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Speaker 2: It was cool.

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Speaker 1: I learned a lot freshman year about myself, about my fight,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff, and so coming in this year, I

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Speaker 1: being the best shit of my life. So we got

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Speaker 1: a little joke here no undershirt. So I'm not wearing

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Speaker 1: no undershirt this year because I got lost now, but

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Speaker 1: I be Yeah, I've I've been in the weight room

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Speaker 1: how that carries over.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to sometimes.

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Speaker 4: I hope today we've got the future of college basketball

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Speaker 4: on the pod. Quit Humble Bragg McDonald's All American two

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Speaker 4: times fee A gold medalist, Pack twelve All Freshman team

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Speaker 4: none other than the Arizona superstar Jado Williams.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for coming on the pod.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me man, Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 3: Of course.

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Speaker 4: Well, a quick icebreaker before we hop into things. What

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Speaker 4: was the first concert that you ever went to.

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Speaker 1: Actually, I just went to my first concert two days ago.

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Speaker 2: It was Soldier Boy.

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Speaker 3: No way was Oh my god. I feel like I

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Speaker 2: I think, yes, I was.

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Speaker 3: I would have left that concert sweating make up.

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Speaker 1: N We dressed up like Soldier Boy. We had the

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Speaker 2: So we had a blast.

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Speaker 3: That's the best. Just goofing up.

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Speaker 4: I feel like that's what I would do at a

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Speaker 4: But yeah, let's talk about your off season. I know

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Speaker 1: I did a thing with Overtime in Atlanta that was

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Speaker 1: So I thought that was really cool. I think that

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, overtime stuff is so cool the way that

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Speaker 4: what's the best team Bonnie activity that you guys have

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Speaker 1: Honestly, just like a little kickback you have, Like we

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Speaker 1: And it's like draw ten and like splip cards and

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Speaker 4: Oh no, yeah, that would definitely break some relationships. I'm

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Speaker 3: You know, it's only a year.

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Speaker 4: What do you feel like it was like and how

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Speaker 1: I think growing up PAC twelve was something I always

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Speaker 1: The teams are smart, the coaches are smart. You know

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Speaker 1: It's more like bully ball. They got bigger bigs they're

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Speaker 1: And so now we're coming in. We got a whole

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Speaker 1: So they was like, oh my god, Like we're actually

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Speaker 3: Now you're like, what is this?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think everyone's super excited just to see the difference.

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Speaker 2: For me, I'm excited. I get to go back home.

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Speaker 1: I'm from Kansas City, so we get to play Ku,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that'll be so great. I didn't even think about that.

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Speaker 4: I forgot you from Kansas City, but that'll be so fun.

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Speaker 4: And I feel like you talked about, it's just completely

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Speaker 3: And I feel like the Pac twelve is very high Q.

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Speaker 4: It's very set driven, and everybody is very skilled, and

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say a team in particular.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm excited to go back to Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: Like a lot of my friends are on those teams

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Speaker 2: Honestly, it's heavy guard play.

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna play a lot of like one

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Speaker 1: So I'm super excited for that, just to compete against

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, you guys already have a great crowd.

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Speaker 4: I remember playing there and it would be jumping no

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 1: Like last year when we played Stanford here, we got

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, I always fear you guys, said seven people,

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Speaker 4: but y'all were a strong seven for real. I feel

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Speaker 4: y'all will do what you did last year with small

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Speaker 1: We started three freshmen and like one of the freshmen,

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Speaker 2: This is what you can do and then just carry on.

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Speaker 1: So like everyone really just came out of their comfort zone,

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Speaker 2: I think we were all best friends.

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Speaker 1: Like you don't have the opportunity to have no dramma

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Speaker 1: We literally keep everyone because it wasn't expensive like it.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think we had a blast last year.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's great.

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Speaker 4: And speaking of Skyler Jones, I feel like this is

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Speaker 4: have you blind rank these next five college duos. You

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Speaker 4: I'm with you, Okay, first one, NC State Rivers and

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Speaker 1: They were my dogs. I'm'na have to say. I'ma have

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Speaker 4: Okay, Yukon, we got Paige and then we can have

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Speaker 4: Two two all right, South Carolina Raven Johnson and my

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Speaker 1: They don't deserve to be at five, but like all

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Speaker 4: All right, So roll five and then last one at

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Speaker 4: the number four spot Notre Dame, Olivia Miles and Hannah

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's they all need to be at number even.

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Speaker 4: I would say, I feel like they're all like one,

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Speaker 4: A lot of the Pac twelve guards now going to

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Speaker 4: And so I want you to give me maybe a

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Speaker 4: And we'll start with TVO. Now, what USC telea Vana Hoffin.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we played them last year at Oregon State. Been

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Speaker 4: It's so hard watching the PAC twelve when you know

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Speaker 4: And I think even like Charlie's Ledger Walker from while

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Speaker 4: All of that led to you blowing up in social media,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Jordan, it's not that deep, Like I don't care,

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Speaker 2: I was just having fun being a kid.

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Speaker 4: And I feel like it's hard when you first blow

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Speaker 2: And no, I didn't buy none.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, Christmas presents. I go crazy on Christmas just

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Speaker 4: Hey, I mean, I think that's a smart way to

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Speaker 1: And I was like that's not an option for me.

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00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:35,640
Speaker 1: Like I'm trying to be a mcnole's on merese, like

442
00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:37,720
Speaker 1: I got other goals bigger than money. But at the

443
00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,320
Speaker 1: same time, like I'm a fool if I don't try

444
00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:42,240
Speaker 1: to capitalize off that because I know I'm at the

445
00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:45,720
Speaker 1: forefront of it. So long conversations, a lot of prayer,

446
00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:49,960
Speaker 1: sacrifice from all my family members, like picking up and moving.

447
00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,160
Speaker 1: It was hard and so my mom had to like

448
00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:53,880
Speaker 1: switch her she worked from home, so she had to

449
00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:57,360
Speaker 1: like switch her territories to San Diego, California area. My

450
00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:59,520
Speaker 1: sister ended up moving out there with us with her boyfriend.

451
00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:03,800
Speaker 1: I was looking at multiple schools. Some schools didn't work out,

452
00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:08,080
Speaker 1: and my AU coach's name was James, and he was like, oh,

453
00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,320
Speaker 1: what about Lloyd Country Day And I remember playing him

454
00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:12,560
Speaker 1: at Junior NBA because I've been doing BREA and I

455
00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:14,480
Speaker 1: remember listening like in the game, like that coach is

456
00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:16,880
Speaker 1: like she's a really good coach. Like playing against her,

457
00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:19,080
Speaker 1: she was telling them like, oh, guard her this way, even.

458
00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,640
Speaker 2: Though they couldn't. I'm like, that's that's right, but they can't.

