November 11, 2024 • 23 mins
Seimone Augustus, a four-time WNBA champion, eight-time All-Star, and newly appointed assistant coach at LSU joins Khristina to discuss her rise to fame and becoming a legendary figure in women's basketball. She reflects on her early years in Baton Rouge, how it feels to return to LSU under coach Kim Mulkey, and she also shares insights on defining greatness through championships, how her experiences with Athlete Unlimited and as an assistant with the LA Sparks have shaped her coaching approach, and her vision for the future of LSU's women's basketball program.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
In Case You Missed It with Christina Williams is an
iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports
and Entertainment. Welcome to another episode of In Case You
Missed It with Christina Williams here on iHeartRadio and you guys,
(00:21):
I'm so excited about this week. I told you all
this show is becoming legendary because of the guests that
have been coming through week to week. So today's guest,
she was a two thousand and six number one WNBA
draft pick, a four time WNBA champion with the Minnesota Links,
a time WNBA All Star, three time Olympic gold medalist,
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and newly named assistant coach on the LSU women's basketball staff.
Please welcome to the show, Simon, I got sis.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Thank you. Hey.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
So, before we start the interview, I want to know
two things. How's the farm doing? And how's Shrek doing?
Because I kind of.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Doctor Instagram a little bit, but I love that you
know you have a farm.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Look, if my mom just called me, Shrek has been
getting out and we don't have any idea how he's
getting out, Like we've been walking the fence lines trying
to find the different holes or whatever. But he'll just
pop up and be in our neighbor's yard like walking around,
or he'll pop up and be at our front door,
and we're like, how did you get out? So we've
been calling him Houdini as of late because we have
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no idea how Shrek is getting out. But he keeps
our lives like interesting, he keeps us sharp. I tell
my mom and my dad. I'm like, he keeps you
young because you gotta be active to keep up with
what Shrek is doing out there on the farm.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Listen, absolutely love that in Winter's Coming.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But this year you received four different Hall of Fame honors,
with the most recent one being the Natesmith Basketball Hall
of Fame honor. How does it feel to be recognized
alongside the greatest players in the history of the game.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I mean, with you even saying that, it just still
doesn't process. Like when I was in the room, I'm
looking around, it's like Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, you know,
Magic Johnson, all these different players that have had their
moments and times like we grew up watching them, and
you just never kind of put yourself in that position,
like even though you love the game, but I'm sitting
in that room, and I'm just like at times, like
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should I be here? But then you look at your
accomplishments and your accolades and the things that you've done
for the game, and you're like, yeah, I should be here,
and it's just a matter of you know, just kind
of like emerging in a moment, just kind of like
soaking it up and just letting it sink in.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And it still really hasn't sunk in.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
But it was an amazing experience and you know, obviously
thankful for that honor.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I absolutely enjoyed your Hall of Fame speech. It was
so creative. What inspired you to create that speech?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Going to four Hall of Fames? I said, through I
don't know how many speeches. I mean, we've all been
through some, you know, seminars and things like that, and
you see some that are like awesome and then others
like all right, come on, let's get it over with.
And so for the finale, I just was like, you know,
I want to try something new. We've all heard the
same stories, like I grew up, I played basketball coach
yah da da, And immediately when they called me about
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what my speech was going to be or what I
was going to say what I was gonna write. It
just came to I was like, I'm gonna do a poem.
Didn't know what poem, didn't know how.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I was gonna do.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I'm not a poet, so I'm just like, all right,
I'm gonna do a poem. Once I put that in
the air, it was like I had to execute it.
And so fortunately for me, I have great friends. I
told one of my friends that I wanted to do it,
and so she passed me on a Black poet named
Nikki Giovanni. Her Loved Poems book, and so I started
reading that and just kind of getting a flow and
seeing how she did everything, and I just kind of
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started to piece it together piece by piece. It took
me about, you know, two or three months to actually
assemble it structure it. And then after that I had
to actually find a poet who is actually dope Charity Blackwell.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
She's from DC.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
She was at an event with me, and she introduced
me by doing a poem at this particular event, and
so me and her stayed connected and she helped me
with the flow and the cadence and what to emphasize,
even hand movements and things like that. So it was
a long process, but it was worth it because I
wanted to do something special, you know, on that last
one and just kind of have fun with it.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Look, it was absolutely special.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I particularly loved how you immerse your Baton Rouge roots
into the poem into just telling the history of your career.
