
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: that's what you want to see, understand, But we were
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: like we got a season. I just tell you a
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: lot about this team and the dedication of getting better,
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: like like our practices are insane. I wish I could see,
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: like it's crazy to.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Night with something Coach Stalely told you that changed how
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: you see not just the game of basketball but yourself
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: shoot just everything.
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: I feel like my all around game, Like she she
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: taught me a lot about myself and just like how
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: I can be impactful without scoring twenty at night or
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: taking twenty twenty shots tonight. You know, she talked a
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: lot about efficiency and improving that and she just instilled
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: a lot of confidence in me.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Like Coach was real laid back.
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: I really ship was way different from you know, like
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: Raving in her relationship. It was just like I'm a
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: laid back person. She's a laid back person. She's kind
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: of like I'm gonna give you what you give me,
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: and you can have real, like transparent conversations with her.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: She always just gave me freedom to be me like
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: and I feel like that's what you wanted to Coach,
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: And yeah, she gave me great advice.
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: To y'all excited about the because the collective Barkin Agreement,
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: the know that day reached and I know y'all have
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: a lot of predictions for your first years. But y'all
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: coming in at a good time, a great time. Y'all
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: excited about coming in under that new agreement.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: They would tell us a lot about it, like in
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: our little seminars and were like, wow, like y'all got
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: paid that much, Like y'all put blood, sweats and tears
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: for that. But shout out to them like we wouldn't
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: be here without them.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: But at least make it sound like they dinosaurs or
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: something like them.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: W and B PA the Player Association.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: I mean you got people like Tina Thompson that we
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: just met. I mean she getting paid nothing and she
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: put her book like legends.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Falk for the game. Get to where we at and
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: we're coming in at.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: The right paid nothing exactly and look at.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: Her now, like you know, that's what I'm saying, Like,
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: shout out, shout out to the dinosaurs.
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: Wow like that because he won.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: There's nothing wrong with being a dinosaur. Somebody got to
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: be on somebody. You a dinosaur in them?
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: No, first of all, dinosaur.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: I might be like two.
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: Dinosaur dinosaur head.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, I bet you want to graduate because the
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Wiggo ship, this is my hair. We don't do that.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: This is my yeah at all.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Can you tell us the role Anthony Edwards playing in
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: your life?
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, A great role model. I think just who
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: he is, he's literally himself. I think he don't change
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: in no shape or form. He's gonna say what you
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: want to say. He's gonna be who who he wants
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: to be. And he's from Atlanta, Like you know, I mean,
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: there's nothing that because sad. What he says, lingo everything.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: I think, you know when you look at a player
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: like that, who's just themselves, who says whatever. Funny, He's
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: funny too. I'm funny too, and I think, you know,
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: great inspiration.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: I seen his hard work.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: I remember in high school when I first he was
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: getting trained by coach Justin.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I was watching him train.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: I'm like, this is how hard you gotta go and
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: train like this is like like he's dedicated. They got
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: what three secsions a day? I'm like three secsions Like
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: I can't do that, and they were. He was just
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: telling me all the night ends and hours he put
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: in and just seeing that made it motivated me, like
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: he reclassed up.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: It was number one pick. I'm like who can do that?
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: Who number who reclassed up may be a number one pick.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: And I thought that was just so amazing, like amazing,
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Like I was just watching the process and what he
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: went through, and that really motivated.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: He motivated.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: He motivates me to this day honestly.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: So yeah, y'all came y'all came up together.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: People don't talk about that, man, Like people don't talk
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: about the support that a lot of men actually have
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: for women's basketball.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: And how important does that have?
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: That support from me, it's really important.
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: I mean a lot of like NBA guys like KD,
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: Like I remember he texts me a couple of times
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: throughout the season, and like he just you know, he's
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: a really big fan of like women's basketball.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: He's always talking about it.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: So just seeing other guys like you know, man and
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: stuff like that really getting to women's basketball. I mean,
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: it allows us to outreach like another another audience, not
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: just women, like it can be men, it can be
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: anybody watching women's basketball. And I feel like that's what's
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: bringing a lot of eyes too to women's basketball.