459
00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:25,800
Speaker 1: But I remember going like we flew to San Diego,

460
00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:28,040
Speaker 1: got the hotel, we walked into the school and I'm.

461
00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,320
Speaker 2: Like this is like I'm from Kansas.

462
00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,399
Speaker 1: We don't have outdoor school, Like school is not outside. Yes,

463
00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,560
Speaker 1: I started elementary school in Phoenix, so like I was

464
00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:36,880
Speaker 1: kind of like, oh, yeah, this is how the West

465
00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:37,320
Speaker 1: Coast is.

466
00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:39,160
Speaker 2: And I boogie boogie.

467
00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,679
Speaker 1: It's g wagons in the parking lot, rolls Royces and

468
00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:43,600
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my gosh, like I'm not really baud

469
00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,120
Speaker 1: to go here. Yeah, So we walk in I'm talking

470
00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,960
Speaker 1: to the coach and it was just like clicked. And

471
00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,520
Speaker 1: then me and Brea had just went to play in

472
00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:53,680
Speaker 1: Mexico for FIBA the first year you sixteen.

473
00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,119
Speaker 2: So I'm there. My family's back.

474
00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:57,800
Speaker 1: In Kansas City packing up all my stuff, Like I

475
00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,320
Speaker 1: didn't get to choose what I brought, so they just

476
00:17:59,359 --> 00:17:59,919
Speaker 1: brought everything.

477
00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:01,960
Speaker 2: Act up all my stuff. I want to go.

478
00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,719
Speaker 1: Metal flew back to San Diego straight off the plane.

479
00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:07,879
Speaker 1: We started school like two weeks late. I'm independence like

480
00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:09,600
Speaker 1: I've been driving to school whatever. So I'm driving to

481
00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:11,760
Speaker 1: school the first day. I get to school like two

482
00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:16,600
Speaker 1: hours early. I'm just scared. I'm looking around, like I

483
00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:18,520
Speaker 1: got the numbers of my new teammates, so I'm trying

484
00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:20,600
Speaker 1: to text them like hey, like when y'all get here whatever.

485
00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,080
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and I'm looking around like, oh, my

486
00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,400
Speaker 1: Diamond and Crusted Rolls Royce over here. I'm like here,

487
00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,240
Speaker 1: I look at him, like, man, I'm like Alisia Keys.

488
00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:32,359
Speaker 1: I'm looking like that really looks like Alisia Keys, Like

489
00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,199
Speaker 1: I really think that's her. So I go into school.

490
00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:36,920
Speaker 1: I'm like walking with the little kids, me and my friend.

491
00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:38,600
Speaker 1: See my teammates are like oh, I'm cool.

492
00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:39,040
Speaker 2: I'm cool.

493
00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:40,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking.

494
00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:42,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, guys, I think I just saw Lisa Keys

495
00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:43,720
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh yeah, her kids go here.

496
00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:48,560
Speaker 2: I'm like, huh haalight, Oh my god.

497
00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:51,480
Speaker 1: I think once I started school I was cool. I

498
00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,280
Speaker 1: think God had me on the right path. I learned

499
00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:55,800
Speaker 1: so much, Like I became a better person being around

500
00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:58,480
Speaker 1: the people that I played against and with. My coach

501
00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:00,359
Speaker 1: was the best coach in the country. Hend I'm like,

502
00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:02,080
Speaker 1: she could coach anywhere any one right now.

503
00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:02,600
Speaker 2: She wanted to.

504
00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:06,840
Speaker 1: But but and now I grew a ton Maybe gone

505
00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,720
Speaker 1: was all American. We played on ESPN seven times my

506
00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:12,600
Speaker 1: senior year. We played against Juju, we played against Ediwana,

507
00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,240
Speaker 1: We played against all these super good teams, and it

508
00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:16,600
Speaker 1: was hard to leave my friends and stuff.

509
00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:17,320
Speaker 2: But I don't regret it.

510
00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:19,239
Speaker 1: I had to make that decision for myself, and my

511
00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:21,120
Speaker 1: family helped me a lot with that, and they made

512
00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:23,400
Speaker 1: a lot of sacrifices. So for them, I'm grateful. I'm

513
00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:24,840
Speaker 1: grateful for the whole opportunity that I had to go

514
00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:25,320
Speaker 1: play there.

515
00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:27,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think it's a culture shock coming

516
00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,399
Speaker 4: to Cali for sure. Like you said, like, I'm a

517
00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,320
Speaker 4: Cali kid. So the open breezeways for high school, that

518
00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,480
Speaker 4: seems normal, and I didn't understand that other parts of

519
00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,359
Speaker 4: the country weren't like that. Just all the little nuances

520
00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,359
Speaker 4: and the expensive cars in the parking lot. I remember

521
00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,760
Speaker 4: pumping school in my Honda next to a gag And

522
00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,280
Speaker 4: or a Tesla and I'm like, oh, oh, yeah.

523
00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,080
Speaker 2: I drove a red Jeep Wrangle at the time. I'm

524
00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,359
Speaker 2: like yeah. She seemed like I'm I pull up. I'm like,

525
00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:50,639
Speaker 2: oh no, yeah, like you think you're all that and

526
00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:52,919
Speaker 2: you're like yes, I'm like, what the heck.

527
00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:53,760
Speaker 3: No, it's crazy.

528
00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:56,200
Speaker 4: And I think also just the California basketball culture in

529
00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:59,240
Speaker 4: high school, Like you talked about you're playing Sierra Canyon

530
00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:01,800
Speaker 4: Edawanda from the north. So like with Midi and all

531
00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:04,600
Speaker 4: these other good schools, talk to me about the shift

532
00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,680
Speaker 4: of basketball culture playing high school in Missouri. Who played

533
00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,479
Speaker 4: the high school in basketball? Because it's different. You talk

534
00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,439
Speaker 4: about ESPN games. All the colleges are up intown come

535
00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,320
Speaker 4: to your games. What was that transition?

536
00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:18,000
Speaker 1: Like playing for Blue Springs, Like my teachers loved me,

537
00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:19,720
Speaker 1: like they got to come to the games. My best

538
00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:22,800
Speaker 1: friends were on the team. But I realized, like a

539
00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:24,879
Speaker 1: lot of these people are not going D one and

540
00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,560
Speaker 1: that's okay, but like this is not how I'm going

541
00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:29,280
Speaker 1: to get there, And so I had to really sit

542
00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:31,119
Speaker 1: down and think about that. Like I was working my

543
00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,879
Speaker 1: butt off, but it's just the competition that you're playing

544
00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,399
Speaker 1: is just not up to that level. And so the

545
00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,200
Speaker 1: game would be packed out, like we played our rivals

546
00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,800
Speaker 1: and stuff, they be packed but like in Kansas City,

547
00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:42,399
Speaker 1: it was so much hate, like they did not like

548
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 1: me for real, Like they didn't because I was just

549
00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,119
Speaker 1: doing stuff on a bigger level, Like I was playing

550
00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:49,800
Speaker 1: and I was doing these things that like not everyone

551
00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,160
Speaker 1: has done, and like I was, it's like all she's

552
00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,119
Speaker 1: getting offers all because of social media, and I'm like

553
00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:55,720
Speaker 1: that's not how it works at all.

