September 30, 2025 • 31 mins
Coach begins season #41 as Head Coach as "official" practices are now underway
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How did the practice go?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Uh, generally, you know, pretty good, Like first days of practice. Uh,
sometimes they're uh chaotic.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
One thing I've learned over the years is try to
make the first day as instructional as possible and make.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Things go.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
In a way that it r they're they recognize some
of the things that we've been working on and and
at the same time, you know, the the the effort
and the energy and all the things that you look for.
M So I think some somewhere between.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Uh, it was great. You know we have.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You know, seven seniors and five of them in the
start lineup and only one freshman.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Yeah, Kelly Prus's team.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I would have loved that team that was That practice
was in October, it was like March. But today, you know,
there's a lot of learning going on, a lot of
a lot of new stuff for these guys, some of them.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
So all in all, I thought it was good.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I thought it was good of your deeper teams.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
You have a lot of a lot of options out there.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah, yeah, I think so. I think we have an
opportunity to.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Play a different way then we've been kind of.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Forced to play the last couple of years. I think
we can.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Put a few more different combinations out there than we
have in the past few years. We're a little bit
longer than we have been, so people can play different positions,
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you know, a little easier. People can get a breather
during games a little more so.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
So, So we're trying to develop our our depth as well.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
We're trying to make sure that it's quality depth, not
just body bodies extra bodies.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
No, for Sarah, how was how was the ramp up
to the year two different than the year one experience?
She obviously did some great things and played herself into
a higher profile.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah, believe it's just it's.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Quiet personality but such a loud game.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, you know, when you come in as a freshman
and you're trying to just uh fit in and you're
naturally quiet. As you said, things take a little bit
of time for it to show itself. But the way
she just blended in so easily last year and the
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way things you know, evolved at the end, and how
comfortable she looked. You know, they say that the biggest
jump you make in colleges between freshmen and sophomore year.
So I think having that kind of success I think
motivated Sarah to do even more. She's in better shape
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than she was because she knows more. She is more
confident because she's already done it, you know, even more
assertive than she was, even more of a you know,
someone who self assured. You know, whatever words you want
to use, it's all evident, you know. So compared to
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last last year's first week of practice, it's you know,
completely completely different, completely different.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
How has the transition been for Sarah Williams for Hayley?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I mean that there's I don't know which is worse. Right,
you were in high school and you don't know anything
about anything, so everything's new. Or you already played one
year in Katie's case, three years in Sarah's case, and
you already kind of have in your mind this is
how I play. Now you've got to put that aside
and move on to a different thing.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
So I think in that.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Respect, they're picking things up pretty pretty quickly. We I
think Sarah knows what she wants, you know, she knows
where she wants the ball, and we're trying to put
her in those in those places, and she's confident in
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some other places where she's not used to having the ball.
That's going to take a little bit of time. But
I think the thing she's good at, she's really good
at Kayley same thing.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
She likes to play fast, and which is good because
that's how we want to play. And and I think
she likes to play aggressive.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
So they're both going to get a chance to do that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Do you think go to see Blong patary of the
open practice, but it's a little bit of he theirs.
How is she adjusting to to school and to just
the practices?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Now?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
How would you comproject other European players.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
In the past.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I think there's a lot of similarities in all the
European players. You know, they they have pretty good fundamentals.
Their footwork is usually pretty good, their work ethic is
usually pretty good. They're used to playing against much older
players you know over there. School usually is absolutely nothing
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to worry about with them. The language issue is generally
not that not that bad.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Some is better than others.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
She's been away from home for so long, you know,
home being Ecuador, but then her other home is Italy,
so she's used to being on her own, used to try,
used to you know, go in to practice every day.
She was in school, used to doing school work. You know,
I think she she has a great schedule academically. She
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has Spanish one O one and one O two, Italian
one O three and one O four. So I think
she's getting straight a's right now. So we're gonna we're
gonna see if we can't have her major in Italian
and minor in Spanish.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Should be d's less before you know it.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
How is he on the court too?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
On the court, she's.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
She's fun to watch because she's unpredictable. You know, she
has a lot of skills and can do a lot
of things, and sometimes she tries to do them all
at the same time.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
But she's she's fun to watch. She does.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
She does some things every day that you really know
only somebody that's played against really experienced place knows that.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Is there more emphasis I think nationwide with the recruiting
kids overseas.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
There has been recently, and I think there's gonna be
even more going forward. I think there's a lot of
really good players over there that had a choice between
going to America and going to school, and.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Their other choice will.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Stay home join some club team, and now that financially,
you know, it can work for them a little bit better.
You're going to see more and more than come over.
I don't think they come with the same expectations that
you might have kids over here. So I think they're
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during great demand right now by coaches around the country.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
How's King and how is this different? I mean she
started two years ago, yeah, and you know, we'll see
if she starts this year. But how is it different
in the fact that two years ago she had Nika
and Paige next tour this year and still some still
veteran but not.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, now it's gonna be a a a big, big,
big adjustment for for KK. I think the the the
last two years, she's had a specific role, whether it
was when she was in the start lineup or whether
you know last year, uh, you know, coming off the bench.
