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Speaker 2: I hoop Today, We've got a hooper from down Under

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Speaker 2: on the pod. Quick Humble Bragg, MVP of last year's

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Speaker 2: ACC tournament, led Virginia Tech to their first ever Final

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: So excited to have you here. It's been so long

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Speaker 1: Oh whoa that? And when you texted me, I was

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Speaker 2: So last year your hype song was Talk That Talk

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Speaker 1: Honestly, I would probably say work by eight years Alia,

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Speaker 2: that we're both big Beyonce fans, as we should be.

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Speaker 1: Sleeper, uh huh, all Night, Don't Hurt Yourself, all of like.

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Speaker 1: The tour, repurpose them. Keeping on TikTok I, I'm on Beyonce.

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Speaker 2: So what's the biggest animal you feel like you could

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Speaker 2: That's an amazing story. You went out there in some

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Speaker 1: I loved footy like I was seriously like because at

436
00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:50,520
Speaker 1: the time that I was in high school, like I

437
00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,440
Speaker 1: chose between the two. Okay, so I was like basketball

438
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,440
Speaker 1: like at this point there wasn't a league, like it

439
00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:58,520
Speaker 1: was developing, and like they're not honestly getting like paid

440
00:19:58,520 --> 00:19:59,800
Speaker 1: in off or anything like that. It's more of like

441
00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:03,119
Speaker 1: a a summer side job. And I just knew that

442
00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,200
Speaker 1: basketball was going to do more for me in the future.

443
00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:08,320
Speaker 1: So I chose basketball. But I loved footy. It's it's

444
00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:12,600
Speaker 1: no pads, you tackle. Yeah, like for me, like, I

445
00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,240
Speaker 1: loved it because I'm quick. Like as I said before,

446
00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,159
Speaker 1: if the panda analogy, like I just evaded a lot

447
00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,800
Speaker 1: of stuff because I was so quick. But you know,

448
00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:22,640
Speaker 1: It puts miles on your legs for sure. You run,

449
00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,560
Speaker 1: you drop kick, your handball. It's it's a sport of

450
00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,000
Speaker 1: its own for sure. But it's fun to watch. It

451
00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,000
Speaker 1: kind of scares me when I watch it. Yeah, some

452
00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:31,760
Speaker 1: like terrible hits happen and it's just like.

453
00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,560
Speaker 2: Oh, well, yeah, imagine us last year. We're watching it

454
00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:36,359
Speaker 2: for the first time and like Agnes is yelling at

455
00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,760
Speaker 2: the TV and we're just like, this is amazing. Oh

456
00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:43,240
Speaker 2: my god, it's fun. So you end up choosing basketball.

457
00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,639
Speaker 2: Talk to me a little bit about the basketball culture

458
00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,600
Speaker 2: in Australia and how it may be different to what

459
00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:48,080
Speaker 2: it is here.

460
00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:50,800
Speaker 1: I mean, this is like the most respectful way in

461
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,480
Speaker 1: like high school and stuff like we don't have highlight tapes,

462
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,000
Speaker 1: like you don't get put on like pedestals. We don't

463
00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,760
Speaker 1: get like this is the next big thing. Yeah, I

464
00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,080
Speaker 1: think in Australia it's very like blue collar, like there's

465
00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:03,760
Speaker 1: no fluff about it. We're not gonna guess you.

466
00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:06,399
Speaker 2: It's you guy, like at it or not, it's it.

467
00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,560
Speaker 1: Well, like I just have terrible some really like hard

468
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,639
Speaker 1: memories of when I was like a kid, like we

469
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,240
Speaker 1: would have like five hour days or like we would

470
00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 1: have to sleep on the court like Saturday Sunday camps.

471
00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,199
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, like a lot of these

472
00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,040
Speaker 1: coaches they aren't paid, they're volunteers, so it's like they

473
00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:23,840
Speaker 1: don't they don't have to be there, so they're not

474
00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:25,719
Speaker 1: gonna you know, if you don't want to be there,

475
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:26,200
Speaker 1: then leave.

476
00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:26,800
Speaker 2: Yeah.

477
00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,320
Speaker 1: But I think like in terms of like mentality and

478
00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,680
Speaker 1: being able to be coached hard, I think that is

479
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:36,600
Speaker 1: something that Australians like can sometimes like being more in

480
00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:41,399
Speaker 1: favor of compared to like youth American people. And I

481
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,399
Speaker 1: think I've experienced that, like going through my years in college.

482
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,159
Speaker 1: Like I'm grateful that I had the experiences I did,

483
00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:48,280
Speaker 1: because like the way the coach Brooks is able to

484
00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,159
Speaker 1: get on me, like I'm not gonna get my feelings

485
00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,480
Speaker 1: so that I can separate tone and message for sure.

486
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,119
Speaker 1: But I've definitely had some teammates that like really struggle

487
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,160
Speaker 1: with that or like take things a little bit too personally,

488
00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,639
Speaker 1: and that's nothing bad. I think it really is just

489
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,080
Speaker 1: like some getting taking, some getting used to in our

490
00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:03,879
Speaker 1: youth days at home, it was very much like that.

491
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 1: And I think if you asked Agnes the same question,

492
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 1: she could attest to that because it was tough. But

493
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 1: I think also like we grow up, we play semi pro,

494
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 1: we don't really do high school basketball. Like you get

495
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:16,720
Speaker 1: thrown in with women from an early age, and you know,

496
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:18,680
Speaker 1: as I kind of mentioned before, like these these girls

497
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:20,159
Speaker 1: are doing like a side job, like they don't have

498
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,600
Speaker 1: to be there, so if you're like fluffing around, they're

499
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:23,399
Speaker 1: not gonna put up with it.

500
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,360
Speaker 2: Well, I've been talking to Agnes hearing just about how

501
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 2: you don't do high school basketball, you kind of like

502
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 2: represent your cities. If I'm not mistaken, so it already

503
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 2: puts you. It's like if you're elite, you are and

504
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,359
Speaker 2: you're planning as the best all the time. So it

505
00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,480
Speaker 2: talk to me about how that works because I think

506
00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:40,720
Speaker 2: Agnes she does to get upset with me. But she

507
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:47,200
Speaker 2: represented Melbourne? Is that right? Wait? Uh oh did she not? She?

508
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,400
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, she did. I get confused. There's so many teams,

509
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,320
Speaker 1: so like like in the youth, I represented like my city,

510
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 1: which was Bellarrat and she's from Geelong so she oh Bellamarine.

511
00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

512
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:00,679
Speaker 1: But like as you can to get older, you can

513
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:02,680
Speaker 1: do like wnbl stuff, So I think she might have

514
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,240
Speaker 1: done some stuff with like WNBL or played for it

515
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 1: gets really really confusing.

516
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:09,960
Speaker 2: So you can start playing for the NBL before you

517
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:14,200
Speaker 2: even go pro and still keep your like amateur status

518
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 2: as as.

519
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:16,640
Speaker 1: Long as you don't get paid. So I never signed

520
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:17,160
Speaker 1: a contract.

521
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 2: Okay, that's interesting.

522
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, But like I think the best part of that

523
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 1: for me is like I did some like development player

524
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 1: stuff with like the Danny Long Rangers, I think Melbourne Boomers,

525
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 1: and they definitely do not remember this, but I remember

526
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 1: it because they were my idols. So like I'm we're

527
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,480
Speaker 1: playing with like American imports, so like, yeah, I'm practicing

528
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: in Sophie Cunningham's there, or I'm practicing and Kayler George

529
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 1: is there or who else like Tiffany Mitchell was there

530
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 1: at one point, Lindsay Allen, like all these great players

531
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 1: are like coming in and I was like definitely off

532
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 1: on the sidelines just like practicing like watching them, like

533
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 1: I was not. I was way too scared. But like

534
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: that well and truly like sets you up because you

535
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:57,920
Speaker 1: like watch a professional at work.

536
00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 2: For sure, it definitely gives you a different look as

537
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 2: what it takes to get there, but also being able

538
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 2: to compete, and I mean I know even for me

539
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 2: playing up like you won't get beat and it's a

540
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,440
Speaker 2: humbling experience. But it's you can take it two ways.

541
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 2: You can take it and be like, oh my gosh,

542
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 2: I suck. I don't want to play more. Or you

543
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,400
Speaker 2: can take it as a learning experience and be like, oh,

544
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,879
Speaker 2: like now I want to take this piece. Okay, she

545
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 2: scored on me doing this. Now I'm going out in

546
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 2: to my bag. Like it's just different things like that,

547
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 2: but seeing those people and professionals be there. Talk to

548
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 2: me about your youth experience playing for the Australian national

549
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 2: team and kind of what that culture of Like did

550
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 2: you think about playing pro in Australia before you ever

551
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 2: wanted to play in college? Because that decision is hard,

552
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 2: So talking about that.

553
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I represented the youth national team youth seventeens.

554
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 1: We went to India and then we went to Belarus

555
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 1: and obviously you went too, let's tell you, and I

556
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:52,440
Speaker 1: did three on three as well, which is pretty cool.

557
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 1: But you know, you're kind of during that process like

558
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 1: where we like do our practices and camps, it's like

559
00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:59,920
Speaker 1: all at the center of excellence, which is in camp.

560
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 1: So you go there it's like it's a high competition,

561
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 1: like high intensity. Oh my gosh, yes, this insane, which

562
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,159
Speaker 1: once again, I'm thankful I went through it because it

563
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: very much has set me up for everything else. But

564
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 1: you go there and all the girls are like, oh yeah,

565
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 1: I'm signing with this team, like I'm gonna go pro,

566
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna do this, and think I do think

567
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,400
Speaker 1: that the junior to college pathway in Australia is kind

568
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 1: of like disjointed, like you have to go and I

569
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: think it might have changed now. I'm not sure I've

570
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 1: been like five years removed, but definitely when I was

571
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 1: there it was like PRO. So I had like one

572
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 1: team that was like, hey, like we can probably get

573
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,119
Speaker 1: you like a spot. And I was really like the

574
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 1: idea of going pro sounds so cool, but I was

575
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: like I just knew that I wasn't good enough to

576
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: be in a stable position. When you get to that level,

577
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 1: it's you're any out, Like we're not just holding people.