554
00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:58,120
Speaker 2: Just do not care.

555
00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:00,680
Speaker 1: Do not care, Like if you can hoop, you could hoop.

556
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 1: No one cares about studio. So it was like they

557
00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,120
Speaker 1: used to hate me. They say crazy things. I remember,

558
00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,080
Speaker 1: like the game I played after Kobe had passed away,

559
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,679
Speaker 1: we were playing a really good team, Like they had

560
00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:12,439
Speaker 1: some girls that played like they played at Creating Now.

561
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,240
Speaker 1: So we were playing this team and they were my

562
00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,600
Speaker 1: teammates on Missouri phenom so I knew them, but their

563
00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:21,720
Speaker 1: fans like they like gave a memorial thing like oh

564
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,240
Speaker 1: Kobe something something, and the fan I started crying and

565
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:25,840
Speaker 1: the fans.

566
00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,240
Speaker 3: Like, man, you don't know him.

567
00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:28,400
Speaker 2: No, no, no, that don't matter.

568
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, y'all crazy, I went stupid. I went crazy

569
00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 1: forty five. I was like, y'all not pout to sit

570
00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:35,320
Speaker 1: here and just but like just to hate in general.

571
00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,600
Speaker 1: That was probably the biggest thing. Like CALLI used to

572
00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:39,840
Speaker 1: having like these top players like Sierra King and they

573
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 1: got Browny and all these other people.

574
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:42,480
Speaker 2: So it's not ain't nothing new.

575
00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,520
Speaker 1: So going out there, we had Chris Brown in our

576
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:49,359
Speaker 1: game the game two Chains, like we played the big teams.

577
00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:51,199
Speaker 1: It was just it was a whole different environment like

578
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,879
Speaker 1: this would never have in the world. So coming to that,

579
00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:56,639
Speaker 1: and then the same playing against Tyr King got the

580
00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:57,880
Speaker 1: whole starting five is d one.

581
00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:59,720
Speaker 2: They hold they don't Wanda Midi.

582
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,520
Speaker 1: These teams they are really freaking good, and so playing

583
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:06,560
Speaker 1: against that competition, I think really my knowledge even playing

584
00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,440
Speaker 1: alongside Brail, like nobody gets to play with a big

585
00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:09,600
Speaker 1: like that.

586
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 2: It's rare.

587
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 1: So we don't get to college like you got to

588
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:13,600
Speaker 1: learn how to do that. But I'm grateful because I

589
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 1: already know how to do that. I've been playing with

590
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,720
Speaker 1: braand forever. I know where I do like this and

591
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:17,400
Speaker 1: pass the bread.

592
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:18,920
Speaker 2: Yeah.

593
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,640
Speaker 4: No, I think you're completely right talking about going from Missouri.

594
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:24,520
Speaker 4: You want to play against all the other big dogs

595
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 4: because not only is that going to make you better,

596
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:27,680
Speaker 4: but it shows that you can compete at the high

597
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:29,480
Speaker 4: level against them with that best competition.

598
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 3: So I think it makes.

599
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 4: You better, it looks better to the college coaches, and

600
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,920
Speaker 4: it's honestly going to prepare you for the next level,

601
00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 4: which it did last year. And also going to a

602
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,640
Speaker 4: place like the Hoya Country Day, Tina Popa went there,

603
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 4: Candice Wiggins, Kelsey Plumb coach knows what she's doing. And

604
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,920
Speaker 4: so were there certain players that players like those are

605
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,880
Speaker 4: in the WNBA that you maybe modeled your game after

606
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,199
Speaker 4: or wanted to take bits and pieces and adapt them

607
00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:52,920
Speaker 4: into your own game.

608
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 2: Yeah.

609
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,399
Speaker 1: I think it's really ironic because Kelsey Plumb's on my

610
00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 1: favorite players, So I didn't know she went there before.

611
00:22:58,040 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 1: So when I was talking to he when I on

612
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,440
Speaker 1: my visit there, Oh yeah, Kelsey Plum, like we're really tight,

613
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 1: And I was like you like Plum.

614
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 2: Would just come to the games.

615
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,399
Speaker 1: Kelsey want to be working out in the gym, And

616
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,640
Speaker 1: for me, it's like I'm not super athletic. I've never

617
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 1: been the tallest, I've never been the fastest, and I

618
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 1: just had to use my my IQ for that and

619
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,880
Speaker 1: like just my toughness being a dog. And so that's

620
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 1: really Kelsey Plumb, like she not the fashion at the strongest.

621
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,320
Speaker 1: She just a dog. So I want her being able

622
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,400
Speaker 1: to play like TBM will always tell stories like Keus

623
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,160
Speaker 1: Pum did this, ketch one did this. You all get annoyed,

624
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 1: but like at the same time, like it really like

625
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 1: put a fire under our bus, like pick it up,

626
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 1: no one cares, just do it. So yeah, I think

627
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: you're able to do that doing the same girls like, oh,

628
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 1: Kelsey put me to do this all the time.

629
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,919
Speaker 2: I'm like and like we work out with her all

630
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:40,200
Speaker 2: the time.

631
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,679
Speaker 1: And her dad great coat, like he's crazy, Like he

632
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,919
Speaker 1: had me up at five am working out on the sand,

633
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: then seven am going to Lyft, eight am workout and

634
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 1: then going back to Lyft like it was crazy. I

635
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:51,440
Speaker 1: was like, this is white.

636
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 2: He is so freaking good.

637
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 3: Yeah for real, because motor is insane. She never gets

638
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,600
Speaker 3: tired out there. She plays at the same place, same

639
00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,480
Speaker 3: pace for all forty minutes. So Sam, workout back to

640
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,000
Speaker 3: the gym please. That is crazy.

641
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 2: I was like, this is what's here to do every day?

642
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:10,920
Speaker 4: Because no way, your class was insane. Coming out of

643
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 4: high school. You have Mikaela Williams, Handadogo Madison, Juju. The

644
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 4: list goes on and on and so what were some

645
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 4: of those matchups that you remember playing against in high

646
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 4: school that you're like, all right, like it's gonna be

647
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,159
Speaker 4: me and you once, not only now, but once we

648
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 4: get to school, you're still competing against the same girls.