Take us back to your Baton Rouge roots. What shape
your early love for basketball?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, that's just what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
That's why I had to like give pay some homage
to where I'm from because I didn't have, you know,
the Nike travel teams and all this stuff. So a
lot of what I did was here right here in
Baton Rouge. I went to different courts around town, played
in different gyms.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Played at the funeral home one time.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Like, I was all over the places, kind of honing
in my skills in Baton Rouge or in Louisiana, and
so you just never know. It's people that I played
against that would never get the credit because people would
never know them, Like at different streetball courts. As you know,
when you go in this part of town, you got
people that could run fast, jump out, and this part
of town you got people that are physical, and it
gonna push down on the other part of the time,
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you got people that trash talk. So everywhere I went,
my game was just evolving, just based on the people
that I played against and grew up with right here
in Louisiana. So I had to, you know, give the
respect what respect was due.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Coming up, you were one of the most highly recruited
players from your town. And what was your reaction to
that nineteen ninety nine Sports Illustrated from Women cover where
they were comparing you to the likes of being the
next Michael Jordan?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Blown away because I didn't have any idea that I
was going to even be on the cover. The only
thing that I knew was that Shamikel holst Law was.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Gonna be there.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
And so at that time, you know, the three weeks
Tennessee is popping, I'm like, SHAMIKEL Holslaw, I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
To the shoe.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I'm just excited to meet, you know, one of my
favorite players, and not knowing that particular moment would change
my life. Like once I was on the cover of
Sports Illustrated and being tabbed as the next Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
People like who this girl is? Some people had never
heard of me.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Some people knew like, oh no, she really is gonna
be the next hot thing or whatever. But it was
just a matter of now at that point or building
up the character and the mental and physical strength and
emotions to kind of like deal with the bulls out
there that it's going to be placed on your back
now that you've been tabbed this And I think that
was probably, you know, for me, the best thing that
ever happened, because I had to learn how to deal with.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Love, hate, I mean anything.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
You can imagine people were trying to tear you down
and prove that you weren't what they said.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You are full circle moment.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Now you are back at LSU, you're alma mater, and
you're on the coaching staff as an assistant coach. What
was that initial conversation like with coach Mogi about discussing
you joining that staff.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You know, if you know Malkey, she just straight to
the point.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
She's just like I had, I had a coach that
retired and I would love to have you on my staff.
And from there it was about like a three or
four week process where we just kind of went over
the rod pay this that you know, everything that you
would speak about in the interview process.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
But the most important thing that's took out, you know, for.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Me was as a young coach, you want experience, you
want to be able to learn from you know, great coaches,
and she is that is she is what the third
winning is coach in terms of championships in the NCAA.
You know, she's won as an assistant coach, as a player,
as a head coach, so winning is in her DNA.
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And if you're going to build up yourself as a
new young coach, it's the best opportunity to actually put
some elbow grease in and get your hands dirty, you know,
with a coach that's.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Proven and you're a proven player.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I love how humble you are about like your resume
in your career, but you bring so much to this
LSU coaching staff.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
We actually had Fla. J.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Johnson on this show a couple of weeks ago, and
she talked about how amazing it was to be in
sessions with you and how surreal it was, like she
was just like being in these practice sessions with Simone.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
It's like she has this glowing aura about her.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
What do you hope to impart on the next generation
of athletes as you begin your full coaching career.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
You know, a lot of like that I can relate,
Like I just literally just finished playing ball in twenty one,
So I've been in all the places that you want
to go, and I'm here with a wealth of knowledge
that I'm willing to give away for free.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And it's not many.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
People that are willing to do that, Like most people
keep it for themselves or they make it hard for
you because that's just what they've been taught to do.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
But I'm like, no, Like, if you want to learn,
I'm here.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
And a lot of the sessions that I've had with Flage,
like yeah, we on the basketball court and were talking
and we you know, doing drills. But it's more about
the mental capacity more than anything with this generation of
players than it is anything physical, because they are amazing,
like physically, they can do all the things that we
were able to do, if not better, But you know it,
it's about the mental maturity and the mental focus that
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they need. And so that's kind of what I harp
on as you know, one of the players that's been
at a lead level for a long time.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
What stands out to you about this LSU group coming
in Obviously they're without injuries. Who has now moved on
to the WNBA. But what are some of the things
that you're seeing early on from this LSU group.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And what you just said is the thing that we
talk about all the time is that people like, all right, well,
who is LSU not?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
At gone?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Angel was the leader. Angel was like leader on and
off the court, points rebounds everything. So now we get
to see a new set of leaders, a new set
of followers, a new set of competitors, Like who's going
to step up to this challenge and fill that role?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Which was a big role to fill.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
And it may not be one person, it may be
multiple people that have to step into those shoes. But
who are you now that Angel has been removed? What
is your identity? And so a lot of the ladies
over the last few weeks we were starting to see
they starting to learn how tough it is to lead
and also how tough it is to follow, and also
bring your best every day and make sure that your
teammates are emotionally okay, and make sure the coaches are
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all right. It's like a process, but it's a beautiful
mix of chaos that has a number of opportunities for
them all to grow.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And now obviously your coaching resume. You coached as an
assistant on the Sparks. You were part of Athletes Unlimited,
where I got to see personally do some of your
coaching with AU. What are some things that you learned
along the way that you're bringing with you to So.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Like with the Sparks, you know, that was my first
gig and it was just more like observation. You know,
got my hands with a little bit, but not really,
but I just kind of like paid attention from Afar.
With AU, it was a different mindset because as a
player's led league. So if they wanted to practice, they practiced.
If they didn't, they didn't. So when you think about
that as it from a coach, coach of very hands on,
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some of them are micromanagers, like they want to do everything.
And at AU, it taught me how to be a coach.
That's like, all right, I can step back, let me
see how much my players know when they need me,
I can guide them and a system if necessary, but
I may not have to because they're smarter than we think.
