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Carl Lee's OT - Women's Basketball: A Tribute to Dedication and Teamwork · WCHS Network Podcasts

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  The opinions expressed on this program do not necessarily reflect the opinions of w VRC
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  Media, It's management, employees, or sponsors. This is Overtime, a
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  weekly moment of off the Cup commentary on everything from sports and politics to observations
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  about everyday life from NFL all Pro Carl Lee. Welcome to Overtime. Hello
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  ladies and gentlemen. This is Carl Lee, and this is I'm in my
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  overtime segment and just want to talk a little bit about the women's basketball we
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  we talked about it on the show earlier in the in the right prior to
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  and one of the things that I I've noticed as a former athlete, as
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  a former professional athlete, and watching the collegiate level at the and just at
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  the D one level, the Major D one level, you know, watching
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  Iowa and USC and all those types of teams play. The amazing thing to
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  me about it is the intensity in which the women play from start to finish.
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  Like I was watching all the emotion after the game of the winners and
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  even even at even even Iowa as they lost the game, they kind of
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  held their heads high. They I'm sure they're probably with some tears but I
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  but it was. It was It was interesting to me of watching Caitlin being
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  able to just kind of hold her head up walk out end her career with
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  their head up. I thought that I thought that was an amazing scene to
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  me, you know, kind of her walking away from the collegiate game.
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  The interesting piece for me is where does this go? Because I mean,
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  this was, this was huge. I mean this this season with women's basketball
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  was huge. And again the audience is bigger than professional basketball, men's professional
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  basketball. The only thing really that it doesn't top it's football, and football
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  is the obviously is the number one viewed sport. But this is this is
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  not men's This is not the men's game. This is the women's game.
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  And the exciting thing to me about about all these young ladies and all the
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  the notoriety that they're getting is that the young ladies that are playing middle school,
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  high school, youth basketball, they get to watch these these ladies play,
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  and now they get an opportunity to dream to one day be one of
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  these superstars or even be on on the team, be on the bench,
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  just to be sitting there to watch, to be part of of the game.
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  I think that I think that for for the young ladies that participate in
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  basketball or even in any sport. I think what we've what these what these
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  ladies are doing are they are setting a an example, a role models for
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  these young ladies to now say, I want to be like man, we've
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  had that, We've had it forever, you know, you know, we
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  could have our own. You know, myself, I had Robert Alexander,
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  who was you know, just three years ahead of me, and I could
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  I could view him. Now. These young ladies can have that same structure.
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  They can they they can look the middle school or elementary can look up
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  to to high school, and high school can look up to D one and
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  look up to to professional the professional ranks. And I just think that when
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  you when you have that, when you see it, it's one thing to
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  play it, but when you watch someone who's doing it at a greater,
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  higher level, you dream to be, You set a goal to be.
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  Your entire being wants you to be that person. You want to become that
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  person. You want to become that good, that great, And the key
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  to that is the work ethic that comes with it. Because when you think
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  about when you think about the three point shots that we saw in this game,
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  not just from hour but from both teams. They weren't right at the
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  three point line. You know, you're talking like ten feet away in between
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  half court and the three point line. How many times do you have to
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  shoot that shot to even think that you can make it? What coach is
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  even going to let you take that shot in a game and not take you
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  out if you miss it or even if you make it. And I just
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  think when you look at when you start to look at these great female athletes,
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  don't overlook the work ethic that they're putting in. Because you're not just
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  going to be one of those young ladies. You're not just gonna just get
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  there. You gotta put some time in. You got to put the work
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  in. And we were talking off air before the overtime about, you know,
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  sports as a whole, about working hard, the efforts that you have
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  to put in. You know, whether it's the coach's effort and the kid's
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  effort and the parents understanding those efforts, those things have to all come together
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  to find a measure of success. You're not just gonna They're very few athletes,
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  very few athletes, no matter how great they are now, are not
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  spending time on their craft. Somebody's shooting a million threes every day, somebody's
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  dribbling every day, somebody's working on footwork every day. Somebody's throwing a football
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  every day, somebody's catching a football every day. And what are you?
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  And the question you have to ask yourself is what are you doing for your
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  craft for you to be better and to have that opportunity to be great?
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  Point being, we have to put in time. It's great to be able
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  to talk about greatness. It's great to sit down and watch it, but
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  if you want it, you've got to put some time in it and work
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  ethic behind it to where you can be better than most people. That's the
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  only way that works. You don't get the opportunity to just walk through every
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  great athlete. And the two I'll go back to my go tos, the
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  two best backs in the nation that came out of West Virginia. I know
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  their work ethic. They didn't get to be the best player, the best
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  running back in the country, or the best player in the country by just
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  waking up and just going to practice, going to the game, going to
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  practice, going to the game. No, they put in a whole host
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  of work every day. And I've made the point of you know, sixteen
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  eighteen week training for four weeks of camp for sixteen games. That's that's work,
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  and that's the work that it requires to to be great. And when
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  you watch these young ladies, don't just watch, don't just watch their play,
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  take a minute and think about because we want to be them. Those
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  are the goal setters, those are the images that we that we subscribe to
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  that oh gosh, I want to be like her one day. I want
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  to be like him one day. The worst part about it is we don't
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  get to see their work ethic. But trust me when I tell you there
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  is one. And if you're out there and you want to play sports and
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  you want to be great at it, find you a work ethic one that
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  breaks you down almost every day, and see where it takes you. That's
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  my that's that's my thinking. That's my gift to you to try to understand
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  how you find greatness. All right, have a good day, and we'll
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  be back with you again next week. The opinions expressed on this program do
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