Seg 5 - WBB Show Dec 10 w Ashlynn Shade

the 5-11 Jr from Noblesville, IN is a big Cincinnati Reds Fan

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks to coach Oriema for joining us for the first
four segments of the Coach A Show. Now we bring
in one of well one of Debbie's favorite interviewers, and
that would be Ashland Shade, five to ten junior from Noblesville, Indiana,
who is a big baseball fan. By the way, and
of course we were here at our Heart Radio and
Hartford where we're doing the show from. We have Rob Dibble,

(00:21):
former Red Nasty Boy on Weekday afternoon, So we talked
Joey Vital, let's start with baseball, because you're a baseball fan.
Where did your love for baseball start? Because I think
your brother plays, Yes, yes, So my love.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
For baseball has always been through my brother. I've always
just enjoyed watching him play growing up, throwing the ball
with him in the backyard, going to the batting cages
with him occasionally, and then throwing some just some batting
practice for him. But my family's always been huge Cincinnati Redspans,

(00:57):
and I just grew up going to Great American Ballpark
in the summer or on a free weekend, trying to
go to as many games as we could when we
weren't too busy. So I just really enjoy watching it.
I just think it's a really cool sport. But yeah,
it just kind of all stemmed from my brother's love
of baseball.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
And then yeah, all right, and that's your twin brother.
By the way, what position does he play or what
positions I should say?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
So he is primarily first base, but he is starting
to pitch more like he's pitch and then in the
high school he had Tommy John surgery. So but no,
he's primary first base.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Okay, did you ever play, I mean competitively at all?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I did not. Okaya, Like I like watching baseball, but
the concept of playing baseball is a little too slow
for me. I was like a little bit more fast
paced movement in sports.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well, look, I'm a high school baseball umpire, so I
appreciate the game. And of course when I was growing up,
it was the Big Red Machine and the Red Sox
in the World Series. So Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Pete Rose,
all those. Have you ever been to the Hall of Fame,
by the way, in Cincinnati, the Reds Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I'm sure I have at some point.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Check it out. If you haven't been checking out, all right,
let's talk basketball, because you do play for the number
one team in the country, the reigning national champions. How
do you think the season has gone for you? Because
one thing that really sticks out like a sore thumb
in a good way, the amount of offensive rebounds you have.
You have twenty nine rebounds total, more than half are
offensive boards. That's pretty good for regard, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I mean, I would say, I mean, I just want
to try to get as many offensive rebounds a game
I can. It's something that I think I've kind of
found like a niche for, like as I've played and
developed here, and that's something that like the coaches really
challenged me with, is rebounding outside of my position. And
I mean it's kind of like a fun game for

(02:56):
me to see how many, like game goal whatever, like
just to see how many I can get a game.
But yeah, no, I just think it's something I can
contribute to the team other than making baskets or stuff
like that. And it just keeps me involved in the
game as well.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's really exciting, right because your shot comes and goes,
But as we all know it, you kind of you
have to find a way to impact the game. You
do it that way. You had four assists. You had
three steals on Sunday. That's also part of the whole thing.
But now we get to the depth of this team.
This is your third year here. First year, of course
you had to play all the time because of injury.

(03:35):
Last year was much better, but now the depth this
season is ridiculous. So you really got to max out
and you're able to max out. That's going to be
a good feeling to go out and just let it
go or for let it go for whatever twenty minutes
you play. If that is what the depth this team has.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, absolutely. I think that's one of the greatest things
about our team this year is the depth, just because
we have so many different assets and and I think
it also intentivizes us as players to challenge us even
more when we step onto the court that we're impacting
the games in some way. I mean, Coach really emphasizes

(04:11):
that to all of us in the locker room that
if we're going to step out in the court, try
to impact the game in some way. It doesn't have
to be scoring, it doesn't have to be defense, Like,
just do something that impacts the game, shakes it up
a little bit. So it just gives our team so
many different looks because we have so many different pieces.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
A couple more minutes with Ashton Shade Here in the
first segment of our two part interview with ash Here
on the Yukon of women's basketball coaches show averaging almost
eight points per game. It was a bit of a
slow start perimeter shooting for you, but again, the other
things that you did certainly impacted it. But how do
you feel like you're shooting the basketball now? Because you
know it goes hot and cold for everybody. It's like
hitting a baseball. Sometimes you're hot, sometimes you're not. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Absolutely, I think that's just the ebbs and flows of basketball,
and as as a competitor and as aspiring to be
like wanting to be a good shooter, it's just that
you have to go with those ebbs and flows and
have confidence in your shot and know that the next
one's always going in. I think it's funny A funny

(05:14):
quote from Caitlyn Chen last year. She always said that
if any of our shots were just not falling, She's like,
it's the law of averages when they're not falling, that
they're just about a fall, Like, who knows you could
make miss five in row, but then make five in
a row. So you just have to keep shooting the
ball and keep having confidence because we put in so

(05:34):
much work, so much practice into our shots and every
single day. So it's just why not shoot them because
you got to give it a chance.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Right And one thing that's great about yukon the women's program,
and we saw some of it last night. I don't
know if you watched the men's game last night, if
there were struggles from the perimeter or if that shot
wasn't available the mid range game. I mean Paige with
Page and easy were able to do. I think you're
starting to pick that up a little bit, but a
lot of coaches devalue that because of analytics. Gino is

(06:04):
not one of those. He likes you guys take taking
those mid range shots, doesn't he?

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah? Absolutely, I mean scooring the ball is scoring the ball,
and you have that skill set hit those mid range
jump shots, then you go for it. Because sometimes especially
for like players that like are really like they're really
skilled at the mid range. That's like basically shooting in
a lay for them, So why not just take that

(06:29):
shot more?

Speaker 1 (06:31):
With Ashton coming up in a minute, as we wrap
up the Yukon of Women's Basketball Coaches show here on
Learfield