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Speaker 2: Welcome back to sometimes I hoop. Today, we've got a

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Speaker 2: fellow Cali Hooper on the pod. Quick Humble bragged McDonald's

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Speaker 2: All American, two time All Pack twelve, a thousand.

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Speaker 2: I used to hate seeing her on the Scout, but

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Speaker 2: I don't have to deal with that anymore. None other

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Speaker 1: Thanks popping on the pod. Wow that was really good.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, we'll hop into things hop in basketball in

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Speaker 2: a second. But I feel like in college so much

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Speaker 2: they just start spreading down, it's like I.

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00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:53,040
Speaker 1: Need water, bro, I can't do this. Yeah, it's a lot,

435
00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:56,240
Speaker 1: It's a lot. That's such like that was up the separator,

436
00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,040
Speaker 1: especially when Ley had a big game that day. It

437
00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,960
Speaker 1: was just coming off the bench and knowing that she

438
00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,439
Speaker 1: can provide a very big, big spark for us and

439
00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,600
Speaker 1: knowing that we can rely on our bench unlike other teams,

440
00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:11,800
Speaker 1: and so our our team can definitely play the full forty,

441
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:16,360
Speaker 1: especially with our wave of bench production.

442
00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:18,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll talk to me a little bit about her,

443
00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,360
Speaker 2: because I remember when I watched that game, she came

444
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:23,240
Speaker 2: in and didn't have the best start, but for her

445
00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,040
Speaker 2: to then be so young and come in the second

446
00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,760
Speaker 2: time and just have a fresh mindset and ready to go,

447
00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:30,679
Speaker 2: talk to me a little bit. What it's like to

448
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,640
Speaker 2: have a freshman like that who is just like unwavering

449
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,280
Speaker 2: confidence like they're gonna get out there and just do

450
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,040
Speaker 2: whatever needs to be done to get it right. So

451
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:41,280
Speaker 2: talk to me a little bit about her progression from

452
00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:43,399
Speaker 2: the beginning of the year to kind of the spark

453
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,760
Speaker 2: that she's been giving you guys in recent games.

454
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:48,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, the beginning of the year it was

455
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,960
Speaker 1: a little, you know, a little tricky then are yeah, yeah,

456
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 1: you know, how are they come in? Being in that

457
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:58,000
Speaker 1: college is sweet when it's really not. But the beginning

458
00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,400
Speaker 1: of the year, you know, as a freshman you're gonna

459
00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,800
Speaker 1: learn a lot, and she has grown a lot. She

460
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,399
Speaker 1: has grown tremendously throughout the year and the games, and

461
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:09,800
Speaker 1: knowing that she could be the player who she is

462
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 1: and coming in like that and providing for us she

463
00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,040
Speaker 1: knows she can. She's a baller, she's a hooper. She's

464
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,359
Speaker 1: gonna hoop no matter what. Like she's having bad games,

465
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:21,000
Speaker 1: she's still gonna hoop no matter what. And so just

466
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:25,879
Speaker 1: seeing her journey is tremendously great. And just knowing that

467
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,600
Speaker 1: she's a great listener and knowing that she listens and

468
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:33,239
Speaker 1: will reciprocate that energy back, and just just seeing her

469
00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,280
Speaker 1: ball and hoop. It's like day in, day out, she's gonna,

470
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:38,439
Speaker 1: you know, hoop, and that's what she is. She's a

471
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:42,160
Speaker 1: by nature and a hooper. You know. Don has instilled

472
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,200
Speaker 1: so much confidence in her. I think that's what helps

473
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,400
Speaker 1: her confidence on the court as well. Well.

474
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,639
Speaker 2: I think she's so much fun to watch, like your

475
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,240
Speaker 2: whole time, man, and you know, I love watching you play,

476
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,159
Speaker 2: but like she comes in and just brings a different vibe.

477
00:22:54,240 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 2: It's just like, yeah, sheifty and I'm like, whoa. I'm

478
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 2: more of a fundamental goal So I'm watching girls.

479
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:07,679
Speaker 1: Please please girl. We both are fundamental girls. I've seen her.

480
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 1: When I see her do this stuff, she doesn't practice,

481
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my gosh, like I can't ever do that.

482
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 2: It's like not even like that, But how do you

483
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:16,920
Speaker 2: even think to do that?

484
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:23,639
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, like jab crossover tweet. And then she's like, oh, hezy, filet.

485
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 1: It's a little behind your back. This is like nothing new,

486
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,320
Speaker 1: Like she does this in practice, Like you know, as

487
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 1: you know, practice is where you what you do in games,

488
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 1: and that's why she doesn't practice. You know, you may

489
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:40,679
Speaker 1: turn over the ball and practice, but she don't do

490
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,639
Speaker 1: it in the game. But that's where you gotta practice.

491
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 1: You gotta practice, everything that you do in the practice,

492
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 1: and so seeing her do that in the games and

493
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 1: having everyone watch, it's just a joy to watch. And yeah,

494
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 1: I know it's fire. Especially the first game. Oh my gosh.

495
00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:02,160
Speaker 1: In order that I was like, yeah, you know, her

496
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:06,120
Speaker 1: little her little behind the back. I was like, oh wow, yeah,

497
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: she's a special, one said.

498
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 2: And the first thing that first game of the season,

499
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,360
Speaker 2: like you're in Paris doing that?

500
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 1: What that's crazy?

501
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. But switching gears for a second. We've

502
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 2: talked a lot about the amazing players in college basketball

503
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 2: right now, and so I don't need you to give

504
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 2: me like South Carolina secret scouting report, but I'm gonna

505
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 2: give you some names. And it's hard facing off against

506
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 2: some of these players. So I want you to.

507
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,360
Speaker 1: Give give me a little bit of like a scout

508
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 1: or maybe what makes it so hard to try to

509
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: contain these players, because I feel like it used to be, oh,

510
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,159
Speaker 1: forced her to do this, it's forced to do that.

511
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 1: But things have changed.

512
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 2: When you're playing a player like Anissa Morrow or Handhild Doggo,

513
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 2: it's more like, okay, make this hard. Okay, they're not

514
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 2: maybe not as comfortable going this way. It's a different mindset.

515
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 2: So top first name, I already mentioned it, Anissa Morrow.

516
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 2: Give me what it's like to stop somebody like that.

517
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,120
Speaker 1: I mean she's a hooper as well. She's gonna she's

518
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:09,640
Speaker 1: gonna play what you give her. And the main thing

519
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: was just a container mm hm. And she wasn't shooting

520
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: high percentages from the three, so we you know, give

521
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: her a little space, give her some space, play with space.

522
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 1: And she knocked down a couple of triples, but we'll

523
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: take those. I mean, she's out of ordinary for her

524
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 1: to make those type of shots. So the job was

525
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 1: a just container and that's a scout for l s.

526
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 1: U was just a boxer out. Yeah, box box them

527
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 1: out there. They're going to crash the boards. And that

528
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 1: was just the main thing. Container and box her out

529
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:42,119
Speaker 1: box box box her out box, box box. But that

530
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: was a whole message.

531
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet because they be crashing that glass, I'll

532
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 2: be watching.

533
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,919
Speaker 1: I would not want to be down there, like, please

534
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:50,879
Speaker 1: keep me on the periventer.

535
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 2: I'll hit a little bit for I'm not trying to

536
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:58,640
Speaker 2: be down there exactly. Yeah, but talking, we talked about

537
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,640
Speaker 2: your parents game handheld dog who we mentioned earlier, talk

538
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 2: to me about what it's like scouting somebody like her,

539
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 2: you know on ball schemes. I'm sure you're doing a

540
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 2: lot of different stuff with ball screens and whatnot. So

541
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,879
Speaker 2: what makes Hannah such a special player?