And so that's a new approach that you don't.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
See many coaches kind of take everybody like I got it,
I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
And so I've always said I wanted to be different,
and I think both situations kind of gave me like
a moment to like observe and see what I would
like to be by dudes and don't and then okay,
I can be a hands off coach and allow them
to like have their game and play free and feel
the freedom of just expressing themselves on the court.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
We're gonna take a quick break and when we come back.
More from this conversation with Simona Augustus. You're the first
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female athlete to get a statue at LSU when you walk,
when you're walking on the campus and throughout the campus,
is it a little surreal to see yourself kind of
immortalize in a bronze form?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Man, I walked up that thing.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Every day, I'm like, I come out the practice facility
and it's like right there, and I'm like, hey, girl.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
How you doing. I'm like, how you doing? Girl?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
And you know, some people have started to leave like
little trinkets on there, like you know, I'm into stones
and stuff like that, so they'll leave like quartz crystals.
And I've had the Mardi Gras baby that comes inside
the king Cake, like people are starting to leave little
trinkets there for like good luck and prosperity and stuff
like that. I'm like, man, it's kind of cool, like,
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you know, for once, like people get to see a
woman in this image, but not just that. It's just
like you homegrown, Like it's not many of us that
leave here to go off to be successful, and if
we do, we don't come back. And yet here I
am like a living legend of statue walking around here
that people can point to them and use that as inspiration.
So more than anything that that fills me up.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
You know, what's your most unforgettable LSU moment? Like as
a player, you played with some legends alongside of you.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
But what can you give us?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I would have to say our final four run to
New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
That was our first final four and it was thirty
minutes forty five minutes up the road. And that year
was like very hard for us because that was the
year that coach like got sick and we didn't really
know the severity of the situation and so we were
just kind of you know, powering through.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Weren't even supposed to be in a conversation for finding four.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
You know, we didn't have the team, people were injured,
so many things that happened that year, and we just
you know, found a way to make that happen. And
then we go forty five minutes down the road and
I just remember pulling up to the you know, pulling
up to the hotel, you know, how to find them four.
It is is like you know, shiginage everywhere, people all around,
and the second Line band started playing.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
And I just remember one of the employees at the
at the hotel for Good, she was at work and
just started getting down. She started second line, the baby,
she raised the dress up, started doing that thing, and
we was like, oh, it's lit. It is lit.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
So you know, that experience, just seeing so many people
that followed us, that supported us for so long, even
you know, before I got to LSU, just knowing the
people that were there when half of the gym was
closed off with a black curtain, and just waiting for
that moment.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That was probably the biggest moment. And then most importantly
like coach gonna being at home being sick. You know,
we prouded ourselves that year.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I'm like, all right, if she's gonna watch the game,
you know, for two hours, We're gonna give her the
best two hours of our day. And so it filled
us up like that fueled us to just want to
do something special and it didn't end the way we
wanted to, but we made a lot of people happy
in the process.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
You've been battle tested in your college career, and obviously
you're a legend in women's basketball. Your impact goes beyond
like whether you want a championship or not in college.
I mean, you're godd retire jersey statues. The list goes on.
But how do you define greatness in college basketball? I
know that was a topic of discussion earlier this year
with Kaitlyn Clark considering many all time grades have not
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necessarily won national championships in college?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
How do you define that success?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
You know what, I'm actually very honest with myself about it,
because like when we talk about grade grades, they won
a college like, they've won it every level. So yeah,
I don't believe, like even for myself, like with all everything,
statues and all of this, I don't put myself up
there with them, you know, with the ones that have won,
I don't, Like, let's be honest, because I base everything
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off of championships. So if you didn't get that championship,
and that's just one thing that it still gets me
to this day. I'm like, ah, I felt like I
could have had too. And then the fact that I'm
here and one of the championships that I believe we
should have won was won by coach Malkey. I have
to hear about this every day, like two or three
times a week. She talks about the Old five championship
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that they won, her first one, and I'm just like, yeah,
that was supposed to be ill win. And she said
all the time, she was like that team was amazing,
Like we didn't even think we was gonna win. Like
I didn't even bring an extra outfit for the final
game because I just didn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And so with that, you know, I believe it goes
based on championship.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Obviously, you're gonna have individual accolades, you're gonna do some
amazing things, you're gonna break records and all that, and
that's all fine and down.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
But for me, if it doesn't equate to a championships,
the rest is history.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
It's just like a lot of work that was done
and it was beautiful, but you didn't finish the project.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
There it is.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
You won four though with the Minnesota leaks. Why was
that dynasty so special?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Exactly?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I made up for it on the other side, though,
it was special because it's very rare that you have
a team with so many great players that it just
came together so beautifully.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Like most people have to deal with egos.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
People don't want to sacrifice how many shots, this, that, that,
and the other.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
And it was never anything like that.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Like we understood what everybody brought to the table, our strengths,
our weaknesses, and we all were at a point in
our career where we wanted to win, like winning trump
everything else. So you scoring twenty points, it don't matter
if we ain't win the game, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
And we understood that.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
We understood how easy our life would be by being
able to play off each other. It was amazing to
go to work every day, and a lot of people
can't say that, like it felt amazing. I was like,
im about to get up and go play ball with
my friends. Let me get ready, you know, put my
uniform on, and we.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Would go out there.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
We beat up on the practice guys, and that preparation
only made that a lot easier for us when we
came to the games, like not disrespecting our opponents, but
it just we had a flow up ourselves that.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
It was very hard to stop.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
And when I heard like after I retired, and everybody's
giving you your flowers and so on and so forth, to
hear so many opponents say Lord Jesus, when we had
to play Minnesota, our nurse would be bad, practices would
be longer.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
We stayed in longer film sessions trying to figure out
how to beat you and God for being y'all lost.
