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Speaker 4: Yeah, welcome back to Sometimes. I hope today we've got

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Speaker 4: one of Packed twelve's finest joining us on the pod.

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Speaker 4: Quick Humble Bragg twenty twenty four all packedwelve member one

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Speaker 4: thousand point club men is from the three point Line,

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Speaker 4: famlessly leading Oregon State into the Sweet sixteen, none other

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Speaker 4: than Superstar to Leah Vanalhoffin.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for happing on the pod.

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Speaker 2: Thanks thanks for having me. I'm excited.

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Speaker 3: I'm excited to have you here. I feel like it's

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Speaker 4: Presented by Wendy's heading into the Sweet sixteen? What song

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Speaker 1: Ooh?

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Speaker 1: I'd have to say, I don't even know anything off

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Speaker 4: I feel like that's a classic vibe heading into tournament

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Speaker 4: really all the time, but jumping into women's hoops landscape

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Speaker 4: What were the vibes like? Cause I know Gilby getting

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's insane. And I think the parody in women's

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Speaker 3: No, it's so cool.

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Speaker 4: You're playing Notre Dame and last time y'all played, you

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Speaker 1: I think last time we played, I was definitely in

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Speaker 1: Probably Colorado, I think going to play at K State,

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Speaker 3: No, I agree.

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Speaker 2: Well, and I'm talking about Colorado.

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Speaker 3: And I was just like, not a core valast, what

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Speaker 1: And the turnouts this year have been crazy, so many

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Speaker 3: They're amazing.

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Speaker 1: I feel like, I mean, well, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: It's like flare pin down and then she goes to

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Speaker 3: Show you're completely right.

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Speaker 1: So I think from that perspective, I would say her

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Speaker 1: Yeah, She's just one of those players. She doesn't have

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Speaker 4: I've never thought of a defensively having reguard that like

443
00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,320
Speaker 4: that would be exhausting because being her teammate, I'm just like,

444
00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:02,400
Speaker 4: come on, Hannah, like run faster. I know you're not tired,

445
00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:05,359
Speaker 4: Like do this, think about defensively, like y'all really be

446
00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,480
Speaker 4: chasing her around, and she gets that shot off in

447
00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:11,400
Speaker 4: less than a second, so like if you're late, it's happening,

448
00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:14,920
Speaker 4: and Charisma is just a bucket like all around, she's very.

449
00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:16,960
Speaker 3: Annoying to guard. So I agree with that one as well.

450
00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:20,320
Speaker 4: But we've touched on a little bit of just like

451
00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,040
Speaker 4: all the different players with talent, and I still want

452
00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,320
Speaker 4: to give some other players their flowers heading into the

453
00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:26,040
Speaker 4: tournament time.

454
00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:27,920
Speaker 3: So without giving.

455
00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:31,960
Speaker 4: Away Scott's immensely deep like scatting report that he has,

456
00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:35,359
Speaker 4: I want you to break down just how good some

457
00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:36,960
Speaker 4: of these players are that I'm going to name within

458
00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,760
Speaker 4: the pack. So we'll start off with my girl, who's

459
00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:43,560
Speaker 4: most improved player obviously Kiki. Era often tell me about

460
00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:45,240
Speaker 4: Kiki and what makes her so good.

461
00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,679
Speaker 1: I think she's just so physical, and then her ability,

462
00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:52,040
Speaker 1: I mean obviously super athletic kind of in that mid

463
00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:55,560
Speaker 1: post area, just her ability to face up and then

464
00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:57,760
Speaker 1: you know now that she's added kind of hitting that

465
00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,239
Speaker 1: shot over the top, so you have to respect that.

466
00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,680
Speaker 1: And then her first step you know, if you let

467
00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:05,000
Speaker 1: her go baseline, it's overtime.

468
00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:06,720
Speaker 2: Just that quick rip through.

469
00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:10,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then obviously her ability to oh board and

470
00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:14,879
Speaker 1: just like anticipate shots and that athleticism I had to

471
00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:16,960
Speaker 1: guard her at the end of our game at home

472
00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:21,480
Speaker 1: because Ray was out so small, so I was running

473
00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:22,960
Speaker 1: the one on offense, but I was on.

474
00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:24,360
Speaker 2: Key for the last.

475
00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,719
Speaker 1: The last few minutes and I was just like fighting

476
00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:32,359
Speaker 1: for my life down there. Yeah, she's just the combination

477
00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:36,160
Speaker 1: of size athleticism and then you know her bag's deep

478
00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,919
Speaker 1: and you know, most most improved player obviously it's gotten

479
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,800
Speaker 1: deeper this year. She's incredible and we saw it in

480
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,920
Speaker 1: that game. Whoever they just played at home? I forgot, but.

481
00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:46,960
Speaker 3: Oh yes, when they played Iowa State.

482
00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:52,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was insane performance. So she's definitely up next,

483
00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,679
Speaker 1: and she's most improved player for a reason.

484
00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:57,640
Speaker 4: No, I can't believe you had to guard her because

485
00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,320
Speaker 4: I didn't even like guarding her in practice, Like she's

486
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,199
Speaker 4: a beast. It's so hard to deal with. So you know,

487
00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:06,760
Speaker 4: props to you for doing it and getting down there,

488
00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,359
Speaker 4: because that's a lot to handle. My next player on

489
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,879
Speaker 4: the list, we talked a little about UCLA Charisma. There

490
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,840
Speaker 4: are other star Guard Kiki Rice. I feel like she's

491
00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,520
Speaker 4: also come into her own a lot this year, running

492
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:20,040
Speaker 4: the point for them, doing a lot of different things.

493
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,560
Speaker 4: So tell me about Kiki. The other Kiki in the pack.

494
00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:23,760
Speaker 4: Wow other key.