542
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: Honestly, it was just an end game adjustment from her

543
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 1: because as a freshman, you know, some freshman your high

544
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: school game doesn't really relate to college. So we really

545
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: didn't have that much scout on her. We just knew

546
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: that she's shifty, she can score the ball, and we

547
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 1: were in for a roode awakening because she did more

548
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 1: than that, and I do a lot of game room. Yeah,

549
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: it was just a lot of in game adjustments from

550
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: her because Sony Citron was the main party and Matty

551
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 1: Westpell was our party on the scot Of report, so

552
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: Hildalgo just gave us a rude awakening. So it was

553
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,360
Speaker 1: a lot of in game adjustment from her. But now

554
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 1: we know that she's a three level scorer and is

555
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: a very very good defender. Yes, well, I mean averaging

556
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,719
Speaker 1: as many steels as she is, Like, what that is crazy?

557
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: I think she has the Yeah, she has more steals

558
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 1: in me than my whole career in college. Me too.

559
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:12,640
Speaker 1: It's fine. Breaking too. Probably combined, she probably has more

560
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 1: steals us combined. She's still already passed. But you know,

561
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: it's cool. It's cool. Everybody has their strikes. It's fine. Yeah.

562
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 2: But the last player we'll get into is we talked

563
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 2: about o Miss earlier and I feel like somebody who's

564
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 2: really come into their own this year is Marquisha Davis.

565
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: And like having a slasher like her on the wing.

566
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,479
Speaker 1: She's a bucket and I like did not. I just

567
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: I feel like she's such a new player on the

568
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 1: on the rise for me. Yeah, no, she we had

569
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 1: Breezy Guarter. You know, Beeze's one of our good defenders

570
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 1: on our team. So yeah, we just had to get

571
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: get her out of rhythm. A lot of these players

572
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: are rhythm players, so we just we just had to

573
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 1: get her out of rhythm and make her do things

574
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: that she's not used to, like shooting three ball. She

575
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 1: doesn't have a hyph percentage shooting in the three ball,

576
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,199
Speaker 1: so pressure with space, but be ready for her to

577
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 1: cut and be ready for her to tack the basket

578
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: because she's really fast. So that was really our main

579
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: priorty was to do things that she would do at

580
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 1: the ordinary and get her out of rhythm and make

581
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:10,919
Speaker 1: her shoot threes.

582
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 2: Well back to you, superstar, Well dive into your basketball journey.

583
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 2: Grew grew up in Oceanside, California. Five siblings, started playing

584
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 2: ball at a young age.

585
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: And at ten you were already on I know you

586
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: were on the radar as a fellow CALLI girl, I over,

587
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 1: You're hearing about this young' and so cow And I'm like,

588
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,880
Speaker 1: first of all, isn't she in like middle school? Why

589
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 1: are we hearing about this ten year old? Ye?

590
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 2: But talk to me about playing sixteen yu travel ball

591
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 2: when you were just ten? Like I might need a

592
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 2: picture this, I might need something, but talk to me

593
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 2: about it.

594
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: Oh no, girl, you don't need to know. I'm gonna

595
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: get the picture. I'm gonna text the fam.

596
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 2: No.

597
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: But it was interesting. I mean, growing up with siblings,

598
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: older siblings, you're just used to being competitive and being

599
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: tossed around like rab doll and being you know, the

600
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: little one to be picked on. So it wasn't really

601
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: nothing new playing with older people. But I knew that

602
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: it would make me better as a player and as

603
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: a person, So it wasn't really, you know, that big

604
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: of a deal. But at the same time, it was

605
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: really fun to play with older people and knowing that

606
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 1: I can compete with these type of players, and knowing

607
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: that my siblings.

608
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 2: Have prepared me for this, so to prepare you for

609
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 2: anything like playing outside the cool de sac, it's a

610
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 2: lot of it's humble beginnings.

611
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 1: Humble beginnings, absolutely for sure.

612
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 2: And I know you went to the same high school

613
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 2: as Kelsey Plumb, and I remember hearing about how she

614
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 2: invited you to work out with her, and KP does

615
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 2: not invite people to work out with her, So for

616
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 2: you to be the only kid that she allowed, knowing

617
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 2: that you could keep up with her at that young

618
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 2: age and even push her was what.

619
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: Was that like?

620
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 2: Not only being able to work out with her at

621
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 2: such a young age, but I know she's a dolt,

622
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 2: She's a competitor guy, So what what is it like

623
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 2: getting to be in the gym with her that young man?

624
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: I love KP. She's been an inspiration in my life

625
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: ever since I met her at ten years old. But

626
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: being invited by someone like her, who is such a

627
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: great and amazing player, it just spoke to me how

628
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: I could be a great player as well. And knowing

629
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: that I have the skills and the IQ to be

630
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: someone like her and play at such a high stage

631
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: and hype or such a big platform. And knowing that

632
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: that I'm being invited by such a great player is

633
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: telling me that I'm doing something right and that I

634
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: should keep doing it.

635
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 2: Having somebody of her status that that young like point.

636
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: Out you, it's like, oh stuff, Like I like that,

637
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: I got to be up for this gym with you, girl.

638
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: But like, besides KP, who did you find yourself looking

639
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: up to women's basketball players when you were young to

640
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: maybe model or game after or take bits and pieces

641
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: from different players. Honestly, took a lot of bits and

642
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: pieces from a lot of different players. I couldn't really

643
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: name that one player because I wanted to model my

644
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 1: game after a lot of people. So I just took

645
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: little bits and pieces from each player and added that

646
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: to my game. And you know KP has she's a hooper.

647
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: Oh my god, she's a straight dog. Everyone knows that.

648
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: And so it was just amazing and blessing to have

649
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: an opportunity because not a lot of people have an

650
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: opportunity at such a young age to be with the

651
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: pro hooper like that. And so that that status, and

652
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: so I just took little bits and pieces from everyone's

653
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: game that I grew up watching, and I even took

654
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: some from my brothers. Even you know that I'm not

655
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: really that good. I'm just like, I'm just ring. But

656
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: I think like there's just little highlights here and there.

657
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: Knowing that I add little bits and pieces to my

658
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: game as well, oh for sure.

659
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 2: And I think that's what makes you such a great

660
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 2: well rounded player, is that your three level score and

661
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 2: you can't just guard.

662
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: You one way because you have all these different things.

663
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 2: It's like, okay, like we said earlier, if the first

664
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 2: shot doesn't fall, don't matter. I'm still impacting the game

665
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 2: in all these different ways, and if it does, you

666
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 2: better watch out because now I'm just so I think

667
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 2: it makes it such a hard scout, and I know

668
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 2: I had to deal with that, which was not fun.

669
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 1: Just want to let you know, talking.

670
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 2: A little bit about you know, us Cali girls in

671
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 2: the West Coast upbringing. I feel like West Coast basketball

672
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 2: gets a lot of hate and like West Coast has

673
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 2: some elite hoopers because people always like, oh, where the

674
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 2: best hoopers come from?

675
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: Texas, New York. I'm like California.

676
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, bro, talk to me about the Cali hoop culture

677
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 2: because I feel like we have some elite hoopers coming

678
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 2: out the West.