578
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,879
Speaker 1: It's a salary now, it's a job. So I was like,

579
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: if I go to college, I'm gonna have four year

580
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: stability for sure, free education, travel, like like I look

581
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 1: at this is my study abroad as well. So it's

582
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 1: like for me, there was like I love basketball and

583
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: I just knew that, laid it down the road, like

584
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: I can play pro and I will pray pro, Like

585
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: that's a dream of mine. It was just like, what

586
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 1: am I going to do these for these four years?

587
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 2: Yeah?

588
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I spoke to mom about it and I

589
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 1: was like, I'm just unsure what exactly I want to do.

590
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: She was like, if you go to college and you

591
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 1: hate it, you can always come back. Like if you

592
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,479
Speaker 1: stay in Australia, there's new can't She'd be like, all right,

593
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: let me use my eligibility.

594
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah, it's de gone because the American rules,

595
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 2: similar to Australia, is you know, once you go pro,

596
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 2: you're pro. There's no going back. And so talk to

597
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 2: me about the recruiting process because for a year it's like,

598
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 2: you know, we play travel ball, you play in front

599
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 2: of the coaches, all this different stuff. But talking to

600
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,199
Speaker 2: Agnes a little bit my only you know, really insight

601
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 2: and how you get recruited as Australian is a lot

602
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 2: of it is playing with the Australian national team or

603
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 2: sending your film. So talk to me about your recruiting process,

604
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 2: how you got in front of coaches, how it is

605
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 2: with the time difference, getting on the phone to take visit.

606
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 2: It's what was all that like?

607
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, So for me, like my recruiting was very low key,

608
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: Like I didn't really have many schools reach out, which

609
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: is fine, you don't need you just need that one

610
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: to reach out.

611
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 2: You just need that one.

612
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,199
Speaker 1: It's worked out for me very very well. I can

613
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: tell you that right now. Definitely a national team helped.

614
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: I got some interest. You know, some colleges like texting

615
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: you and as you said, you have to kind of

616
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,399
Speaker 1: send out film, but like I had to make my

617
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,719
Speaker 1: own like film tapes and sometimes just like never got

618
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: to reply. Like I'll say this right now, because like

619
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: coach Brooks and I have like a lovely relationship and

620
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: I've told them this story, like my dream school was Syracuse,

621
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: oh wow, And I like emailed them and I never

622
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: heard back, and I was like, okay, that's fine, like whatever,

623
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: but that's fine. Crying yeah, Okay. So it's like I

624
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: was just like shooting my shot at so many schools

625
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: and just not getting a text back. And then I

626
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 1: was like fortunate enough to get picked for this like

627
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: NBA Global Academy.

628
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 2: Or so oh yeah, like basketball without Borders are the stuff.

629
00:27:54,480 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 1: Yeah you were either no, whoa I was? I was there, Yes, yeah,

630
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,719
Speaker 1: so I went to that And that's kind of how

631
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 1: like Virginia Tech saw me and like that's like for

632
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: like that's for sure when I was like, okay, like

633
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 1: I have schools like that actually won't me now? Yeah,

634
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 1: Like so that was like kind of like the deciding

635
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: factor of like yes I have stupid like I have

636
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: a place I can go, like I will go to college. Yeah,

637
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:19,719
Speaker 1: but that's crazy. I just remember that because we did

638
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:20,959
Speaker 1: like three on three stuff there too.

639
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 2: We were on the same team. I do recall we

640
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 2: had it. Yes, I remember. I also remember you from

641
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 2: U seventeen when we played Immense because we played we

642
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 2: didn't play in the tournament, but we had this scrimmage. Yeah,

643
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 2: and I have that.

644
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: Scrimmage and I'll say it, Sam Brunell Court hanged me.

645
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: I will never forget.

646
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 2: That's crazy.

647
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: It's funny. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, but that's so funny

648
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: too because like when we played against y'all were like,

649
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,239
Speaker 1: oh my god, like these like the team you were saying, bro,

650
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: like these girls I'm not even kidding. I wish I

651
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: was kidding because your team was insane, Like you had

652
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: Jordan Horston, you pay yes, yes, Hazy yeah, the list

653
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: just to cook Aliah.

654
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 2: And Hayley Cam. The list was crazy because as I

655
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 2: look back at that team, I have like a picture

656
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 2: in my house and I remember one of my friends

657
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 2: came over and she saw the picture and she was

658
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 2: like to think that all of you guys and like

659
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 2: where you are now. But then you also think about

660
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 2: your team and it's like, now you have Isy pama At,

661
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 2: not me saying is he pama because of that is

662
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 2: a pama At Utah, you had Agnes GC you like

663
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 2: all of you guys are now also playing here as

664
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 2: well or half you went pros. I know Jade is

665
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 2: now pro as well. So it's so cool to think about.

666
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 2: Like back then it's like we're all freaking out. I'm

667
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:42,959
Speaker 2: trying to make the team. I'm not even gonna play anywhere,

668
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 2: And now it's like you're all making it, which.

669
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: Is so cool. It's so cool, and it's also just

670
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: shows like everything plays out, like everyone's paplay is different,

671
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 1: but it will walk out.

672
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 2: It all works out. But talk to me a little

673
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 2: bit more about why you chose Virginia Tech and what

674
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 2: said that Apart coach Brooks, was it the team? Why

675
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 2: do you end up choosing VT?

676
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: I don't really like to fluff around, so like when

677
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: it came to like like talking in Australia, like texting

678
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: coaches and stuff like that, I could pretty much tell

679
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 1: like who and who wasn't like actually invested. So I

680
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: like literally narrowed it down to two schools. It was

681
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: a small school and a bigger school. Obviously Virginia Tech

682
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: being the bigger school. There's small schools where my cousin

683
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: went to. So I was like, okay, I have two options.

684
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: I can be on the West Coast with my cousin,

685
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: enjoy life, chillin, have some like comfort, or I can

686
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: take the massive leap go completely east coast the furthest

687
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: the way I could possibly choose to a big school

688
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: in a really really good conference. And so I went

689
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: up my visits and the first school was like it

690
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 1: was it was exactly what I expected. And then we

691
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: went to Virginia Tech and as soon as I got

692
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: on campus, I was like, yeah, it's just nice kind

693
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: of like this one. And then keep in mind like

694
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: coming from Australia, like do you see like college facilities

695
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: and it's just next level, Like college facilities are better

696
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: than some of our pro sports facilities. So it's like

697
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: I was just like completely blown away by everything. And

698
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 1: like as you mentioned before, like Coach Brooks, he's just

699
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 1: lit like he's like they're so genuine and he was like,

700
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: like I committed on spot in his office and as

701
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: I like turned around to like walk out to go

702
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: to the airport to like literally leave in the next

703
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: thirty minutes, he was like like we're gonna work, and

704
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: like that just like wrung in my head. And it's

705
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 1: just like I knew if I wanted to come to

706
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: the States that I'm going to get something out of it,

707
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: like I'm going to like push potential, and like there

708
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: was a perfect place to do it. And they didn't

709
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: like not that I was like looking at this, but

710
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: they didn't really have a point guard that was staying.

711
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 1: It was like everything kind of opened up. He knew that,

712
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: you know, he bought in Liz Kitley Kayla King, like

713
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: like this was like the foundation like the development of everything,

714
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: and I think it's worked out pretty well.

715
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 2: It has worked out pretty well, and we're going to

716
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 2: dive on to that, but tell me about your freshman

717
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 2: year because it kind of a unique start coming in

718
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 2: in the spring, I believe, and then it also COVID.

719
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 2: So what was that process? Like, the move from Australia,

720
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 2: I show you to Blacksburg is a big jump, not

721
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 2: only the travel, different culture you're in Virginia. Like, what

722
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 2: was that like that change coming in the spring, because

723
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 2: it's also different because usually freshmen coming in the summertime.

724
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 2: So how was that transition your freshman year?

725
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, so because our schooling is different in Australia, I

726
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: graduated in like November. I was done with exams and

727
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: the opportunity kind of got presented to me by our

728
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: assistant coach and she's international, she's from Lithuania, and she

729
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: was like, hey, like this might be a really good

730
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: option for you because you can come here and practice

731
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: and get some credits up, but you don't have to

732
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: worry about playing. It just kind of takes that added

733
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: layer of stress off. Yeah, and I was just so

734
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: keen to come over, so I was like, yeah, let's

735
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: be there like bok me. So I came over and

736
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: it really did help me so much because you have

737
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: to learn so much like the way of living, the

738
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: way that you know, the Southern manners, and like it's

739
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: just like it's a complete different change of like culture

740
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: and everything. And I really had like a couple of

741
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: weeks to settle myself in and not worry about games,

742
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: or if I came in the summer, would have to

743
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,719
Speaker 1: worry about, you know, conditioning and learning all the plays

744
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: and all of that. But I came in and I

745
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: was a practice player, so I was just like had

746
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: free reign practicing. I was like on the scout team,

747
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: and Coach Brooks could kind of like peep at me

748
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: and like keep things in the back of the mind

749
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: to like how he was going to like mold me.

750
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,719
Speaker 1: So that was the best decision I made to come

751
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: over early, for sure. But in saying that, you know,

752
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: like freshman year, it is a struggle in itself, and

753
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: I do think that a large portion of my struggle

754
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: with freshman year was, you know, it was COVID and

755
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: everything got shot down. And you know, I don't want

756
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: to like be like selfish in saying this because everybody

757
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: went through the same thing, but like I literally just

758
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: couldn't go home. YEA so like, for like the first

759
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: initial like two weeks when like everything was canceled, like

760
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: I didn't really know what to feel, like you don't

761
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: know if you're going to see your family again, how long?