495
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's an amazing floor general, like you said, running

496
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,840
Speaker 1: the one for them, I think. And she's also been

497
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:35,000
Speaker 1: hitting more threes recently, like adding that, stretching the floor

498
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,400
Speaker 1: a little bit more. I think she's hit a few

499
00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,439
Speaker 1: in this tournament. And so yeah, she's such a solid

500
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,760
Speaker 1: point guard and obviously an amazing defender, and yeah, just

501
00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,040
Speaker 1: just facilitates their whole offense, makes really good decisions and

502
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:49,840
Speaker 1: then finishes super well around the rim, like gets up

503
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,480
Speaker 1: and is super athletic too. So she kind of is

504
00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,399
Speaker 1: like their utility player. Just everything kind of runs through her,

505
00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,520
Speaker 1: and you know, allowing Charisma to play off the ball

506
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:04,240
Speaker 1: and be more of a score or two super important

507
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,399
Speaker 1: for them. So yeah, I'm super impressed by her, and

508
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,120
Speaker 1: she's had a great year as well.

509
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 3: I agree.

510
00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 4: And then our last one before we just get all

511
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,440
Speaker 4: about you. We talked a lot about Colorado and I

512
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,600
Speaker 4: feel like their engine is Jaylen Sharrat. She does so

513
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 4: much for them, So tell me about Jalen.

514
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:23,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's an amazing player as well. Just her almost

515
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,239
Speaker 1: like it's almost like an intimidation factor with her, like

516
00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:30,080
Speaker 1: she just wants to overwhelm you, kinda does a lot

517
00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 1: of like ra ra like whatever.

518
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 4: Even before the game, like she'd be sitting on the

519
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,920
Speaker 4: bench watching the other team warm up. I'm like, whoa,

520
00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:38,280
Speaker 4: don't you need to be in your shots up?

521
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 3: Like she's a mental game.

522
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: Got the face mask on, just like watching. Yes, literally,

523
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,720
Speaker 1: I mean I think that that's what makes her her.

524
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 1: And she's obviously a great defender. But you know, she

525
00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,959
Speaker 1: came out against us both times and hit like you know,

526
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,240
Speaker 1: you're kind of playing her for the drive because she's

527
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,119
Speaker 1: so quick and you have to respect that.

528
00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 2: And both games against us, she came out and like

529
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 2: hit a.

530
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 1: Shot over the top to start the game and we're

531
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:03,640
Speaker 1: kind of just like, oh, it's like that, okay.

532
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that'll change those game.

533
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 2: Yeah.

534
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 1: And she but she just leads them, I mean in

535
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:14,120
Speaker 1: every category. Obviously defensively, she's a great point guard, distributor,

536
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: and then especially this year, you know, hitting shots when

537
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 1: they need you to, and like especially like when teams

538
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 1: are going under ball screens. You know, that's a lot

539
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,879
Speaker 1: of times that's kind of what you're doing. And then

540
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 1: her hitting shots behind it. Just adding that to her

541
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 1: bag has been amazing. And then just being kind of

542
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 1: the voice and the leader of that team I think

543
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 1: is everything for them, and I think they're is as

544
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,159
Speaker 1: good as she is every night. And so yeah, like

545
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,239
Speaker 1: you said, she's their engine and she's what makes them

546
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,959
Speaker 1: so great, and so it's cool to see and I

547
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 1: love seeing, you know, success of everyone in the pack.

548
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,120
Speaker 1: So I'm happy for them, and I hope they can

549
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 1: do great on the on the rest of their run.

550
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 2: For sure.

551
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:51,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, I'm excited to see how far she

552
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,360
Speaker 4: takes them because she's definitely what makes them go, and

553
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 4: she's the heart and soul that seem like emotionally watching

554
00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,919
Speaker 4: her get her team so hyped up. I remember like

555
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:01,879
Speaker 4: being next to her and then watching her in their

556
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,360
Speaker 4: huddle and I'm like, okay, Jalen piped down.

557
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 3: They don't.

558
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 4: We don't need to get them that happed up right now,

559
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 4: Like it's insane how hype Colorado began during their games.

560
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,320
Speaker 4: But before we talk about you and your hoop journey,

561
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 4: my question of the day has been the past few times,

562
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 4: question of the day is going to be a little

563
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,200
Speaker 4: bit off the rails, is what is the biggest animal

564
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 4: you feel like you could beat in a fist fight

565
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:28,919
Speaker 4: with the face you made with no weapons you're in

566
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,880
Speaker 4: there terrain. What animal could you beat in a fist fight?

567
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, yeah, the biggest. Let's see all the

568
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,880
Speaker 1: ones I can think of. I definitely couldn't, Like what

569
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: what's coming to mine? I mean the first one was gorilla,

570
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,400
Speaker 1: So she said that's a no, that's a no. I'm

571
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:54,199
Speaker 1: just thinking of big ones, like like, uh.

572
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 2: I don't can you give me like options?

573
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 4: Okay, Well mine is a giraffe because I feel like

574
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 4: I could take out the knees and then kind of

575
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 4: like go from there. So I feel like that's a

576
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 4: classic one. People in the past have said, Oh what

577
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 4: if people said, I feel like somebody said a bear,

578
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 4: my roommate, my roommates set a shark. I don't remember

579
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,440
Speaker 4: who said a bear Hannah. Hannah said she could take

580
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 4: a giraffe to my roommates had a shark, which is insane?

581
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 2: Is crazy?

582
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think a Alyssa Peelee said bear,

583
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 4: and so honestly that I feel like she's the only

584
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 4: one I was allowed to say bear. Somebody else said kangaroo.

585
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 4: Yeah it's yours.

586
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,119
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say kangaroo because they'd be like boxing for real.

587
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:40,680
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying, so you think you could box

588
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 4: a kangaroo, because that's insane.

589
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,119
Speaker 1: Maybe, Like have you seen those pictures of like the

590
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 1: really tough ones.

591
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:48,120
Speaker 3: Those are scary?

592
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay if it looks like that, no, but I

593
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 1: feel like that just the average kangaroo.

594
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, money's on me, an average Joe. Wow. Okay, Honestly,

595
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 3: I like the confidence. I like the companies a lot.

596
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 2: So that's amazing. I'm not going down without a fight.

597
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 3: Okay, good for you, Good for you.

598
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 4: Okay, So getting into you now, let's talk about your

599
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:14,640
Speaker 4: early hoop journey. And so you started off in Tri Cities, Washington.

600
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:16,960
Speaker 4: Who put the ball into your hands?