Before y'all played us, we knew the game was going
to be hell.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
And I'm like, well, thank you because.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
One of the greatest, greatest starting fives in WBA history.
I say it all the time, like nobody was really
beating that Minnesota team at the time.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Reflecting all all of that, you talked.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
About your retirement and you joined the Sparks for your
final season of your women's basketball career.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
In hindsight, do you wish you'd had had like a.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Formal farewell tour or a last ride with the Lynks
before retiring.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Well, obviously I wish I was with the Lynks, but
the whole like ride out. I never wanted that, to
be honest, I never wanted the full to do, but
obviously my gold was to try to finish with the Links.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
It didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
It happened as it should, and it gave me the
opportunity to go out the way I wanted to, which
was kind of privately, quietly.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Like kind of snuck out the back door and called
it a day.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
I never wanted the fanfare, even though I knew everybody
wanted to do it, but I ended up getting it anyway,
with this year, twenty twenty four being a Hall of
Fame year, I ended up getting it in a different way.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
So that was amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
What's your take on the new era of the Minnesota Links.
They have a promising young corps led by Nafisa Collier.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
They reached the finals.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Now whether or not they deserve to win that k
vive is up for debate. But what's your take on
the Links this season?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
You know what I said it at the beginning when
I saw him, just because I know that system, I
know coach Reeves so well, I'm like, they gonna surprise
a lot of people. And even when they got to
the Commissioner's Cup and they beat them. I wasn't surprised.
I'm like, they have been playing gray basketball and the
FISA has found her way. She had solidified herself as
one of the top players in this league and she plays.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Like that every night.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Now, Cheryl don't need much to win, but she has
calea McBride, she has Courtney Williams. Now she has the
pieces that she need in place in order to make
things happen.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
And that's kind of what we saw.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
They were playing some of the best basketball I believe
of anybody up, I mean other than New York who
they faced in the finals. And it was an amazing series.
I mean, regardless how it ended, it ended.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
You know, we're gonna leave.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
It a long for Cathy trying to send me a
fine letter, but nah, it was amazing just to see
them now, the confidence that they're gonna come back with
next year, knowing you know, the type of players that
Cheryl is probably gonna seek in free agency.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I mean, next year is gonna be up. We're gonna
be back. I believe we'll be back in the finals,
making a run for that number five.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Speaking of last calls, when the finals were happening in
kandas Parker, your former opponent, there was that link Sparks rivalry.
She brought up that twenty sixteen WNBA finals and the
officiated with the shot clock violation on Neka Guma.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Kay, that basically handed the Sparks.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
When what was your take or perspective on what happened
during that game?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Oh, because Candice was in our favor, or.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
She just brought up the bad officiating during that Kay.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Well to her point, I don't know about all the
other cases throughout the game. I'm quite sure they had
some little files here in there. But the shot clock
violation was a violation, and Cheryl burned a time out
for them to go and review that particular shot for
the violation, and yet they did not go and review.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
It, and that shot counted.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Had they took them two points off of that, we
would have been up I don't know, four or six
or whatever in the game, would however, many seconds left,
so even with the office of rebound putback wouldn't matter.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
We would have been We would have had a back
to back.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
But you know, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Okay, So can we expect to see you return to
the WNBA one day?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Being a coach.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
You know, never say never. But now that I'm homing
to buy you, it might be hard for me to leave.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
It might be hard for me to leave. But it's
not impossible though, But so you never know.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Okay, I want to end this on a positive note.
On social media, you do fund segments called money moons,
word of the day. So what mantra do you want
to leave us with here?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Today?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
You putting me on the spot. I hadn't even done
my meditation and stuff for the day. I normally come
up with it during that time.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
You know what, It's funny because we just coach Molky
did her little speech with the girls yesterday and she
was just talking about the Saints and the struggles that
they are having. And one of the articles basically say,
it's not just on the field, it's off the field too.
It's the way that the parking lot is set up
from them parking in the wrong parking spots, so I
the wrong lot. All of this stuff, attention to detailed discipline, accountability,
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like all this stuff then shows up on the field
one player missing the place, so on and so forth.
And so I would say, how you do anything is
how you do every everything. So if you are half
ass something, then you're gonna get a half ass result.