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I think her role was exactly the same both years,
and this year it's gonna be a little more, a
little more challenging for her because she's gonna have to.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Do a little bit more of the other.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Stuff than just come in and be disruptive. And that's
gonna take a little bit of time, you know. N
I think not having paid that impacts every kid on
our team, not.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Just Kkan you can see it out there.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
But yeah, it's one more step in the learning process
for for KK, you know, and I think she's excited
about it. I think she's anxious too to be counted
on to do a little bit more.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
You're being a champion change her.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I mean, I hope. So sometimes you can't tell, but
I think the the general feeling.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Is that a lot of these kids are.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
A little more sure that they can as opposed to
I hope, I hope I can. I you know, I
want to be able to see if I can.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
So she's a little more confident.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Probably she's you know, I don't know what what she's
like inside cause I can't get there, but I think
she's she's given the appearance that she's she's a more
confident player, more confident person.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Want to play fast. KK next to her, that must
be a dreamer. K wants to play fast as well. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, I think between uh, KK, Kayleecalise Plice is probably
the fastest of all of them in some ways. Uh
and Blanca, you know, there are a lot of you know,
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Ash only goes a little bit, but when you throw
her out there too, there's a lot of there's a
lot of players that and then Sarah, you know strong
because of Sarah Squared versus Sarah Williams. Yeah, we have
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the potential to play quickly, quickly, quicker, quickly, you.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Know, taking the taking the course, defending national champs. Do
you notice a little extra buzz from some of the players,
whether it's easy or some of the other Sarah, are
you feel.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
That I I maybe maybe I I I think I
think there's a little bit of that. I think we
haven't you know, uh, we haven't talked about it much,
but I'm sure in the next week or so there'll
be things that will come up where you'll be able
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to see what the reaction is to some of the
stresses that we put them under, you know. As as
of right now, they uh, they they they they they
they seem different. I I can't put my finger on it,
but I guess we'll know more in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Moment yet or when you expect it, when you realize
the page is it? Is it out there? You've had it?
What was that like? When do you expect to have Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I mean anytime you haven't anytime you haven't had to
make uh a big jump from you know, one player
dominating your team and you expect it, you know, year two,
year three, year four, and then all of a sudden
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it's it's gone. It's a big adjustment. I think for
for me, I think for the team, there were you know,
more than a couple events today on the court that
happened where you go. I think we're gonna see more
of that because last year that would have been something
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different And now you know, you have to you have
to wait for somebody to fill that void. And no
one's going to be able to fill it completely.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
But it'll start.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
To'll it'll start to show itself. But it's like when
Stewey laughed. It's like when Diana laughed. It's like when
Maya laughed, you know, or you know, be Tina or
you know. Anytime you have someone that's so dominant at.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Their position takes something you're getting used to. For sure.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yeah, Yeah, I don't think she's I don't I don't
think she's doing well. I think I think people should
check on her a little bit. I think she was
on vacation or something. And you know, she texts me
that I can show it to you. She says, I
miss you.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I'm not sure it was meant for me, but I'm
going with it.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
It was matter for me. Accident.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
It was a butt text yah and uh, and it
kind of made me like roll my eyes and go
in we kind of miss you, We kind of miss
you more.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Speaking of the w Cheryl Ree went offciating to Deny
Becky Hammond.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I thought was real good.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
They're saying she has NBA player and they said they
be fight sere.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Yeah, yep, you know with the physicality.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Yeah, a lot of the officials carry are college I
don't think the three involved in the Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I didn't recognize any of the names.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
But a lot of them are. And You've always been
somewhat concerned about the physicality, even though you've had one
of the most physical teams over the years. Seeing what's
going on there, what was your feeling about it, and
are you concerned that, you know, is the college game
going to become something like with the pro game, which
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seems to be, you know, at least outwardly out of control.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Yeah. I've been pretty consistent in my in my.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Observations of both college basketball and you know, where where
the positives are and where the negatives are. And I've
had a lot of NBA people, a lot of NBA people,
and a lot of former w NBA players tell me
that that what goes on on the w NBA game
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is way more physical than what happens in an NBA game. Now,
you know, you go to an NBA games in the playoffs,
Well it's maybe a different story. But you know, I
think on a daily basis, I think the w NBA.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Game is.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Not conducive to to like great basketball. Okay, I mean
you can spend it any way you want. Well, there's
more viewers, there's more that that's great. That doesn't mean
it's a better game just because more people are watching. Supposedly,
you watched last year's final game between the Liberty and
the Links. It was a horrendous game. But any way
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you want to spend it, it was a horrendous game,
two of the two best teams in the league. And
what score was twenty to twenty at halftime? Or some
crazy people can't get open, people can't cut. The ball
handler's getting you know, whacked every time they move. Listen,
you always expect your best player or the other you know,
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you always expect your best player to have a rough time.