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: The eyes, Like from my perspective, right, it's like I
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: watched the shift but I don't watch I don't watch
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: the games, but I know that people are talking about
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: the w NBA way more, the caring about where the
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: players are going way more like well, Andrew Rees, they
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: announced Atlanta, the ticket skyrocket at Jersey sales all that. Yeah,
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: like the celebrity around it is us a lot different.
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: It's changing you guys on the inside of it. How
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: do y'all feel when that shift is happening?
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: You?
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: We feel good, all right? We coming in the league
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: at a good time. It's season thirty. I mean, this
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: is like a historic season two with the new CBA
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: and stuff like that. So just seeing like you know, Angel,
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: Kaylin Clark, those people like Rakia Jackson, like they making
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: a way.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: And we grew up with those girls too.
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: We played in cans with those girls too, So just
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: to see them be able to do that, like we
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: didn't think we would be there like when we were younger.
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: So just to see like them be inspirations for little
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: girls too. It means a lot because we didn't really
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: necessarily have that, like on the front line with social media,
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: and I feel like with Nil and stuff like that,
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: people are able to share their stories, like a lot
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: of people weren't able to share their stories. So I
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: think that's what's bringing a lot more eyes too.
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: Is there more pressure on the branding side of it
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: because you have all that to think about now? Yeah?
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, is there more pressure on the branded side?
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah? Like the what now you're thinking about? Like, Okay,
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: my merch should be like this? How do I want
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: to tell my story?
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: What is my story?
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Do I do the press?
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: Do I not say something? Do I tweet? Like your
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: eyes are?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: It's just different for y'all to go through like nicknames
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: to it was nicknames you didn't like, you didn't like.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I don't even know where that came up.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: But we got accept the good with the good. I
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: guess so many people run with it. But I mean
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: just I feel like, just be yourself.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Don't let no one tell you. You can't say that
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: like it. Just be yourself. And I think that sales
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: tickets for yourself, honestly.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: So how do you handle social media narratives versus like
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: what's really happening in the gym?
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: Especially for you?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Because I think about when you know, like ton I
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: brought up when Caitlyn waved you off, I'm like, I
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: don't remember you being no pits porn shooter like that,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: the way they was acting online.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: I wasn't.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: But you know, social media, like I said, you're gonna
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: live by social media. You're gonna have to die about it,
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: die by it. I think social media is bad for
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: our generation. If you ask me, it's literally like people
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: compare themselves to others or they live this life on
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: social media that they're that they're really not living in
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: real life. And I think that's what social media give you,
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: this this mindself. You have to be like this person,
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: you have to dress like this person, like for example, BBLS.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: You see one person with a big booty and all
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: that stuff. Now like it's social media, social media, Like
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: it's bad, Like you can't really be yourself.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Ain't no bbls on the women's basketball I ain't seen no.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: I got a natural one that looks so stupid.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Recover from that? You know we work out four hours,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: so yeah, I mean, yeah.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: You would have to talk crazy trash to a girl
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: she come on the court with.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: I'm like, what the.
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: It?
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, if it's if it's her natural, we'll talk
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: about she actually want to get the surgeon?
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Mean they got skinny be bills. They do, Yeah, yeah,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: they do, and they look good too. I'm not saying
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I'm getting that, but it's just a smaller girl.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: A lot of people would like, don't say no name.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: I'm just missing what you see when you think about
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: the w n B A draft to night right, what
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: part excites y'all the most?