762
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: FA like, am I going to go home? But then

763
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: a part of me was like, if I go home,

764
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: am I going to be stuck there? Like all my

765
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: college basketball dreams gone? So I was like, all r,

766
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: I'm going to say in the States right it out

767
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 1: because they were kind of toying with the idea of

768
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: like bubbles or like, yeah, I try to like limit

769
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: contact and all of that, and I was like, at

770
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: least there's plans going on to kind of continue to

771
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: like a semi normal life. And I'm like also grateful

772
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,879
Speaker 1: that I stayed because at home, like they literally shut

773
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: down everything, like they were checking your driver's license to

774
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 1: see if you were like in the radius.

775
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I've ember hearing abound all of this. You

776
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,280
Speaker 2: had to quarantine like in a hotel when you got back, saying.

777
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: So like staying here had like a bit of normalcy

778
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: to it, and I was still able to keep like

779
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: basketball the main thing, but it was hard and it

780
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: took me a minute to change my mindset. I think

781
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:37,760
Speaker 1: I was like letting myself be a little too miserable,

782
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 1: which is I don't ever like doing that. But as

783
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,399
Speaker 1: soon as I flipped my mindset, it helped me immensely. Yeah,

784
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: it's a pretty crazy freshman year.

785
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 2: Well, you're completely right, it's a completely different experience that

786
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 2: international students had because you know, sure, first of all,

787
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 2: it's a long flight to get back, but on top

788
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 2: of the already being quarantined, it's if you go, will

789
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 2: you come back? And so I think that's a lot

790
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 2: of it's hard to go because you know other kids,

791
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 2: it was hard. For sure, you had to go home.

792
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 2: You're away from campus, but thrown away from your family,

793
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,879
Speaker 2: that's a lot. But I know that Liz Kittlee took

794
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 2: you in and you know, you guys became great friends.

795
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 2: So talk to me about you build this bond with

796
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 2: Liz and you guys are kind of that foundation that

797
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 2: you talked about at Virginia Tech, the two of you

798
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 2: and Kayla. So how do you feel that relationship off

799
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 2: the court really translated to that on court bond because

800
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 2: you guys being point guard center on ball screens, the

801
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 2: offense runs through the two of you and I think

802
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 2: that chemistry. You can see it watching that you just

803
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,320
Speaker 2: know and Kayla too, she comes off the screen, you

804
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,240
Speaker 2: know where she is. And so talk to me about

805
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 2: you and Liz's bond, but also the three of you

806
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 2: being the foundation of Virginia Tech and what it has become.

807
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 2: How does that chemistry kind of really come from your

808
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 2: relationship off the court that you've connected.

809
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I was going to go home with them.

810
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: They're birth from Greensboro, so I was going to go

811
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 1: home with them regardless of spring break when everything's shut down.

812
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 1: So it was kind of like right place, right time.

813
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: The kittlers are so lovely. They took me in and

814
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: I literally stayed there for like however long it was

815
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 1: till we returned to campus. But during that time, like

816
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,800
Speaker 1: Liz's dad is was a principal at a high school,

817
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,760
Speaker 1: so he had the keys to the gym, so me, Kayla,

818
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: and Liz would get in and we would just like

819
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: work out and like that's just like the stuff that

820
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,760
Speaker 1: you don't see. Like we were just like doing drills

821
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: and Kayla's dad, you know, he was a high school coach,

822
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,839
Speaker 1: so he was like taking us through drills and we've

823
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,879
Speaker 1: just like been through so many times together that it's

824
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,399
Speaker 1: like it's it's made us so close and like it's

825
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 1: to the point where, like they are my sisters, Like

826
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,919
Speaker 1: they will get on my nerves like no one else,

827
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: like no one but I yeah, but like I would

828
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: defend them. I will love them to the day I die.

829
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: Like we've just like had so many like cool experiences together.

830
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: But foundation wise, like not to brag, I think we're

831
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 1: very smart. So like we really like did everything that

832
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: Coach Brooks wanted. We like put out all of our

833
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: trust and faith in him, and obviously his like plan

834
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 1: has worked out very well. But in practice and individuals,

835
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 1: like we're doing stuff together, like I know exactly where

836
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: Kayla's going to be, I know exactly where Liz is

837
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: going to be, and the chemistry off court. We also

838
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: live together, the three of us for a couple of years,

839
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: but like we just knew how receptive each other were,

840
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: and like I think that helps, like in the heat

841
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: of the moment, like things can get out of hand

842
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: or like you can like yell or something like that,

843
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: but like neither of us take it personally. So like

844
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: when you want to talk about like pick and roll

845
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: situations like yeah, it looks pretty. But like sometimes we'll

846
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 1: have a play and I might bounce it to Liz

847
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 1: and she hits the shot and it looks like, oh great,

848
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: Like we hit a shot. She'll come back. She will

849
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: like jog down and be like hey, like next time,

850
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: I need that ball closer to me, like next time,

851
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: Like like it's just I don't get but hurt about

852
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 1: it because I know for it for us to win,

853
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: I have to do as much as I can to

854
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: make her life easier. She gets double and triple teamed

855
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: and literally clocked in the head so many times a

856
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: game that I'm like, okay, Like whatever I have to do,

857
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 1: I will do it. Kayla's instance, like she's such a

858
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: great shooter that she demands so much attention that it's

859
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: like it is my job to get the ball exactly

860
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:05,399
Speaker 1: where she needs it, like any anywhere else, like I've

861
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: thrown her off, and like that's completely my bad. So

862
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,879
Speaker 1: it's like we just have an understanding that we can't

863
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: be successful individually without each other. For sure, Liz needs

864
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 1: to set me good screens. Kaylin needs to hit down

865
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,800
Speaker 1: shots to open up my lanes. Like we just have

866
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 1: a full understanding that We're so important to each other's success,

867
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: and none of us are selfish that we would, I

868
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: don't know, like get mad at each other like that.

869
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,800
Speaker 1: Like we just like have an understanding that we just

870
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: need each other more than we can be individuals.

871
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 2: A little bit about I think this is so funny.

872
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,800
Speaker 2: We talked about like West Coast East Coast basketball, but

873
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 2: Australian basketball to American basketball. When you first came, you

874
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,879
Speaker 2: fouled out. I heftyet matter of your first games, girl,

875
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 2: So talk to me about that adjustment coming from Australia

876
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 2: and your footy background. We're tackling and all this different

877
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 2: stuff comes into play now playing in American basketball.

878
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I think I'm just an aggressive person first

879
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: and foremost, but definitely didn't help that. Like we played

880
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: fever rules, Yeah, like the fowling is obviously different. We

881
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: have a twenty four second shot clock, Like the thirty

882
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: second shot clock is new to me. The three point

883
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: line when I first got there was in for girls.

884
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 1: I think it got moved maybe my sophomore year. But

885
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: like even catching the ball in the back court, like

886
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,919
Speaker 1: that's not allowed in FEEB. Like still to this day,

887
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: I will look at coach Brooks. I'm like, I can

888
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 1: go back right, and he's like, yeah, like it's very different.

889
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: But you know, I think for me it was easy

890
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: in some ways, difficult in others. Difficult fowling wise, for sure,

891
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: easy because I was able to slow my game down

892
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 1: because I think, you know, like that extra six seconds,

893
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: especially after you bring the ball up the court like

894
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: in our youth days, we would like section it off

895
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: into like three different like twenty four seconds, fourteen seconds,

896
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 1: and like eight seconds, like you would like run the

897
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 1: plays and then you have to look for a shot

898
00:39:58,320 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: and then the last eight seconds is like an on

899
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: boll sc where I was like thirty seconds, Like you

900
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: can develop a pace, a tempo, like you can run

901
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: your place, and you know, like being Virginia Tech, I

902
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 1: think we placed like emphasis on running our stuff and

903
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 1: being thorough and precise with it. So I foiuled a lot.

904
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 1: I'm not even going to hold I still probably do.

905
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: I just I'm in a position where like I don't

906
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,839
Speaker 1: have to fail as much. But yeah, yeah, if there's

907
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: a shot, I might take it.

908
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:24,760
Speaker 2: You know what, you have to get it out, honestly

909
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 2: at some point, you yeah, every now and then, just

910
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 2: take one. But you come in freshman year, you help

911
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 2: Virginia Tech to their first NCAA tournament appearance since two

912
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 2: thousand and six. That's a hefty time to be out

913
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 2: of the tournament. And I think a lot of that

914
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 2: comes from that core that you guys built, and then

915
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 2: on top of that, you add in as a shepherd,

916
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 2: which was huge. She was a big part of that team.

917
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 2: And so how was that getting tournament experience so young

918
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 2: for that core moving into now what you guys are

919
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 2: now and being a starting point guard as a freshman

920
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,800
Speaker 2: is a lot. So what was that freshman year tournament experience?

921
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: Like, oh my gosh, Okay, So first of all, it's

922
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 1: the bubble, it's in San Antonio. That was cool. That

923
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: was a cool experience. It was cool for me. My

924
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: like defining and a game that I will like always

925
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: always look back on is when we played Baylor when

926
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:13,720
Speaker 1: they were Baylor.

927
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, Melissa Queen Djena, they were good and.

928
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: Coach Molky was there. So we play them and we

929
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: get beat pretty bad. But I remember after the game,

930
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 1: like Diddy Richard's fist bumps me and she's like, good job,

931
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 1: baby girl. I'm like shaking fist. Like to see like

932
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: those girlss like I watch you all the time, Oh

933
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:38,399
Speaker 1: my gosh, like to play against like those girls, It's

934
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 1: like that's who you want to be, and that's the

935
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: position that you want to be in. Like I think

936
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 1: they were a one seed and they were just like

937
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 1: coming in and grilling people, like cooking. And it's kind

938
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 1: of funny because you look back, well you look forward

939
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: and junior year that was USC one seed. We're out

940
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: here like cooking, like we'll have like the time of

941
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:00,839
Speaker 1: our lives. And I think it's just like like full

942
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: circle stuff, like it gives me grustom's like thinking about it,

943
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: like like baby Georgia freshman, you would have never ever

944
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: imagined any of this happening, Like to be in a

945
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 1: final four is like ridiculous. I think, especially too in

946
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: women's basketball. It's so difficult because you have those powerhouses. Yes, yeah,

947
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: and I think you know, like as the years continue,

948
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,879
Speaker 1: they'll obviously stuff will get mixed up because the game

949
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: is just advancing so much. But you know, like san

950
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,760
Speaker 1: Antonio and being a starting point guard as a freshman,

951
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: you know, I was, I was just a baby, and

952
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: I had to control a whole lot of stuff that

953
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 1: I you know, Coach Brooks put a lot of pressure

954
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: on me, but I'm glad he did because now, like

955
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 1: i have full confidence in what I can do, and

956
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: I've seen all these situations before and maybe if I

957
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: was like on the bench or like not good at

958
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,439
Speaker 1: taking his feedback, like, I don't know where I would

959
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: be truly, But it has been a pretty cool ride.