I've been through that, and I've complained about it a lot.
I just think that the way the game. And I
don't blame the officials. Everybody says, you know, these officials
are bad. Those officials are good. If we had those officials,
it'd be a better game. I don't think it's the
people actually officiating the games. I think it's what's in
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the rule book or what's accepted as this is the
style of play that we want. Cause if they didn't
want that style of play, they wouldn't have it. So
you can't just say it was the official's fault.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
For example, did you think the play in the FISA
was a foul? And did did you see the tweet
from NBA referees Twitter saying it wasn't the bowl because
the steel was clean and the contact.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I I didn't see all the comments, and actually I
I you know, I didn't see the foul. I I
I saw the the replay I didn't see and even that,
and that the steel was clean like in the actual
s S clip that I saw. The actual getting the
ball was to me, was clean. What happened did Does
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that is that a continuation of the play? Is it
incidental contact.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I don't know. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
As a as as a coach. I can't read her mind.
I don't think their coach reacted the way she reacted
on that call. I think that reaction was on an
entire game of that in which a lot of it
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was not incidental. It's intentional. I don't mean intentional towards
you know, any particular player, but it's an intentional grab
and hold and all the things that you that you
can get away with in the w N B A.
And I think that probably just added up, add it up,
at it up, at it up, and then you lose
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your mind and do things that you normally wouldn't do.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
You know. Is that that the officials fault? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I just think that's what's allowed. It's like theo that
happened in the Ryder Cup that's not allowed at AUGUSTA correct.
So whatever happens is because it's allowed to happen. If
it wasn't if it wasn't acceptable, it wouldn't be allowed
to happen.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Okay, So.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I think the the rules are the rules, and I
think the officials are probably officiating the game according to
the rules that they've been handed down, so if they
want to change it, they'll change it. Is the NBA
game the same as it was during the Michael Jordan,
Isaiah Thomas, Magic Johnson, Kurt Rambis years. No, the game's different.
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It's officiated different. Correct, everybody knows that it's officiated different.
It's the strike's own the same as it was when
you know Mike Schmid played or Babe Ruth played. You
know the game's officiated different. Why it's a different time,
different game. So if you want the game to be different,
do you have to legislate it to be different. I
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think this is the way they want the game. That's
all that I can assume. Me personally, I don't think
people want to watch that.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I can't watch it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
But and it's a shame because there's a lot of really,
really really good players.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
That are not being able. That was always my thing.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
There's a lot of really really good players that you
can't see just how talented they are because they're not
allowed to be.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
They're not allowed to be. You know, it's.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You can hit a you can hit a basketball player
more times than you can hit a wide receiver. In
the NFL, after the first five yards. You can't touch
a wide receiver correct well after the guy takes an
inbound pass, they could still be out of you.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
And there's no call.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
So in some weird the tire mind, it's more physical
on the WNBA, it's in the NFL. I mean, I
don't believe it, but I can say it cause we
live in a world where you can say, dumb.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Are your Uh injured players come along?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
You mentioned Ash, but uh Morgan and Jenna wasn't out
there blocked.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
And jad Jen. Jenna did a part of practice. I
don't know what percentage, but she.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Was involved in a a pers maybe a third of
all the practice.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Morgan, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I have no idea yet when that's gonna be resolved.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Uh. Ash went through.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
About three quarters of practice, so little by little you're
getting closer and closer to having Ash full time. Jenna
keep her hamping that up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Morgan.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Uh, And don't know, don't know what her timetable is
right now?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Do you like to open division one of scrimmages or
would you rather kind of hide your growing pains earlier
in the season til you started playing the the rank teams.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I I like the exhibition games. Uh, I L I like.
I like what we're what we're gonna do. I think
it's great. I think we should do more of it.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
You know, we should do more of it, and I'm
sure down the road we will, we will. I mean,
we played Boston College when Asy and Caroline were freshmen.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
M we played them over here and works.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
But that's before we had to pay them. Now when
we play them again, we're gonna play in front of
nine thousand people and a double header with the men,
cause we're gonna pay 'em.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
So world has changed.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
So instead of you know, secret scrimmages and I shibition
games against you know people nobody really wants to watch,
I think you're gonna see more of this and I
like it, you know, against a really good team.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
We had a great scrimmage last year with Columbia, another
year with Syracuse. I think one year was your mass.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
So I like it.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Create for your fans, have the say all of it.