601
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 1: Ooh? I think for me, like I don't remember ever

602
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,960
Speaker 1: not having a ball in my hands. I'm the youngest

603
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 1: of three, so my older sisters are nine and four

604
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 1: years older than me, so like since I can remember,

605
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 1: they were in the gym, and so it kind of

606
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 1: just like was something that I immediately did, like as

607
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,440
Speaker 1: soon as I could walk, like, I had a ball

608
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 1: in my hands. So I'd just say, like my older

609
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 1: sisters and then my mom played hoops in college, so

610
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 1: I kind of just grew up around it.

611
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 3: That's how I was too. It's just like it's what's happening.

612
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 3: You're a O fan.

613
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 4: Did you feel like growing up you modeled your game

614
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 4: after any specific player.

615
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 2: I don't.

616
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 1: I think just like for me, I feel like I

617
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,680
Speaker 1: get asked that a lot. Like for me, I grew

618
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,879
Speaker 1: up just watching my older I mean, obviously there was

619
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 1: a lot of like WNBA and college players that I watched,

620
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: but at like a young young age, it was all

621
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 1: just watching my older sisters and their teammates too. Like

622
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: I remember kind of having some of their AAU teammates

623
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,679
Speaker 1: that you know in D one and we're kind of

624
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 1: big time.

625
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:18,880
Speaker 2: So I remember like watching.

626
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 1: Them, and then like later years, like middle school, then

627
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 1: I started and then it started.

628
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 2: To be like maya more, you know, things like that.

629
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: But I think from a young age, yeah, it was

630
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,120
Speaker 1: just growing up watching my big sisters play.

631
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 3: That is so sweet.

632
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,880
Speaker 4: Oh gosh, that is like the sweetest answer I think

633
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 4: I've ever heard.

634
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 3: I love that. I love that so much.

635
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 4: But so talking about your journey, I feel like there's

636
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,120
Speaker 4: always a moment in some of his career when they're

637
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 4: kind of like I'm getting better than my competition, I'm

638
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 4: getting better than people in my area all these different things.

639
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 3: When for you did you realize like.

640
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 4: Okay, I could take this somewhere, like I'm getting abnormally

641
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:54,479
Speaker 4: good at this.

642
00:27:55,040 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 1: Oh, I think, oh, this is a funny question. I

643
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: think from a young age, like you could kind of

644
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: see I was also I mean, I'm only like five ten,

645
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,879
Speaker 1: but I hit five nine I think in like fifth grade,

646
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: like I grew super early.

647
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 2: So I was always like way.

648
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 1: Bigger, faster, stronger than anyone when I was like really little.

649
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: So I think from a young age, like I was

650
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 1: playing three or four years up in au and all

651
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 1: those things, and so I think when it got to

652
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 1: a point like middle school, when I was playing three

653
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 1: or four years up and I was like kind of hooping,

654
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 1: then I was like and I was like oh okay, and

655
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: then yeah, middle school is when you know, you start

656
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: getting the letters, and then that's kind.

657
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 2: Of when it's like, oh this is real. Yeah. So

658
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 2: I don't know if there was ever a moment, but

659
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 2: I think just overall.

660
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: Like being able to play up and then still you know,

661
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: be one of the better players. I think it's kind

662
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 1: of just like the overall that's when I was like, okay,

663
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: I could I could do something with this.

664
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 4: You're completely right, Like playing up in age groups is

665
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 4: very humbling, and I never thought I was very good,

666
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 4: but then once you get to your own age group,

667
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 4: you're like, oh, I'm kind of a bucket.

668
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 3: I'm kind of like that.

669
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 4: And honestly, you saying that recruiting letters came in middle school,

670
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 4: so casually is not the normal to lea many people

671
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 4: start getting recruited in high school.

672
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 2: Letters do not come to middle school.

673
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 3: For everyone, so that that was kind of crazy.

674
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 4: But you know that's amazing because you've just been a

675
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 4: bucket basically, So wow, just when I was just wow,

676
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 4: just like a quick, humble bride that you did for yourself.

677
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,719
Speaker 4: So yeah, you know, letters came to me when I

678
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 4: was eleven. It's we're talking about me.

679
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 2: We're not talking about me letters in elementary school.

680
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 4: Nor no, man, we're not talking about me. So AnyWho

681
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 4: about your recruiting, you kind of had an unorthodox start

682
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 4: to your college career, graduating high school early, joined in

683
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 4: January half of the season, and honestly, like you started

684
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 4: getting buckets in the pack.

685
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 3: Immediately, like it was insane.

686
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 4: You came in so hot, So tell me about that decision.

687
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 4: Of starting college early and why you want to go

688
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 4: to Oregon State.

689
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the decision was just like, well, first

690
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: of all, my high school season had gotten canceled or

691
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: postponed or whatever, so I already wasn't going to have

692
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,959
Speaker 1: like a senior year, and that whole year was already online.

693
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 1: Where I'm from in Washington, like everything was kind of

694
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: closed down, and so you know, I was just kind

695
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: of working out, like I had my trainer and we

696
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: would go to like the local gym that would allow

697
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 1: us to but it was like Clay Courts, like I

698
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,479
Speaker 1: had to go outside a lot, Like it was just

699
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,719
Speaker 1: not a good situation. And I was just like literally

700
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: all I was doing was like working out, like we

701
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 1: were doing three days just because it was like there

702
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,239
Speaker 1: was nothing else to do. And so I was just

703
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 1: like really itching to like play, honestly, Like that's kind

704
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: of what it came down to.

705
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 2: There was no high school ball and no AAU, and

706
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 2: I was just like bored.

707
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: Like I was just like I mean obviously like working

708
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: out and like the grind is fun, but like you

709
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: missed like that comp like anything. And so I think

710
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: there was a kid at Gonzaga that we had heard

711
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: when early and that was the first I heard of it,

712
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: and then I think Olivia Miles at Notre Dame was

713
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: like one of the next ones, and then we kind

714
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: of started to look into it. I only needed like

715
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: art and PE credits, I think, to graduate, and so

716
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: I got I had to get the PE credits waived,

717
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: and then I did like some online like art class,

718
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 1: and then I was just like might as well, Like

719
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: what else am I doing? Yeah, So the process of

720
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: like okay, I'm gonna do this to like me being

721
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 1: on campus, I think was.

722
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 2: Like two weeks.

723
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 3: Oh wow.

