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WNBA 1st-Round Pick Aneesah Morrow Reacts to Her Highlights with Candace Parker _ Film Study, Ep. 4 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to film study. I have an extremely
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  Speaker 1: special guest, rookie forward.
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  Speaker 2: For the Connecticut Sun. You might know her. She's a
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  Speaker 2: rookie out of LSU. And listen.
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  Speaker 1: One of the best rebounders I have ever seen in
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  Speaker 1: my entire life, Anissa Morrow. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: sitting down with me on film study.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, it's great.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just go out there, I say, one of
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  Speaker 1: the best rebounders. So let's I mean the cats out
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  Speaker 1: of the bag. You're one of the best rebounders that
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  Speaker 1: we saw in college, and I look for that to
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  Speaker 1: carry forward into the WBA. So what are different tangible
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  Speaker 1: parts of your game that you do.
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  Speaker 4: I would say I have an amazing motor. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: be able to rebound as intent as I do every
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  Speaker 4: night with double teams and triple teams thrown at me.
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  Speaker 4: So I would say my motor honestly being a student
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  Speaker 4: of the game, trying to learn about the game as
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  Speaker 4: much as I can, and of course rebounding and letting
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  Speaker 4: that turn into my offense.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I like that parts of your game that I
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  Speaker 1: think are going to translate into the WNBA.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, you talked about your motor.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about your knack for being able to rebound,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it's like the broken play.
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  Speaker 2: Element that I've been impressed.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you talk about the numbers game of fifty
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  Speaker 1: to fifty balls and being able to convert in broken plays.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're one of the best in the country,
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  Speaker 1: especially in college, at doing so. So if you watch
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  Speaker 1: this play right here and I'll pause it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as we go right here, you're in like a simple
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  Speaker 1: Gerbil handoff action on the court at the top of
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  Speaker 1: the floor, which you seem extremely comfortable. So take me
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  Speaker 1: through kind of within the offense. What did you do
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  Speaker 1: at LSU that you felt or what did coach Moulki
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  Speaker 1: do at LSU to put you in a position in
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  Speaker 1: the floor where you were able to play that small
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  Speaker 1: forward position and get the team with an offense.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, majority of the time I take the ball out.
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  Speaker 4: I like to get it out quick. Sometimes I would
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  Speaker 4: tell my teammates like, no, I'm taking the ball out
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  Speaker 4: every possession of every game. I know it's a lot
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  Speaker 4: harder because you got to run a full length of
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  Speaker 4: the floor, but I wanted to be that ultimate threat.
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  Speaker 4: Once I got the ball, I could decide right now
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  Speaker 4: if I'm going to pass the ball, pitch the ball,
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  Speaker 4: hand it off, or I could attack my man. So
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  Speaker 4: that's so many options that open up for our offense.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred percent. And then when you're talking about swinging
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  Speaker 1: the ball right here with the dribble hand off, this
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  Speaker 1: is something right here was what we were talking about,
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  Speaker 1: this broken play right here, just having a knack for
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  Speaker 1: where the ball is, being able to have the touch
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  Speaker 1: around the basket. Where did that come from? Obviously watch
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  Speaker 1: you play a number of times at DePaul, But where
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  Speaker 1: did that come from? Like you talk about your motor,
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  Speaker 1: who did you learn that from or is that something
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  Speaker 1: that you just always did.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like it's something that I always did, but
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  Speaker 4: I kind of had my wake up call when I
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  Speaker 4: got to the ball. I remember calling my mother and
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  Speaker 4: I was like, you know, like the senior shoot a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the balls, Like how am I going to
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  Speaker 4: be able to produce for the team? And she was like, well,
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  Speaker 4: you got to go get it. And that's something that's
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  Speaker 4: driven me to be able to go rebound. But also
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  Speaker 4: when I get an opportunity to help my team offensively,
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  Speaker 4: if a play breaks down, I have to be able
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  Speaker 4: to be productive in those opportunities, and I feel like
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  Speaker 4: that's what would allow me to separate.
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  Speaker 1: Well, guess what it means. You're back in the same
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  Speaker 1: position you were. You're basically a freshman all over again
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  Speaker 1: in the WNBA.
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  Speaker 2: And guess what cats out the bag.