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: She was getting our names called. It's like and then though,
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: getting glammed up, getting cute. That's a that's a fun
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: part too.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: I think my favorite part is seeing my teammates like her,
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: especially her living her dream out. I'm really excited for her.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: I think that's my favorite part. But like she said,
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: getting cute, like stepping on these people, you know, we
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: about to put it on.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what you mean her dream? No, that wasn't your dream.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: It is my dream.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: It is my dream.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: But you know, she's a big part of my what
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: process too. It has always been in my corner. So
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: I'm excited to see her too.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: Part humble, y'all the most.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Humble?
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: Mm hmmmm, why I got.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: To be humble? Say it got to I just asked
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: the question.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Not knowing where you're gonna Yeah, yeah, good answer.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, not knowing where you're going to go.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Like you don't you just never know. Yeah, I think
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: maybe that humbles you, but you.
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: Know you're going somewhere.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah it is.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: That's interesting though, because tonight it's like literally the first
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: night of the rest of your lives in the way,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: not the rest of your lives, at least for the
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: foreseeable future.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: It's crazy. I haven't even thought. It hasn't hit us yet. Yeah,
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: it has not.
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: Has to hit you because you like, I'm out there,
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: gonna be cute, I'm gonna be there.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: I gotta make sure I look.
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: I'm not mad at you about that, though, I think
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: I hit.
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: When we at that table we at a table call,
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: it's like we here, you see your family.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: It's like you see these girls before you like you
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: we watched the draft every year and you're like, dang,
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: like it's gonna be our time. So now the time
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: is here, like time is fun by, Like it's crazy.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Did it go by fast y'all in college?
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: I feel like it did.
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: How this might be a stupid question, but I'm gonna
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: ask it when.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: When she say that, because her questions be.
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: Stupid, do y'all get like your college experience is so different, right,
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: So a lot of it is just basketball practice your teammates.
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: But like when I think about college, I think about
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: like actually living on campus and like the fun and
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: the like the experience of like living somewhere else. But
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: y'all are so different, Like outside of sports, what do
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: you value about your college experience?
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Friendships?
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: Like different people, not even that, not even athletes. You
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: meet what they call them narps whatever, like.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: Normal like regular people, like outside of outside of sports.
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we call people g d I s that weren't
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: well I'm not Greek, but like I would be a
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: goddamn in visual So it's the same thing for y'all. Yeah,
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: because you had people that were Greek and you had
• 32:29
  Speaker 8: regular students at school, so for them they got athletes.
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: No I'm not Greek.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I was a g d I. Yeah.
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: So but for y'all all have athletes and then narps. Yeah, okay,
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: meeting those normal a regular.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: People, normal ass regular people.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, most everybody on the campus is narps except
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: for like the football players and y'all and other sports.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Plus y'all came up, man, if you alay came up
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: in the air Columbia that I came up in in
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: two thousand and two, two thousand two, two thousand and four, Oh,
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: the streets was old. Oh my god, y'all have no idea. Y'all. Y'all,
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: y'all don't really have a night life like we have.
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: No.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: It was you see what I'm saying. The fact.
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: Where Florida State was it's like a party school.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: But the fact that you even say Colombia was boring
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: hurts my heart because.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: We came up in that era.
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: I have an HBCU next to y'all.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Don't like Allen.
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: We had fam you.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: May yeah you it was.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: It was, yeah, you was diff You didn't have no
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Columbia night life either.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: You have some parties here and there, But there was a.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Time with Columbia rival in Atlanta, what I'm telling you,
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: and people from Atlanta, people didn't.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: When I was in college.
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: To go to Benedict and it was dry.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: He was in college from twenty to twenty.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: Fourteen exactly to.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: The early two thousands in Atlanta was really popular right now.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Y'all, And it was about the Script Club.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: And y'all have no blue magic, I mean magic, we have,
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: yeah have all that blue flame on y'all. Yeah, boot flame, that's.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: What I mean.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Lads, Gentlemen's Club and Royce. You know, I'm telling you
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: people that was in Colombia in early two thousands. They
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: know it's good that y'all didn't grow in that area.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Y'all probably wouldn't be.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: With y'all, right now, that's true.