724
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like super fast, literally, like it was

725
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,719
Speaker 1: the fastest turnaround. And so I honestly don't even remember

726
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 1: a lot of those two weeks, Like it was just

727
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: it all happened so fast, and I literally like, well,

728
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: let's just let's do it. And then all of a sudden,

729
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: I'm on campus. I had to quarantine for five days.

730
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: Oh god, not the you remember those days?

731
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 3: Oh god?

732
00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: And then so I quarantined for five days. My first

733
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: practice with the team was on a Friday, and then

734
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: I played that Sunday. So I had two practices and

735
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: then yeah, we played Washington State that Sunday. So like

736
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: literally it all happened so fasted, like I couldn't even

737
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: explain it, Like I was just like what.

738
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 2: Am I doing today? And I was like all I

739
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 2: could focus on.

740
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think the decision was just like I

741
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: might as well go get this experience and like kind

742
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: of get a head start and enroll early because like

743
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: what else am I doing right now? Like it's kind

744
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: of it made sense for me. And it wasn't too

745
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: far from home so my family could come see me,

746
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: and so yeah, it was just it kind of made

747
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 1: sense for everything, and it was a good experience.

748
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're like, may as well whatever two practices, get

749
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 4: out there play against a Paxwell.

750
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 3: Team like ready to go.

751
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 2: That's the thing that's crazy.

752
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: It is like I didn't think I was gonna play,

753
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: Like I went to like go be in the practices

754
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: and like get the experience, like have that extra time

755
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: to learn the system and like get my body ready

756
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,719
Speaker 1: to play the next year. And then like that Sunday,

757
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: I think I played twenty five minute.

758
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 4: You were in there immediately to Leah immediately.

759
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so that was not the plan, but it

760
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 2: works out.

761
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's so crazy.

762
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 4: And I remember hearing about it, we were like, she's

763
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 4: doing because you had just came on your visit in

764
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 4: the fall, and so we were like, and now she's

765
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 4: where like just like that. It was crazy, but it

766
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 4: was so cool to be able to see you do that,

767
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 4: Like after now hearing it was two practices, it's actually wild.

768
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 4: You know, you made that adjustment. It seemed from the

769
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 4: outside very seamless. That adjustment was easy high school to collegeball?

770
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 4: Was it hard to kind of integrate to a team

771
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 4: halfway through the season two practices you're getting in because

772
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 4: they've been together summer session months on end? So what

773
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 4: was that like coming in, learning the system in two days,

774
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 4: having Scott play you for twenty five minutes the next game?

775
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:54,719
Speaker 3: Like what was that adjustment period?

776
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 4: Like?

777
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that for me, like what I can

778
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: attribute it to is just like a basketball IQ. I

779
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: feel like that's like one of the things that has

780
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: kind of like from a young age, been like my

781
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,280
Speaker 1: best asset. And so I think for me going from

782
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:14,720
Speaker 1: you know, high school where you know you're not respectfully

783
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: like you're not playing with people with like the highest

784
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: basketball IQ.

785
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's a different level.

786
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's a different level, so like kind

787
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: of the frustrations that come with that. So then going

788
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: into college and you know, the way Scott operates his

789
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 1: system is so like cerebral and it like it just

790
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 1: makes so much sense. So honestly, the transition not I

791
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: don't want to say it was easier, but it was

792
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: like in the sense that like everything made sense. Everyone

793
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: was on the same page, everyone kind of understood the

794
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,760
Speaker 1: concepts and so like you kind of knew where people

795
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,879
Speaker 1: were going to be and it was all just like

796
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: it just like there was such more of an IQ

797
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: than what you play with in high school. And so

798
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 1: like that kind of made it easier for me because

799
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, if I drive to the side that

800
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,360
Speaker 1: the post is on, like she's going to know that

801
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: she needs to relocate.

802
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 4: Andails the circle around. She knows those things.

803
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: Yes, So that that kind of was what made it

804
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: easier for me to adjust, is kind of just having

805
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: that like IQ already. And I had watched Oregon State

806
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: play a lot, and so not that I knew like

807
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 1: the play calls and stuff, but I knew for the

808
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 1: most part, like a lot of the actions that they ran,

809
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: and you know, the way that they called the plays,

810
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 1: and the way that they taught it to me was

811
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 1: super easy to understand. And they also weren't doing the

812
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: most complicated stuff when I was out there, they kind

813
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: of he kind of knew not to like made it,

814
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: throw too much at.

815
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 3: It, don't get too crazy, not too Yeah.

816
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: They kept it simple. So yeah, I think just just

817
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: the IQ was the biggest thing for adjusting.

818
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,919
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think I didn't even think about

819
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 4: that in high school. Like, you know, you're trying to

820
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 4: get people to understand the actions, like.

821
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 3: Why are you doing this?

822
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 4: And like doing it without me dribbling at you and

823
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 4: telling you to get out of my way as I'm

824
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 4: already down through the paint. Like there's just things that

825
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 4: didn't need to be said. And when you get to college,

826
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 4: everybody has that, which is so nice. But so you

827
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 4: get there early, all these things are going well, do

828
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 4: you feel like you had like welcome to college basketball moment,

829
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 4: like holy crap, this is really happening, because, like I

830
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 4: know I did. Freshman year, we played that Oregon team

831
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 4: that had Sabrina Ruthie Sattoo everybody in the world, and

832
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 4: I was like, holy crap, you know what's going on?

833
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 4: Like Sabrina gave me a bucket. Satu gave me a bucket.

834
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 4: I had to go sit on the bench. So was

835
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 4: there a moment for you were you like, okay, like

836
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 4: I'm playing collegeball. Now I'm in the pack, this is

837
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 4: for real.

838
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: I think, honestly, it was probably that first year playing

839
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: you guys, just because that was the fastest like things

840
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: had come at me up to that point, just like

841
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: this speed and pace that you guys play with, like

842
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 1: obviously adjusting to college basketball that quickly, and then it

843
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,800
Speaker 1: was it was just it's almost like a different speed

844
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 1: playing like your offense versus other offenses, and just how

845
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: fast it comes at you. Yeah, And I don't know

846
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,720
Speaker 1: if there was like a moment, but I just remember

847
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 1: that was the first because honestly, like the first few games,

848
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: like I was fine, but that was the first game

849
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 1: where I was like, there's so much going on right now,

850
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 1: and just from like like on defense, like going from

851
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 1: playing high schoolers and then like a month later you're

852
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: playing Stanford and that was the year you guys want it.