649
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,120
Speaker 4: So what was that like to be able to play

650
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 4: against those other top level recruits to prepare you for

651
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:31,399
Speaker 4: college basketball.

652
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:33,919
Speaker 1: We really do play against the same people, Like it

653
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,919
Speaker 1: just goes up a different team you're at college now, Like,

654
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 1: but we played Juju so many times in high school

655
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,119
Speaker 1: my junior or senior year. Right now, I probably wouldn't

656
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 1: be guarding Juju. But in high school you have to

657
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 1: guard the best player, no matter how thought they are. Like,

658
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: you guarded the best player. So I think that matchup

659
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,400
Speaker 1: was super good. We went back and forth, back and forth,

660
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 1: win lost win lost with them, same with Edawanda, Like

661
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 1: we may just made little rivalries. I think just playing

662
00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,200
Speaker 1: against them those two and then definitely make I was

663
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,199
Speaker 1: all American, like we compete it. This was not an

664
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 1: All Star game for us. We was out there hoping

665
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 1: like Malaysia hand like we got in the best guards

666
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:09,160
Speaker 1: in the country.

667
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 2: Like since I was young.

668
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 1: Were in camp Blue Star, all these camps, Like we're

669
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: playing with Angel, Madison Scott, I've been playing against you

670
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,120
Speaker 1: like the older player. It's weird for me now because

671
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: the people that I play with is in the league

672
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 1: like they going and so for me, like I'm like,

673
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: I don't know the young people, guys, I don't know,

674
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 1: like I'm at old time.

675
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 2: I know like three people.

676
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, like these girls are tough, but like I was

677
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 1: always the youngest one in my group. So like me Juju, Malaysia,

678
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,080
Speaker 1: Hannah and Madison, like we was all just the young

679
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:39,919
Speaker 1: ones who was always like the seven or eight that

680
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 1: was go to Blue Star. We was seventh grade. Everybody

681
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 1: else is cooking. I think, I think we're just playing

682
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 1: the same people. It's the same thing for my school,

683
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 1: same thing from All Star games all that, it's the

684
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: same like we all cool, and that's the thing people

685
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 1: trying to make us like, oh, they hate each other.

686
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 2: Oh, we are free because we compete and we talk

687
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 2: stuff on the court. That's not mean we are not

688
00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 2: friends for sure. No.

689
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 4: I think it's so funny people come up with all

690
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 4: these narratives and it's like, oh, Jada, this any and

691
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 4: it's like you, we.

692
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 3: Have never held a conversation before.

693
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 4: You don't know anything that I do off of what

694
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 4: you see during the forty minutes on the court, nothing else.

695
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,640
Speaker 4: So I think it's so interesting when people create these

696
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 4: narratives online and all these things. And after the game,

697
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 4: I'm just chatting with my friends, like me and Aliah

698
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 4: in college.

699
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 3: We're competing at the highest stages. After game, Hey girl,

700
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 3: we give you a hug. It's really no big deal.

701
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 4: And I don't think that people fully understand that unless

702
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:29,919
Speaker 4: you're in it, like you said, growing up with these

703
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 4: players doing Blue Star USA, all the things. So I

704
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 4: think it's it's always so cool to see all your

705
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 4: friends competing at the highest levels as well, and like

706
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 4: you can relate to them on a different level and

707
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 4: be there for them when they're going through the same

708
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 4: things that you are, and like you said, your class

709
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 4: was insane. You're the number twenty one recruit of your class,

710
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,680
Speaker 4: very high five stars. Talk to me about your recruiting

711
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 4: process and what that was like, because I'm sure it

712
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 4: was crazy.

713
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 1: It really started like when we couldn't call it coaches,

714
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:58,440
Speaker 1: like they would hit me and like they would hit

715
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 1: my AU coach and I'd have to call them and

716
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And I think it's funny because my mom,

717
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: she knew the schools that I really liked because she

718
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: didn't have to beg me to call the.

719
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 2: School that I wasn't really feeling.

720
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 1: I'd be like, oh, I don't want to call them,

721
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: like and then for me it was it was different

722
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: because I committed so early, so I committed freshman or

723
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 1: sophomore year to UCLA, So I didn't really I think

724
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 1: I committed before people could.

725
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 2: Even call me. I had to call it in still.

726
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, before I never really.

727
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: Had like the full recruiting nothing because I knew that

728
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: before I wanted to commit before people could call me

729
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 1: because I was not dealing with that, And so I

730
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: don't think I really had like the craziness of recruiting

731
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: because I was already committed and knowing everyone knew that

732
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:38,880
Speaker 1: I was committed.

733
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 4: So yeah, well I'm sure that probably made it a

734
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 4: lot easier for you, because, let me tell you, September

735
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,640
Speaker 4: first junior year, it is a crazy day, phone blowing up,

736
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 4: declining calls in class, all the things. But so you

737
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 4: end up, like you said, you committed to UCLA very young,

738
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 4: and then you end up decommitting and going to Arizona.

739
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 4: I know that's a hard thing to do, being committed

740
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 4: when you're young. You have such a connection with the staff,

741
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 4: and so what led into that decision? Because I think also,

742
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,199
Speaker 4: like you're making that decision, you're so young, you're like

743
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 4: fourteen fifteen, Like you don't really you don't know all

744
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,360
Speaker 4: the things going on, and so what was that decision

745
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 4: like having to change it? And then also it's hard

746
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 4: to make that call. I know, it's already hard to

747
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,239
Speaker 4: call and say no, and so d commit. Tell me

748
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,920
Speaker 4: about that conversation and what led you ending up deciding

749
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 4: to go to Arizona.

750
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really hard, Like even to this day.

751
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 2: Those are my family, I think.

752
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, the staff is amazing, Oh yeah.

753
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: They I remember coach Tosha was at my middle school

754
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 1: game in eighth grade sitting like everyone like UCLA's here,

755
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 1: like middle school basketball is crazy, like why are you here?

756
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 2: But like before I love, like.

757
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: That's still I considered a family that I was blowing

758
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: my eyes out on the call. It was a super

759
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: hard decision, but like it wasn't like oh on the

760
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: spot boom. I talked about my family. I prayed a lot,

761
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: and they understood that. I think they were really they

762
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: were really kind about it. Of course we were both hurt.

763
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: It was hard to make that decision, and then knowing

764
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,719
Speaker 1: that I was going to have to play them was

765
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: really hard for me. But honestly just the reason, I

766
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: think personal reasons, maybe a little bit location as well.

767
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 2: Moving to San Diego.

768
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: I kind of got the touch of Cali before I

769
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: moved there, and it was really fast. Like I'm from

770
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: the Midwest. In the city, you get to drive your

771
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: car where you want, you don't have to sit in

772
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: hours of.

773
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 2: Traffic together, I think cletly different.