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: That's true.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Do y'all feel like y'all games translated to the w
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: n B A Yeah, yeah, there's another level, the unlocked though,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah it is.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Why did your game translate? For me?
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: I'm a winner.
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: Everybody knows that my defense, tenacity, I can do it all.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: Like whatever the coach needs me to do, I'm gonna
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: do that. And I think you know I'm unselfish, like
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: it's not it's not just about me.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna help others.
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna make sure they're they're confident, because you can't
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: win a game without by yourself.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: You gotta win and win a team.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: That's that's what it's going tonight.
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: I think I'm just like flexible, like I can go
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: from system to system. I feel like I can blend
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: in a lot, and I feel like that's gonna give
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: me longevity in the league too, and then also my
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: ability to attack downhill. Also I could do whatever the
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: coach needs me to do too. If they need me
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: to go score twenty, I'll go score twenty. If they
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: need me to go, you know, play some good defense.
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: I can play good defense. So I feel like just
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: my ability to you know, show up as a pro
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: and who I am, and also.
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: You know what I bring on the court.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: Did you feel like that before South Carolina?
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: I did, But I feel like I was missing something
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: and I was missing this year. I feel like just
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: you know, showing my ability to doing more that I
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: can do than just scoring. Like I feel like everybody
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: knew me as a just a score. They didn't see
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: me as a defender, they didn't see me as an
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: intangible player. So I feel like, you know, I got
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: to showcase everything that you know I could do outside
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: of just So.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: What separates a great college player from somebody who's sticks
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: around in the WNBA for ten plus years?
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: Mhm.
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: I think they habits like they prohabits, you know, like
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: taking care of their body to recovery. Like you don't
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: see many people last long in the league if they
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: don't like take care of their body and do the
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: necessary things like you know, and just doing whatever a
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: team needs you to do. Like if a team needs
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: you to go dive on the floor and get fifty
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: fifty balls or rebounds, go do that.
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: If not, then shoot. Yeah, and it's physical. I think
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: it's physical.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: College, you got this transfer a portal and like you
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: don't really get to trust the process or trust the system.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: But with the WNBA, it's not no transfer a portal
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: and you're gonna get in there? Are you gonna get cut?
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: And I think just being a great person too, Like
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: they were talking to us about how people stay longer
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: in the lead by being a great person outside of basketball.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Like being a person to your teammate. It starts in
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: the locker room like that. So I think those little
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: things like that can have longevity.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: And those are just good life lessons. My grandma Fay
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: told me, man have to take you with money, won't. Yeah.
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: But when I hear you talk about being excited for
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: the draft to see her because she's been a part
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: of your story and supporting you, I was just I was.
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: I said, it's like it's so selfless, but like that
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: shows a lot of like about your character, which I
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: think you know will always set you up for success.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: And it's easy when your friend not a loser.
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: Friends what you text them once is like, man, God
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: got you keep your head up.
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's really what it is.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: That's true.
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: That's tough, is.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: That it is very tough.
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: It is tough because especially when you like at the
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: peak of your career and then you got a friend
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: that's like not really doing that good. That's hard.
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: Like it's tough because you feel like you can't really
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: like celebrate your wins. But that's not a good friend.
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: If you can't celebrate celebrate your wins with your friend,
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: you're supposed to be able to celebrate anything with your friends.
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: So yeah, it's kind of tough, but it's wishing will still.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: By the time people see the interview, the draft will
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: already have happened.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Right, Do y'all know do you have ideas of where
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: y'all might want to go, Like what kind of organization
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: or system would bring the best out of each one
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: of y'all.
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: Games wherever the wind takes us.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: We know we're trying not to get our whole old
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: person y'all have been around told y'all that.
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: Y'all whoever, whatever meaning y'all were in before this interview,
• 38:20
  Speaker 8: they served you.