960
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 1: And I don't know. Just like as I said, like

961
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: the full circle stuff is so cool to think about.

962
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,399
Speaker 2: It's crazy to think that just in that two year span,

963
00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 2: you guys were able to go from a team that's

964
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,240
Speaker 2: not really on the radar play in that powerhouse like Baylor,

965
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden you're the powerhouse. And that's

966
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 2: because of what you guys created with Coach Brooks and

967
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 2: that core that you have. Talking a little bit about

968
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:13,800
Speaker 2: your relationship with Coach Brooks, the coach PG relationship is

969
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 2: so important to the way that the team runs. And

970
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 2: so tell me about that turning point when you know,

971
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 2: being a freshman, you got DeeDee Richards picking you up

972
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:26,359
Speaker 2: full court. That's a tall task for anybody. So when

973
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 2: was kind of that turning point that you felt maybe

974
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 2: where you were like, Okay, I'm like an extensive coach

975
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 2: Brooks out here, I have confidence field to do what

976
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 2: needs to get done. When did that turning point happen?

977
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, it definitely begun. Like my freshman year, we played

978
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: NC State midway through the season at NC State and

979
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: he he put me off ball like he put me

980
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:46,879
Speaker 1: as the two god. He made ship the one that game,

981
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 1: and I think like after that game, like something flipped

982
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,240
Speaker 1: in my brain and it turned and I just started

983
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: growing and maturing more. Sophomore year, same kind of thing,

984
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: Like I was decent, like I was under the raidar

985
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: like maybe surprising people with a couple of games here

986
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: and there. But I think like the way that he

987
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: saw it, he just kept developing my game growing like

988
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: we work out, we'll have individuals, but like a lot

989
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: of it comes off on the off court stuff like

990
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: the film, the hours that I just go in and

991
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: just like chat to him, like just like developing the

992
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: understanding of like you know, what makes me tick, what

993
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: makes me mad? Like how he can get to me

994
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: to like really like that might yeah. Yeah, so it's

995
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: like he knows he can like look at me in

996
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: the eyes and be like okay, like she's upset, Like oh,

997
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 1: like he can look at me in the eyes and

998
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: be like she's distracted, she's not locked in, and like

999
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: he's able to just like read that body language. But

1000
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,360
Speaker 1: I would say for sure last year was just like

1001
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 1: personally for me, like the point where I was like, okay,

1002
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 1: like I'm the point guard that like controls everything. I

1003
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: have that ability. I think, you know. Freshman and sophomore

1004
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 1: year was like, Okay, I can call it the plays.

1005
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: I can go and talk to him and relay messages.

1006
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,839
Speaker 1: But now it's like I have an idea, I'd run

1007
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,400
Speaker 1: to him, I pass it by him, he agrees or doesn't,

1008
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:58,760
Speaker 1: and then it's like we just have like an open

1009
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: communication and he's let me just develop into someone that

1010
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 1: can kind of like take the reins a bit, which

1011
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: is like, oh you can ask for really.

1012
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, that trust is huge being able to feel as

1013
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 2: year your coach has the confidence in you where you

1014
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 2: can go rogue and you know sometimes it may not

1015
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 2: work out, but the majority of the time it is.

1016
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 2: And I think that's really special. Talking about your game specifically,

1017
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 2: that step back is called everybody knows it. And even

1018
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 2: when I watch you now, like I'm like, oh, she's

1019
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 2: about to hit him. With it and then the distance

1020
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 2: that you cover, I'm like, oh oh, and it's still

1021
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 2: a bucket. It's wild. When was that always something that

1022
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 2: you focused on, Like when did that develop as a

1023
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 2: part of your game, because I feel like it's so

1024
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 2: it's a really hard scale to obtain, especially from the distance.

1025
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 1: That you do it at. I think that naturally I've

1026
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 1: been gifted with like that that ability, and I would

1027
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: just like mess around and practice and like hit a

1028
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 1: couple and it's funny like whatever. But I think over

1029
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:55,399
Speaker 1: the summer time and stuff like that, like Coach Brooks

1030
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:57,879
Speaker 1: was like, no, like let's develop this. And I think

1031
00:45:58,120 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: a lot of like a lot of the stuff was

1032
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: really my new year, like and I say that like

1033
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 1: it was three years ago. It was literally last year.

1034
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: But I think, you know, just being the heart I am,

1035
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: and I just I just can't get off shots like

1036
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: that sometimes, especially when like towards the end of the year,

1037
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: I started kind of getting a bit more like scoring dominant,

1038
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: like people would put their long guards on me or

1039
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:18,919
Speaker 1: like they were trying to like mess up the game

1040
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,280
Speaker 1: plan or like do all these things on like screens.

1041
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: And it was just always something in the back of

1042
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: my pocket that I could use because like, yes, I'll

1043
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: pull it, but like even I think my progression to

1044
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 1: this year is like I'll do a step back and

1045
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: people bite so hard that I have like options out

1046
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 1: of it now. Yeah, So like a couple of times,

1047
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: like for me to feed it to Liz, like I've

1048
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 1: done a few step backs to like set it up

1049
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 1: for like an easy bounce pass. It's been more of

1050
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: like a work in progress and a progression. And I think,

1051
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: you know, even last year I probably relied on it

1052
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,399
Speaker 1: way more than I have this year. But I think

1053
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,320
Speaker 1: because I set it up so well last year, it

1054
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 1: has opened up this year like so many more options

1055
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:54,240
Speaker 1: for me, if that makes sense.

1056
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,359
Speaker 2: Oh for sure. Yeah, once you get some in your bag,

1057
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 2: people are biting immediately.

1058
00:46:58,160 --> 00:46:58,359
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1059
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 2: So now that you have that down, now it's, oh,

1060
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 2: what's my next decision? Now I can do this and

1061
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 2: this and this. It opens up a lot, like you

1062
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 2: talked about. But yeah, talking about your junior year, it

1063
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:11,240
Speaker 2: was huge and that leap that you made was incredible, honestly,

1064
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 2: and so we know we got the three point shot,

1065
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 2: all these different things. You got a bit of swag

1066
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 2: to you as well as we all know the way

1067
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 2: you're out there. But you talked about the progression of

1068
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 2: the step back in that offseason heading into your junior year.

1069
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 2: What were your focuses. Was it like I'm coming in

1070
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 2: this year, I'm going to be more aggressive. What were

1071
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 2: you focusing on in the gym with coach Brooks.

1072
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 1: I think he has always had way more confidence in

1073
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: me than I have myself. So I think he's always

1074
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 1: just told me you're that player, like you're my point god,

1075
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: like go out improve it. You're the best player on

1076
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: the floor, Like, go out and prove it. And the

1077
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: thing that helped me back really was my mental like

1078
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 1: I've always been like, no, I'm too humble, Like I

1079
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: don't want to be like the like, oh I'm not that,

1080
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 1: I'm not all that. But I think it flipped last year,

1081
00:47:58,200 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 1: like during conference play when I was like, no, for

1082
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: to be great, I have to be great and I

1083
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: have to think that I'm great, and I have to

1084
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 1: go out and just like have no regrets. So like

1085
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 1: for me, it was a mental shift. I don't think

1086
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:12,439
Speaker 1: it was really anything physically at all. It's one hundred

1087
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: percent mind of a matter, and I know that now,

1088
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: But I would say, like just I just understood the

1089
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: potential of the team last year and the importance of

1090
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: me having to be the best. It's not like I

1091
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: would like go in and be like, oh, I'm Georgia

1092
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:30,320
Speaker 1: amer I deserve this, I deserve that. And I was like,

1093
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 1: I'm Georgia Amer I'm I'm going to prove just I

1094
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: don't know who it is when I'm approved to somebody, Yeah,

1095
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 1: that we deserve to be where we are. So it

1096
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 1: was like nothing really physical, was like literally all mental.

1097
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that's such that mind over matter

1098
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 2: piece where it's nothing physical, but it's also like you

1099
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 2: don't want to be that person that's arrogant, right, It's

1100
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 2: finding that fine line between confidence and I think once

1101
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 2: you find that, we're hoping and like you said, that's

1102
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 2: when ACC Tournament you have to do that. And that

1103
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,839
Speaker 2: propelled you guys where now you're like, oh, I'm sure

1104
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 2: you've now figured it out. Is like me doing that

1105
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 2: it not only makes it, you know, easier for me,

1106
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:10,720
Speaker 2: but now it's opening stuff up for Kayla, it's opening

1107
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 2: things up for Liz. That team that you guys had,

1108
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 2: now Taylor can do what she needs to do. So

1109
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 2: heading into that ACC Tournament, last year and all these

1110
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,840
Speaker 2: different things. When do you think maybe you, yourself or

1111
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 2: you as a team were like a week on a

1112
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 2: final four, like we're a title contending team. We can

1113
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 2: get there, we have the pieces.

1114
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,320
Speaker 1: I think we fully believed it, like oh yeah, like

1115
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: we were like, okay, we're special. But there's literally a

1116
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: video on our Instagram page and we're at the Georgia

1117
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,320
Speaker 1: Tech locker room. It's the last game of regular season

1118
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,759
Speaker 1: and Coach Brooks has on the whiteboard like a SEC

1119
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:43,320
Speaker 1: Champs Sweet sixteen, Elite eight, Final four, and he circles

1120
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: final four and he was like, if you guys like

1121
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: believe it and put it together and do what you're

1122
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:49,919
Speaker 1: supposed to do, like we will be Final four team.