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  Speaker 1: The Vets like to shoot the ball a lot, So
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, being able to have that
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  Speaker 1: under your belt is going to be you know, successful.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, So we're gonna run the next play. So
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  Speaker 1: your spin move, this is something that I absolutely love
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  Speaker 1: watching in your game because you utilize your body. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: there are taller post players out there. There are players
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  Speaker 1: that definitely have different body types, and I know that
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  Speaker 1: when I was playing, I had to learn how to
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  Speaker 1: utilize my quickness to kind of counter the physicality of
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  Speaker 1: the game. I feel like your spin move has kind
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  Speaker 1: of become a little bit of that within college.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so can you take me through?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously we understand you're right handed, but can you take
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  Speaker 1: me through right here? When you get the ball in
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  Speaker 1: your sweet spot in that mid post area, what you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly, I'm trying to beat my defender off my
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  Speaker 4: first step and majority of the time. My defenders love
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  Speaker 4: to push me off because they're very physical with me
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  Speaker 4: and they want to take away that right hand and
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  Speaker 4: force me to go left. So I just spin and
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  Speaker 4: I'll try to get to the basket and finish around
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  Speaker 4: contact because I know HELPSID would.
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  Speaker 2: Be there one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: Right here, I think using your body and spinning off her.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing I want to note too, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people that spin off contact, and there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people that spin into contact right here. If
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  Speaker 1: you look, you don't give the defender any space to
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  Speaker 1: recover because your elbow is literally over the top of
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  Speaker 1: her arm. So you spend with your elbow over the top,
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  Speaker 1: and then she's able to release and come up, but
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  Speaker 1: you're already through under her arm, which I think is
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  Speaker 1: one of those skills that you know, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: post players will spin off away from contact and give
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  Speaker 1: the defender a chance to recover. What is your point
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  Speaker 1: that you're trying to do because you know, obviously you
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  Speaker 1: haven't played in the WNBA yet, but a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it is physical, a lot of it is you know,
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  Speaker 1: the speed of the game does increase from college. What
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  Speaker 1: elements of your post game do you think that you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be able to try to use at the
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  Speaker 1: next level.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, which is pretty funny.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I use my speed when it comes
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  Speaker 4: down to the post because I'm a lot smaller.
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  Speaker 3: I try to be physical.
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  Speaker 4: I try to match physicality, but there are some opponents
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  Speaker 4: that you meet there are a lot stronger than you,
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  Speaker 4: So there's like what can I do, And a lot
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  Speaker 4: of things that I've been working on is being able
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  Speaker 4: to slow down my game because I feel like I
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  Speaker 4: rushed a lot of shots in college, and I feel
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  Speaker 4: like I took a lot of shots that were contested.
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  Speaker 3: But if I would have.
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  Speaker 4: Took a ball fake or just had a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more patience, I could have seen a shot go in
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  Speaker 4: or I would have been able to have a productive play.
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  Speaker 3: So that's something that I've been working on.
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  Speaker 4: My jabs, my head faches, getting my player in the air,
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  Speaker 4: just trying to basically kind of manipulate them just with
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  Speaker 4: my eyes and my feet before I even put the
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  Speaker 4: ball on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: You said something right there that I think is undervalued.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever you're transitioning to the next step is the pace
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  Speaker 1: at which you play at, Like you have to dictate
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  Speaker 1: the pace and that's where greatness lies.
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  Speaker 2: And so you just said it.
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  Speaker 1: I think you hit it right on the head, just
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  Speaker 1: in terms of being able to use your skill set,
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  Speaker 1: but being a little bit more deceptive with it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you watch players that are able to get to
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  Speaker 1: their spot, they don't do it with necessarily just one
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  Speaker 1: move whatever. You have to have a move, a counter move,
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  Speaker 1: and then you've got to be able to be strategic
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. So let's go to the next Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to the next play. When you're going into the
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  Speaker 1: wa because you're not going to have the ball in
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  Speaker 1: your hands all the time, you have to figure out
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  Speaker 1: ways to make others around you better. And I think,
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  Speaker 1: like this play right here, just being able to obviously
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  Speaker 1: be in the right place at the right time.
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  Speaker 2: Your teammate found.
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  Speaker 1: You, maybe a little late, maybe a little late, but
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  Speaker 1: then you're already one step ahead. You know the defense
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  Speaker 1: is going to recover and come over, and not having
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  Speaker 1: to take a bad shot. That's the hardest thing for
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  Speaker 1: rookies is figuring out what is a good shot versus
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  Speaker 1: what is a great shot. So right here, you see
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  Speaker 1: you could have gone up and taken a contested look,
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  Speaker 1: but being able to find your teammate.
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  Speaker 2: We call that that, like Buddy.
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  Speaker 1: Pass, What was it that in college? Do you think
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  Speaker 1: playing within the LSU offense helped you develop in terms
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  Speaker 1: of facilitating I.