774
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: It was fast and I realized that and when I

775
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: moved to San Diego. I'm greatful that I moved to

776
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: San Diego because I don't think I would have realized

777
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: that til freshman year.

778
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 2: It would hit me like a truck.

779
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: So I think that was definitely a big reason. It

780
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the coaches. Honestly, they're amazing.

781
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: They run a great program. I think you had a

782
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: call was really really hard. Like I said, I was

783
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: blowing mins out. My mom was on the call with me, balling.

784
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: I was actually in hungry when I did with Yeah,

785
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: and I was in a hotel.

786
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 2: And I was balling lives out, my mom's on a call,

787
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 2: They're crying. It was. It was really sad.

788
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: And then we played them at UCLA and I got

789
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: really emotional, like I'm always the first one on the court,

790
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: just kind of like to get my vibe going whatever.

791
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: I started crying. I'm like, this is not my teammates,

792
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: are you good? But my teammates understood, like I had

793
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: a really deep connection with these people here. And I

794
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: warmed a and I remember Corey was behind me. Like

795
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: my heart started being fast. I'm like, I like, oh.

796
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 2: They hate me, they hate me. She was like, Jada,

797
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 2: give me a hugged. I was like real, She's like yeah,

798
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 2: I gave her hug.

799
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: It just felt cool to like know that there was

800
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: no beef there. They're a great team, and I'm losing

801
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:15,959
Speaker 1: them twice.

802
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 2: I love them to death.

803
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: It was nothing personal, but yeah, yeah, it was just

804
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: personal decisions. I think my families are still cool, all

805
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: of that stuff. I'm cool, all the players they are

806
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: still so yeah.

807
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think it's great to hear just

808
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 4: how great the staff is still. I think a lot

809
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 4: of coaches sometimes will not be that cordial. There's a

810
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 4: lot of different things to it, and so at the

811
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 4: end of the day, it's your decision. And I'm so

812
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 4: happy that seems like you found the place for you,

813
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 4: not only where you're going to flourish basketball wise as

814
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 4: a person, as a student. All the things and ideas amazing.

815
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 4: And so talk to me about did brey I get

816
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 4: you to get to Arizona?

817
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,239
Speaker 3: Did she convince you? What was that?

818
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 4: Like? I know you said your dad is in Arizona,

819
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 4: So what made it Arizona for you?

820
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: People probably think I came here addressed for Brea, but

821
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: my favorite coaches as well, like getting recruit by her

822
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: and stuff, and I trust me, I recruited like hell

823
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: to get Brad oft UCLA. Yeah, I think that it

824
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: was really personality for me. I'm a really passionate player,

825
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: like I talk stuff, I might get a TECH or

826
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: two here, and I think Adia understands that she's a player.

827
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 2: She gets it. She was the same way.

828
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: So I think playing for somebody that's just as passionate

829
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: as you are, it's really important and so we kind

830
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: of click on that. Being a point guard, I think

831
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: it's super important to kind of go hand in hand

832
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: with your coach because you're the coach on the floor.

833
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: You got to be in the same page, like you

834
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: can't can'tndle attitude stuff like that. So I think play

835
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: for somebody that understands, like I might get a TECH,

836
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: but trust me, it's just out of passion and it's

837
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: just because I love a game. So that was a

838
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: big thing for me. Tucson is definitely way hotter than Missouri,

839
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: but it's more.

840
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 2: Slow life, like you drive around. It's cool.

841
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: And then the thing that Solda was the fans. Like

842
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: the fans go crazy. We are not a team that

843
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: goes to the Funal Four every year, So to have

844
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: them come out every single game no matter who we

845
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: play and pack out the stands, it's something that you

846
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: can't find like South Carolina might pack out for these games,

847
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,239
Speaker 1: but they are not, like it's not consistent, and our

848
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: fans are consistent, and like we are on a personal

849
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: level with the fans that we love to go have

850
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: like Meet the Fan days and all that stuff, just

851
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: because we would not win without them. And like they

852
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: call it Michael Magic because in here you can beat anybody,

853
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: like for real, this is somewhere that is probably one

854
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: of the hardest places to play. I can't say that

855
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: from somebody else's standpoint, but I've heard a lot of

856
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: people say, like it's hard to play here just because

857
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: the fans are crazy. It's so loud, Like I'm out

858
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: there screaming and play and I'm like, uh huh. I'm like,

859
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: why voice is gone? I don't we gonna have to

860
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: have hand signals or something because I cannot hear.

861
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 4: I think it speaks to who Adea is because Arizona

862
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 4: wasn't always like that. You guys did not always get

863
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 4: the fans, but once she came around, rebuilding the culture,

864
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 4: obviously get them to a final four, doing all the

865
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 4: things it's a premiere program nowadays, but all the community

866
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 4: work that you guys do, that's why the fans are

867
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 4: so engaged, That's why they come because you guys go

868
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 4: talk to them, you have these relationships with them, probably

869
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 4: open practices, all the things, and so I think that's

870
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 4: it makes Arizona a hard place to play because it

871
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 4: is loud. No matter if you're playing the Stanfords of

872
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 4: the world or a mid major is coming to play

873
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 4: in the preseason, it's gonna be packed, which I think

874
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 4: is so fun because not every school gets to experience that.

875
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 4: So talk to me about getting to Arizona those first

876
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 4: few practices. Was it what you expected, because me, I know,

877
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 4: I was humbled that first day. I was exhausted after

878
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 4: an hour workout. How was that adjustment for you from

879
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 4: high school to college.

880
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was definitely dying. I'm come here and be

881
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 1: in shape. There's nothing that you can do to come

882
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: in here in shape, Like it's impossible, Like you just

883
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: gonna have to thug it out the first couple of weeks,

884
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: So come here. I got shocked a little bit, but

885
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: I adapted quickly. I think as a leader, I knew

886
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: I was gonna have to come in here and lead

887
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: older girls as a freshman, so using my voice at

888
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 1: not being afraid to use my voice, not like second

889
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: guessing myself because sometimes it'd be like, oh, I need

890
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: to say this, but.

891
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm not right.

892
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: But I know I have good knowledge for the game

893
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: of basketball. I studied the game, I watched films, so

894
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: I know. Just being confident last year was a big thing.

895
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: My first like ten games was trash, like I was

896
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, like I was airballing like I don't.

897
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 3: Know what it was.

898
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: It was just getting adapt to the speed of the game. Probably,

899
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: but everyone's oh, Jada sucks. Jada sucks, and I was

900
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: nept working, kept working. I was dealing with achilles ten

901
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: and ightis in both my achilles last year. So I

902
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: was used to shooting every single day on my own,

903
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 1: like that's something I did in high school six am

904
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: every day. So not being able to do that, I

905
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: felt less prepared and so coming in the game like

906
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: I just got anxiety type thing. But then like when

907
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: it clicked, it clicked, I was rolling being the point guard.