679
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: I mean it has changed a lot. I mean the

680
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: AU scheme even throughout the whole country. Yeah, not even California,

681
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: but I feel like just AU in general has changed

682
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean there's still some great Cali hoopers

683
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: hooping right now, but I just feel like everything has changed. Yeah,

684
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: And I can't really even speak on that because it's

685
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: not really even about basketball anymore, to be honest. It's

686
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: a lot of off course stuff and social media and like,

687
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody plays the love for the game

688
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: anymore because of how it's about money and media and

689
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: all that. It's crazy.

690
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,479
Speaker 2: Yeah no, I mean, well I'm asking you to talk

691
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 2: to me about that a little more. But I couldn't

692
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 2: agree more. I think that when we were growing up,

693
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 2: it was just like all of the best plays on

694
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 2: the Nike circuit because there wasn't the Adidas, there wasn't this,

695
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 2: there was like that.

696
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: It was like it was the Nike circuit and I

697
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: have TikTok. I was on like.

698
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 2: Musically and triller, like doing dumb stuff like that would

699
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 2: not my focus. Like, yeah, you pull up, and I

700
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 2: just feel like there wasn't the same like how overtime

701
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 2: is now, That's not how it was.

702
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: There was no like getting on the map.

703
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 2: With social media. It was either you're a hooper or

704
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 2: you're not.

705
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: And like, I think that there's so much more, like

706
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: you said, like the social media presences and that those

707
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: people will get blown up on this and that, and

708
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: then let's say you play them and you're like some

709
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: random hooper a town like we were. Yeah, Like I

710
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: grew up in there surfing beach town. Nobody knew who

711
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: I was. And I pull up and I'm like, let's

712
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: do it. And so talk to me a little bit

713
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: about what you see and kind of like that change

714
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,760
Speaker 1: of basketball culture about there's a lot of hype behind

715
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 1: it nowadays, and I feel like sometimes the hype is

716
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: backed up and sometimes it isn't. Yeah, it's hard. I

717
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: mean it's hard to judge now because you you know,

718
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 1: when you were younger, you had to be in the

719
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 1: gym to go actually see that player play. Instead of

720
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,879
Speaker 1: just looking up their name and seeing highlights of them,

721
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: you actually had to go to the gym to watch

722
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: them play. And it's just different now. I just feel

723
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: like people do it for views, for media and some

724
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 1: I mean, there are others that play for the love

725
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 1: of the game. But it's just hard to dictate how

726
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,800
Speaker 1: good of a player you are based on highlights because

727
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,959
Speaker 1: you just cut out the highlights that you do well

728
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: in and not put in the tiers you did or.

729
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 2: Like a highlight highlights, it looks like all American highlights.

730
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 2: I see somebody's highlight and I'm like, oh my god,

731
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 2: did the goat.

732
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: You go play? And you're like, oh, yeah, like you're

733
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: pretty good.

734
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 2: I thought I was about saying you like, my ankle's

735
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 2: broken every possession.

736
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: It's a real yeah, exactly. And it's just it's just

737
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 1: the basketball world and the AAU world is just a

738
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: whole different It's a whole different scheme now. And so

739
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: I'm happy I don't play an AU anymore nowadays, because

740
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: when you were younger, it was just about memories and

741
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 1: being with the girls that you were with and just

742
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: having so much fun with them and just the memories

743
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: that you created. That was the most fun about AU

744
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,359
Speaker 1: was just having so much fun with them off the court.

745
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, like take bonds you yeah, you bonds you so much,

746
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 2: like you don't even warm up for a game. You like,

747
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 2: eat some nachos, one right hand, layup, one left, and

748
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 2: forty coaches, let's go get a scholarship. It's crazy And

749
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 2: like exactly what you said about the highlight tape, I

750
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 2: feel like nowadays a college coach, I feel bad because

751
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 2: you could get catfished by like just in terms of

752
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 2: like their play. You see them, you're like, oh, she's

753
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 2: at the top of my list, and you pull up

754
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 2: and it's like, yeah, this recruit you what. Literally, it's

755
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 2: catfishing nowadays, which is why that was not a thing.

756
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 2: That was not a thing that was not But talk

757
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 2: to me a little bit about your recruiting process. You

758
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 2: were number eleven ranked recruit. But also what's different is

759
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 2: you went through your senior year of recruiting during COVID,

760
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 2: So like, did you take visits?

761
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: Did you not?

762
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,720
Speaker 2: What was that experience kind of like picking a school

763
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 2: during COVID.

764
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: Honestly, I committed before COVID, Oh you did. Yeah, I

765
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 1: committed a junior year, my junior summer year. So I

766
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: was going to play my last circuit when I committed Orgon, okay,

767
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,879
Speaker 1: and so I only took one visit. I thought five

768
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: was a lot, and I don't think I wanted another

769
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: visit because I think the home visit is what did

770
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: it with me because my family was surrounded with me,

771
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: and then the campus visit was also like it's a

772
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: little fun and knowing that I was going to go there.

773
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: So I only took one visit. I kind of knew

774
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 1: from the home visit that I wanted to play at Oregon,

775
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: and so I just was like, you know, I want

776
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:10,879
Speaker 1: to get this over with. I'm gonna commit to Orgon

777
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: before my summer summer circuit. Just have fun with it,

778
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 1: just go out and play and be who I am.

779
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to do that before the whole

780
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: senior thing and just focus on basketball instead of focusing

781
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: on a college decision.

782
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,399
Speaker 2: Well, shoot, that sounds wonderful. I took all five visits, so.

783
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: I was very incisive. I'm jealous that you knew.

784
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 2: But talk to me a little bit about because I

785
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 2: feel like picking a college is such a big decision,

786
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 2: and like you pick when you're seventeen, and that's a

787
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 2: big life decision. So talk to me a little bit

788
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 2: about what set organ apart for you was there any

789
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 2: other school that kind of was second to Orgon that

790
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 2: was close or was it always like when you know,

791
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 2: you know, when you come on a home visit, you

792
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 2: get the vibes you knew it was going to be Organ.

793
00:37:56,560 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: I actually had a top three. I had Believill Senego State,

794
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: you know, home being a home college, and then Organ. Yeah,

795
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: And so the reason why I didn't choose Louisville was

796
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: too far away from home. I wanted to stay on

797
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: the West Coast. I wanted to be close to family,

798
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: but far enough to where they couldn't you know, visit

799
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,439
Speaker 1: me all the time. And then I decided sanego State

800
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: because I'm a family person, you know, playing from her family,

801
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,919
Speaker 1: playing in front of them and knowing that I'm close

802
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 1: to home was dear to my heart. And then Organ

803
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: was just the spot where it was just perfect. It

804
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: was far away from home, but just enough to where

805
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be with me every day, and I had

806
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: some isolation from being back home, So it was really

807
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: just a West Coast vibe and being home and knowing

808
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: that I'm kind of close to home but far enough

809
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: to where I can be who I am, be solo

810
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 1: dolo and just have fun with it.

811
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, talk to me a little bit about your

812
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 2: freshman year. Organ It's a big jump obviously from high

813
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 2: school to colleg but also you're coming in behind a

814
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 2: class that just graduated with Sabrina, Ruthie Sattoo, like, there

815
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 2: was a lot of hype behind them. So coming in

816
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 2: starting freshman point guard, following up somebody like that class,

817
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,359
Speaker 2: did you feel any pressure moving into your freshman year

818
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 2: or expectations kind of uphold that standard that they had

819
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 2: set before you guys got there.