1123
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: Like he's always had that belief in us too. When

1124
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 1: it just got to a point where everything just flowed,

1125
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: like you talk about confidence, like we had confidence, like

1126
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: we fully believe that any time we stepped out onto

1127
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 1: the court we were just gonna hoop and have fun

1128
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: with it. It was like a flow state that we had.

1129
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 1: Like no one was like, oh, that's like when a

1130
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:09,359
Speaker 1: natty blah blah blah. It was like no, like one

1131
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:10,839
Speaker 1: game at a time, like we're gonna come in, we're

1132
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 1: gonna bust us, and we're gonna prove it. And I

1133
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: think the biggest message for us last year was like

1134
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,439
Speaker 1: we're not trying to prove anyone wrong, Like we're gonna

1135
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: prove ourselves right. And I think, you know, especially NCAA tournament,

1136
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 1: when we got that one seed then whatever, people were like, oh,

1137
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 1: first one seed to bounce, like, don't deserve it, stuff

1138
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 1: like that, like like we peeped it and that feels

1139
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:36,279
Speaker 1: the fire and it did, and it did because they

1140
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: were saying, yeah, no, it did. And we did a

1141
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:42,879
Speaker 1: really good job at not letting any of that stuff

1142
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: like distract us more so push us forward. And I

1143
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: think we were just like so locked in on what

1144
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 1: we needed to do that like I said, like it

1145
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: was a flow state, like there was no and if butts,

1146
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 1: Like every time we went out, I had so much

1147
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 1: confidence in everyone. And when everyone's confident, it's just you

1148
00:50:58,719 --> 00:50:59,879
Speaker 1: can do some pretty insane thing.

1149
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 2: It's hard to start, and we've talked a lot about

1150
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 2: the final four, but once you get there, final four

1151
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 2: is different. There's all the antics getting there and there's

1152
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 2: all the different media days and it's huge. So tell

1153
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 2: me about the atmosphere at the Final Four and then

1154
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 2: beyond that playing LSU and that's a tough game, So

1155
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:20,839
Speaker 2: tell me about the Final four experience that you guys had.

1156
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we we play higher state late and we're

1157
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 1: in Seattle and it's we're gonna change time difference since

1158
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: time zone like three times. And we got in that

1159
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: flight early out to Dallas and we land and there's

1160
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 1: a DJ and media already and it's just like it's

1161
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 1: a shock, Like it's shocked, like I'm here to play.

1162
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting all of this.

1163
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 2: And then we go to like some Nike.

1164
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,919
Speaker 1: Bus and we get like decked out with gear. It's

1165
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,879
Speaker 1: just like so much, but it's like the coolest thing ever,

1166
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:54,839
Speaker 1: Like it's like the pinnacle of basketball, like literally ask

1167
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 1: for anything, like being in it. Like I was like

1168
00:51:57,760 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 1: so flustered and overwhelmed that I wasn't like really so

1169
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:02,320
Speaker 1: it in. But like after like we had lost and

1170
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:03,759
Speaker 1: I reflected, I was like, wait, no, that's like the

1171
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: coolest thing I've ever done in my life. But yeah,

1172
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: it was like we had like practices and like we

1173
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:13,360
Speaker 1: knew that Losh was good, Like we had confidence in

1174
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,879
Speaker 1: ourselves but like they were like peeking at the right time.

1175
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 1: They were playing with such confidence, they were rolling like

1176
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: it was going to be like a really good matchup

1177
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 1: in game. And I think, you know, it's not like

1178
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: we forgot they were at the final four, but it's

1179
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: like I kind of wish that like at some point

1180
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 1: during the game we were like know, like a championship

1181
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 1: games on the line, because it's like we were so

1182
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: focused on that game. But it's like it's just like

1183
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 1: the biggest moment of your life that you kind of forget.

1184
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 2: I completely know what you mean. You're so focused on

1185
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 2: the game, but it's yeah, oh, the National Championship is next,

1186
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 2: and I'm doing all these different things and yeah, out

1187
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 2: of my here right now. It's so hard to stay

1188
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:52,799
Speaker 2: focused at the final far.

1189
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean we were up in that game,

1190
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 1: and like that's what I wish that we were kind

1191
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: of like know, like a natty is on the line, yeah,

1192
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:02,239
Speaker 1: because I think like we just lost our way a bit,

1193
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: And like, mind you, this is not like no dis

1194
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 1: against LSU. That were great. They came out, they attacked

1195
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 1: our zone, they figured us out really really quickly, and

1196
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:11,800
Speaker 1: they played with like probably a little bit more confidence

1197
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: and aggression when they started chipping away at a lead

1198
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:18,319
Speaker 1: and continuing on. But it was a tough game because yeah,

1199
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 1: like I think just being a competitor in general, like

1200
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: you always want to win. But it was just like

1201
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 1: like upsetting obviously, like that big of a thing on

1202
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: the line, and you know, like you had it when

1203
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 1: you feel like you had it and then you just

1204
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,879
Speaker 1: lost it. Like that was like the worst feeling as well.

1205
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: But as a woman's possiball fan, we went home, I

1206
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:38,960
Speaker 1: watched the lsu Iowa game and I was like, wow,

1207
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 1: like it's insane.

1208
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:42,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a great final for her to watch

1209
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:44,800
Speaker 2: all the games, and I think it was really exciting.

1210
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 2: But coming off the last and the Final four, I've

1211
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 2: been there. That stuff sucks. Like there's no easier way

1212
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:54,800
Speaker 2: about it. That sucks. So we have spring workouts, summer workouts,

1213
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 2: and now where you guys are now in a very

1214
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:59,320
Speaker 2: similar position to last year. What do you think you

1215
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:01,279
Speaker 2: guys were able to take from that game that you're

1216
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:04,959
Speaker 2: now using as motivation to push you into hopefully another

1217
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 2: Final Flour run this year.

1218
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, that spring was really hard for me because it's like, mentally,

1219
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: you're so locked in and you've been on the highest

1220
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 1: of the highs and you've been playing at such a

1221
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 1: competitive level, and now it's like, Okay, now I'm back

1222
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:22,800
Speaker 1: to individuals, and it's like just like mentally, it was like,

1223
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:25,320
Speaker 1: so I was exhausted first of all, but like a

1224
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:27,279
Speaker 1: part of me was like, no, I'm going to get better.

1225
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 1: I'm going to push because I'm going to do this again,

1226
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 1: and I want to do this again. So it was

1227
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 1: like and also like I had that Kelsey Plum camp,

1228
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 1: which was great. Yeah, it was I learned so much.

1229
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 1: It was so fun playing with all of those girls.

1230
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 1: But then I come home from that, I'm like, Okay,

1231
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: now I've had a piece of you know, these girls.

1232
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 1: I can see how they Yeah, let's go. But like

1233
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 1: my body's exhausted. I'm not listening to my body. I'm

1234
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:48,880
Speaker 1: not listening to my mentals. So like that, like I

1235
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: learned so much from that, like trying to prioritize all

1236
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: that first hard summer I went through it. Coach Brooks

1237
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 1: can attest to it, like I was like in his office,

1238
00:54:57,560 --> 00:54:59,279
Speaker 1: like crying. I don't know what was wrong with me,

1239
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:01,200
Speaker 1: but I was just putting so much pressure on myself.

1240
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:03,840
Speaker 1: But like I'm glad I figured that out, learnt so

1241
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:06,719
Speaker 1: much from that, and then just like taking those experiences

1242
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:09,239
Speaker 1: like into this year, like as I said before, like

1243
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 1: in a similar situation as we were last year, and

1244
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: we have like complete control of you know, everything that

1245
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:18,359
Speaker 1: can pan out because we are in first position. All

1246
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:21,320
Speaker 1: we have to do is keep winning. And it's easier

1247
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:22,960
Speaker 1: said than done. But it's not like we're you know,

1248
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 1: sitting tied third, tied fourth and you know, relying on

1249
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: other people's scores to like dictate what's going to happen

1250
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:32,360
Speaker 1: for us. Yeah, So I think like there's definitely a

1251
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:35,799
Speaker 1: level of maturity, and there's also like Mealas and Kayla,

1252
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: like we just know that distractions can be a thing

1253
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:43,439
Speaker 1: and minimizing them is peak for you know, going where

1254
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:44,399
Speaker 1: you want to go. For sure.

1255
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:46,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. And it's a hard balance to strike

1256
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:49,440
Speaker 2: coming off Aunt for a run, doing the dog camp

1257
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:52,319
Speaker 2: with Kelsey, Like I'm sure that someone was hard. Because

1258
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 2: it's also now you put on the national stage and

1259
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 2: I think people talk about it a lot with you know,

1260
00:55:57,880 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 2: social media, and it's like, oh, I don't listen to it,

1261
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 2: but it's hard, Like it's a lot to handle and

1262
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:06,280
Speaker 2: still stay focused.

1263
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 1: Like I had never ever gotten that attention before. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1264
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 1: And I had never really had expectations and I never

1265
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: had that type of like Amo does this, Amore does that,

1266
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: like spotlights on, Like I had never ever had that before,

1267
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: and I like, honestly, I didn't know how to handle it.

1268
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, but it's it's hard. It's hard, but I

1269
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 2: think it's it's really special to hear that you have

1270
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 2: that relationship with Coach Brooks to be able to go

1271
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 2: and have that safe place to be able to go

1272
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 2: and do all that stuff. It girl, it happens. Been there,

1273
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 2: done that. But you mentioned Kayla King and Liz, and

1274
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 2: I want to talk about Liz for a second, because

1275
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 2: I played against Liz at USA Mini Camp and I've

1276
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 2: watched her for a while and I feel like she

1277
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 2: doesn't get talked about enough and she doesn't have that

1278
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 2: spotlight because like you talked about, she's getting double and

1279
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 2: triple team and still putting up these numbers. I think

1280
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 2: the other day it was just like now she leaves

1281
00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 2: the acc in double doubles all time, and it was

1282
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 2: on the news and like it's wild to think about.