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, you gotta be grateful for what get you. Honestly,
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: it's like it's a blessing.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: But you can also speak.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I am about to say you can speak things to
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: the universe maybe sort of kind of what would be
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: what would be a perfect scenario, because you said y'all
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: wanted to play together, what would be a perfect scenario.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: I can't really say it. I mean, you gotta be grateful.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: You can't really say this.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Would be out after the draft and I ain't not
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: even gonna see this to the draft though, I don't know.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Do you see y'allselves as franchise players, coachure setters of both.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: I'll say all three just come with time.
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: Like you know, of course you want to be a
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: French player, but you got people in front of you,
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: like you got all Americans. Yeah, you got like Asia Wills.
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: It took her a minute to be that friend. Yeah,
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: so you got to just waste your time, trust the
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: vets in front of you and try to learn a
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: lot from them, Like this be a sponge and you
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: know things, things will happen in the right order.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: If you just be yourself and trust the process.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what's the.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Biggest misconception people have about women's college basketball right now? Oh?
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: I feel like, let me just talk about the sec overall,
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: just you know, social media again, I just feel like
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: they try to paint pictures on us girls outside of
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: like they try to put us like enemies. Yeah, but
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: whole time is not that it's just being competitive on
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: the court, but outside of the court, Like some of
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: these girls are friends. Some of these girls actually like
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: each other. And I think, you know what, these these
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: fan bases, they're crazy, Like, you know, they think like
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: she's that already, just talk about young players on social
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: media and I don't really you know, like that personally.
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: I think, you know, like these are nineteen eighteen year.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: Old girls that they're talking about.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: You got forty year old men, forty year old women.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: They talk about this girl hair or how she looked, Like,
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: why do you care so much about that? It's supposed
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: to be about basketball so at the end of the day,
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: and I just feel like that's just not the right
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: thing to do. If anything, they should be giving confidence
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: it's young black girls any color, honestly, like you shouldn't
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: be trying to lower them or trying to just bring
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: them down. You should be trying to uplift them no
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: matter what school they go to. So I think like
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: when it comes to that, I think everybody needs to
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: kind of shift their head. Are their mindset of trying
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: to bashing people just because they got South Carolina or
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: they have what LSU or Old miss or Tennessee, like
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: it doesn't matter at the end of day, were young
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: girls trying to chase.
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: A dream, So exactly what you think to that?
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: I think the same thing, Like you know, they pin
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: they gave us beef, we ain't even got, like well
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: ya hate this up, like we don't even have that.
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: So yeah, they just try to stir up drama and
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: create a storyline for women's basketball, and I feel like
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: they don't necessarily do that on the men's side like that,
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: So for them to do that to us, it's kind
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: of unfair and it's like a jab, you know, Like
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: I feel like it's like dang, like y'all really don't
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: respect us as just competitors and see us as like,
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: you know, young girls trying to chase a dream, like
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: she says, So, yeah, it's just craziness.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: I do feel like with the South Carolina Lady game Cocks,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: there is a certain there's a certain portion of media
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: that don't put the light on y'all the way that
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: they they should, like six final fours in a row,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: three national championships in the row. And somebody brought this
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: to my attention when they when y'all lasting, y'all a champions,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: y'all ain't get invited to know late night TV shows
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: or anything like that, right, No.
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: Actually, a lot of things, yeah, black girls, a lot
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: of things. But I think that just speaks about you know,
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: Coach Day as a person. You know, a lot of
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: people want to be her, A lot of people want
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: to be in the footsteps that she in. Just she
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: don't care what you say about her. She don't care
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: how you view her. And I think that's what I
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: like about her. Like you can say whatever about you
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: say she's short, you can say this that in the
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: third but because she's gonna walk in her truth and
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: she's gonna walk in her skin, she's gonna walk in
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: her light and she's gonna keep shining. And I think
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: that's what matters the most young woman like us when
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: we're watching her because she's so inspirational, like I do, like,
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: how do you handle the things that comes your way?