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  Speaker 4: Know that I sat down and I talked to coach
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  Speaker 4: Mochi and she told me she wanted me to be
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  Speaker 4: a better leader, but not just physically, vocally as well.
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  Speaker 4: And that's something that I tried to do install the
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  Speaker 4: confidence in my teammates. And yes I would pass up
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  Speaker 4: my own shot for another teammate shot, and that's something
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  Speaker 4: that you got to see in that play, but also
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  Speaker 4: knowing my scouting report, like my defender block shots.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't trying to get my shot blocked.
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  Speaker 4: So knowing that she would close out hard to me,
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  Speaker 4: it would take her a harder, a little bit longer
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  Speaker 4: just to contest for my teammate, which potentially if she
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  Speaker 4: would have tried to close out again to her, she
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  Speaker 4: would have foiled her. So that puts her in a
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  Speaker 4: position for and one. So just trying to think the
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  Speaker 4: game as quick as you can, but also knowing your
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  Speaker 4: scouting report really matters.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love when you know, especially post players are able
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  Speaker 1: to facilitate and make things easier because I know we
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  Speaker 1: talk about the point guard, but being at the fore position,
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  Speaker 1: being able to operate in the middle of the floor,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of control the offense and so the offense
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  Speaker 1: does flow through you. And in the WNBA, you know
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  Speaker 1: the success has come from that fore position. I know
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little biased being that I played that position,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, you look at you know, the players
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  Speaker 1: that really get their team going are in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the floor, have the ball in their hands. You
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  Speaker 1: look at Branda Stewart, you looked at Elena Deladon before
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  Speaker 1: she retired.
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  Speaker 2: You looked at Asia Wilson, Nakagoma kay.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that those are all positions and players
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  Speaker 1: that would be great for you to watch because within
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  Speaker 1: the offense, they're in dribble handoffs, they're in pocket passes,
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  Speaker 1: and they're in ways to, like, you know, help improve
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  Speaker 1: the offense. Yes, sure, we're a three point shooting WNBA
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  Speaker 1: team WNBA league. I should say it's it's all about
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  Speaker 1: being able to shoot the three to get more space.
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  Speaker 1: How much have you worked to try to improve your
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  Speaker 1: catch and shoot.
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  Speaker 3: I've been working extremely hard, honestly.
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  Speaker 4: Something that I noticed coming into the w you have
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  Speaker 4: to have a quick release, and like I know, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of times with being a four and a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people in college didn't really respect my three. I
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  Speaker 4: didn't take a lot last year, but I never really
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  Speaker 4: had to have a quick release. I got time to
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  Speaker 4: gather my feet everything because I never really had anyone
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  Speaker 4: closing out on me. So that's something that I really
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  Speaker 4: been working on, getting my feet in my hands, and
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  Speaker 4: not only that, just my foundation and I followed through
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  Speaker 4: together and being able to knock down those threes.
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  Speaker 3: And I've been seeing improvement every day. So we'll see
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  Speaker 3: it soon, all right, We're.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna see it at the next level, But for now,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta look at the LSU. It's a little upscreen
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  Speaker 1: Lage draws two. You got time and space, you take
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  Speaker 1: your time in release. I think the biggest thing, too,
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  Speaker 1: is understanding that again it goes back to pace, it
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  Speaker 1: goes back to space, but it also goes back to
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  Speaker 1: like the ability to put in the work and know
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  Speaker 1: that the numbers are going to follow. So it's the
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  Speaker 1: confidence behind being able to take shots, but it's also
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  Speaker 1: the confidence in being able to miss them, like sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we get in our head when you miss a couple,
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  Speaker 1: but instead of focusing on the result, focus on how
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  Speaker 1: you're missing. Are you missing left? Are you missing right?
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  Speaker 1: Are you missing front? Are you missing back? I think
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  Speaker 1: that's the thing just from being around shooters that you
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  Speaker 1: learn as you go on, because a lot of times,
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  Speaker 1: you know scores, you focus on the miss but really
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  Speaker 1: it's like how how.
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  Speaker 2: Are you doing it?
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  Speaker 1: And so I look at that element of your game
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, it will be absolutely scary if you
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  Speaker 1: can consistently knock down that three point shot. Yes, for sure,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna run the next play. So right
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  Speaker 1: here we talk about the finishing of everything. And I
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  Speaker 1: love this dunker spot right here. And if you're you know,
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  Speaker 1: able to to kind of like take out your pen
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  Speaker 1: that we have, because we're going to use the pen.