853
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 1: So it's like you're playing not only at the highest level,

854
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: but the best team at the highest level. And I

855
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: just remember, like and I think I was guarding Lexi hole.

856
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: So she's just running around, she's going, she's going, yes, flying,

857
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,720
Speaker 1: and so yeah, I would say that was the first

858
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: moment where I was like, well, okay, I need to

859
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: lock in right.

860
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 4: No, we were quick that year, but I remember when

861
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,320
Speaker 4: we played you guys, like the coaches made a point

862
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,919
Speaker 4: they were like, they have a girl who just came

863
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 4: out of high school, so you guys are going to

864
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 4: lock a discout all those things. We were like whoa,

865
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 4: Like it became a thing like we're not We're not

866
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 4: doing this with Talia today. So that was so just

867
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 4: so you know, you were circled on that scouting report

868
00:37:58,239 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 4: that you were not.

869
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 3: It was not happying for you that day.

870
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 4: AnyWho, I remember meeting you on your official visit and

871
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 4: then obviously we played against each other for like however

872
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 4: many years. But what we're going to talk about our

873
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 4: first impressions and so do you want to go first

874
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:14,280
Speaker 4: or do you want me to go first?

875
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 2: The first impression of you? Yeah, oh yeah, I'll go

876
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 2: first time first.

877
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: Well, I think Stanford was my first like real visit

878
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 1: because I had gone to Orek and State already, but

879
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: it was just like a quick like because I could

880
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: drive there. I was like, I'm just gonna go to

881
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,399
Speaker 1: the game. So it wasn't like a planned out visit.

882
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: So this was my first like real, it wasn't my

883
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: official visit, but I went with like cam yeah and

884
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,280
Speaker 1: China and so it was kind of like the official

885
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 1: visit experience and just you guys were so nice, but

886
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 1: you specifically, like I remember being like, Wow, this is

887
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: actually like the nicest person I've ever met in my life.

888
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: Like literally you're so welcoming and you and Fran I

889
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: think we're kind of the ones that kind of were

890
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: with me everywhere. But I just remember you're so nice,

891
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,839
Speaker 1: like answered all my questions. And also like I had

892
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 1: seen you like obviously on social media and like you're

893
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: a big deal. So I was like, I know who

894
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 1: Hailey Jones is and like stop, but it would have

895
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 1: been so easy for.

896
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 2: You to like, you know, have like an ego or whatever, like,

897
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:17,720
Speaker 2: but you were.

898
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,879
Speaker 1: Just so down to earth and not that I wasn't

899
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: expecting that, but I was like, oh my gosh, this

900
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: is a Hailey Jones and she's actually just like the

901
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: sweetest person ever.

902
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 2: So that was that was what I.

903
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 3: Thought wow, well, thank you from my side.

904
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 4: You were so sweet and like me and Fran, I

905
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 4: remember us talking about it because we were kind of.

906
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 3: Driving you everyway.

907
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 4: We were well with you, and I remember you we

908
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 4: were with you and you went somewhere and Fran and

909
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 4: I were like, we really hope she comes here.

910
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 3: She's so cool.

911
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 4: And then we were like talking, We're like, do we

912
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 4: think that she thinks that we're cool? Are we being

913
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 4: too weird right now? And I remember we were just

914
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 4: trying to like figure out how to make it happen,

915
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 4: and it didn't, which was fine, but I feel like

916
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 4: we made we made a little connection so that every

917
00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 4: time I played against you guys, we would keep in touch.

918
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 4: We would about this and that, see how things were going.

919
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 4: But I just thought like, first of all, we had

920
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 4: watched all your highlights, like you know, you do your

921
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 4: little FBI digging before somebody comes on a visit. You

922
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,760
Speaker 4: see what they're like. So we watched all your highlights.

923
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 4: We're like, wow, she's a bucket.

924
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 3: But you came in.

925
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 4: You were so nice, you were so fun, like I

926
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 4: feel like you fit in, like you were doing everything

927
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,879
Speaker 4: that we were doing, try new things, which I think

928
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 4: was just great, but wow, very heartwarming to Leo.

929
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, AnyWho so having a moment on the pods, having.

930
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:30,879
Speaker 3: A moment back to basketball.

931
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 4: So you only played thirteen games that season, what upperclassmen

932
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,280
Speaker 4: on that team were you learning from and like looking

933
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 4: up to your first season there.

934
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: Aliah Goodman for sure, that was like her team at

935
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: the time. She was the senior point guard and then

936
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: just has that personality of just like coach on the floor,

937
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: leader and then now she's my coach now.

938
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so I get.

939
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: Asked about that a lot, but like I see Aliyah

940
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: in her role as an assistant was like kind of

941
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 1: her role to me coming in that first year. Like

942
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,320
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I didn't know a lot of things.

943
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: We couldn't know anything, so helping me with like play

944
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: calls and different things, like she kind of was like

945
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: an assistant coach to me that year. So now to

946
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 1: have her actually on staff and kind of be in

947
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 1: that role for you know, my younger teammates is super

948
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 1: cool because she's kind of was my mentor at first

949
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 1: and kind of you know, paved the way for me

950
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,320
Speaker 1: and has kind of been the blueprint for me, especially

951
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 1: this year, being that leader, and you know we do

952
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: like the talks before practice, the talks before games, and

953
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 1: like that that was her role and like now it's mine.

954
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: So kind of just modeling everything after what she did

955
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: in that leadership role that year has kind of been

956
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 1: everything for me and so just to have her be

957
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,799
Speaker 1: back around the program is super cool.

958
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 3: Yeah.

959
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:50,479
Speaker 4: No, I think that's really special, like having that older

960
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 4: teammate that is that mentor for you and now how

961
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 4: that you're comeback. Like when I saw her post on

962
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 4: Instagram and she was going back, I was like, yeah,

963
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 4: like that fits like you you belong to organistic Like

964
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 4: playing against her that year and the year prior, like

965
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 4: she was already a coach on the floor, like you

966
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 4: were talking about it.

967
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 3: You could see it. She ran everything. She was so vocal.