820
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: It was a little bit of pressure, especially with the

821
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: other four I came in with. We were the recruiting

822
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: class in the nation, so it was it was a

823
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: little bit of pressure. But it was hard as well

824
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: because of COVID. I mean, as you know, we had

825
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: to be isolated. We couldn't really spend time with each

826
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: other as much, and we were just stuck in our

827
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: apartments and we had to just be by ourselves. Even

828
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: though it was like that, it's still felt very close

829
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: with the freshmen, you know, I still talked to them

830
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 1: to this day. We're still besties. But it was just,

831
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 1: I mean, it was okay. It was an okay year

832
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: playing in front of sutouts. As you know, and I

833
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: mean your your journey through COVID was harder than us. Well,

834
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 1: our journey was hard. But tell me about you getting

835
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: left in Utah, because that's I didn't done. Girl. It

836
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: was a lot going into that, just a lot of

837
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:22,360
Speaker 1: political stuff that I won't get into. But it was just,

838
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 1: you know, we get to Utah. You know, COVID tests,

839
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 1: you gotta swamp the nose and everything, and come to

840
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,760
Speaker 1: find out three of the other girls were tested positive

841
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: and so they actually had to be helicopter back to Eugene.

842
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: And then yeah, they had to be helicopter because they

843
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:46,280
Speaker 1: were positive for COVID. And then as you know, COVID,

844
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 1: what was it contact something like that? Oh my gosh, yes,

845
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,839
Speaker 1: So it was contact tracing. So me and Mike we

846
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: were contact trace I think it was like fourteen minutes,

847
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: were contact traits for fourteen minutes. So yeah, there you go.

848
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 1: So they were gonna have they were gonna have me

849
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: and Mike stay in Utah for a week by ourselves

850
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: in a hotel room. They were literally gonna be like okay,

851
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: like you can door dash and like you can just

852
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: send us through his seats and everything. And we're like

853
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 1: you can't do nothing else, Like you can't like you're

854
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: not gonna leave me here. You can't get this like

855
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 1: a helicopter ride, Like you can't do that, like none

856
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: of that. Yeah. So Mark Campbell, God love him. Yeah,

857
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: he was og. He was a goat. He was like,

858
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: you know what, I'll drive you guys back to Eugene.

859
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: It was like it was like a thirteen hour drive.

860
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 1: And we were like Mark, like you don't really have

861
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: to do that. Like he was like no, like we

862
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: can't have you guys stuck here in Utah for a

863
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,280
Speaker 1: week and you know, bench out for yourselves and figure

864
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 1: things out yourselves. And he was just like, you know,

865
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 1: I'll drive you guys. And so we had we had

866
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 1: like a big SUV and then we had like a

867
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: and then we had like a plastic thing to like separate,

868
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: separate stop Mark from us. Yes, we were recording to

869
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: the car and so it was me and Mike in

870
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: the back and then Mark was by himself in the front,

871
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 1: and it was like taped up. Everything was skipped up

872
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,720
Speaker 1: in the car and like we were basically like two rooms,

873
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 1: like we were just separated from Mark and we would

874
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: just yell like Mark would like yell like, hey, are

875
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: you guys hungry? And we were like yeah, like can

876
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 1: we get like something to eat? And then like it

877
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: was just a crazy ride. I mean, thank you Mark

878
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: if you ever see this, but thank you for driving

879
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 1: us thirteen hours from Utah to Eugene. But it was

880
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: just a crazy time and like we had our pillows

881
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: in the back. Oh so me and Mike we're contact

882
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 1: tracing buddies. So I forgot about that. Oh my gosh,

883
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 1: that's actually funny.

884
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:55,320
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry for bringing up that trauma. So wow,

885
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 2: that's a lot. You probably dug that deep down, So

886
00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 2: sorry for ye.

887
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:03,760
Speaker 1: It's like deep down inside. So's okay, you're a survivor.

888
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 1: It's fine, you made it. But okay, so Oregon freshman year,

889
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: it's hard COVID. But I mean, you guys had a

890
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: great few next seasons. But I want to get into

891
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: the transfer portal. And I think that there's a lot

892
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 1: of misconceptions about what it's like nowadays, and there's a

893
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: lot of reasons that go into it. It's for some people,

894
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: they're like oh, you know, people are like, oh, playing

895
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: time this or she's not the star, so she's gonna leave.

896
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 2: But there's a lot of things that go into it.

897
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 2: So talk to me a little bit about what's the process,

898
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 2: Like was did you know did you have a school

899
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 2: in mind when you went to the portal or did

900
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 2: you just go in and be like I want to

901
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 2: find my new home and talk to a lot of

902
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 2: different coaches.

903
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: Honestly, I nswered my name in the portal and then

904
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: I think Mark got the head coaching job at TCU,

905
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, done, deal, Like I'm gonna

906
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:51,839
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to TCU. I'm gonna play for Mark

907
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: because he's the one that recruited me to Oregon. Yeah,

908
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,879
Speaker 1: and so I really loved him, and joby, I'm gonna

909
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: be a frog like oh absolutely, Like give me like

910
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,359
Speaker 1: send the papers, like you don't even got to talk

911
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: to me. And then I get a call from TVAMM.

912
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 1: She goes, hey, South Carolina wants to talk to you.

913
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:19,840
Speaker 1: What oh South Carolina? Like don Staley me, I'm like,

914
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: do they have your what? Like they want to talk

915
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: to me? Talk about Sorry, don no, not going to

916
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,839
Speaker 1: answer your call? Like that's crazy, Like who's gonna say

917
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: no to down? And so I was driving I get

918
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: a call from a from her mm hmm, and I

919
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 1: had to pull over and she's like, hey, this is Don.

920
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: This is coach Boyer as well from South Carolina, and

921
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: we just want to give you a call to know

922
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: that we're interested and that we want you and come

923
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: on over. And I'm like, okay, coach, like, let me

924
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: go on my parents real quick, and you know, let

925
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: him know that Don has called me the phone. I'm

926
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 1: blessing really hard. I'm like, wow, I just really talked

927
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: to And so it's funny because I called my dad

928
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: and I was like, Dad, guess who just called me.

929
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: He was like who. I was like, uh, South Carolina,

930
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: don't stay game Cocks, that's just who. That's who called me.

931
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: And he was like what and I was like yeah.

932
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,399
Speaker 1: We just started laughing hysterically and I was like yeah,

933
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: like they want to talk to you, they want to

934
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: schedule a visit, they want to get everything. And so

935
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: I mean, when you get a call from Dawn, you

936
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 1: know you got to take a visit. You gotta do

937
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:31,359
Speaker 1: the whole campus visit, you know all that stuff. So

938
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,879
Speaker 1: you know, from that, I was like, okay, yeah, South

939
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: Carolina just signed my name, Like just make it looking

940
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: from me already, like and I think let's stealed. It

941
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: was just how authentic she is the campus visit, that's

942
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: solidified to everything and knowing that, like she is who

943
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 1: she is on camera off the court, on the court,

944
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: And I think that's what got me the most, is

945
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: just how how authentic she is and how real she is.

946
00:45:58,160 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of coaches say they're real, but

947
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: not really real, like she'll say it in front of

948
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 1: your face. Oh yeah, Like she don't care, like she's

949
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: not afraid, Like like that's the type of person that

950
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 1: I wanted to play for, someone who will tell you

951
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: the real even though you don't want to hear it. Mhm.

952
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:17,399
Speaker 1: And so I was like, sorry, Mark, you know when

953
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: but I got to go to a different route. You know,

954
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: I'll love towards you in the program, but I just

955
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: felt like coaching that was South Can I was gonna

956
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: be the perfect fit for me.

