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