See the man and the women playing.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean there's the doubleheader.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
We play that big time, you know, a little big
gap a couple hours, you know. I think the Mohigans
were I think generous enough to give our fans time
to go contribute some money to to their accountant and
grab some dinner and then stay and watch the Mexican
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It should be a lot of fun and looking forward
to it. I don't remember the last time our ment
I played BC. It's been a while, right, Wow, So
it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I like it.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
You know, when you were talking about Sarah, you mentioned
there's always that potential for a big job year one, two,
year or two. Yeah, a lot of players that for
her all goes according to plan. What do you think
that looks like for her this year? You know, what
what's next in her development as an elite player?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
For Sarah Schrank, Yes, I I I think it's just
continued to be what you've been, you know, continue to
do what you did, keep building on what you did
last year, you know, I I we probably we probably
saw most of what Sarah has to offer last year
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in the in the NC tournament. You know, she may
have had the best rookie NC tournament of anybody ever,
given the impact that she had and some of the numbers.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
She put up.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
So you could say, well, it's hard to build on that, but.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I think her impact is is.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's it's going to be significant, but maybe because people
have seen some of it already, it may not be
as big a deal. But I think the the impact,
I think is going to be pretty significant, you know,
even more so than last year. And defensively, I think
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she's got a whole other, whole other level, you know,
and you'll see that, you know, like last year, you know,
or the last couple of years. You know, we use
page as are you know everywhere guard big guys, guard guards,
you know, and I think this year, you know, Sarah
could be that that person should be guarding the point guard,
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should be guarding the center, and should be you know,
everywhere on the floor and and scoring a lot a
lot of the same ways that she did last year,
and maybe even more more more other ways.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Because she's been a fun kid for you to get
to know and work with.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yeah this year, yess year. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Anna has been working a lot with Sarah on on
some things. And one of the things they worked on,
she was forced to come in and talk to me
and we had a great back and forth and ask
each other questions, and you know, I was pretending to
be one of you guys. I was interviewing her and
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then I was pretending to be her and the kind
of answers that she gave.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
So we had a lot of fun with that.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I said, I'll be you, you be one of the reporters,
and you know, and uh, it was fun. It was
one of the most fun conversations that we've had in
a while.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I know Yana was in here today as a class
but just what's like seeing here back in the court of.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
For two years ca.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, I mean, you know, she hasn't lost any of
her athletic ability, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
You know, her energy.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
It's just, you know, when you think about it, it's
a long time since I've seen her on the court.
You know, her freshman year seems like forever ago. But yeah, no,
she's still the same Yana, Still the same defender, the
same rebounder. I think she's gotten a little more confident
around the basket. But you know, whenever you have something
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and a style that no one else on our team can,
can you know, duplicate, That's that's a pretty good place
to be in. See how quickly she gets her her
game back. You know, all this workouts and stuff is great,
but games are completely different.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Which jumper are you hoping to see out of the
Ash this year?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
You know, I think, like Carl said, you know, last
year was there. Last year should have been their freshman year,
you know, where you kind of play a different role.
And so now she's already had a you know, two
years under her belt, and we've been talking a lot
in our office about how vocal she's been, how you know,
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I would say, there's never a day that Ash comes
the practice and doesn't give you the best that she
has in every area, every area, she's always locked in,
she's always prepared. She's become much more vocal. I would
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expect her to aviove into a team leader, you know,
on some way.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
But whether it's.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Verbally, whether it's loud, whether it's subtle, whether it's obvious
and everybody sees it, or whether it's under the radar.
But I do think she's going to be one of
those one of those team leaders.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
And you've talked about needing leaders to emerge.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
In the absence of page.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Has anyone stood out in that respect besides Ash?
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Carol?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
You know Carol's cause she spent a lot of time
talking to him last year, you know, and gotten to
know them a little, a little bit, Sarah Strong. You know,
the the people that I think sometimes look to be
the quietest have an impact. And and no one has evolved,
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as you know, that's our team leader, and maybe nobody
wants to be. Maybe it's just like let it. Let's
just see how it evolves, and let's see how it
happens organically.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I don't know right now. It's a work in progress.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
As they say, do you think last week that Carol
is still kind of day to day m how are
you balancing her worklow?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Just as you guys get going, we just let her go.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
She's in practice as long as she wants to be.
And then when she's not, she's not. And as I
said last week, I'm approaching it like I'm counting her
to be available how much I don't know what days,
I don't know. I just know she's going to be
available and she'll be she'll determine that when she can go.
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So and it's it's it's a hamstring thing, and those things,
you know, they just are They take time. They take time,
and it's not like you can rush it. It's just
it is what it is and bugs the heck out
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of her because she wants to be on the court
every minute of every day. So in some ways it's
actually been, in my mind, kind of pretty good to
slow her down a little bit because she's twenty four
to seven go, you know, but she'll be ready.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
She'll be ready.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Is Jana's also related?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, she had a catf issue a while back. I
Mean it wasn't anything that you could say, well, she's
going to be out a long time, but a lot
of these nagging things, you know, if you don't if
you don't take care of them, now, they become chronic
and then you got to deal with them every year,
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I mean the whole year. So we're trying to be proactive.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
And all that. Well, there you have it. Have fun,
How did the practice go?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Uh, generally, you know, pretty good, Like first days of practice. Uh,
sometimes they're uh chaotic.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
One thing I've learned over the years is try to
make the first day as instructional as possible and make.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Things go.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
In a way that it r they're they recognize some
of the things that we've been working on and and
at the same time, you know, the the the effort
and the energy and all the things that you look for.