908
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 1: I know, I am just stuff like that. But yes,

909
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 1: freshman year is hard. You're adapting a lot, especially with

910
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: adversity we had last year. We're getting thrown around in

911
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: different spots every game, Like Skyler had to play the

912
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 1: four some games last Helena Poyo was playing a five

913
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: against Gonzaga, like Oyl played the five against Gonzaga. And yeah,

914
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,399
Speaker 1: we dealt with a lot last year, eavey wise, adversity wise,

915
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 1: drama wise, all that stuff, and so it's overcoming that.

916
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: I think we've grown a lot. Like knowledge wise, I

917
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: feel like we jumped from freshman to junior year just

918
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: because we had to. We didn't have no choice. So

919
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: I think that was a big jump for us. But

920
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: other than that, it was cool. I learned a lot

921
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: freshman year about myself, about my fight, all that stuff,

922
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: and so coming in this year, I knew my goal

923
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,360
Speaker 1: was to get big, get strong, get fast, being the

924
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 1: best of my life. So we got a little joke

925
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: here no undershirt. So I'm not wearing no undershirt this

926
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: year because I got buck now.

927
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:19,839
Speaker 2: But I've been Yeah, I've been.

928
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: In the weight room heavy this season, So I'm excited's

929
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 1: kind of how that carries over.

930
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 3: I'm excited to see it. I feel like that's a

931
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 3: big thing, moving from high school to college. Being the

932
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 3: weight room is big.

933
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 4: I remember putting on a compression shirt and it feel

934
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 4: like a T shirt. I was like, nah, nah, I

935
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 4: gotta feel this out.

936
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 3: This can't be how it's going.

937
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 4: And there's already a big adjustment from high school to

938
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 4: college playing wise, but specifically being a point guard is

939
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 4: hard at the next level coming in and starting like

940
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 4: you were, having the role that you did. You talked

941
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 4: about having a slow start. Did you feel like you

942
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 4: had a breakout game for you where you're like, all

943
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 4: right now I'm rolling, now have my confidence back. I

944
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 4: know Stanford was a big game, was it that? Was

945
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 4: it something before then that allowed you to perform the

946
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 4: way that you did.

947
00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say it was kind of like a

948
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,800
Speaker 1: build up to stay because Stanford was like the game

949
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 1: right after we like cut our team like it was

950
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: that was our first game of seven. We had no

951
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 1: walk ons at the time, Like we was straight seven

952
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: straight on that plane, seven people.

953
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 2: So I knew like we would have to come out

954
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 2: and camera Brink wasn't planning. But I don't care. We

955
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 2: still beat Stanford. I don't care. I don't care. But

956
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 2: I think we fought that game.

957
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: We fought so like we were so freaking tired, Like

958
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,919
Speaker 1: we're trying to celebrate in the locker room, everyone's throwing water.

959
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 2: I'm tired.

960
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 3: No time to celebrate.

961
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 2: No, was so tired.

962
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: But I think that was kind of a game confidence

963
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: builder for everybody. That was when we realized, like we

964
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: could do something with seven, Like just so you guys,

965
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: having people don't mean that we counted out. So I

966
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: think that was kind of the game that everybody was

967
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,720
Speaker 1: confidence builder, everybody was on board. Like our staff is amazing,

968
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 1: Like our strength coach. Me and him are super close,

969
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: Like I really call him that because he's really a

970
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: father figure to me. He's helped me through a lot,

971
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 1: Like we're on a personal level, like I tell him,

972
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: like when I'm struggling stuff like that. So I think

973
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: having people like that in your corner that's outside of

974
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: your coaching staff because they're connected to basketball. So you

975
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: can't always say like, oh I feel this and this

976
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 1: to your head coach. You know, no matter how tight

977
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: you are, it's not stuck you talk about. So have

978
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,839
Speaker 1: people like that in your corner is awesome. And then

979
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: our fans travel stuff like that. My mom came to

980
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: every single game away home, all that, and that's just

981
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: how she's always been. So having support, Yeah, it's really important.

982
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 4: No, that I think you're completely right about on the

983
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 4: coaching staff. You need to have that one person because

984
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 4: you could be super close with the head coach, not

985
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 4: close at all. There's just things that you don't really

986
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 4: confide in them about. And so for you having that

987
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 4: be the player development person is amazing. And so talking

988
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 4: about your game, insanely talented, insanely fast, three level score,

989
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 4: pushing the pace you do, all the things, talking about

990
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 4: that relationship with him. What do you feel like is

991
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,760
Speaker 4: the biggest thing you guys worked on an off season

992
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 4: that you're excited to see translate moving into sophomore year.

993
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think what it's our strength coach. So, I've

994
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 1: been in the gym weight room, and I told him

995
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: as soon as we lost the Sea we had like

996
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: four days and then was back to spring workouts. That

997
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: caught me way off guard. I'm thinking, we're finna.

998
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 3: Have a cool month needle time.

999
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: So lost the game in Connecticut, flew back long weekend,

1000
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:02,720
Speaker 1: basically boom.

1001
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 2: Spring workouts were like hum.

1002
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: So I told him like, well, if we're gonna be

1003
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: in here, I'm like my goal this year, I'm gonna

1004
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 1: get big. I'm gonna live heavier than anybody on the team.

1005
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,359
Speaker 1: Off days, I'm in there doing arm pump things like that.

1006
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: I think that was the biggest thing for me, and

1007
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: just feeling confident and feeling like I'm ready shot shots.

1008
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 2: Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot shoot.

1009
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: My percentage was trash last year, So just coming in

1010
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: being confident from three mid range, all those things. Knowing

1011
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: that this year we don't have Boyo, so we don't

1012
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: have a go to like we down Floppy for Poilo,

1013
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: we don't have.

1014
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 3: I died guarding that play. Oh my god.

1015
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: So just knowing that I gotta come in here, I'm

1016
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 1: gonna pick up a different role this year. Probably got

1017
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: to take some more shots. Yeah, looking to score more,

1018
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: but same time being a leader. I think overall, I

1019
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 1: think just coming in and knowing that I have a

1020
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 1: year under my belt.

1021
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 2: I'm confident, I.

1022
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 1: Know what to expect, playing new teams like everything is new,

1023
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 1: So just coming in and being comfortable in that aspect

1024
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: and just going to get it.

1025
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 2: Not winning, like, oh, just going to get it.

1026
00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:58,280
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1027
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 4: Well, you mentioned the tournament last year, losing first round

1028
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,320
Speaker 4: of Syracuse. Talk to me about the feelings in the

1029
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 4: locker room after the game and how you feel like

1030
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,800
Speaker 4: that's going to motivate you guys. Pushing in this season,

1031
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 4: Like you said, new opportunities, more than seven people, new conference,

1032
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 4: a lot of new people. How did that loss motivate

1033
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 4: you guys through summer workouts and now in der twenty

1034
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 4: hour weeks.