If you put everything into it and you really follow it,
you do it to perfection. I think will Smith said
it when he talked about placing the brick. He like,
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I put that brick perfectly, and I put the next
brick perfectly, and next thing, you know, I have a
whole wall and it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You know, it's an amazing wall.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
So how you do anything, it's how you do everything,
So do it right the first time.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I love that. And on that note, Simone, thank you
for being here with us on In Case you missed
It with Christina Williams.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Looking forward to seeing all that LSU does this college
basketball season.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Best of luck and we'll be keeping an eye out
on you.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Okay, that's gonna do it For this edition of In
Case You missed It with Christina Williams. I just want
to thank Simone Augustus again for coming through. I had
so much fun chatting with her. Don't forget to rate,
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Speaker 3 (23:06):
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Speaker 1 (23:11):
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I'm so excited about this week. I told you all
this show is becoming legendary because of the guests that
have been coming through week to week. So today's guest,
she was a two thousand and six number one WNBA
draft pick, a four time WNBA champion with the Minnesota Links,
a time WNBA All Star, three time Olympic gold medalist,
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and newly named assistant coach on the LSU women's basketball staff.
Please welcome to the show, Simon, I got sis.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Thank you. Hey.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
So, before we start the interview, I want to know
two things. How's the farm doing? And how's Shrek doing?
Because I kind of.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Doctor Instagram a little bit, but I love that you
know you have a farm.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Look, if my mom just called me, Shrek has been
getting out and we don't have any idea how he's
getting out, Like we've been walking the fence lines trying
to find the different holes or whatever. But he'll just
pop up and be in our neighbor's yard like walking around,
or he'll pop up and be at our front door,
and we're like, how did you get out? So we've
been calling him Houdini as of late because we have
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no idea how Shrek is getting out. But he keeps
our lives like interesting, he keeps us sharp. I tell
my mom and my dad. I'm like, he keeps you
young because you gotta be active to keep up with
what Shrek is doing out there on the farm.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Listen, absolutely love that in Winter's Coming.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But this year you received four different Hall of Fame honors,
with the most recent one being the Natesmith Basketball Hall
of Fame honor. How does it feel to be recognized
alongside the greatest players in the history of the game.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I mean, with you even saying that, it just still
doesn't process. Like when I was in the room, I'm
looking around, it's like Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, you know,
Magic Johnson, all these different players that have had their
moments and times like we grew up watching them, and
you just never kind of put yourself in that position,
like even though you love the game, but I'm sitting
in that room, and I'm just like at times, like
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should I be here? But then you look at your
accomplishments and your accolades and the things that you've done
for the game, and you're like, yeah, I should be here,
and it's just a matter of you know, just kind
of like emerging in a moment, just kind of like
soaking it up and just letting it sink in.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And it still really hasn't sunk in.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
But it was an amazing experience and you know, obviously
thankful for that honor.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I absolutely enjoyed your Hall of Fame speech. It was
so creative. What inspired you to create that speech?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Going to four Hall of Fames? I said, through I
don't know how many speeches. I mean, we've all been
through some, you know, seminars and things like that, and
you see some that are like awesome and then others
like all right, come on, let's get it over with.
And so for the finale, I just was like, you know,
I want to try something new. We've all heard the
same stories, like I grew up, I played basketball coach
yah da da, And immediately when they called me about
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what my speech was going to be or what I
was going to say what I was gonna write. It
just came to I was like, I'm gonna do a poem.
Didn't know what poem, didn't know how.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I was gonna do.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I'm not a poet, so I'm just like, all right,
I'm gonna do a poem. Once I put that in
the air, it was like I had to execute it.
And so fortunately for me, I have great friends. I
told one of my friends that I wanted to do it,
and so she passed me on a Black poet named
Nikki Giovanni. Her Loved Poems book, and so I started
reading that and just kind of getting a flow and
seeing how she did everything, and I just kind of
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started to piece it together piece by piece. It took
me about, you know, two or three months to actually
assemble it structure it. And then after that I had
to actually find a poet who is actually dope Charity Blackwell.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
She's from DC.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
She was at an event with me, and she introduced
me by doing a poem at this particular event, and
so me and her stayed connected and she helped me
with the flow and the cadence and what to emphasize,
even hand movements and things like that. So it was
a long process, but it was worth it because I
wanted to do something special, you know, on that last
one and just kind of have fun with it.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Look, it was absolutely special.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I particularly loved how you immerse your Baton Rouge roots
into the poem into just telling the history of your career.
Take us back to your Baton Rouge roots. What shape
your early love for basketball?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, that's just what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
That's why I had to like give pay some homage
to where I'm from because I didn't have, you know,
the Nike travel teams and all this stuff. So a
lot of what I did was here right here in
Baton Rouge. I went to different courts around town, played
in different gyms.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Played at the funeral home one time.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Like, I was all over the places, kind of honing
in my skills in Baton Rouge or in Louisiana, and
so you just never know. It's people that I played
against that would never get the credit because people would
never know them, Like at different streetball courts. As you know,
when you go in this part of town, you got
people that could run fast, jump out, and this part
of town you got people that are physical, and it
gonna push down on the other part of the time,
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you got people that trash talk. So everywhere I went,
my game was just evolving, just based on the people
that I played against and grew up with right here
in Louisiana. So I had to, you know, give the
respect what respect was due.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Coming up, you were one of the most highly recruited
players from your town. And what was your reaction to
that nineteen ninety nine Sports Illustrated from Women cover where
they were comparing you to the likes of being the
next Michael Jordan?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Blown away because I didn't have any idea that I
was going to even be on the cover. The only
thing that I knew was that Shamikel holst Law was.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Gonna be there.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
And so at that time, you know, the three weeks
Tennessee is popping, I'm like, SHAMIKEL Holslaw, I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
To the shoe.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I'm just excited to meet, you know, one of my
favorite players, and not knowing that particular moment would change
my life. Like once I was on the cover of
Sports Illustrated and being tabbed as the next Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
People like who this girl is? Some people had never
heard of me.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Some people knew like, oh no, she really is gonna
be the next hot thing or whatever. But it was
just a matter of now at that point or building
up the character and the mental and physical strength and
emotions to kind of like deal with the bulls out
there that it's going to be placed on your back
now that you've been tabbed this And I think that
was probably, you know, for me, the best thing that
ever happened, because I had to learn how to deal with.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Love, hate, I mean anything.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
You can imagine people were trying to tear you down
and prove that you weren't what they said.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You are full circle moment.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Now you are back at LSU, you're alma mater, and
you're on the coaching staff as an assistant coach. What
was that initial conversation like with coach Mogi about discussing
you joining that staff.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You know, if you know Malkey, she just straight to
the point.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
She's just like I had, I had a coach that
retired and I would love to have you on my staff.