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  Speaker 2: To draw the spots there you go. I saw it,
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  Speaker 2: so I was like, we're gonna use it.
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  Speaker 1: If you could draw on the court some of your
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  Speaker 1: favorite spots, Like if you're to diagram a play, let's say,
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  Speaker 1: and you have some of your favorite spots that you
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  Speaker 1: know that you can operate out of.
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  Speaker 2: What would those be right there? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: I would say both dunkers in kind of under the
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  Speaker 3: free throw line or extend.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I like that, So here's my task for you.
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  Speaker 1: Within the WBA, everything gets moved out probably two more feet,
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  Speaker 1: So just know that those spots are going to be
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  Speaker 1: two feet further. And so the way you develop and
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  Speaker 1: build your game has got to be like that. Like
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  Speaker 1: your turnaround jump shot is not going to be in
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  Speaker 1: the paint, it's going to be two steps outside. You know,
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  Speaker 1: your your hook shots and things like that. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: run this next play because you were hanging out in
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  Speaker 1: one of your favorite spots all right right here. So
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  Speaker 1: you're hanging out in your dunker spot, and the dunker
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  Speaker 1: spot is around the baseline. It allows for dribble penetration
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  Speaker 1: without bigs ducking in to clog the lane. So obviously
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  Speaker 1: Flage draws two. You're still hanging out in the dunker spot.
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  Speaker 1: And what I like about this is you can tell
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  Speaker 1: that you're ready. You're ready to catch the ball, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of post players aren't really ready with hands
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  Speaker 1: with jerseys with numbers, and so you see on this
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  Speaker 1: play right here, you're already preparing yourself.
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  Speaker 2: For the catch.
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  Speaker 1: I think that this is an element too of within
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  Speaker 1: the game, is like being able to play off of
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  Speaker 1: your guards, and so that is another thing you watch
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  Speaker 1: Asia Wilson. She hangs out in the dunker spot a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times, and she's able to be the beneficiary
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of Chelsea Gray's job drop offs or
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  Speaker 1: dribble penetration. So I think that this is an element
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  Speaker 1: of your game, Like, is this something that you all
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  Speaker 1: work on with finishing as post players, whether it be
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  Speaker 1: at DePaul or whether it's at LSU.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we work though on a lot of things around
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  Speaker 4: the post every day. I know I used to get
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  Speaker 4: hit in the face with the pad contact knocked out
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  Speaker 4: a few times, but they challenge us every day in practice.
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  Speaker 4: The move that fla j does, we get to see that.
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  Speaker 4: So it's it's just playing off of each other. We
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  Speaker 4: get to see each other's style of game, style of play,
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  Speaker 4: and what we like. Majority of the time, I know
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  Speaker 4: that she's going to pass that ball, especially with Bett's
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  Speaker 4: being in there, because she don't want to get her
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  Speaker 4: shot blocked, and it was the best pass to make
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  Speaker 4: and we were able to be productive with it. But
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  Speaker 4: just knowing your teammates and the style of play, but
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  Speaker 4: also we practiced that in practice, like the physicality, toughing
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  Speaker 4: each other up, being able to finish, because in my opinion,
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  Speaker 4: I personally felt like I was fouled on that play.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, we still we still got it done.
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  Speaker 4: We got the two points and next possession.
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  Speaker 2: A little little stray for for the ref. But it's cool.
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  Speaker 2: They they missed, they missed the call. They missed the call.
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  Speaker 1: But listen, I think another element of what you just
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  Speaker 1: said is being able, like you said, to play off
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  Speaker 1: the guard, to be ready, and like you said, I
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  Speaker 1: think it is kind of developing that chemistry. And let
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  Speaker 1: me warn you, you better get your hands up because
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  Speaker 1: I know Maybury likes dropping no looks, and so you
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  Speaker 1: better get your hands up otherwise she'll hit you in
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  Speaker 1: the face. So be ready, be ready for uh Marina's passes.
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  Speaker 1: So the next the next play, I feel like is
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  Speaker 1: what we have come to know and love about you,
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  Speaker 1: is that your tenacity, your nose for the ball, within rebounding.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're so dangerous within second chance opportunities. You
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  Speaker 1: talk about right here, nice little in and out block,
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  Speaker 1: but you stay with it. And we've seen the power
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  Speaker 1: of staying with plays. You're gonna get your shot blocked
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  Speaker 1: at the next level, right, but that second jump is
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  Speaker 1: something that I think is super powerful right here, nice
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  Speaker 1: little in and out. You get her going, you take
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  Speaker 1: up space, and you rebound. When did you make rebounding
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  Speaker 1: your thing? Because I feel like you've always become or
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  Speaker 1: been synonymous with you the second chance points.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just wanting to see how I can help my team.