1035
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it could have been easy for us

1036
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: to say, well, we only had seven people, but we

1037
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: were we were mad, like we were sad. I think

1038
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: we were more sad than mad, just because we know

1039
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: that we should have won that game. It could have

1040
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: been any had expectations to win the national championship. We

1041
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: knew we could have made it further than that. So

1042
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: just knowing that we had potential to and knowing that

1043
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:40,240
Speaker 1: our figure seniors like they carried heavyweight and we respected

1044
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,800
Speaker 1: them a ton like Toyle was not the most vocal,

1045
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 1: none of that, but she was an amazing teammate.

1046
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 2: She was.

1047
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: She taught me a lot last year without even saying nothing,

1048
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: So having that respect from her being playing the point

1049
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 1: guard position for her, it was like I thought I

1050
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: had big shoes to feel but she was always the

1051
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: first one to put her arm around me and said

1052
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: you good, got to pick your head up anything, whatever

1053
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:02,320
Speaker 1: it may be. Like that was the kind of I

1054
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: think that was the thing that hurt most was that

1055
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: they're gone. They're gonna be gone. So that was kind

1056
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: of the thing, like come back, work hard, pick up

1057
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,280
Speaker 1: a new role, stuff like that, and having the support

1058
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: behind us was kind of the what we look forward to.

1059
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: And so everyone has been working or buts off this

1060
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: season knowing that last year we did what we did

1061
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 1: with seven people, So now what can we do with

1062
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: these awesome transfers, these new freshmen.

1063
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,879
Speaker 2: And that's write history for for real.

1064
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 3: And I think it's what you said is so important.

1065
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 4: A lot of teams would be like, oh, we only

1066
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 4: had seven, we didn't have any expectations. But y'all to

1067
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,439
Speaker 4: use that as any type of excuse you push through

1068
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 4: beating Stanford, even though that broke my heart, beating them

1069
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 4: with your first game with seven people, getting the tournament,

1070
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 4: proving a lot of people wrong because I think a

1071
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 4: lot of people counted you out as soon as you

1072
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 4: went down to seven. And so now you're reloading this

1073
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 4: next season. I'm excited for Before we can do that,

1074
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,160
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1075
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1076
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,399
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1077
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 4: on a little bit before. But what is the best

1078
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 4: financial advice you received navigating through the NIL space and

1079
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 4: who gave it to you?

1080
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,399
Speaker 1: Probably my mom because I don't have I didn't really

1081
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 1: sign with like a main agent like to handle all

1082
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 1: my stuff. So my mom does a lot of that.

1083
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 1: That's kind of what she does for work, kind of

1084
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: like she has a degree in business and stuff like that.

1085
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: I couldn't even tell you what she does because I'm confused,

1086
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: but she does.

1087
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 2: And then I call my uncle. His name is Marcus.

1088
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: He runs the fam agency, which has a lot of

1089
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: WBA players in it. So those two definitely are like family,

1090
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: so I trust them and I trust their judgment. So

1091
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: it really was I barely touched my money, like I

1092
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 1: sort of got it up. It's invested because I know

1093
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: I get a stipend every month that isn't enough, Like

1094
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: I live in a donor's house basically NIO deal stuff

1095
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 1: like that. It's like I am not finna buy no

1096
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: Rolex and no nothing that that's just not me. I

1097
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: like fashion and stuff, so I might spurge here and there,

1098
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: but I just put it up like all these people

1099
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: in the NBA, like they spend all their stuff on

1100
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: lamb bows and stuff like that, and that's just not

1101
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 1: something that was important to me. My goal, I want

1102
00:41:58,480 --> 00:41:59,959
Speaker 1: to live on a lake house. I want to boat

1103
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: like stuff like that is what I'm saving my money

1104
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 1: for all.

1105
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 3: I like it.

1106
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to come out here.

1107
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 1: I want to have my lake house, my nice boat,

1108
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 1: my wake boat like I love the lake. I grew

1109
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: up on a lake, so I want to wake surf

1110
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:10,720
Speaker 1: and all that stuff.

1111
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 2: My family. I just got a dog. That was probably

1112
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 2: my biggest work. I got a dog. His name is du.

1113
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: And that's my guys, that's my guy. So I think

1114
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 1: stuff like that just personal stuff for me.

1115
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think just saving it. I got other

1116
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,720
Speaker 2: goals than having I don't know, a Lambeau in college.

1117
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 4: So yeah, we got the lake house. That's that's my

1118
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 4: big goal. That's more important than a Lambeau for sure.

1119
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,879
Speaker 4: Lake house, waterskiing, all that boat need that.

1120
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 3: I love that.

1121
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 4: And I think a lot of people struggle with the

1122
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 4: time management piece having NIL school, athletics all the things,

1123
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 4: and so how have you been able to balance all

1124
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 4: of your NL opportunities with your obligations with basketball and

1125
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 4: your academics.

1126
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think for me, I had learned to say no.

1127
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: For me, basketball is the main thing. Keep the main thing,

1128
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: the main thing. So like my mom said, you might

1129
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: have to miss this. I think I missed one practice

1130
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 1: for it, and they move practice back for me so

1131
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: that I could make it because I was not gonna

1132
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: miss it. But it was a big deal. So like

1133
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: I told it to be, like, I'm not gonna go

1134
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: if we if you don't move practice, like that's just

1135
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: not me. I'm a point guard. I don't miss practice.

1136
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: That's there's not something that's innio is not that important,

1137
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: Like it's important to me, but I think basketball is

1138
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: my first thing. And I don't want my teammates to

1139
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: not respect me because they think I focus in more

1140
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: in IL. So I think I want to say no

1141
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: or they're gonna have to move around their schedule or

1142
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 1: come to me things like that. It is really having boundaries,

1143
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: I think not saying yes to everything, or saying yes

1144
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: to things that don't fit in my alignments or what

1145
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: I believe in and stuff like that. So having boundaries

1146
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: is a big one for me.

1147
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's huge. Also, like you're the one

1148
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 3: in control.

1149
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 4: They if they want to work with you, They're gonna

1150
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 4: move around you. I think that's so important, just understanding

1151
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 4: that at such a young age that you're in the

1152
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 4: power here the company wwn's work with you, They're gonna

1153
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 4: get there, and you can always find another way you

1154
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 4: can work with somebody else. And then the last question

1155
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 4: about Anil is we talked about the lake house, the boat,

1156
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 4: all the things. Are there any other business interest you

1157
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:01,879
Speaker 4: have that you may want to invest your money into

1158
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 4: one day we talk about fashion, choose all the things,

1159
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 4: what's catching your eye.