M So I think some somewhere between.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Uh, it was great. You know we have.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You know, seven seniors and five of them in the
start lineup and only one freshman.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Yeah, Kelly Prus's team.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I would have loved that team that was That practice
was in October, it was like March. But today, you know,
there's a lot of learning going on, a lot of
a lot of new stuff for these guys, some of them.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
So all in all, I thought it was good.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I thought it was good of your deeper teams.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
You have a lot of a lot of options out there.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah, yeah, I think so. I think we have an
opportunity to.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Play a different way then we've been kind of.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Forced to play the last couple of years. I think
we can.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Put a few more different combinations out there than we
have in the past few years. We're a little bit
longer than we have been, so people can play different positions,
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you know, a little easier. People can get a breather
during games a little more so.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
So, So we're trying to develop our our depth as well.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
We're trying to make sure that it's quality depth, not
just body bodies extra bodies.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
No, for Sarah, how was how was the ramp up
to the year two different than the year one experience?
She obviously did some great things and played herself into
a higher profile.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah, believe it's just it's.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Quiet personality but such a loud game.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, you know, when you come in as a freshman
and you're trying to just uh fit in and you're
naturally quiet. As you said, things take a little bit
of time for it to show itself. But the way
she just blended in so easily last year and the
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way things you know, evolved at the end, and how
comfortable she looked. You know, they say that the biggest
jump you make in colleges between freshmen and sophomore year.
So I think having that kind of success I think
motivated Sarah to do even more. She's in better shape
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than she was because she knows more. She is more
confident because she's already done it, you know, even more
assertive than she was, even more of a you know,
someone who self assured. You know, whatever words you want
to use, it's all evident, you know. So compared to
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last last year's first week of practice, it's you know,
completely completely different, completely different.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
How has the transition been for Sarah Williams for Hayley?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I mean that there's I don't know which is worse. Right,
you were in high school and you don't know anything
about anything, so everything's new. Or you already played one
year in Katie's case, three years in Sarah's case, and
you already kind of have in your mind this is
how I play. Now you've got to put that aside
and move on to a different thing.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
So I think in that.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Respect, they're picking things up pretty pretty quickly. We I
think Sarah knows what she wants, you know, she knows
where she wants the ball, and we're trying to put
her in those in those places, and she's confident in
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some other places where she's not used to having the ball.
That's going to take a little bit of time. But
I think the thing she's good at, she's really good
at Kayley same thing.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
She likes to play fast, and which is good because
that's how we want to play. And and I think
she likes to play aggressive.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
So they're both going to get a chance to do that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Do you think go to see Blong patary of the
open practice, but it's a little bit of he theirs.
How is she adjusting to to school and to just
the practices?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Now?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
How would you comproject other European players.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
In the past.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I think there's a lot of similarities in all the
European players. You know, they they have pretty good fundamentals.
Their footwork is usually pretty good, their work ethic is
usually pretty good. They're used to playing against much older
players you know over there. School usually is absolutely nothing
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to worry about with them. The language issue is generally
not that not that bad.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Some is better than others.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
She's been away from home for so long, you know,
home being Ecuador, but then her other home is Italy,
so she's used to being on her own, used to try,
used to you know, go in to practice every day.
She was in school, used to doing school work. You know,
I think she she has a great schedule academically. She
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has Spanish one O one and one O two, Italian
one O three and one O four. So I think
she's getting straight a's right now. So we're gonna we're
gonna see if we can't have her major in Italian
and minor in Spanish.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Should be d's less before you know it.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
How is he on the court too?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
On the court, she's.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
She's fun to watch because she's unpredictable. You know, she
has a lot of skills and can do a lot
of things, and sometimes she tries to do them all
at the same time.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
But she's she's fun to watch. She does.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
She does some things every day that you really know
only somebody that's played against really experienced place knows that.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Is there more emphasis I think nationwide with the recruiting
kids overseas.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
There has been recently, and I think there's gonna be
even more going forward. I think there's a lot of
really good players over there that had a choice between
going to America and going to school, and.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Their other choice will.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Stay home join some club team, and now that financially,
you know, it can work for them a little bit better.
You're going to see more and more than come over.
I don't think they come with the same expectations that
you might have kids over here. So I think they're
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during great demand right now by coaches around the country.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
How's King and how is this different? I mean she
started two years ago, yeah, and you know, we'll see
if she starts this year. But how is it different
in the fact that two years ago she had Nika
and Paige next tour this year and still some still
veteran but not.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, now it's gonna be a a a big, big,
big adjustment for for KK. I think the the the
last two years, she's had a specific role, whether it
was when she was in the start lineup or whether
you know last year, uh, you know, coming off the bench.