1283
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 2: So this is the time I want you to give

1284
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 2: Liz her flowers break down her game without giving away

1285
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 2: the scouting report, but just the presence that she brings

1286
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 2: to the team and the core that she is with

1287
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 2: you and Kaylor for bringing Virginia Tech on that map.

1288
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, she's just always been the hardest worker,

1289
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 1: Like she's so attentative to detail. She always wants to

1290
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 1: get better, and like I think, just like from an

1291
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: outside of watching it, this year, like I think this

1292
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 1: out of the year was really hard for her because

1293
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 1: I think last year, like as you said, like social media,

1294
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 1: you should have listened to it, but like it can

1295
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 1: very much like creep into everything. But like last year,

1296
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 1: you know, she was getting talked about like draft boards

1297
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 1: all that, and she comes back and it kind of

1298
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 1: goes hush. Yeah, Like as you said, like the double

1299
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 1: doubles on the stats, like she can put up like

1300
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,680
Speaker 1: twenty nine and sixteen and people are like, oh, that's Liz. Yeah,

1301
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 1: Like I say, serious, it's expected, it's expected, but like that, Yeah,

1302
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 1: that's how good she is is that it's just like

1303
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 1: so normal for her to put those up. And I

1304
00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: think as a team, like it's you have to celebrate

1305
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: that because we could like do it like say it

1306
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: as like, oh, that's just like Liz being Liz, but

1307
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 1: like no, that's like incredible stuff Like that opens up

1308
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: everything for everyone else. And it's kind of back to

1309
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 1: what I was saying before with like Kayla, like we

1310
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 1: all know like that we play such a vital role

1311
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: in each other's success. I would not be able to

1312
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: do my stuff without Liz being a dominant force in

1313
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:22,479
Speaker 1: the paint. As we said, she gets double or triple teamed. Yeah,

1314
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 1: like when she kicks it out, it's on us to

1315
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 1: make those shots to make sure that people don't want

1316
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 1: to risk that. Yeah, And I think earlier this year,

1317
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: like people weren't really doubling her as much like kind

1318
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 1: of playing one on one, and then the last couple

1319
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:36,919
Speaker 1: of games have definitely been hitting her. But on any

1320
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:38,440
Speaker 1: given night, you just don't know how people are going

1321
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:39,919
Speaker 1: to try and mess it up because at this point,

1322
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 1: like you can't be like all right, let's double her,

1323
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: or like all right, let's put on an island. Like

1324
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 1: teams are trying new things out and like they might

1325
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:49,960
Speaker 1: send two, they might send three, they might stab, they

1326
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: might I don't know. It just gets crazy. So it

1327
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:55,480
Speaker 1: like for teams to like fully change their game plan

1328
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 1: and the way that they play for like one player.

1329
00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:00,439
Speaker 1: It's just that's the biggest compliment you could ever have. Yeah,

1330
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 1: and I think, like, because she's not getting that attention

1331
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 1: from the media, Like it's really on us to make

1332
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 1: sure that it's known that what she's doing is incredible stuff. No,

1333
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 1: I because at the end of the day, at the

1334
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 1: end of the day, we're just just some girls that

1335
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:15,720
Speaker 1: need some love and attention and when we don't get that.

1336
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 2: Right, You're completely right, we're just girls. But no, you're right,

1337
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:24,760
Speaker 2: And I mean you two have a connection the point

1338
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 2: guard big and it's such a vital role of your

1339
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 2: team but also most team success. So I want you

1340
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:33,880
Speaker 2: to tell me. You can say yourself for this answer.

1341
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 2: By the way, who do you feel has the best

1342
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 2: two man game in women's college basketball right now?

1343
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:44,960
Speaker 1: Well, like I okay, I'm gonna say like confidence wise,

1344
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:46,880
Speaker 1: like yes, me and Liz, Like I think that if

1345
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 1: you like look at assists and stuff like that, Like

1346
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: I we assist on each other's shots a lot. But

1347
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 1: like I'm also a massive women's basketball fan.

1348
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 2: Okay, So tell me give the shout outs, bro, Like

1349
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 2: the way that Eliah Edwards. Yeah, just like produces like

1350
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 2: her and Page quite a doer. Yeah, one hundred percent.

1351
01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:06,920
Speaker 1: And I mean you want to talk about like South

1352
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:09,439
Speaker 1: Carolina obviously once again, why is in South Carolina getting

1353
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:09,919
Speaker 1: talked about?

1354
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:12,080
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's just like similar to Liz, I

1355
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 2: think it's because that's expected. It's expected, which is expected,

1356
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:18,320
Speaker 2: but you still have to hype them up. They deserve it.

1357
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:22,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, but like like Raven Johnson and Camille like just

1358
01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: like we have to like appreciate everyone for everything, and

1359
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:29,320
Speaker 1: like this is like my thing, like we can like

1360
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 1: it's just like no, I don't get petty when people

1361
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: are like, oh, like you're not the best duo in

1362
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 1: the nation, like these people are. Yeah, they're good. Yeah,

1363
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:39,520
Speaker 1: Like I'm not like gonna get like mad at that.

1364
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:43,320
Speaker 1: Like let's as women's sports like raise everyone up. Like

1365
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:45,760
Speaker 1: like nothing makes me mad at when I like go

1366
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 1: onto Twitter and I see people like going back and

1367
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:51,000
Speaker 1: forth like hating on people because they support these people

1368
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 1: and like because like honestly, the person you're hating on

1369
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:57,240
Speaker 1: is probably best friends with the person on your team.

1370
01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 1: They probably they probably have conversation. Yeah, like it's not

1371
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:03,880
Speaker 1: all that negative. I can guarantee you that, and if

1372
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 1: people want to continue to be negative, then it's going

1373
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 1: to create a very toxic environment for sure.

1374
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:12,520
Speaker 2: No, I completely agree because in the space of women's sports,

1375
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 2: like you talked about, everybody needs to be lifted up.

1376
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 2: But you can also have your own opinions while still,

1377
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:21,720
Speaker 2: like you said, appreciating how great everyone is, like oh

1378
01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:24,200
Speaker 2: you know, oh this person's better than this person's but

1379
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:26,880
Speaker 2: but da da da, Like, Okay, that's great, But like

1380
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 2: I love her game, and I hope she loves watching

1381
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:32,040
Speaker 2: me play, because in reality, she's over here watching your

1382
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:34,320
Speaker 2: games being like, oh snap, that was a tough move.

1383
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 2: Oh I'm gonna add that to my bag. Oh da

1384
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:39,680
Speaker 2: da da da da. And I think that as athletes

1385
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:43,160
Speaker 2: we experience that camaraderie, but the outside looking in they're like,

1386
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:45,680
Speaker 2: oh this and this, and she's better than that, and

1387
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 2: oh she sucks. But like athletes athletes, it's all appreciation

1388
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 2: and love. It's all love, which I wish that more

1389
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:56,880
Speaker 2: people understood because then like I'm like this Twitter battle

1390
01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 2: that has nothing to do with me. I'm over here

1391
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 2: live on my day to day. You're going to class

1392
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:04,000
Speaker 2: doing this and that, doing practice like I have bigger

1393
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 2: things on my plate, which I think is something that

1394
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 2: people need to come to understand. But we talked about

1395
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:13,960
Speaker 2: Lisey and Kayla, Maybe give me a sleeper pick on

1396
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 2: your own team that people don't talk about enough, but

1397
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:19,720
Speaker 2: you feel like is a core piece that's gonna help

1398
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:22,760
Speaker 2: feel you guys and hopefully another final four run into

1399
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:23,720
Speaker 2: the a SEC Tournament.

1400
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:26,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, first of all, all of them, I love all

1401
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:28,800
Speaker 1: of them, but I think someone who's really stepped into

1402
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:32,160
Speaker 1: their role and has like kind of changed the complexity

1403
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 1: of like our team is Olivia Samuel like live has

1404
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:39,440
Speaker 1: like she said, the pressure that she puts on the boards,

1405
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 1: like she might not always get the rebound, but like

1406
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 1: she just adds that that pressure and she's able to

1407
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 1: hit that like some open shots down and she's just smart.

1408
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 1: She gets our plays. So like for sure her but

1409
01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:54,560
Speaker 1: like the like the future of Virginia type women's basketball

1410
01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 1: is in Clara Strack's hand. Like she's she's a baby.

1411
01:02:57,920 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 1: She is a baby, and she does some things I'm like, Okay,

1412
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:03,520
Speaker 1: that's very freshman like, but her reaction and her movements

1413
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:05,800
Speaker 1: is just like it's very promising and I'm so excited

1414
01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:07,760
Speaker 1: to see how she develops for these next couple of years.

1415
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think you're completely right. It's not going

1416
01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 2: to end with you, guys. There's lots of people coming

1417
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 2: up behind. And I think what makes your team special is,

1418
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 2: like you talked about somebody like that who maybe didn't

1419
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:23,000
Speaker 2: get as much playtime last year, coming in, knowing your role,

1420
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:26,680
Speaker 2: executing it to the heighst of your ability makes the

1421
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 2: entire team run effortlessly, which I think is amazing. So

1422
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:33,280
Speaker 2: there's a lot of questions about you right now, Georgia.

1423
01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:35,680
Speaker 2: Are we staying for another year? We've heard you sure

1424
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:38,320
Speaker 2: about it? What would make you stay? Tell me?

1425
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, as of right now, I'm really on shore.

1426
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 1: But it's like it's like the landscape is and the

1427
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:48,680
Speaker 1: decision is just insane to have, Like you want to

1428
01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:50,960
Speaker 1: talk about like nil, and obviously I'm in a position

1429
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:54,920
Speaker 1: where nil is very, very very difficult to navigate and

1430
01:03:55,160 --> 01:03:58,280
Speaker 1: I can't benefit in the States like other athletes can.

1431
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:02,240
Speaker 1: But then it's also like the league, it's slowly expanding,

1432
01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:03,920
Speaker 1: Like you look at stuff like that, and you like,

1433
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:05,880
Speaker 1: look at I look at the girls in the league,

1434
01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:09,480
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I'm your biggest fan. Like it's tough,

1435
01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:12,320
Speaker 1: it's competitive and obviously like your experience, like you can

1436
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:14,880
Speaker 1: you're very much more well versed on that than I am.