1160
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 1: I don't really know, Like I have like dream companies

1161
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 1: that I want to work with, like Richard Milly that

1162
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 1: is like my dream, that's my dream collapse. But other

1163
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: than that, I would just say, yeah, I want to

1164
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: have my own clothing brain that's kind of investment for me.

1165
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: So I'm working on that now, just putting into it

1166
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: because I know that that's passive. You're gonna get that regardless,

1167
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: and so that's a big one for me. But yeah,

1168
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 1: I think I want to own like a sports team or.

1169
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:28,799
Speaker 2: Something like that.

1170
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 3: Who do we have a league in mind?

1171
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 2: I don't know. I definitely wanted to be a women's team.

1172
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's okay. I'm here for this,

1173
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I'm investing in women.

1174
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, whatever, cause your name, you'll invest in it.

1175
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 2: I feel like I have.

1176
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: To be done playing at basketball before I like, I

1177
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: own like that's weird.

1178
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, while you're still playing, I feel like that's kind

1179
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 4: of crazy.

1180
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1181
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 4: Well, so we talked about your reloading this year. You

1182
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 4: guys have a lot of fun pieces coming together, and

1183
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 4: the college landscape is overflowing with talent right now from

1184
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 4: incoming freshman transfers, older players. Saying, so, what's gonna be

1185
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 4: your team's identity that you think is going to be

1186
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 4: a surprise to people? What's gonna make you guys stand

1187
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:10,240
Speaker 4: out have a deeper run in the tournament.

1188
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: We hang our hat on defense. I think that's been

1189
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: Ada's identity from day one. We're gonna press the whole game.

1190
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 1: We're gonna trap the ball, screens, all those things. It's

1191
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: getting down and gritty because we don't ever have seven

1192
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: all Americans, like South Carolina, nothing like that. So we

1193
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,359
Speaker 1: gotta hang our hat on being gritty, doing the things

1194
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:29,280
Speaker 1: that nobody else wants to do, flying around, being active,

1195
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: having energy. I think that's kind of that's our way

1196
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: to right of those really good teams be inner stuff.

1197
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 1: The other team has have like twenty turnovers for us

1198
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: to win a game, and that's we know that, we

1199
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 1: chart that, we charge that in practice.

1200
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 2: All those things.

1201
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 3: Oh, I know, I've been on the other side of that.

1202
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 3: It is not fine a dab scout. Let me tell you.

1203
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 4: Oh my god, Clay agast y'all is always hard. No

1204
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,439
Speaker 4: matter what talent all Americans that you have, you guys

1205
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 4: are always going to be gritty. And so I'm really

1206
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,279
Speaker 4: excited to see how that plays out this year with

1207
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 4: the seven from last year and all the new pieces,

1208
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 4: so it'll be fun. But coming into our last section here,

1209
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 4: it's called our vibe Check, it's gonna be rapid fire answers.

1210
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 4: So I feel like you're gonna kill it. So our

1211
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 4: first question is, what's the drill you never want to

1212
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 4: see on the practice plan?

1213
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: Fifty passes or one hundred passes. You can't dribble and

1214
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: you gotta pass. You gotta guard the people and they're

1215
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: just running around. It's awful. It's worst thing ever in life.

1216
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that sounds actually horrible. I feel like

1217
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 4: I would rather walk out of the gym than do that?

1218
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 4: Oh god, Okay, game winning shot or game winning steal

1219
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:33,760
Speaker 4: shot and one or three pointer and one group TikTok

1220
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 4: or solo TikTok solo. Where's the toughest place to play

1221
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 4: on the road.

1222
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 1: Well, I've only had one year or so I'll say

1223
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: Oregon State was tough.

1224
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:44,800
Speaker 3: It does get loud in there, up and Gill.

1225
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 2: It's not very b so I just, yeah, everybody's in

1226
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 2: your face.

1227
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 4: Yet it's like everybody's on top of you the way

1228
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 4: that's so vertical, exactly what you mean. Okay, hardest player to.

1229
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 2: Guard Malaysia or Hannah?

1230
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 3: M good picks you do? Yeah, a lot. You got

1231
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 3: a lot of options. Who's the biggest trash talker that

1232
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 3: you played against?

1233
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:06,759
Speaker 2: Hannah?

1234
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 3: Hannah? All right? Biggest flopper?

1235
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: Mmm?

1236
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 2: What team did we play that had that girl that Gonzaga.

1237
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 1: I don't know what her name is. I forgot her name,

1238
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: but she was one of the twins. No, it wasn't

1239
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 1: a twin. I don't remember her name, but.

1240
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 4: Oh Maxwell Brenda looking her, she do kick her leg

1241
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 4: out on that three ball.

1242
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:31,399
Speaker 3: I know exactly what you're talking about. All right, what's

1243
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 3: your biggest basketball ec.

1244
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 2: Long sleeves and long tights at the same time.

1245
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,359
Speaker 4: Oh okay, so the no show skin that's not for you.

1246
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 4: What's your favorite in game celebration Spider Man?

1247
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm gonna need to look out for

1248
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 3: that this year. I need that.

1249
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 4: Who is your basketball goat? Kobe, Okay, Sephora or Alta.

1250
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 2: I don't shop at either those places.

1251
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 3: What do you mean you don't try to give those places.

1252
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 2: I don't wear makeup, so I don't even know how

1253
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 2: to do make up, none of that. So I don't

1254
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 2: you know. I've only been in there with my mom.

1255
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 2: I think I don't know.

1256
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 3: You know, whatever, good for you? If you had to

1257
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 3: pick somebody to be your two on two teammate, but

1258
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 3: you can't pick a current teammate, who would you pick Lebron?

1259
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 3: That's a good pick.

1260
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,399
Speaker 4: We haven't gotten Lebron. I like that answer, though. What's

1261
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:19,839
Speaker 4: your favorite pre game song?

1262
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: I'm go anything raw wave, and then I'm not gonna lie.

1263
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: Before we beat Stanford, I was listening to Luke Holmbs

1264
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: and I went off, So maybe country I love?

1265
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 3: Okay, so maybe some country?

1266
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 4: Then I like that, And then last one is what's

1267
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 4: your best impression of coach Adia Barnes. Uh oh oh.

1268
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 2: Plus the defense defense get up.

1269
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,320
Speaker 3: That I witnessed that from the other side of things.

1270
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 4: Yes, that's on point for real, because she like squats

1271
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 4: in her heels. No matter what she's wearing, she's in

1272
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 4: your face.

1273
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, that's amazing.

1274
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Data for coming on. This has

1275
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 3: been such a pleasure. Good luck this season.

1276
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,959
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Thanks for having me of course.

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00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 3: And thanks everyone for listening.

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