And from there it was about like a three or
four week process where we just kind of went over
the rod pay this that you know, everything that you
would speak about in the interview process.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
But the most important thing that's took out, you know, for.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Me was as a young coach, you want experience, you
want to be able to learn from you know, great coaches,
and she is that is she is what the third
winning is coach in terms of championships in the NCAA.
You know, she's won as an assistant coach, as a player,
as a head coach, so winning is in her DNA.
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And if you're going to build up yourself as a
new young coach, it's the best opportunity to actually put
some elbow grease in and get your hands dirty, you know,
with a coach that's.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Proven and you're a proven player.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I love how humble you are about like your resume
in your career, but you bring so much to this
LSU coaching staff.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
We actually had Fla. J.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Johnson on this show a couple of weeks ago, and
she talked about how amazing it was to be in
sessions with you and how surreal it was, like she
was just like being in these practice sessions with Simone.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
It's like she has this glowing aura about her.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
What do you hope to impart on the next generation
of athletes as you begin your full coaching career.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
You know, a lot of like that I can relate,
Like I just literally just finished playing ball in twenty one,
So I've been in all the places that you want
to go, and I'm here with a wealth of knowledge
that I'm willing to give away for free.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And it's not many.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
People that are willing to do that, Like most people
keep it for themselves or they make it hard for
you because that's just what they've been taught to do.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
But I'm like, no, Like, if you want to learn,
I'm here.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
And a lot of the sessions that I've had with Flage,
like yeah, we on the basketball court and were talking
and we you know, doing drills. But it's more about
the mental capacity more than anything with this generation of
players than it is anything physical, because they are amazing,
like physically, they can do all the things that we
were able to do, if not better, But you know it,
it's about the mental maturity and the mental focus that
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they need. And so that's kind of what I harp
on as you know, one of the players that's been
at a lead level for a long time.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
What stands out to you about this LSU group coming
in Obviously they're without injuries. Who has now moved on
to the WNBA. But what are some of the things
that you're seeing early on from this LSU group.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And what you just said is the thing that we
talk about all the time is that people like, all right, well,
who is LSU not?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
At gone?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Angel was the leader. Angel was like leader on and
off the court, points rebounds everything. So now we get
to see a new set of leaders, a new set
of followers, a new set of competitors, Like who's going
to step up to this challenge and fill that role?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Which was a big role to fill.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
And it may not be one person, it may be
multiple people that have to step into those shoes. But
who are you now that Angel has been removed? What
is your identity? And so a lot of the ladies
over the last few weeks we were starting to see
they starting to learn how tough it is to lead
and also how tough it is to follow, and also
bring your best every day and make sure that your
teammates are emotionally okay, and make sure the coaches are
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all right. It's like a process, but it's a beautiful
mix of chaos that has a number of opportunities for
them all to grow.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And now obviously your coaching resume. You coached as an
assistant on the Sparks. You were part of Athletes Unlimited,
where I got to see personally do some of your
coaching with AU. What are some things that you learned
along the way that you're bringing with you to So.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Like with the Sparks, you know, that was my first
gig and it was just more like observation. You know,
got my hands with a little bit, but not really,
but I just kind of like paid attention from Afar.
With AU, it was a different mindset because as a
player's led league. So if they wanted to practice, they practiced.
If they didn't, they didn't. So when you think about
that as it from a coach, coach of very hands on,
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some of them are micromanagers, like they want to do everything.
And at AU, it taught me how to be a coach.
That's like, all right, I can step back, let me
see how much my players know when they need me,
I can guide them and a system if necessary, but
I may not have to because they're smarter than we think.
And so that's a new approach that you don't.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
See many coaches kind of take everybody like I got it,
I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
And so I've always said I wanted to be different,
and I think both situations kind of gave me like
a moment to like observe and see what I would
like to be by dudes and don't and then okay,
I can be a hands off coach and allow them
to like have their game and play free and feel
the freedom of just expressing themselves on the court.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
We're gonna take a quick break and when we come back.