957
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think that's so amazing that like from

958
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 2: one call with Dawn, you know, it's it's so hard

959
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 2: to say no, and it's like having a coach like

960
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,360
Speaker 2: that who is so honest, and it's also it's different

961
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 2: like she played and so when she tells you something

962
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 2: that you don't want to hear.

963
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 1: It's like, what am I gonna do? Say she doesn't

964
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: know what she's talking about, Like she knows, she knows exactly,

965
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 1: like she's chair Yeah, yeah, for sure. But it was

966
00:46:56,920 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 1: just man, I mean she called me the next day,

967
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: we already scheduled to visit and stuff like that, and

968
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 1: it's just like, yeah, I'm coming here, but I just

969
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: needed a few days to, you know, soak everything in

970
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: because this was gonna be a really important decision of

971
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: my life. Like it could have been a really bad

972
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:19,319
Speaker 1: or really great decision and ended up being a really

973
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 1: great decision. So everyone can have their misconceptions about the

974
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 1: transfer portal and everything about that, but I ended up

975
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: getting the the greater good of that aspect.

976
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're where you're supposed to be, which is amazing.

977
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 2: I'm so happy for you. But it's hard. Transferring is hard.

978
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, you go through the recruiting

979
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 2: process all over again, which isn't the most fun, but

980
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 2: you pull up to a new campus and it's kind

981
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,359
Speaker 2: of like a bit of freshman nerves all over again.

982
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:46,760
Speaker 1: You're the new kid on campus.

983
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:48,919
Speaker 2: You're coming into a team, who's in the final four

984
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 2: last year? So what was it kind of like, you know,

985
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 2: Colombia is very different from Eugene, So what was it

986
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 2: like the adjustments getting there? I bet Don's practices are hard,

987
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 2: like just all those different things that goes into that transition.

988
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 2: Talk to me about that adjustment period.

989
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: Oh man, just being Mack great memories. It was just

990
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: so much fun. I think coming in it was actually

991
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 1: a new team as well. You have the freshmans graduated,

992
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: You had players that haven't really played on such a

993
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 1: big platform because they were playing it behind such a

994
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 1: great starting five, and you know the freshies, and so

995
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: I think all around, I came into a new team

996
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: as a new player, So it kind of flowed in

997
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,359
Speaker 1: very well. It was a very smooth transition from day one,

998
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 1: and you can kind of feel it from the from

999
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: the summer man then summer workouts. In summer practices were

1000
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: different on and off the court. Girl, I mean it

1001
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 1: was crazy, like there was some off court stuff that

1002
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 1: was like why are you doing this? Like like why

1003
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 1: are you acting like that? Like, you know, as a

1004
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: senior and you see them as a freshman, I'm like, okay,

1005
00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: but you know, freshmen never really acted like that, but

1006
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: it is like, you know, we had to run, We

1007
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 1: had to run for things that were so unnecessary because

1008
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: people didn't want to take care business off the court.

1009
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 1: And so in my mind, I was like, dang, did

1010
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 1: I really make the right decision? Like what is this?

1011
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 1: Because why why am I running for this and that?

1012
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 1: And like I think everyone was just like are we

1013
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 1: going to be a good team? Like what kind of

1014
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: team are we going to be? Because of how much

1015
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:27,280
Speaker 1: we were like off like this stuff off the court.

1016
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: It was just like really, like are we really gonna

1017
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: do this? Like you didn't know what was going to

1018
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: happen the day after, Like, yeah, them summer workouts were crazy,

1019
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 1: but it was very funny. I mean looking back at

1020
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: it now and being the number one team in the country,

1021
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 1: we didn't not think we was going to be the

1022
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 1: number one team in the country the way we were

1023
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:52,839
Speaker 1: acting and being in practice and being in them workouts.

1024
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, Don's always gonna get her team straight,

1025
00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: no matter that, she's gonna get them disciplined, is gonna

1026
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: get them right, and so yeah, looking back at it,

1027
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 1: I think everyone's gonna agree with me and how much

1028
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: doubt we have each other the growth, yea, how much

1029
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: doubt we had with each other during the summer. It

1030
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: was like, Wow, what kind of team are we going

1031
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:16,799
Speaker 1: to be? Like are we even gonna be in the

1032
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 1: top ten? Like we're not, We're not getting down to

1033
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:24,320
Speaker 1: business as we should be. But man, things have changed

1034
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 1: and our journey as a team has been a great one. Yeah. Well,

1035
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: I mean from the sounds of that, and then you

1036
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:34,319
Speaker 1: guys get kind of I mean, it kind of felt

1037
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:38,359
Speaker 1: like a disrespectful number six preseason ranking, and so it's like,

1038
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 1: you know, you know you guys like you, I feel like,

1039
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,239
Speaker 1: being as close as I am with Aria, I was

1040
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: like second hand disrespected. I'm like, oh, I'm in there.

1041
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 2: What And so, like a lot of people said, it's

1042
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,359
Speaker 2: a rebuilding year, but like you said, Don's gonna whip

1043
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 2: ya onto shape. And it's all of those people who

1044
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 2: are playing behind in that amazing class. But at the

1045
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 2: same time, it's like they weren't playing behind because they

1046
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 2: didn't have the skill. It was just because it's the

1047
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:05,919
Speaker 2: seniors that were all over.

1048
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: So much talent exactly.

1049
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,759
Speaker 2: So talk to me a little bit about kind of

1050
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 2: that message that Don had to you guys coming off

1051
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 2: the summer that it sounds like you guys had what

1052
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 2: was that message that kind of propelled you guys into

1053
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 2: starting off with four hundred point games, blowing out Notre

1054
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 2: Dame in Parish, just starting off so hot, and it's

1055
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 2: continued throughout the rest of the year.

1056
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, we didn't even think it was going to

1057
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: be ranked that high as a new team. That's why

1058
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: you hear it as disrespect. I was like, I'm surprised

1059
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: we didn't rank lower, like oh, like double digit, like

1060
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: double digit ranking. Okay, Yeah, so hearing like we were

1061
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: number six, we were a bit shocked because of how

1062
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,360
Speaker 1: you know, as I said, in the summer, and just

1063
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:49,800
Speaker 1: how everyone is saying how it was going to be

1064
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: a rebuilding year. So I didn't take it as disrespect.

1065
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: I took it as like, wow, what are they talking about?

1066
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: Like I expected us to be in a double digit

1067
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: ranking for sure, But it's just the growth, you know,

1068
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: as you talked about, and just how everything has come

1069
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 1: into place, and how don has whipped our team into shape,

1070
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: and knowing that the teams that she's had in the past,

1071
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: I'm sure they didn't start out as we did as well.

1072
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: Knowing that, Yeah, but yeah, it was just different. It's

1073
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: a different vibe now. But in the summer you can

1074
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 1: talk to every one of us and saying that we

1075
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 1: did not think it was gonna be like.

1076
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 2: This, Well you know what, we're here now, you're here

1077
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 2: now and you're killing it. But coming in to the team,

1078
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:43,600
Speaker 2: like you said, it was kind of like a lot

1079
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 2: of new pieces being at it.

1080
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 1: So you feel like it was the same.

1081
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:49,360
Speaker 2: So what role did you have a certain role that

1082
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:50,879
Speaker 2: you were like, Okay, I'm going to feel this, I'm

1083
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 2: going to be this for the team or were you

1084
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 2: just kind of coming in like I want to make

1085
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 2: an impact in any way? I can't what were the

1086
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 2: vibes because also your senior year, So what were the

1087
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:01,399
Speaker 2: vibes coming in and how did you want to kind

1088
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 2: of assert yourself into the team.