968
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 4: And so to hear that she's back and having that influence,

969
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 4: I bet it's really cool for you to see, like

970
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 4: now these younger players that you're mentoring, like now you

971
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 4: get to have both in that situation.

972
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 3: Which I think is really cool.

973
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 4: But talking about kind of the orchan state trajectory, I

974
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 4: feel like you guys have always been so talented, but

975
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 4: in years past, these and your first couple of seasons,

976
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 4: it wasn't always translating. And I feel like in the

977
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,360
Speaker 4: pack we always knew like you're not gonna go to

978
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 4: Gil and like just Lottie Dow not lock in play

979
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 4: them like you guys are always so well prepared, so

980
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 4: much talent. But it just wasn't really translating ending last year,

981
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 4: not how you guys wanted it to. And that's tough

982
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 4: for any athlete, and knowing you as such a competitor

983
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 4: and so having that understanding that you know you guys

984
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 4: are building something special. Was it hard to trust the

985
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 4: process in those years when things weren't always coming to fruition?

986
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.

987
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: And I think obviously when you commit somewhere, you kind

988
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 1: of have like a vision of what the not what

989
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: lineups are gonna be, but like who you're gonna play with.

990
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: And I remember like the two classes before me were

991
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: kind of stacked, and then coming in with the other

992
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 1: freshman that was with me, like McDonald's all American, and

993
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: you have this like kind of vision of like what

994
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: things are gonna look like, how you're gonna be playing

995
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 1: within it, within the system with these other players, and

996
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 1: then you know Covid happens transfer portal whole thing, and

997
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 1: so things look so much different than you thought they were,

998
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: and so obviously certain aspects of that are frustrating and

999
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 1: you have to adjust and things change, and so I

1000
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 1: think it was just a learning process of learning different

1001
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,919
Speaker 1: roles and having to work with different pieces, and yeah,

1002
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: it was really hard, like that first year, I don't

1003
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 1: even know what we finished in the pack, and then

1004
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: last year only winning four games, But like you said,

1005
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: like we feel like we have the talent and we

1006
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: have the pieces. Kind of just like last year super young,

1007
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: and then coming into this year obviously kind of kept

1008
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,879
Speaker 1: the same core group, but now we have a whole

1009
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: year of experience under our belt, and now like we

1010
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: have a group that has played together and has that

1011
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: experience together. And so I think that's kind of been

1012
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: the difference for us this year, is like we all

1013
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: know the system. We've all grown in our roles and

1014
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 1: within the system, and so I think that's been a

1015
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: huge part of our success. It's just that, you know,

1016
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: we've all had time in this program and we kind

1017
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: of you know, stuck it out and you know, figured

1018
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:35,880
Speaker 1: out what we needed to do to get better to

1019
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 1: win games and so it's been so fun this year honestly,

1020
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,719
Speaker 1: just just problem solving that and figuring it out and

1021
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:44,799
Speaker 1: also just being kind of the underdog, like we were

1022
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: picked the finished tenth in the pack now we're going

1023
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: into the sweet sixteen. Just having that mentality of like,

1024
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 1: no one knows how good we can be except for us,

1025
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 1: and so just it's just been so fun with this group.

1026
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: And we don't have any seniors, so we're still really young.

1027
00:44:59,280 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 3: That's scary.

1028
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 4: That's scary, Yeah, no, but I think that's so cool that.

1029
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 4: I mean, even when you talk about like the returners,

1030
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,399
Speaker 4: like you guys are still a young team and you're

1031
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 4: doing this and like you're literally returning everybody next year,

1032
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 4: which is crazy. But I think for you to be

1033
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 4: able to, you know, see a vision, have it change,

1034
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 4: and then kind of still stick with that path, have

1035
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 4: the trust in the staff, in your teammates with you,

1036
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 4: and aj kind of building with the two of you, really,

1037
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,319
Speaker 4: I think that that's so special. And it's been really

1038
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 4: cool because organ State's always been good final four runs,

1039
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 4: always at the top of the pack, and so for

1040
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 4: you guys to really come out and kind of make

1041
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 4: it all happen this year I think is so amazing

1042
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 4: to see, and your dvent has been dominant all season long.

1043
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,760
Speaker 3: Reagan, on the inside, you donovant.

1044
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 4: Aj like the list just goes on with the different

1045
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 4: weapons and like you said, it could be somebody different

1046
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,280
Speaker 4: on every single night, which is hard for an opponent

1047
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 4: to scout. And so did you feel like there was

1048
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,839
Speaker 4: a point in the season, in the summer whatever where

1049
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 4: you were like, Okay, like we can make a Sweet sixteen,

1050
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 4: a Leade eight Final four run, we can really be

1051
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 4: a contender in the Pact. Well, when do you feel

1052
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 4: like it all kind of came together for you to

1053
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 4: see the trajectory of what you guys are doing now.

1054
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think for me when I had that moment

1055
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 1: was probably when we went to Italy, and I still

1056
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: that's early, that's early, No, it was, But I think

1057
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,320
Speaker 1: that's like one of my I don't know if i'd

1058
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:23,479
Speaker 1: call it a fault, but like I've seen that every

1059
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: team Like that's kind of like, you know, I've always

1060
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: had that believe in every team in my mom just

1061
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: like as a competitor. But I think Italy because I

1062
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: wasn't back yet, so I still couldn't play from my surgery.

1063
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: And so I was just like on the sidelines, but

1064
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: just watching the way that you know, you have those

1065
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: ten practices leading up to it, which also I think

1066
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: has contributed to our success this year, Like those ten

1067
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: practices of like that's thirty hours where you know, we

1068
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: had the extra time to like learn each other and

1069
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: like then going overseas and getting that experience of just

1070
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: like getting to know each other better. Like I truly

1071
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: that has played a huge role in our success this season,

1072
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: just like that bonus time, but just the way that

1073
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 1: we played over there, and like how fun it was,

1074
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: and we really emphasized like playing fast and like getting

1075
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: up and pressuring, which isn't really what we do, but

1076
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: we kind of like emphasized that and it was just

1077
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:19,280
Speaker 1: super fun. And so seeing that like from the bench,

1078
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: like how good we can be and I'm not even

1079
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 1: like a part of it. I'm just like dang, like

1080
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 1: and the freshman coming in just their ability to defend

1081
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,959
Speaker 1: and run and we have a super athletic freshman group

1082
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: that kind of just like changed the dynamic of the team.