More from this conversation with Simona Augustus. You're the first
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female athlete to get a statue at LSU when you walk,
when you're walking on the campus and throughout the campus,
is it a little surreal to see yourself kind of
immortalize in a bronze form?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Man, I walked up that thing.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Every day, I'm like, I come out the practice facility
and it's like right there, and I'm like, hey, girl.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
How you doing. I'm like, how you doing? Girl?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
And you know, some people have started to leave like
little trinkets on there, like you know, I'm into stones
and stuff like that, so they'll leave like quartz crystals.
And I've had the Mardi Gras baby that comes inside
the king Cake, like people are starting to leave little
trinkets there for like good luck and prosperity and stuff
like that. I'm like, man, it's kind of cool, like,
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you know, for once, like people get to see a
woman in this image, but not just that. It's just
like you homegrown, Like it's not many of us that
leave here to go off to be successful, and if
we do, we don't come back. And yet here I
am like a living legend of statue walking around here
that people can point to them and use that as inspiration.
So more than anything that that fills me up.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
You know, what's your most unforgettable LSU moment? Like as
a player, you played with some legends alongside of you.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
But what can you give us?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I would have to say our final four run to
New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
That was our first final four and it was thirty
minutes forty five minutes up the road. And that year
was like very hard for us because that was the
year that coach like got sick and we didn't really
know the severity of the situation and so we were
just kind of you know, powering through.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Weren't even supposed to be in a conversation for finding four.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
You know, we didn't have the team, people were injured,
so many things that happened that year, and we just
you know, found a way to make that happen. And
then we go forty five minutes down the road and
I just remember pulling up to the you know, pulling
up to the hotel, you know, how to find them four.
It is is like you know, shiginage everywhere, people all around,
and the second Line band started playing.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
And I just remember one of the employees at the
at the hotel for Good, she was at work and
just started getting down. She started second line, the baby,
she raised the dress up, started doing that thing, and
we was like, oh, it's lit. It is lit.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
So you know, that experience, just seeing so many people
that followed us, that supported us for so long, even
you know, before I got to LSU, just knowing the
people that were there when half of the gym was
closed off with a black curtain, and just waiting for
that moment.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That was probably the biggest moment. And then most importantly
like coach gonna being at home being sick. You know,
we prouded ourselves that year.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I'm like, all right, if she's gonna watch the game,
you know, for two hours, We're gonna give her the
best two hours of our day. And so it filled
us up like that fueled us to just want to
do something special and it didn't end the way we
wanted to, but we made a lot of people happy
in the process.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
You've been battle tested in your college career, and obviously
you're a legend in women's basketball. Your impact goes beyond
like whether you want a championship or not in college.
I mean, you're godd retire jersey statues. The list goes on.
But how do you define greatness in college basketball? I
know that was a topic of discussion earlier this year
with Kaitlyn Clark considering many all time grades have not
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necessarily won national championships in college?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
How do you define that success?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
You know what, I'm actually very honest with myself about it,
because like when we talk about grade grades, they won
a college like, they've won it every level. So yeah,
I don't believe, like even for myself, like with all everything,
statues and all of this, I don't put myself up
there with them, you know, with the ones that have won,
I don't, Like, let's be honest, because I base everything
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off of championships. So if you didn't get that championship,
and that's just one thing that it still gets me
to this day. I'm like, ah, I felt like I
could have had too. And then the fact that I'm
here and one of the championships that I believe we
should have won was won by coach Malkey. I have
to hear about this every day, like two or three
times a week. She talks about the Old five championship
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that they won, her first one, and I'm just like, yeah,
that was supposed to be ill win. And she said
all the time, she was like that team was amazing,
Like we didn't even think we was gonna win. Like
I didn't even bring an extra outfit for the final
game because I just didn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And so with that, you know, I believe it goes
based on championship.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Obviously, you're gonna have individual accolades, you're gonna do some
amazing things, you're gonna break records and all that, and
that's all fine and down.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
But for me, if it doesn't equate to a championships,
the rest is history.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
It's just like a lot of work that was done
and it was beautiful, but you didn't finish the project.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
There it is.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
You won four though with the Minnesota leaks. Why was
that dynasty so special?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Exactly?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I made up for it on the other side, though,
it was special because it's very rare that you have
a team with so many great players that it just
came together so beautifully.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Like most people have to deal with egos.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
People don't want to sacrifice how many shots, this, that, that,
and the other.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
And it was never anything like that.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Like we understood what everybody brought to the table, our strengths,
our weaknesses, and we all were at a point in
our career where we wanted to win, like winning trump
everything else. So you scoring twenty points, it don't matter
if we ain't win the game, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
And we understood that.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
We understood how easy our life would be by being
able to play off each other. It was amazing to
go to work every day, and a lot of people
can't say that, like it felt amazing. I was like,
im about to get up and go play ball with
my friends. Let me get ready, you know, put my
uniform on, and we.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Would go out there.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
We beat up on the practice guys, and that preparation
only made that a lot easier for us when we
came to the games, like not disrespecting our opponents, but
it just we had a flow up ourselves that.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
It was very hard to stop.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
And when I heard like after I retired, and everybody's
giving you your flowers and so on and so forth, to
hear so many opponents say Lord Jesus, when we had
to play Minnesota, our nurse would be bad, practices would
be longer.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
We stayed in longer film sessions trying to figure out
how to beat you and God for being y'all lost.