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  Speaker 4: And I feel like there's no bad rebound like me
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: helping my team rebound. It's it's a selfish thing, but
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: it's selfless for the team. So and it takes extra work,
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: it takes a wheel. It's something that you want to
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: do and you have to get it.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Done every night.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: And that's just my mindset. Like I set the goal
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: high when I go into games. Sometimes I'd be like, Okay,
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: I'm getting twenty rebounds tonight. I know we have a
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: tough opponent, but I'm gonna get twenty and if I
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: fall short, then I fall at fifteen. But you know,
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: like I gotta sometimes make it quote unquote unrealistic and
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: then next thing you know, I actually have twenty rebounds.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: In a game.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: So it's just about the mindset. It's about what you
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: work forward to every day. In practice, I work hard
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: in practice every day. That's creating that next level of conditioning.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: I always say, if.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: You want to be elite, you have to train to
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: be elite, and it starts in practice. So that's something
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: that I've always done. And I really feel like that
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: shot was very unorthodox. But it's so funny because I
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: do that in practice and my teammates be like, how
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: the hell you make that?
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, I'm just playing around.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: But in the game, is it works Because I'm able
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: to make shots like that.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: That's unbelievable.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you this, So do you
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: think what's gonna come easier for you? Is gonna be
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: fifteen points or fifteen rebounds you got?
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: I would say fifteen rebounds, okay, So fifteen points will
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: come off the rebounds.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: I like that. I like that.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: When shall I expect you to get fifteen rebounds? When
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: what I mean is it gonna be early in your
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: rookie season. You're gonna take some time to figure it out.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I just I just want to know so that we
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: could play this clip and it's almost like you know,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I already knew that you were gonna have a fifteen
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: and fifteen game or you know whatnot.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I say it will be early on. I feel
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: like nobody has seen a rebounder like me when coming
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: into the league. I know that is not going to
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: be easy at all, but I feel like the motor
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: that I have and the intensity that I bring on
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: the boards is unmatched in my opinion, So I say
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: a little bit early on for the season.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Mike drop you heard it here first on film study.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: All right, we're going to go to the last play
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: for you, and again we save the best four last. Obviously,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: in terms of steel, I think you're shooting the gap.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Your pressure, your ability to guard out on the perimeter
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: as well as in the post is unmatched.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: And you know, I think that that is.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Something that you can be one of those players that
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: can guard multiple people and be dependable in help side.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: A lot of you know, a lot of it is
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: about help. You see, right.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Here, you're guarding somebody that is way taller than you,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: and you do it with physicality. Right here, you're sealed
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: like you're sealed. But I think it's your second and
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: your third effort is what makes it special. Everything's not
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: going to be perfect. So when you're guarding bigger posts.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: What is your mentality? What do you try to do?
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Honestly, I want to bump them up the lane first.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: I don't want them to just bury me down and
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: the inside because I know they already have an advantage
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: with the height. I like to use my speed when
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: they come down to these places. I'm baiting her right
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: now and she doesn't even know, and I'm looking at
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: her eyes and I'm like, this is where they want
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: to go, and they got the mismatch that they want.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: But we're basically split right now. Like if I was
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: completely behind her, I feel like I'm beat. But since
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: we're split and I'm still trying to push her up
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: the lane, I easily could just slide under her arm
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: because she's gonna use me as a balance because she
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: wants to bury me inside. And then that's when I
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: just pulled a chair and I get around.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Well, you do just that.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: You're baiting her in this play, and you're able to
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: get the steal again. I feel like you're gonna be
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: in this situation where you're guarding taller post players a
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: lot at the next level.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and a lot of times.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: People talk about your arms and your physicality, but for me,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: it's your feet on this play right here. If you watch,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: you never get buried with your feet, And you know,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I think that that's gonna be something that you definitely
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: have to carry over.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: In playing in the WBA because.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: The words out there are not a lot of great
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: passers in the WNBA, and so for your ability on
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the defensive end to take advantage of that as well
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: as your speed and your quickness, I think you're gonna
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: be scary on that end of the floor. So listen,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you sitting down with me at film study.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I wish you all the best of luck next year.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: My prediction as you do get that fifteen to fifteen
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: game this year, But listen, good luck your rookie year.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: To care of yourself, enjoy the process, and I'm definitely
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: cheering for you this year.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much,