1089
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: One thing you and everyone else knew what I was

1090
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: going to be for this team. A shooter. I I

1091
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,359
Speaker 1: they listed me as a shooter. So I was like, Okay,

1092
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come in and shoot. Okay's no big deal,

1093
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 1: and that's what I do. Yeah, okay, But I just

1094
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 1: wanted to come in and make an impact, immediate impact,

1095
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 1: a leadership impact, and I knew that they was going

1096
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:28,360
Speaker 1: to need my you know, being a veteran and being

1097
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: on a college stage for the past four years, I

1098
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: knew they was going to need that type of leadership

1099
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 1: coming in and seniority, and so I just wanted to

1100
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: be a leader and knowing that I could be a

1101
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 1: voice that they can turn to, and knowing that they

1102
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: can turn to me, and knowing that I've been in

1103
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:46,239
Speaker 1: it for quite a while, I kind of know what

1104
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. But at the same time I could

1105
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: also learn from young players and knowing that I can

1106
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: be this leader that they can turn to, and know

1107
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 1: that that I could lead and be the player that

1108
00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 1: I know I could be and be that missing piece

1109
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 1: that they needed that they've been needed. So it was

1110
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:03,479
Speaker 1: kind of a refreshing start.

1111
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:06,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that's that makes the best type

1112
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 2: of leader is somebody who is so experienced, is so wise,

1113
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:11,879
Speaker 2: but at the same time you're humble enough to still

1114
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 2: learn from the younger players because you can always learn.

1115
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 1: And so talk to me a.

1116
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 2: Little bit about being that veteran voice and like building

1117
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 2: the chemistry because it's a lot of new players and

1118
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 2: a lot of new players that are in new Roles.

1119
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 2: So talk to me about coming from that summer that

1120
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,479
Speaker 2: we've heard about. How long did it take to build

1121
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:31,399
Speaker 2: that chemistry to where you guys are out now.

1122
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 1: It definitely took the second part of the summer, Okay,

1123
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:38,400
Speaker 1: you know, the first part was just to get to

1124
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:41,399
Speaker 1: know everyone, know who they are, and know what type

1125
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: of person they are on and off the court. But

1126
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:45,800
Speaker 1: we do have this thing that we did in the

1127
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 1: summer called Final four Fridays with our shamth conditioning coach,

1128
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: Mally Mally Benetti. So four Fridays is where as a

1129
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 1: team we are tested or as challenged and like we

1130
00:54:57,920 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: do like different things as a team, and then we

1131
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:02,680
Speaker 1: have to to accomplish a goal as a team because

1132
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:04,719
Speaker 1: as a team, you you are looking forward to the

1133
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 1: Final four. So in order to the Final four, you

1134
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 1: gotta be a team. You gotta push each other, you

1135
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:11,799
Speaker 1: gotta compete with each other, you gotta challenge each other.

1136
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:16,760
Speaker 1: So on those Fridays, everyone was looking towards Final four Fridays,

1137
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 1: but at the same time it was death. Oh yeah.

1138
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,160
Speaker 1: So like one Friday, like we'd like go to a

1139
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 1: hill and we'd like race each other and compete and

1140
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 1: like their medicine balls up the up the hill, or

1141
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 1: you like do do plate pushes up the hill, and

1142
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 1: so you just had to like compete. Yes, girl, yes, yes,

1143
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:40,879
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. It was so bad. It was it

1144
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: was really bad. That was like my first Final four Friday.

1145
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:47,160
Speaker 1: It was terrible mm hmm, but fun at the same time.

1146
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 1: So it was just really those type of days that

1147
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:52,359
Speaker 1: we looked towards as a team because we had to

1148
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 1: be a team. You had to push each other, you

1149
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 1: had to compete with each other because in order to

1150
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: get to the Final four, as you know, you had

1151
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 1: to be a team and you have to have each

1152
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: other's back and you have to trust each other and

1153
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: knowing that you're going to do your part and everyone

1154
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: else is going to do their part. So those were

1155
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:10,319
Speaker 1: team bonding moments as well, and then we did those

1156
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 1: every Friday. The last one we did was a riverwalk

1157
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 1: and so we just like, I think it was like

1158
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 1: a couple miles or something like that, and then at

1159
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:18,960
Speaker 1: the end we had like a water boom fight to

1160
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:22,319
Speaker 1: end it. So that was really fun. And so what

1161
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 1: Bonded does really well was just off court and stuff

1162
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 1: and just bonding, like having each other's presence with each

1163
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: other and you know how it is, you know, late nights. Yeah,

1164
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:36,399
Speaker 1: I can't speak too much into it, but them late

1165
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 1: night bonding moments and just having fun with each other

1166
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 1: and knowing that you know, you generally love to be

1167
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 1: around each other and not like fake energy and just

1168
00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 1: everything was just real, genuine love.

1169
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:50,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's special. I think you can tell, like when

1170
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 2: you watch you guys being in close games, games like

1171
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 2: a South Carolina, that off court chemistry is what allows

1172
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:57,840
Speaker 2: you to stay in tune with one another.

1173
00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 1: There's never like I feel like a lot.

1174
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 2: Of teams can be so great, but when it gets

1175
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 2: to chronchime, things get hard. If they don't have that chemistry,

1176
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,799
Speaker 2: that's when things break down. That's when people bicker, That's

1177
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:10,400
Speaker 2: when that's what sets apart a Final four team. And

1178
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:14,280
Speaker 2: so we talked about this before. The deepness very annoying

1179
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 2: to other teams. Great for you, but so people are like,

1180
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 2: you know, you talked about Camilla, you got Ashland, Raven,

1181
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 2: Chloe Sonight, like the list just goes on and on

1182
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:27,479
Speaker 2: and on. Talk to me about beyond the talent. It's

1183
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 2: what makes you guys so great. In my opinion, is

1184
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 2: that everybody buys into their role, right, it's gonna be

1185
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 2: somebody's night every night.

1186
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 1: And you guys are always so hyped up.

1187
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 2: Like even when you're on the sideline and somebody's going crazy,

1188
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 2: I see you getting lit.

1189
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 1: So talk to me.

1190
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:44,360
Speaker 2: About just like the chemistry of being on a team

1191
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 2: like that, with all these different superstars who are able

1192
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:49,080
Speaker 2: to buy into their role for the greater good.

1193
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:51,080
Speaker 1: How fun is it to be in a locker room

1194
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 1: like that? Man, It's so fun. I mean, as you

1195
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 1: can tell on the court, we just generally love each other.

1196
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 1: And I think, yeah, that's what also separates from other

1197
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:04,120
Speaker 1: teams is how genuinely close we are with each other

1198
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:06,040
Speaker 1: and how much we actually love each other, and how

1199
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 1: everyone's just bought in too winning. I think a lot

1200
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: of people get into the individual stats and scoring this,

1201
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: and you know, how many assists did I get this game,

1202
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 1: or how many rebounds and how many points did I score?