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I think her role was exactly the same both years,
and this year it's gonna be a little more, a
little more challenging for her because she's gonna have to.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Do a little bit more of the other.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Stuff than just come in and be disruptive. And that's
gonna take a little bit of time, you know. N
I think not having paid that impacts every kid on
our team, not.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Just Kkan you can see it out there.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
But yeah, it's one more step in the learning process
for for KK, you know, and I think she's excited
about it. I think she's anxious too to be counted
on to do a little bit more.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
You're being a champion change her.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I mean, I hope. So sometimes you can't tell, but
I think the the general feeling.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Is that a lot of these kids are.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
A little more sure that they can as opposed to
I hope, I hope I can. I you know, I
want to be able to see if I can.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
So she's a little more confident.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Probably she's you know, I don't know what what she's
like inside cause I can't get there, but I think
she's she's given the appearance that she's she's a more
confident player, more confident person.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Want to play fast. KK next to her, that must
be a dreamer. K wants to play fast as well. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, I think between uh, KK, Kayleecalise Plice is probably
the fastest of all of them in some ways. Uh
and Blanca, you know, there are a lot of you know,
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Ash only goes a little bit, but when you throw
her out there too, there's a lot of there's a
lot of players that and then Sarah, you know strong
because of Sarah Squared versus Sarah Williams. Yeah, we have
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the potential to play quickly, quickly, quicker, quickly, you.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Know, taking the taking the course, defending national champs. Do
you notice a little extra buzz from some of the players,
whether it's easy or some of the other Sarah, are
you feel.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
That I I maybe maybe I I I think I
think there's a little bit of that. I think we
haven't you know, uh, we haven't talked about it much,
but I'm sure in the next week or so there'll
be things that will come up where you'll be able
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to see what the reaction is to some of the
stresses that we put them under, you know. As as
of right now, they uh, they they they they they
they seem different. I I can't put my finger on it,
but I guess we'll know more in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Moment yet or when you expect it, when you realize
the page is it? Is it out there? You've had it?
What was that like? When do you expect to have Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I mean anytime you haven't anytime you haven't had to
make uh a big jump from you know, one player
dominating your team and you expect it, you know, year two,
year three, year four, and then all of a sudden
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it's it's gone. It's a big adjustment. I think for
for me, I think for the team, there were you know,
more than a couple events today on the court that
happened where you go. I think we're gonna see more
of that because last year that would have been something
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different And now you know, you have to you have
to wait for somebody to fill that void. And no
one's going to be able to fill it completely.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
But it'll start.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
To'll it'll start to show itself. But it's like when
Stewey laughed. It's like when Diana laughed. It's like when
Maya laughed, you know, or you know, be Tina or
you know. Anytime you have someone that's so dominant at.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Their position takes something you're getting used to. For sure.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yeah, Yeah, I don't think she's I don't I don't
think she's doing well. I think I think people should
check on her a little bit. I think she was
on vacation or something. And you know, she texts me
that I can show it to you. She says, I
miss you.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I'm not sure it was meant for me, but I'm
going with it.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
It was matter for me. Accident.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
It was a butt text yah and uh, and it
kind of made me like roll my eyes and go
in we kind of miss you, We kind of miss
you more.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Speaking of the w Cheryl Ree went offciating to Deny
Becky Hammond.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I thought was real good.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
They're saying she has NBA player and they said they
be fight sere.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Yeah, yep, you know with the physicality.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Yeah, a lot of the officials carry are college I
don't think the three involved in the Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I didn't recognize any of the names.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
But a lot of them are. And You've always been
somewhat concerned about the physicality, even though you've had one
of the most physical teams over the years. Seeing what's
going on there, what was your feeling about it, and
are you concerned that, you know, is the college game
going to become something like with the pro game, which
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seems to be, you know, at least outwardly out of control.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Yeah. I've been pretty consistent in my in my.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Observations of both college basketball and you know, where where
the positives are and where the negatives are. And I've
had a lot of NBA people, a lot of NBA people,
and a lot of former w NBA players tell me
that that what goes on on the w NBA game
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is way more physical than what happens in an NBA game. Now,
you know, you go to an NBA games in the playoffs,
Well it's maybe a different story. But you know, I
think on a daily basis, I think the w NBA.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Game is.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Not conducive to to like great basketball. Okay, I mean
you can spend it any way you want. Well, there's
more viewers, there's more that that's great. That doesn't mean
it's a better game just because more people are watching. Supposedly,
you watched last year's final game between the Liberty and
the Links. It was a horrendous game. But any way
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you want to spend it, it was a horrendous game,
two of the two best teams in the league. And
what score was twenty to twenty at halftime? Or some
crazy people can't get open, people can't cut. The ball
handler's getting you know, whacked every time they move. Listen,
you always expect your best player or the other you know,
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you always expect your best player to have a rough time.