1437
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:18,000
Speaker 1: But it's like it's just like there's so many things

1438
01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:21,120
Speaker 1: to juggle and balance, and part of you is like, oh,

1439
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: like the college lifestyle, Like I'm on campus and I'm

1440
01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:27,560
Speaker 1: like this, like I'm yeah, yeah, that girl. But it's

1441
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 1: like you're like a competitor. So it's like, no, I

1442
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:30,960
Speaker 1: want to go to the league. I want to learn

1443
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 1: and I want to do all this and compete at

1444
01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:35,960
Speaker 1: a high level. And the WNBA is the peak of

1445
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:38,120
Speaker 1: women's basketball, so why wouldn't you want to have a

1446
01:04:38,200 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 1: crack at it? So it's like right now I'm in

1447
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 1: a position where it's like I'm genuinely thinking pros and cons. Obviously,

1448
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:47,320
Speaker 1: I have Liz who chose to stay, and I like

1449
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:50,120
Speaker 1: pick her brain about it, and you know there's like

1450
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:53,440
Speaker 1: other girls around the league obviously, and you're in a

1451
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:55,120
Speaker 1: position where like I've kind of reached out to a

1452
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 1: couple to say like, hey, like how are you thinking?

1453
01:04:57,880 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 1: Like I don't I don't want to know what your

1454
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 1: decision is, but like I want to know how you

1455
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:04,439
Speaker 1: are thinking. Yeah, because like there's just like a lot

1456
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:06,920
Speaker 1: to think about, and some of it matters and some

1457
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:10,200
Speaker 1: of it doesn't. Like yeah, but like I think the

1458
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:12,520
Speaker 1: best advice I heard the other day was like, well,

1459
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 1: like whatever decision you make, make sure you rock with

1460
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:17,439
Speaker 1: it one hundred percent, Like don't go back and think,

1461
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 1: oh I should have done this, I could have done this.

1462
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:21,400
Speaker 1: Like whatever decision you make, just go through with it.

1463
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't want to rush it because that that's it. So,

1464
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:28,600
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm excited to find out. I'm looking forward

1465
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:32,160
Speaker 2: to it. We're gonna head into our our next thing

1466
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 2: is gonna be one's got to go. We've done some

1467
01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:36,360
Speaker 2: research on you, so these might be a little hard.

1468
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:40,480
Speaker 2: And this is Australian themed, so just tell me if

1469
01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 2: I pronounce he's wrong. But we have Bunderberg, Lemon Limon bidders,

1470
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:47,960
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, a flat white or an up and

1471
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:48,920
Speaker 2: Go chuck ice.

1472
01:05:50,040 --> 01:05:51,919
Speaker 1: Which one's got to go to the master to go? Yeah,

1473
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:55,240
Speaker 1: probably the up and Go. Oh okay, because like so

1474
01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:58,840
Speaker 1: like flat white, great coffee, Bunderberg, like Lemon Limon, Bitter's

1475
01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:01,440
Speaker 1: great soda, like go is like if I was like

1476
01:06:01,520 --> 01:06:03,560
Speaker 1: late to a workout and wanting workout like I would

1477
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:05,520
Speaker 1: chuck one of them down and like be good to go.

1478
01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:08,640
Speaker 1: Like that's like a replace, Like that's like a it's disgusting,

1479
01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:11,480
Speaker 1: but it says liquid breakfast on the but it was

1480
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:13,800
Speaker 1: just easy to put down. Okay, so it can go.

1481
01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 2: You know, it's okay. Everybody has their things and then

1482
01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:18,840
Speaker 2: my last one's gotta go for you. It's I was

1483
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:23,560
Speaker 2: washed onion theme. We have chicken salt pods, mars and

1484
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:26,640
Speaker 2: and Pery Parry salt. Oh, this one looks to be

1485
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:33,920
Speaker 2: a turfy Which ones gotta go? Uh Oh, this is

1486
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:35,080
Speaker 2: the hardest question all day.

1487
01:06:36,320 --> 01:06:40,160
Speaker 1: Okay, so there's two. There's two salts and one chocolates.

1488
01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:40,880
Speaker 1: That's really hard.

1489
01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:43,400
Speaker 2: Ah uh oh.

1490
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:49,360
Speaker 1: Maybe pods purely because I love pods, but like I

1491
01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:51,760
Speaker 1: just this is very bad. I can eat as much

1492
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:54,680
Speaker 1: chicken salt and not worry about anything, But if I

1493
01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:57,000
Speaker 1: eat so many pods, like I will be packing on

1494
01:06:57,080 --> 01:06:57,600
Speaker 1: the poundage.

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01:06:57,680 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 2: Understood, understood, Okay, And that's.

1496
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:00,560
Speaker 1: Just not very athlete of me.

1497
01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:03,680
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. We're elite here, so we can't be

1498
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:07,560
Speaker 2: doing that. Now, I want to talk about your own podcast.

1499
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:10,680
Speaker 2: A quick shout out to you and Liz Queens of

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01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:13,400
Speaker 2: the Castle. Where'd the idea of the podcast start?

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01:07:14,120 --> 01:07:16,600
Speaker 1: First of all, thank you great. I love being on

1502
01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:19,040
Speaker 1: this platform. This is woman uplifting women.

1503
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:20,560
Speaker 2: Yes, we already talked about it.

1504
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:24,520
Speaker 1: We need it. But this idea it was last year

1505
01:07:24,680 --> 01:07:27,000
Speaker 1: and it was before honestly, like any of the run happened.

1506
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 1: Like it was a great time to start it because

1507
01:07:28,680 --> 01:07:30,240
Speaker 1: we went on such a run and we got such

1508
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:32,760
Speaker 1: attention that it kind of just everything just benefited from it.

1509
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:36,040
Speaker 1: But I mean the start of last year, well it

1510
01:07:36,160 --> 01:07:37,680
Speaker 1: was Liz's senior year and she didn't know if she

1511
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:39,680
Speaker 1: was going to stay or not. And it was like

1512
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:42,680
Speaker 1: if we just had like a virtual diary to just

1513
01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:45,080
Speaker 1: like go back in twenty years and be like, hey,

1514
01:07:45,240 --> 01:07:47,600
Speaker 1: like this is where we're at, Like it would be

1515
01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:49,760
Speaker 1: like so cool to look on and like obviously digital

1516
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:52,520
Speaker 1: footprint is a real thing, positive and negative. Yes, but

1517
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:55,960
Speaker 1: it's there. Our memories are there, like we can go

1518
01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:58,000
Speaker 1: back and watch it. And not only that, but like

1519
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:01,040
Speaker 1: we just develop a relationship with the people in the community,

1520
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:03,760
Speaker 1: and people genuinely like come up to us and like

1521
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:06,080
Speaker 1: as they should, they think they know us better, or

1522
01:08:06,120 --> 01:08:07,480
Speaker 1: like they think they can come up to us in

1523
01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:10,640
Speaker 1: like Star conversation because we have that personality, or they

1524
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:13,920
Speaker 1: already have like an idea of us because of like

1525
01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:15,640
Speaker 1: how natural it is on the podcast, or it's like

1526
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 1: it's just more inviting for people to come to us

1527
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:19,040
Speaker 1: and talk.

1528
01:08:19,360 --> 01:08:22,200
Speaker 2: You talked about it being a digital diary. I love

1529
01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:25,040
Speaker 2: that idea because, first of all, I'm a yapper and

1530
01:08:25,280 --> 01:08:27,720
Speaker 2: so I love being able to look back. But tell

1531
01:08:27,760 --> 01:08:31,040
Speaker 2: me about like your favorite part about having a podcast

1532
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:33,880
Speaker 2: obviously getting to look back at it, but is it

1533
01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:36,880
Speaker 2: for me, Like I really enjoy getting to know people,

1534
01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:40,200
Speaker 2: and so like with you being competitors, being across the country,

1535
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:41,400
Speaker 2: we don't get to talk all the time, but like

1536
01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:43,439
Speaker 2: getting to pick your brain, getting to know each person.

1537
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:45,519
Speaker 2: And one of the reasons I love doing this pod

1538
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 2: is because like now fans get to have an inside

1539
01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:49,640
Speaker 2: look at you, and it's the exact reason that you

1540
01:08:49,760 --> 01:08:52,559
Speaker 2: talked about where now they're going to follow even more

1541
01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:54,280
Speaker 2: and they're like, oh my gosh, Georgia likes this. I

1542
01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:56,920
Speaker 2: like this too. Georgia likes Spotify. Oh my god, now

1543
01:08:56,920 --> 01:08:59,000
Speaker 2: I'm gonna listen to your Spotify place. It's like the

1544
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:02,120
Speaker 2: little things about us that make us so special. So

1545
01:09:02,280 --> 01:09:05,839
Speaker 2: what would be your favorite parts about having a podcast,

1546
01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:07,919
Speaker 2: especially when somebody's close to you as Liz.

1547
01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:10,840
Speaker 1: Like as you said, like the little things like when

1548
01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:12,760
Speaker 1: I was a little girl and I would be like, Okay,

1549
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:14,799
Speaker 1: this is my favorite athlete, this is my favorite singer,

1550
01:09:14,920 --> 01:09:16,639
Speaker 1: Like I want to know what you have for breakfast,

1551
01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:20,200
Speaker 1: Like like if I like Aspider, be you, like, I'm

1552
01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:23,280
Speaker 1: gonna want to know a lot about you. And yeah,

1553
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:26,479
Speaker 1: like picking people's brains. And I think also it's just

1554
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:28,720
Speaker 1: a great resume build up for sure to be able

1555
01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:31,759
Speaker 1: to like have conversations with people and it be natural

1556
01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:34,479
Speaker 1: and flowing. And you have to organize so much, like

1557
01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:35,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure you go through it. You have to like

1558
01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:37,320
Speaker 1: set up times, you have to reach out to people.