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: Like you're powerful? Like all these people don't like you,
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: and I see that, like people do not like her,
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: and she's like.
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: You think I give up, Like you think she's becussing,
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: but you think I give a it's an hi t
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: or whatever.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you said black girls tonight. You think
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: that's the reason they don't amplify the way this should.
• 42:34
  Speaker 7: I mean, let's just get down to the nitty gritty,
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: like we are like a predominantly black team, like and
• 42:40
  Speaker 7: I feel like we don't get showcased as much as
• 42:42
  Speaker 7: we should because of politics. Everything is political in society.
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: I feel like, so we may not get them as
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: much shine as other teams or stuff like that. But
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: I mean we like, like she said, we are a
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: reflection of our coach, Like at the end of the day,
• 42:54
  Speaker 7: like we don't care what nobody say about us because
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: our coach don't care. And I feel like it starts
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: from up top and we kind of try to reflect that, especially,
• 43:03
  Speaker 7: you know, like they said we didn't they didn't think
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: we was gonna make the National championship.
• 43:06
  Speaker 6: Game.
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: So I mean just staying focused on what's in that
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: locker room and what's in front of us, and just
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: building that sisterhood.
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: I feel like that's what brings us close and we
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: can block out all that noise.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: What was your most meaningful year? The revenge?
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: Revenge Toyah, I said that year, but this year too
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: because I got to play with her. I got to
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: play with a whole new group of people that I
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: probably didn't in the summer. I probably didn't even think
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: or we were going to be good. I thought we
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: were going to be, Like I knew we were going
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: to be good, but I didn't know if We're going
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: to be like the level of good that I've seen
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: throughout my college career.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: And I think as time went by, like.
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: We we got better, like we grew upond Like it's
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: so crazy, like like we grew bond throughout the season,
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: like it's like irreplaceable, Like we were learning more about
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: each other throughout the season, and it's so crazy how
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: we wanted to play for more than us, like yourself,
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: then we want to play for each other. And then
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: you saw that with each other, like we talked to
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: each other like any type of way, and I think
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: we everbody hold each other accountable.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: That's the biggest thing with this team. And you could
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: be yourself like coach Daley.
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: I have seen her change from my freshmyr to my
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: senior my fifth year, like she used to be the
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: serious coach like I didn't go to her about I
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: was scared of her.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: But I used to be like, I don't want to
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: ask her. I'm scared of her. But now I go
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: to her about I'll be asking her what's her relationships?
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: That is why you being no playing basketball and not
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: doing the podcast.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: Y'all got that close, she asked us. She'd be all
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: up up here business want to know, like coach while
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: you're wearing that, or I'll be asking crazy questions.
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: I think she got soft.
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: Not when we start losing.
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: That's a different person.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: When we lose. She brought that other side of her.
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: Ain't no joking with her, which I'll don't lose much.
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: So when you lose, it's like she don't like that feeling.
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: We don't either, So it brings another person out in
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: her and it makes her go harder and we know.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Not to play with her.
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: How are you going to adjust? Raving and you go
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: to w n B A and you're on a franchise
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: that not be.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Winning when you are accustomed to being such a winner,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna be able to handle that?
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, question, I mean, I'm gonna be upset. But I
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: feel like, hopefully I don't go to her franchise like
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: that in the name of Jesus. But yeah, if I
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: do go to a franchise like that, I just gotta
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: I gotta wait. Sometimes you gotta take.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: The good the bad with the good.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: And maybe they're building, they're trying to build that franchise
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: or that program up, and maybe you know, they picked
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: me to help them build the franchise up.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: So maybe I just have to wait. But yeah, it's long.
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: It's gonna suck to lose because I'm not used to losing.
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: So I'm gonna try to do whatever it takes to win.
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: But you know, gotta get Maybe you gotta get used
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: to that, honestly, So hopefully I don't have to.