1203
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 1: But I think what separates us as well is just

1204
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:22,240
Speaker 1: how everyone just wants to win, no matter how we

1205
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 1: get there. Everyone just wants to win. And that's how

1206
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:27,919
Speaker 1: they keep the main thing the main thing, and that's

1207
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 1: to win. You know, everyone's just going to buy into

1208
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:32,479
Speaker 1: their role if they want to win, and if you don't,

1209
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:35,320
Speaker 1: then that's just saying that you're a selfish player and

1210
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 1: that you know you don't want to be on that

1211
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 1: type of team because you're just looking within yourself instead

1212
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 1: of as a team. And so everyone just wants to win,

1213
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 1: and it's just an effective energy that everyone wants to

1214
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 1: buy off on. And so that's the main goal is

1215
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 1: to win. Yeah, no one's going to remember how many

1216
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: points scored against this team or like that. Just everyone

1217
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: Everyone's going to remember the undefeated team or like the

1218
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 1: team that like went all the way because of how

1219
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:06,000
Speaker 1: they they were dominating teams. Like everyone's gonna remember that,

1220
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:08,560
Speaker 1: but they're not to remember individual stats or like stuff

1221
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 1: like that. So it's just crazy to think how people

1222
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 1: just think about individual stats and like they just want

1223
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 1: to score this many points when at the end of

1224
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 1: the game, it matters if you win or lose.

1225
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:23,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like if I have like fifty points and I lose,

1226
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:26,320
Speaker 2: I don't care I lost. Like I want to win.

1227
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 2: That's that's the main thing. And I think you said

1228
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:33,480
Speaker 2: that so beautifully. Turning it back to you individually, talk

1229
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 2: to me about where you feel you've had the most

1230
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,439
Speaker 2: growth in your game. Moving to South Carolina, I've heard

1231
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 2: you talk about defense improving. Tell me about what is

1232
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 2: like that thing where you're like, yeah, like I can

1233
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 2: really see a growth area in myself in this.

1234
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: I just said defense. I think everyone knows, yeah, you

1235
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 1: know on the pack, you know, you don't really you know,

1236
00:59:57,280 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 1: need a movie of the puppies really well, So I

1237
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:06,480
Speaker 1: say defense and just picking good shots. I think that's

1238
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 1: what has grown my game a lot, picking and choosing

1239
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 1: good and bad shots. And I think that's what has

1240
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 1: grown a lot in my game. I know a lot

1241
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 1: of times I could be shooting bad shots, but then

1242
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's actually a good shot. Yeah,

1243
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 1: And so I think that's what I've seen a lot

1244
01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:27,440
Speaker 1: growth in my game playing here at South Carolina is

1245
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:31,440
Speaker 1: choosing my spots and choosing what is good shots for

1246
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:34,480
Speaker 1: me and putting people in a position where they could

1247
01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 1: score easily. And then another one is patience. Definitely patients

1248
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 1: on the court. I'm still learning how a lot of

1249
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: these young kids don't have the IQ as much as

1250
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: I do, and so I have to be directive. I

1251
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 1: have to use my voice and direct them to roll.

1252
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 1: I gotta tell them roll, you gotta roll, you gotta roll,

1253
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 1: or you got to be like go to a corner,

1254
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 1: go to a corner, spacing, spacing, You're like, hey, two man, game,

1255
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: do this, do that. So I've been seeing a lot

1256
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: of that grow in my game. So I'm gonna have

1257
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 1: to say those things, well, those are all great things.

1258
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 2: Those are all great things, And just my opportunity to

1259
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 2: give you some flowers right now. I feel like we

1260
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 2: first met at USA Trials and I remember just clicking

1261
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:21,840
Speaker 2: and like we are very different people today, but back

1262
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 2: then just a bunch of high energy weirdos.

1263
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1264
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 2: Like seeing you now and the growth and just like

1265
01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:32,880
Speaker 2: being a fan of yours genuinely, not only on the court,

1266
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:35,600
Speaker 2: but just as a person, and like you're the best

1267
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 2: what best three point percent of the NCAA right now,

1268
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:41,439
Speaker 2: Seeing you, know you overcoming and battling injuries and every

1269
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:43,960
Speaker 2: single time coming back stronger than you were before.

1270
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:46,640
Speaker 1: I think it's so special. And like hearing that you're

1271
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:49,560
Speaker 1: a vet on a team now running the show is

1272
01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:56,120
Speaker 1: so old. Like you're over here bossing around kids. That's crazy.

1273
01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:59,120
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I know. I never I would have

1274
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:02,960
Speaker 1: seen myself doing that. Here here you are here. You

1275
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 1: are a grown woman, proud, proud.

1276
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:09,600
Speaker 2: But before we get into our last section, the vibe check,

1277
01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 2: which is gonna be rapid fire, one of my favorite

1278
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:15,360
Speaker 2: things to do is ask people like outrageous hypotheticals or

1279
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:17,200
Speaker 2: would you rather? So you're gonna be the guinea pig,

1280
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 2: so you're welcome in advances. So my question of the

1281
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 2: day for you, Tahina is this is gonna be so random.

1282
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:31,959
Speaker 2: What is the largest animal that you think you could

1283
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:35,320
Speaker 2: be in a fistfight? Okay, and here's the parameters. It's

1284
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 2: got get like, you know, give yourself some props here,

1285
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 2: But it is a fist fight. There's no weapons, and

1286
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 2: you're in that animal's terrain. So I'll give you some

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Speaker 2: time to think. For me, I think I could take

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Speaker 2: a giraffe. And I tell you I've been I've been

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Speaker 2: shruck down. People tell me, no, I'm going for the knees.

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01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:55,840
Speaker 2: I'm knocking it down and I'm taking it out. I

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Speaker 2: got I'm beating a giraffe.

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Speaker 1: So what was literally my first animal that I thought

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Speaker 1: of though? Oh my god, Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: You can do it. You can do it exactly. I

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01:03:10,040 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 1: think I had to do the draft. That's actually that's

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Speaker 1: literally the first animal that came to mind, like the

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Speaker 1: largest animal something like wind. Yeah, where have you been?

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01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:25,440
Speaker 1: That's literally like the first animal that came Like, you

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01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 1: can't beat a hippo. I've seen TikTok videos of them,

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Speaker 1: have you? Oh my god? You know they sink to

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01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:33,200
Speaker 1: the bottom of the water that they're running. They're running

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01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the river and they're actually fast

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01:03:35,840 --> 01:03:40,479
Speaker 1: on lane. Yeah I'm scared of yeah. No, yeah, same

1304
01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:43,560
Speaker 1: like all these TikTok videos. Oh my gosh, TikTok is

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01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:46,720
Speaker 1: my Google. That's how I educate myself these days. Absolutely

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01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 1: absolutely yeah, I need the visual how to keep up

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01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:51,240
Speaker 1: with the new age. Yeah absolutely, Yeah.

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01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:53,640
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm glad we agree. But now we'll get into

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01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:56,560
Speaker 2: our five check. I'm gonna ask you some rapid fire questions.

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01:03:56,760 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 2: Some guests have not understood the rapid fire part. So

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Speaker 2: I that you're you're gonna do great. You're gonna do great.

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01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:04,320
Speaker 1: I believe.

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01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:08,520
Speaker 2: Starting off, we're gonna do what's the drill that you

1314
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:10,000
Speaker 2: never want to see on the practice plan?

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01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 1: We knowing? Oh my gosh, I hate we know.

1316
01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:16,400
Speaker 2: Al told us about this last year.

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01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:17,640
Speaker 1: It sounds horrible.

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01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:21,560
Speaker 2: It's Waynea wing sucks because we did it during the

1319
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 2: USA training camp. We were all like, Sean, what do

1320
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:25,880
Speaker 2: we what are we doing?

1321
01:04:26,720 --> 01:04:28,919
Speaker 1: Like gosh, girl, especially in the summer. Oh my gosh,

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01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 1: that was the worst show ever because we were all

1323
01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:32,560
Speaker 1: out of shape and they kept making us do it

1324
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:34,920
Speaker 1: because we weren't finishing it. But now we do it

1325
01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 1: before game days. But yeah, we knowing guns it out. Okay,

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01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 1: we're good.