1083
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: That was truly when I was like, oh, like we

1084
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 1: could really do this, and then it's exciting because you

1085
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: know we're piged. I finish tenth like no one has

1086
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 1: us on any sort of radar, And for me that

1087
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 1: was exciting. I was just like, y'all don't even know

1088
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 1: what we have, what we have coming through. So I

1089
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: would say that trip was really when I was like,

1090
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: truly I did believe that, Like I had no reason

1091
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: to probably, but I was like, yeah, we could go far.

1092
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:55,280
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1093
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 4: Well I love that it came so early. You just

1094
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 4: knew and that's amazing confidence. And I think it must

1095
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 4: have been so interesting for you to like just watch

1096
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 4: that from a sideline perspective, like for you getting to

1097
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 4: learn the games, doing everything since you weren't able to

1098
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 4: play yet. And I think what you talked about, like

1099
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 4: the chemistry that you build in the off season means

1100
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:16,400
Speaker 4: everything throughout the year in terms of encore chemistry, just

1101
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 4: getting along in the locker room, doing all these different things.

1102
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 4: It really pays dividends in the long run. But talking

1103
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,720
Speaker 4: about coming off of an injury, this and that coming

1104
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 4: into this year, what do you feel like, we're the

1105
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 4: biggest things that you had to focus on, biggest gross

1106
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 4: in your game that you saw moving into this season.

1107
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: I think definitely defense has been like my biggest point

1108
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: of growth and just point of an emphasis. I think

1109
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: to be a great team, to be a Final four team,

1110
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: and you know, to accomplish what we want to accomplish,

1111
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:48,799
Speaker 1: like we have to have a top ten defense, Like

1112
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,319
Speaker 1: that's always a goal. I mean if you look at

1113
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 1: all the Final four teams in years past, and like

1114
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: we've pulled this up and looked at the stats, like

1115
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 1: it's all top ten defenses, Like it's not a secret

1116
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: that that's what it takes to get to the four.

1117
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 1: And so I think just having conversations about that and

1118
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: then really understanding that and knowing like that I play

1119
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 1: a big role and if we're going to have a

1120
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 1: top ten defense, and then just taking that so seriously.

1121
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 1: And you know, this year, like starting patent, maybe not

1122
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,800
Speaker 1: the first few weeks, but there was definitely a turning

1123
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: point impact twelve where I went and I was like,

1124
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: I want this matchup. I want this matchup. And so

1125
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 1: taking on that role I think has been just the

1126
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 1: biggest growth in my game. And then also learning to

1127
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: embrace it and enjoy it and just know that you know,

1128
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 1: that's what it takes, and being in a leadership role

1129
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: and having that mindset, it kind of spreads throughout the

1130
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,839
Speaker 1: team to where like defense is our identity, and even

1131
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: you saw in Nebraska, I think we went like eight

1132
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: minutes without scoring a field goal, which.

1133
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 2: Obviously not okay, like that's not that that's good, but

1134
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 2: like our.

1135
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:53,719
Speaker 1: Defense like allowed us to weather that and still like

1136
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: maintain like a comfortable lead throughout like a drought like that.

1137
00:49:57,719 --> 00:49:59,400
Speaker 1: And you know that's kind that's what it takes in

1138
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: March is to have that sort of a defense. So

1139
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 1: I think that's definitely like been a nine and day

1140
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: difference for me this year.

1141
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think that like you talked about all

1142
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 4: of those different analytics that you look at the final

1143
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,319
Speaker 4: four teams, like you see the defense, you see the

1144
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 4: rebounding assistant turnover ratios, like all those different things. I remember,

1145
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 4: like you put those sets and you look at that

1146
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 4: throughout the season to see where you're ranking. And so

1147
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 4: I think for you, you know, hearing Scott talk about

1148
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 4: how you're another coach out there with your basketball a Q,

1149
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 4: with your leadership, with your ability to execute, with you

1150
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 4: being the head of the snake, and then you buying

1151
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,919
Speaker 4: into defense, everything just falls after you. And I think

1152
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 4: that's so important and for you to understand that you

1153
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 4: have that type of power is really important for you

1154
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 4: to understand. But stepping into this leadership role even still

1155
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 4: so young, which is crazy to think about, like you

1156
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 4: still have more time there, but stepping into this leadership

1157
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 4: role that you have, you know, when did you kind

1158
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 4: of step into that role or how did you adjust

1159
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,560
Speaker 4: to now being the older one on the team even

1160
00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 4: though you're not even very old in the grants even things.

1161
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's been It's kind of been interesting,

1162
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: like the last few years because I've been in a

1163
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 1: weird way, like in a leadership role since my freshman

1164
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 1: year just because you know, we had the turnover after

1165
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 1: that first year and then we didn't have a ton

1166
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: of returners, and then especially going into my sophomore year,

1167
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: Like my sophomore year at Oregon State, I had played

1168
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,399
Speaker 1: the most games in the most minutes in an organ

1169
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: State uniform.

1170
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 2: On that team as a sophomore.

1171
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 1: And so like that, not that I felt pressure, but

1172
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: like in a way that puts me in a really

1173
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: big leadership role, which is a lot for a sophomore,

1174
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,840
Speaker 1: Like sophomore year stuff, and then you know, with people leaving,

1175
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: not having that, you know, like senior to really got

1176
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:47,799
Speaker 1: like kind of like how Aliyah did my first year,

1177
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,320
Speaker 1: like kind of losing that. It put me in a

1178
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,359
Speaker 1: leadership role that I don't think I was necessarily ready for.

1179
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone could be ready for a role

1180
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 2: like that as a sophomore.

1181
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 1: And so I think going through that my first couple

1182
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: of years, just doing things wrong or seeing what I

1183
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 1: could have done better, is what has prepared me for

1184
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: this year, just because like I've been in situations where

1185
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 1: maybe I didn't do the right thing, or I didn't

1186
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: say the right thing, or you know, whatever it is.

1187
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: I think like those experiences have really prepared me for

1188
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: this year. So that even though I am a junior

1189
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 1: and I still do have one more year left, like

1190
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: I've kind of been through a lot to prepare me

1191
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 1: for it. So I think it's just been a unique

1192
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:32,280
Speaker 1: situation with having to be in a leadership role so early.