Before y'all played us, we knew the game was going
to be hell.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
And I'm like, well, thank you because.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
One of the greatest, greatest starting fives in WBA history.
I say it all the time, like nobody was really
beating that Minnesota team at the time.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Reflecting all all of that, you talked.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
About your retirement and you joined the Sparks for your
final season of your women's basketball career.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
In hindsight, do you wish you'd had had like a.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Formal farewell tour or a last ride with the Lynks
before retiring.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Well, obviously I wish I was with the Lynks, but
the whole like ride out. I never wanted that, to
be honest, I never wanted the full to do, but
obviously my gold was to try to finish with the Links.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
It didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
It happened as it should, and it gave me the
opportunity to go out the way I wanted to, which
was kind of privately, quietly.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Like kind of snuck out the back door and called
it a day.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
I never wanted the fanfare, even though I knew everybody
wanted to do it, but I ended up getting it anyway,
with this year, twenty twenty four being a Hall of
Fame year, I ended up getting it in a different way.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
So that was amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
What's your take on the new era of the Minnesota Links.
They have a promising young corps led by Nafisa Collier.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
They reached the finals.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Now whether or not they deserve to win that k
vive is up for debate. But what's your take on
the Links this season?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
You know what I said it at the beginning when
I saw him, just because I know that system, I
know coach Reeves so well, I'm like, they gonna surprise
a lot of people. And even when they got to
the Commissioner's Cup and they beat them. I wasn't surprised.
I'm like, they have been playing gray basketball and the
FISA has found her way. She had solidified herself as
one of the top players in this league and she plays.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Like that every night.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Now, Cheryl don't need much to win, but she has
calea McBride, she has Courtney Williams. Now she has the
pieces that she need in place in order to make
things happen.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
And that's kind of what we saw.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
They were playing some of the best basketball I believe
of anybody up, I mean other than New York who
they faced in the finals. And it was an amazing series.
I mean, regardless how it ended, it ended.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
You know, we're gonna leave.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
It a long for Cathy trying to send me a
fine letter, but nah, it was amazing just to see
them now, the confidence that they're gonna come back with
next year, knowing you know, the type of players that
Cheryl is probably gonna seek in free agency.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I mean, next year is gonna be up. We're gonna
be back. I believe we'll be back in the finals,
making a run for that number five.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Speaking of last calls, when the finals were happening in
kandas Parker, your former opponent, there was that link Sparks rivalry.
She brought up that twenty sixteen WNBA finals and the
officiated with the shot clock violation on Neka Guma.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Kay, that basically handed the Sparks.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
When what was your take or perspective on what happened
during that game?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Oh, because Candice was in our favor, or.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
She just brought up the bad officiating during that Kay.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Well to her point, I don't know about all the
other cases throughout the game. I'm quite sure they had
some little files here in there. But the shot clock
violation was a violation, and Cheryl burned a time out
for them to go and review that particular shot for
the violation, and yet they did not go and review.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
It, and that shot counted.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Had they took them two points off of that, we
would have been up I don't know, four or six
or whatever in the game, would however, many seconds left,
so even with the office of rebound putback wouldn't matter.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
We would have been We would have had a back
to back.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
But you know, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Okay, So can we expect to see you return to
the WNBA one day?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Being a coach.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
You know, never say never. But now that I'm homing
to buy you, it might be hard for me to leave.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
It might be hard for me to leave. But it's
not impossible though, But so you never know.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Okay, I want to end this on a positive note.
On social media, you do fund segments called money moons,
word of the day. So what mantra do you want
to leave us with here?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Today?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
You putting me on the spot. I hadn't even done
my meditation and stuff for the day. I normally come
up with it during that time.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
You know what, It's funny because we just coach Molky
did her little speech with the girls yesterday and she
was just talking about the Saints and the struggles that
they are having. And one of the articles basically say,
it's not just on the field, it's off the field too.
It's the way that the parking lot is set up
from them parking in the wrong parking spots, so I
the wrong lot. All of this stuff, attention to detailed discipline, accountability,
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like all this stuff then shows up on the field
one player missing the place, so on and so forth.
And so I would say, how you do anything is
how you do every everything. So if you are half
ass something, then you're gonna get a half ass result.
If you put everything into it and you really follow it,
you do it to perfection. I think will Smith said
it when he talked about placing the brick. He like,
(22:14):
I put that brick perfectly, and I put the next
brick perfectly, and next thing, you know, I have a
whole wall and it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You know, it's an amazing wall.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
So how you do anything, it's how you do everything,
So do it right the first time.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I love that. And on that note, Simone, thank you
for being here with us on In Case you missed
It with Christina Williams.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Looking forward to seeing all that LSU does this college
basketball season.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Best of luck and we'll be keeping an eye out
on you.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Okay, that's gonna do it For this edition of In
Case You missed It with Christina Williams. I just want
to thank Simone Augustus again for coming through. I had
so much fun chatting with her. Don't forget to rate,
review and subscribe to the podcast, and the next episode
we're gonna be previewing the WNBA Lottery Draft, So you
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don't want to.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Miss it, Stay tuned in case you missed it.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
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