1327
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:41,960
Speaker 2: Okay, next one game winning shot or game winning steel.

1328
01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:44,080
Speaker 1: Game winning shot, absolutely okay.

1329
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 2: Group TikTok or solo TikTok, group.

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01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 1: TikTok so so because yeah, yeah, I can't be teaching

1331
01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:57,920
Speaker 1: them and waiting for them to learn TikTok.

1332
01:04:57,720 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 2: Exactly like pick it up. It's I get so frustrated.

1333
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:03,320
Speaker 1: Pick it up. Okay.

1334
01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 2: Where's the hardest place to play on the road?

1335
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:08,960
Speaker 1: L s U? Absolutely, I was gonna say we talked

1336
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:09,960
Speaker 1: about earlier. L Su.

1337
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:13,200
Speaker 2: Okay, who's the biggest trash talker? It could be on

1338
01:05:13,240 --> 01:05:16,120
Speaker 2: your team or somebody else that you played against.

1339
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:26,120
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Ashlan really yes, okay, it's crazy, especially oh.

1340
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:28,320
Speaker 2: I'll look out for you know, none of that, None

1341
01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 2: of that, Okay, next question, biggest flopper, same same principle.

1342
01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:34,320
Speaker 1: It could be on your team or somebody else.

1343
01:05:38,040 --> 01:05:42,920
Speaker 2: Is she I'm sorry, it's okay, it's okay, everybody.

1344
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:46,280
Speaker 1: You need to tell it every now and then it's okay,

1345
01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:47,000
Speaker 1: it's okay.

1346
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:49,520
Speaker 2: And you know what, she's probably a great actress. She'll

1347
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:54,560
Speaker 2: still get the call. She deserves it. What's your biggest basketball.

1348
01:05:55,880 --> 01:06:04,120
Speaker 1: Oh? When practice players do abnormal things like go, you're

1349
01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 1: going too fast? Like, oh yeah, just players get kissing

1350
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:10,040
Speaker 1: me off, like it's absolutely, like when they don't do

1351
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 1: their job, like why are you going fast when we're

1352
01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:13,960
Speaker 1: just going like fifty percent?

1353
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:16,720
Speaker 2: Like especially during scout, what are we doing?

1354
01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 1: Oh my god? Absolutely, I'm like, bro. And then the

1355
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 1: coaches get mad at you, and it's like, bro, well

1356
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 1: he's going like one hundred while I'm going like thirty percent,

1357
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:28,600
Speaker 1: Like broea, give me a break. Come come on now.

1358
01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:34,800
Speaker 1: That's another one and then another one's charges? How many

1359
01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:37,320
Speaker 1: charges in our game? You take out the restricted circle?

1360
01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:40,960
Speaker 1: What is a restricted circle there? For? If you're like, ye,

1361
01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:43,320
Speaker 1: take out the charges, come on, get in the weight room.

1362
01:06:43,560 --> 01:06:45,520
Speaker 1: Like that's a hot take. That's a hot take. I

1363
01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:45,960
Speaker 1: like it.

1364
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:49,240
Speaker 2: Kiss me personally, I'm gonna just take the fount I'm

1365
01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:50,000
Speaker 2: trying to block you.

1366
01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:53,160
Speaker 1: I'm not taking no charge. What that's great? Absolutely, like

1367
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:55,840
Speaker 1: take out the charges, bro, Like come on now, yeah, yeah,

1368
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:58,680
Speaker 1: the game. I agree, come on with you. You take

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01:06:58,680 --> 01:07:01,120
Speaker 1: out the restricted circle. We don't need none of that.

1370
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Speaker 2: Okay, this is this is one of my favorite questions

1371
01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:07,240
Speaker 2: is who is your celebrity lookalike? If you feel like

1372
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:08,880
Speaker 2: you have one, or you've been told you look like.

1373
01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:15,760
Speaker 1: Somebody, well, I don't look like nobody of God, one

1374
01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:19,240
Speaker 1: of a kind. Great answer. This might be like Mamana

1375
01:07:19,640 --> 01:07:23,120
Speaker 1: like I know right, Like.

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01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:27,800
Speaker 2: Geez, you're that's that's I love it.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

1378
01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:32,760
Speaker 2: Someone who would you pick as your teammate in like

1379
01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:34,400
Speaker 2: a two on two game? And it can't be one

1380
01:07:34,440 --> 01:07:36,160
Speaker 2: of your current South Carolina teammates?

1381
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:37,640
Speaker 1: Oh okay?

1382
01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:42,479
Speaker 2: Maybe anybody ever? Any women Hooper ever?

1383
01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:49,280
Speaker 1: Like ever? Yeah? Time of My first thought was Cambrink.

1384
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:53,320
Speaker 2: Oh okay, boom pick I like it.

1385
01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:56,040
Speaker 1: I like it. That's a good one. Okay.

1386
01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:58,439
Speaker 2: What is your favorite pregame hype song?

1387
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:04,680
Speaker 1: My song? Yeah, oh doing so good? You've been doing

1388
01:08:04,720 --> 01:08:09,440
Speaker 1: so good. I gotta go. Oh yeah, that's a good

1389
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 1: ordinary love calm gets the heart rate down.

1390
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,000
Speaker 2: That's my type of stuff. That's my type of stuff

1391
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:17,400
Speaker 2: right there.

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Speaker 1: I like it. Okay.

1393
01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:22,559
Speaker 2: Then our last question is what's your best impersonation of don.

1394
01:08:23,479 --> 01:08:31,599
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I gotta get this paper here. Oh see,

1395
01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:37,920
Speaker 1: she all performed rolled up paper. I got this. Oh

1396
01:08:38,120 --> 01:08:44,120
Speaker 1: she goes like like she would just use this paper

1397
01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:47,599
Speaker 1: like everything. She loves the proph. She loves the prop

1398
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:50,640
Speaker 1: I think another one was Fagan. She's gonna hate me

1399
01:08:50,680 --> 01:08:54,920
Speaker 1: for this, but oh, let's hear it. She's always like,

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01:08:55,439 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 1: my god, what are you doing? What kind of shot

1401
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:05,320
Speaker 1: is that? Oh it's just like Vegan's gonna hate me

1402
01:09:05,360 --> 01:09:08,360
Speaker 1: for that. But it's okay. We all we always laugh

1403
01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:10,920
Speaker 1: about that one. But it's just I feel like every

1404
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:13,800
Speaker 1: coach has a name that they just love to they

1405
01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:16,639
Speaker 1: love to yell. I feel bad that's Vegan, but every

1406
01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:19,439
Speaker 1: coach has one. Oh that's good.

1407
01:09:20,280 --> 01:09:23,639
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, Tahina, thank you so much for coming on.

1408
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:26,160
Speaker 1: This has been such a blast. Yeah, I know, it's

1409
01:09:26,160 --> 01:09:28,040
Speaker 1: been so much fun. Thank you for giving me this.

1410
01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 1: I'll return to talk to you and just talk about everything.

1411
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 1: And you're killing it.

1412
01:09:33,240 --> 01:09:35,880
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.

1413
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:38,920
Speaker 1: Uh. Yeah, you deserve the flowers that you give as well,

1414
01:09:39,040 --> 01:09:42,960
Speaker 1: so you should get some flowers back girl, the water works.

1415
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:44,960
Speaker 1: Stop it, girl, I don't do that.

1416
01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:49,439
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, to you, Thank you so much.

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01:09:49,280 --> 01:09:50,719
Speaker 1: To everybody for listening.

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Speaker 2: We will be back next week with another episode of

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