I've been through that, and I've complained about it a lot.
I just think that the way the game. And I
don't blame the officials. Everybody says, you know, these officials
are bad. Those officials are good. If we had those officials,
it'd be a better game. I don't think it's the
people actually officiating the games. I think it's what's in
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the rule book or what's accepted as this is the
style of play that we want. Cause if they didn't
want that style of play, they wouldn't have it. So
you can't just say it was the official's fault.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
For example, did you think the play in the FISA
was a foul? And did did you see the tweet
from NBA referees Twitter saying it wasn't the bowl because
the steel was clean and the contact.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I I didn't see all the comments, and actually I
I you know, I didn't see the foul. I I
I saw the the replay I didn't see and even that,
and that the steel was clean like in the actual
s S clip that I saw. The actual getting the
ball was to me, was clean. What happened did Does
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that is that a continuation of the play? Is it
incidental contact.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I don't know. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
As a as as a coach. I can't read her mind.
I don't think their coach reacted the way she reacted
on that call. I think that reaction was on an
entire game of that in which a lot of it
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was not incidental. It's intentional. I don't mean intentional towards
you know, any particular player, but it's an intentional grab
and hold and all the things that you that you
can get away with in the w N B A.
And I think that probably just added up, add it up,
at it up, at it up, and then you lose
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your mind and do things that you normally wouldn't do.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
You know. Is that that the officials fault? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I just think that's what's allowed. It's like theo that
happened in the Ryder Cup that's not allowed at AUGUSTA correct.
So whatever happens is because it's allowed to happen. If
it wasn't if it wasn't acceptable, it wouldn't be allowed
to happen.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Okay, So.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I think the the rules are the rules, and I
think the officials are probably officiating the game according to
the rules that they've been handed down, so if they
want to change it, they'll change it. Is the NBA
game the same as it was during the Michael Jordan,
Isaiah Thomas, Magic Johnson, Kurt Rambis years. No, the game's different.
(19:38):
It's officiated different. Correct, everybody knows that it's officiated different.
It's the strike's own the same as it was when
you know Mike Schmid played or Babe Ruth played. You
know the game's officiated different. Why it's a different time,
different game. So if you want the game to be different,
do you have to legislate it to be different. I
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think this is the way they want the game. That's
all that I can assume. Me personally, I don't think
people want to watch that.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I can't watch it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
But and it's a shame because there's a lot of really,
really really good players.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
That are not being able. That was always my thing.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
There's a lot of really really good players that you
can't see just how talented they are because they're not
allowed to be.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
They're not allowed to be. You know, it's.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You can hit a you can hit a basketball player
more times than you can hit a wide receiver. In
the NFL, after the first five yards. You can't touch
a wide receiver correct well after the guy takes an
inbound pass, they could still be out of you.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
And there's no call.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
So in some weird the tire mind, it's more physical
on the WNBA, it's in the NFL. I mean, I
don't believe it, but I can say it cause we
live in a world where you can say, dumb.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Are your Uh injured players come along?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
You mentioned Ash, but uh Morgan and Jenna wasn't out
there blocked.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
And jad Jen. Jenna did a part of practice. I
don't know what percentage, but she.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Was involved in a a pers maybe a third of
all the practice.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Morgan, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I have no idea yet when that's gonna be resolved.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Uh. Ash went through.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
About three quarters of practice, so little by little you're
getting closer and closer to having Ash full time. Jenna
keep her hamping that up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Morgan.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Uh, And don't know, don't know what her timetable is
right now?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Do you like to open division one of scrimmages or
would you rather kind of hide your growing pains earlier
in the season til you started playing the the rank teams.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I I like the exhibition games. Uh, I L I like.
I like what we're what we're gonna do. I think
it's great. I think we should do more of it.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
You know, we should do more of it, and I'm
sure down the road we will, we will. I mean,
we played Boston College when Asy and Caroline were freshmen.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
M we played them over here and works.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
But that's before we had to pay them. Now when
we play them again, we're gonna play in front of
nine thousand people and a double header with the men,
cause we're gonna pay 'em.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
So world has changed.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
So instead of you know, secret scrimmages and I shibition
games against you know people nobody really wants to watch,
I think you're gonna see more of this and I
like it, you know, against a really good team.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
We had a great scrimmage last year with Columbia, another
year with Syracuse. I think one year was your mass.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
So I like it.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Create for your fans, have the say all of it.