• 45:40
  Speaker 8: But but when you stay at coach Stanley, be like,
• 45:43
  Speaker 8: she'll she'll get mad at you when other people on
• 45:45
  Speaker 8: the team mess up sometimes and you have to change
• 45:47
  Speaker 8: your mind and think about why she does that and
• 45:49
  Speaker 8: how that's like accountability. When you just were talking about
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: like being on losing team, I'm like, that moment will
• 45:55
  Speaker 8: transcend so well for you if you get to a
• 45:57
  Speaker 8: team that isn't winning, right, because when things are going wrong,
• 46:00
  Speaker 8: you will know how to adjust your mindset to change
• 46:02
  Speaker 8: your team's mindset around, which is like, you know what
• 46:04
  Speaker 8: your role does on the court, so'd be good.
• 46:07
  Speaker 6: Facts.
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: A couple last questions.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: If tonight, if your younger self could see you, now,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: what was your prize of the most?
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: Should me being here?
• 46:16
  Speaker 7: I feel like, you know, it started off as a dream,
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: so now that it's reality, I feel like she would
• 46:21
  Speaker 7: just be so proud, so happy.
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: And you know it was rooms that I didn't think
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: I would be in. So I mean, I know she
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: would just be proud and happy on me.
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: How about you? Really?
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, she would be my younger I was this little,
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: skinny little girl that was just used to play basketball.
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: You say, yo, I don't even know who fat me is,
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: but fat mean would definitely be she's been. I mean,
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: I mean she's like, dang, you got all the fat off,
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: but the little me, Yes, she would be very proud
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: and never would have experience thought she would have go
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: through adversity or meet people that's not like her, who's
• 46:59
  Speaker 5: but like been through a lot, but you know her,
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: my little self would be like, I'm glad you went
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: through those through those things, and just a young black
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: girl like you ben't keep being that young that black
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: girl to keep aspiring other black black girls black magic.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Well, what's the moral of the story? You want your
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: journeys to represent? When it's when?
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: When? When?
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: I want to even want to say when it's all
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: said and done, because y'all just getting started getting started. Literally, Yeah,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: let's let's let's let's cap it on the college. Then
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: your college career is so far, what's that moral of
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: the story? Because you close that chapter, you're starting a
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: new one.
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: I want to be remember as this person that you
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: know that impact others, that's that was very nice all
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: the time, who met fans? I want to remember, asked,
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: because you never know who you might meet, So I
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: feel like you should always be nice to everyone because
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: that person you meet may meet them in the future
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: and you may need them in the future. So I
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: want to be remember, asked, this genuine, humble, little sweetheart
• 47:55
  Speaker 5: and who likes to win when it comes to being
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: on the court. So that's who I want to be
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: A winner.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I want.
• 48:01
  Speaker 7: About you tonight, just like I guess like how I
• 48:05
  Speaker 7: present myself and who I am just mature, a good person,
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: somebody that isn't afraid of change and growth. But yeah,
• 48:16
  Speaker 7: I feel like just who I am as a person
• 48:18
  Speaker 7: and how I present myself, I want to be remembered
• 48:20
  Speaker 7: as somebody that you know, took the game seriously and
• 48:23
  Speaker 7: you know, tried to be it as best I could.
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: Raven Johnson tonight and lasting good luck tonight. I don't know.
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: I don't even know what to tell y'a because I
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: want you to end up whatever y'all want to end up.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: Just wash the.
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: You're putting a lot on it, putting.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: A lot on it.
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: Tell them to follow off.
• 48:47
  Speaker 7: Follow me on Instagram at CBG tonight and follow me
• 48:50
  Speaker 7: on Instagram at Hollywood on a score.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Raven all right, it's Raven Johnson tonight last, and it's
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: Every day.
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: Click your ass up, Breakfast Club. You're finish with y'all.
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: Dump