1559
01:09:37,439 --> 01:09:40,680
Speaker 1: You have to like break that comfort and plan the

1560
01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:44,200
Speaker 1: show and do research on people. And it's just like

1561
01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 1: there's a level of professionalism to it that is like

1562
01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:49,479
Speaker 1: it helps like with wife schools really.

1563
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:52,000
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, shoot, I need to come on Queen's

1564
01:09:52,040 --> 01:09:54,360
Speaker 2: the Castle. Just let me get on and chat. I

1565
01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:56,800
Speaker 2: mean we have each other numbers. Sliding the DMS again,

1566
01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:59,479
Speaker 2: I'm here, but we're going to slide into our last

1567
01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:01,519
Speaker 2: section here, which is the vibe check, and it's gonna

1568
01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:04,479
Speaker 2: be rapid fire questions, so give me your quickest responses

1569
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:07,160
Speaker 2: as possible. It's okay if it's not, as you've been

1570
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:09,559
Speaker 2: doing great so far, so it's gonna be great. Okay.

1571
01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:11,800
Speaker 2: So what's the drill you never want to see on

1572
01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 2: the practice plan?

1573
01:10:13,040 --> 01:10:13,920
Speaker 1: Fast break or shoot?

1574
01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:17,680
Speaker 2: Oh that already sounds horrible? Is that like like full

1575
01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:18,719
Speaker 2: court stuff?

1576
01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:21,519
Speaker 1: It's all like yeah, So it's like it's either five

1577
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:23,559
Speaker 1: four three two one or one two three four five,

1578
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:25,479
Speaker 1: So it's like everyone wants to get a layup, so

1579
01:10:25,560 --> 01:10:28,000
Speaker 1: it's like the point god. Yeah, but it's like sometimes

1580
01:10:28,040 --> 01:10:29,519
Speaker 1: you'll be like, all right, twenty six seconds on the

1581
01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:34,520
Speaker 1: shot clock. So I'm out here like Tom Brady like basses.

1582
01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:40,240
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, understood game winning shot or game winning steel shot. Yeah,

1583
01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:42,479
Speaker 2: that's what I'm thinking for you better be a step

1584
01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:45,800
Speaker 2: back or something wild. Yeah, okay, a group TikTok or

1585
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:46,679
Speaker 2: solo TikTok?

1586
01:10:47,080 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 1: Group group?

1587
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:50,760
Speaker 2: Where's the toughest place to play on the road? And

1588
01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:54,840
Speaker 2: tell me why, Oh my gosh, this is tough.

1589
01:10:54,920 --> 01:11:00,360
Speaker 1: They're also tough. Probably Louisville Center's pretty big. Yeah, but

1590
01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:02,880
Speaker 1: also like I'm I'm saying that, and like when we

1591
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:06,280
Speaker 1: went sorry the quick answers, no go ahead. When I

1592
01:11:06,400 --> 01:11:08,280
Speaker 1: was doing that Red Shirt year, we went there and

1593
01:11:08,360 --> 01:11:10,040
Speaker 1: I wasn't playing, but I was watching, and that's when

1594
01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:13,320
Speaker 1: it was like Dana Evans and oh geez, like everyone

1595
01:11:13,439 --> 01:11:15,240
Speaker 1: was lit there, and I was like, like, this is

1596
01:11:15,680 --> 01:11:16,280
Speaker 1: this is cool?

1597
01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:19,560
Speaker 2: Like this is lit. This is lit. Okay. Who's the

1598
01:11:19,680 --> 01:11:21,960
Speaker 2: biggest trash talker? It could be on your team or

1599
01:11:22,080 --> 01:11:25,320
Speaker 2: somebody else. Hayley ben Luth, she is a trash talker.

1600
01:11:25,640 --> 01:11:28,479
Speaker 2: She is. You're right, you'd be talking out there. I've

1601
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:31,120
Speaker 2: cup what's your best trash talk line?

1602
01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:36,120
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm a mocker, like if someone's like, if someone's

1603
01:11:36,160 --> 01:11:39,120
Speaker 1: like switch or like, you know, like pick like because

1604
01:11:39,160 --> 01:11:41,559
Speaker 1: obviously if there's no doubt about it, mean there's gonna

1605
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:43,040
Speaker 1: do a pick and roll. So if you're to communicate

1606
01:11:43,120 --> 01:11:44,559
Speaker 1: something about that and we hit the shot, and we'd

1607
01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:47,879
Speaker 1: be like, okay, you know what, try.

1608
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:51,200
Speaker 2: Something else, it ain't it ain't work, clearly, Okay, Okay,

1609
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:53,920
Speaker 2: this is a little controversial here. Who's the biggest flopper.

1610
01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:57,599
Speaker 1: I'm scared to flop, I would say myself, but after

1611
01:11:57,680 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 1: these new flop after these new flop flaws, a bit scared, Yeah.

1612
01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:04,640
Speaker 2: A little nerve wracking. Now, Okay, I see. I mean

1613
01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:08,080
Speaker 2: it was Taylor soul to that she can sell it.

1614
01:12:08,400 --> 01:12:11,160
Speaker 2: Let me tell you she can sell it. Okay, it's

1615
01:12:11,160 --> 01:12:12,120
Speaker 2: the hardest player of the guard.

1616
01:12:12,439 --> 01:12:14,720
Speaker 1: Caitlyn Clark. I didn't do much garden. I didn't do

1617
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:17,320
Speaker 1: much garden. I didn't watching. Yeah, a lot of sweat,

1618
01:12:17,360 --> 01:12:18,960
Speaker 1: but I was sweet watching.

1619
01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:23,400
Speaker 2: Okay, understood. What's your favorite in game celebration because you

1620
01:12:23,479 --> 01:12:24,599
Speaker 2: got a lot We've seen them.

1621
01:12:25,160 --> 01:12:29,080
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, there's there's so many ways to do it.

1622
01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:32,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of variations. Keep you on your toes. Okay,

1623
01:12:32,960 --> 01:12:34,880
Speaker 2: your biggest basketballic Oh.

1624
01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:38,240
Speaker 1: I would probably just be like flopping or no, let's

1625
01:12:38,240 --> 01:12:41,559
Speaker 1: talk about it when you know she knows she hit

1626
01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:42,360
Speaker 1: the ball out of balance, So.

1627
01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:46,080
Speaker 2: Why would yes, because why are you lying? They're gonna

1628
01:12:46,120 --> 01:12:46,879
Speaker 2: be the replay.

1629
01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 1: They're gonna be on the replay, and now it's embarrassing.

1630
01:12:50,360 --> 01:12:52,720
Speaker 2: That's embarrassing. I agree, that's a good one. Okay. Do

1631
01:12:52,800 --> 01:12:55,400
Speaker 2: you have a celebrity look alike? And who is it? Well?

1632
01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 1: I got asked us out the Final four, and I

1633
01:12:57,080 --> 01:12:59,200
Speaker 1: said dual leper, which is so not true. But if

1634
01:12:59,240 --> 01:13:00,560
Speaker 1: I could look like an and what it would be

1635
01:13:00,640 --> 01:13:01,920
Speaker 1: her because she is a woman.

1636
01:13:03,560 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 2: She is a woman.

1637
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:06,519
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think I have a look alike there.

1638
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:08,599
Speaker 2: I like to do a leap on one. I'm here

1639
01:13:08,680 --> 01:13:08,880
Speaker 2: for it.

1640
01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:12,200
Speaker 1: Okay, please, I would I want to reinforce. I do

1641
01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:15,360
Speaker 1: not think I love Okay, Okay, I like we would

1642
01:13:15,400 --> 01:13:17,160
Speaker 1: want to be a doing manifested.

1643
01:13:17,479 --> 01:13:20,720
Speaker 2: Okay, I like it. If you could pick a two

1644
01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:23,240
Speaker 2: on two teammate, not one of your current teammates, it

1645
01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:27,519
Speaker 2: could be anybody who would you pick? Come and bring

1646
01:13:27,880 --> 01:13:30,280
Speaker 2: Oh good one, we've got a cam a few times.

1647
01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:33,960
Speaker 2: That's good. Your favorite pregame hype song it was talk

1648
01:13:34,040 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 2: that talk.

1649
01:13:34,520 --> 01:13:38,639
Speaker 1: But right now, oh, I have a whole playlist.

1650
01:13:39,120 --> 01:13:40,719
Speaker 2: Okay, maybe we'll just drop the playlist.

1651
01:13:41,120 --> 01:13:43,360
Speaker 1: We'll just drop the playlist. Just go to my spotify.

1652
01:13:43,720 --> 01:13:44,759
Speaker 1: You literally called pregame.

1653
01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:46,080
Speaker 2: Must have love it?

1654
01:13:46,439 --> 01:13:46,720
Speaker 1: Love it?

1655
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:50,040
Speaker 2: Okay. And what's your best impersonation of Coach.

1656
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:52,960
Speaker 1: Brooks for me personally? You can just like give me

1657
01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:53,960
Speaker 1: like an eyes.

1658
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:57,280
Speaker 2: Oh okay, you have like a little connection, you know

1659
01:13:57,720 --> 01:13:59,439
Speaker 2: you know? Okay, that's good.

1660
01:13:59,760 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 1: Well.

1661
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:03,320
Speaker 2: Georgia, Queen of the Castle, half of Queen of the Castle,

1662
01:14:03,760 --> 01:14:06,160
Speaker 2: thank you so much for coming on the pod. It

1663
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:07,240
Speaker 2: has been such a pleasure.

1664
01:14:07,479 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 1: No I appreciate it. Thanks for having me on not

1665
01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:10,360
Speaker 1: to be reached out by you.

1666
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:14,960
Speaker 2: Oh oh sad well, thank you everybody so much for listening.

1667
01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:17,839
Speaker 2: We'll be back next week with another episode of Sometimes

1668
01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:27,800
Speaker 2: I Hoop. Hey everyone, thanks so much for listening to

1669
01:14:27,880 --> 01:14:30,960
Speaker 2: Sometimes I Hoop. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and

1670
01:14:31,120 --> 01:14:33,800
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1671
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1672
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1673
01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:42,200
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1674
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