See the man and the women playing.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean there's the doubleheader.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
We play that big time, you know, a little big
gap a couple hours, you know. I think the Mohigans
were I think generous enough to give our fans time
to go contribute some money to to their accountant and
grab some dinner and then stay and watch the Mexican
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It should be a lot of fun and looking forward
to it. I don't remember the last time our ment
I played BC. It's been a while, right, Wow, So
it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I like it.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
You know, when you were talking about Sarah, you mentioned
there's always that potential for a big job year one, two,
year or two. Yeah, a lot of players that for
her all goes according to plan. What do you think
that looks like for her this year? You know, what
what's next in her development as an elite player?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
For Sarah Schrank, Yes, I I I think it's just
continued to be what you've been, you know, continue to
do what you did, keep building on what you did
last year, you know, I I we probably we probably
saw most of what Sarah has to offer last year
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in the in the NC tournament. You know, she may
have had the best rookie NC tournament of anybody ever,
given the impact that she had and some of the numbers.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
She put up.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
So you could say, well, it's hard to build on that, but.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I think her impact is is.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's it's going to be significant, but maybe because people
have seen some of it already, it may not be
as big a deal. But I think the the impact,
I think is going to be pretty significant, you know,
even more so than last year. And defensively, I think
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she's got a whole other, whole other level, you know,
and you'll see that, you know, like last year, you know,
or the last couple of years. You know, we use
page as are you know everywhere guard big guys, guard guards,
you know, and I think this year, you know, Sarah
could be that that person should be guarding the point guard,
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should be guarding the center, and should be you know,
everywhere on the floor and and scoring a lot a
lot of the same ways that she did last year,
and maybe even more more more other ways.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Because she's been a fun kid for you to get
to know and work with.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yeah this year, yess year. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Anna has been working a lot with Sarah on on
some things. And one of the things they worked on,
she was forced to come in and talk to me
and we had a great back and forth and ask
each other questions, and you know, I was pretending to
be one of you guys. I was interviewing her and
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then I was pretending to be her and the kind
of answers that she gave.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
So we had a lot of fun with that.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I said, I'll be you, you be one of the reporters,
and you know, and uh, it was fun. It was
one of the most fun conversations that we've had in
a while.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I know Yana was in here today as a class
but just what's like seeing here back in the court of.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
For two years ca.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, I mean, you know, she hasn't lost any of
her athletic ability, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
You know, her energy.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
It's just, you know, when you think about it, it's
a long time since I've seen her on the court.
You know, her freshman year seems like forever ago. But yeah, no,
she's still the same Yana, Still the same defender, the
same rebounder. I think she's gotten a little more confident
around the basket. But you know, whenever you have something
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and a style that no one else on our team can,
can you know, duplicate, That's that's a pretty good place
to be in. See how quickly she gets her her
game back. You know, all this workouts and stuff is great,
but games are completely different.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Which jumper are you hoping to see out of the
Ash this year?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
You know, I think, like Carl said, you know, last
year was there. Last year should have been their freshman year,
you know, where you kind of play a different role.
And so now she's already had a you know, two
years under her belt, and we've been talking a lot
in our office about how vocal she's been, how you know,
(28:16):
I would say, there's never a day that Ash comes
the practice and doesn't give you the best that she
has in every area, every area, she's always locked in,
she's always prepared. She's become much more vocal. I would
(28:41):
expect her to aviove into a team leader, you know,
on some way.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
But whether it's.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Verbally, whether it's loud, whether it's subtle, whether it's obvious
and everybody sees it, or whether it's under the radar.
But I do think she's going to be one of
those one of those team leaders.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
And you've talked about needing leaders to emerge.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
In the absence of page.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Has anyone stood out in that respect besides Ash?
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Carol?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
You know Carol's cause she spent a lot of time
talking to him last year, you know, and gotten to
know them a little, a little bit, Sarah Strong. You know,
the the people that I think sometimes look to be
the quietest have an impact. And and no one has evolved,
(29:34):
as you know, that's our team leader, and maybe nobody
wants to be. Maybe it's just like let it. Let's
just see how it evolves, and let's see how it
happens organically.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I don't know right now. It's a work in progress.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
As they say, do you think last week that Carol
is still kind of day to day m how are
you balancing her worklow?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Just as you guys get going, we just let her go.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
She's in practice as long as she wants to be.
And then when she's not, she's not. And as I
said last week, I'm approaching it like I'm counting her
to be available how much I don't know what days,
I don't know. I just know she's going to be
available and she'll be she'll determine that when she can go.
(30:27):
So and it's it's it's a hamstring thing, and those things,
you know, they just are They take time. They take time,
and it's not like you can rush it. It's just
it is what it is and bugs the heck out
(30:48):
of her because she wants to be on the court
every minute of every day. So in some ways it's
actually been, in my mind, kind of pretty good to
slow her down a little bit because she's twenty four
to seven go, you know, but she'll be ready.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
She'll be ready.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Is Jana's also related?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, she had a catf issue a while back. I
Mean it wasn't anything that you could say, well, she's
going to be out a long time, but a lot
of these nagging things, you know, if you don't if
you don't take care of them, now, they become chronic
and then you got to deal with them every year,
(31:31):
I mean the whole year. So we're trying to be proactive.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
And all that. Well, there you have it. Have fun,
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