1193
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 1: I think it has prepared me for this year. And

1194
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:36,880
Speaker 1: then obviously have an AJA with me and you know

1195
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,759
Speaker 1: transfers that have been in leadership roles at other schools,

1196
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 1: And I think that's what's really cool about our group too,

1197
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 1: is that it kind of comes from everywhere, and we

1198
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: have that standard of like holding each other accountable that

1199
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: we haven't had in years past, where it's like it's

1200
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: coming from everyone, Like it can't just be me holding

1201
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:57,959
Speaker 1: everyone accountable. Like we have conversations where I'm like, y'all

1202
00:52:58,000 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 1: need to be getting on me too, Like this just

1203
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 1: need to be you know, the culture. And I think

1204
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 1: we've done a really great job of that this year

1205
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 1: and that's what's allowed us to be as good as

1206
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: we are, especially defensively.

1207
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I think that's so interesting.

1208
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 4: I never put together that as a sophomore, like you

1209
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:18,760
Speaker 4: are really that guy for Oregon State, for like since

1210
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 4: you were young, even coming in as a high school senior,

1211
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 4: like you were already a go to any offense, and

1212
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 4: so to be able to have that leadership role so

1213
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 4: young is it's hard. Like you're already going through so

1214
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,720
Speaker 4: much trying to figure things out and you're like leading

1215
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 4: people older than you. It's almost an awkward situation to

1216
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 4: be and sometimes but I think that you did it

1217
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:39,879
Speaker 4: with grace and it's seamless and what you're doing now

1218
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,760
Speaker 4: is special, the way you're leading this team into the tournament.

1219
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 4: But a little bit about your style of play. You

1220
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 4: do everything out there, as we've talked about, playmaker, facilitator,

1221
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 4: all the things, but what's always been a staple is

1222
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 4: the sharpshooter three and like not even just like on

1223
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 4: three point line, steps back, like we're guarding you five

1224
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 4: paces behind the three point line, and so have you

1225
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 4: always kind of had that be a part of your game.

1226
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 4: Has always been a thing. And just also just from

1227
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 4: playing against you, like you're a competitor, Like you're out there,

1228
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 4: you're fiery, you're putting in the work, and like seeing

1229
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 4: your defense this year, like you're being a dog out there.

1230
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 4: You're being the Jalen Sharade of Oregon State right now,

1231
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 4: Like you're out there getting in people's grills, loving the defense,

1232
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 4: getting hyped up off of it. And so just talk

1233
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 4: to me about your style of play.

1234
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:32,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the deep threes have always been like

1235
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 1: my favorite thing, Like growing up, that was always I mean,

1236
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 1: like high school, I was pulling up from like the

1237
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:39,399
Speaker 1: volleyball line, like just reflying like.

1238
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 2: That's kind of my thing.

1239
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 1: I think this year, my like I said, my role

1240
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 1: is different, so I haven't shot as many threes, and

1241
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 1: like I said, like going through that kind of struggle

1242
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 1: of I wasn't looking for it necessarily as much. I

1243
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: kind of lost that edge as like a shooter because

1244
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: I am trying to, you know, facilitate be a passer,

1245
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:00,400
Speaker 1: be more in that role. And I think like the

1246
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: Nebraska game kind of that like kind of came out

1247
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 1: of me again where I was just like, yeah, no,

1248
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: I'm just letting this go. Like I had like a

1249
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:09,879
Speaker 1: moment to myself before the game. I was like I've

1250
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: worked for this my whole life, Like I've gotten the

1251
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: shots up, Like I need to just come out and

1252
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 1: shoot if I'm open, Like that's just that's what it's

1253
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:18,719
Speaker 1: gonna take. And so I kind of had that realization.

1254
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know.

1255
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: I think passing has always been my favorite thing to do.

1256
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: Like I love doing the no looks and like the

1257
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 1: behind the backs. That's kind of been like who I am,

1258
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 1: like my whole life, like growing up and obviously like

1259
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: can be too flashy in college, like we gotta we

1260
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:34,320
Speaker 1: gotta take care.

1261
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:35,480
Speaker 3: Of the paint a little bit.

1262
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:41,919
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but that's always been my favorite thing for sure.

1263
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 1: And then you know, adding defense into it, not that

1264
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 1: I was ever a terrible defender, but I think now

1265
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: this year, just like taking it personally matchups and different assignments,

1266
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 1: and then just the the level of accuracy you have

1267
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 1: to play with to really like shut a great player down,

1268
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 1: and like the angles, and you know, watching film and

1269
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:05,360
Speaker 1: learning from the coaches, you know you need to close

1270
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 1: out at this angle. You can't let her do this,

1271
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: Like all those little details. It's kind of like the separator,

1272
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,120
Speaker 1: especially this time of year. So I've like really had

1273
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:15,400
Speaker 1: fun with that and really like embraced it and then

1274
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:19,360
Speaker 1: really starting to enjoy like those matchups and those challenges.

1275
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,439
Speaker 1: So I think that's just like another aspect that I've

1276
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: added to the game for sure.

1277
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I think it, and you can see it

1278
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 4: like it makes a difference, and I think that it's

1279
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 4: just going to grow, like now that you are I

1280
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:32,799
Speaker 4: don't know, I feel like defense I'm still learning to

1281
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 4: love it, honestly, and so I feel like, you know,

1282
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 4: once you learn to love it and you love it,

1283
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 4: like everything is just going to open up and like

1284
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 4: you take it personally and all these different things start

1285
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:44,799
Speaker 4: to happen. But defensively, as a team, you guys have

1286
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 4: also been amazing, and I feel like just as a

1287
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:48,920
Speaker 4: team you have a lot of different weaps. Like we

1288
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 4: talked about, you definitely have a big three going with

1289
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 4: Reagan averaging a double double seventeen and ten and to

1290
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:57,760
Speaker 4: me at averaging eleven and seven, which is like wild

1291
00:56:57,800 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 4: for them to be doing at that young of an agent.

1292
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:02,400
Speaker 4: Evenlast year, like they came in and I remember like

1293
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:04,880
Speaker 4: scouting them and it's like, Okay, they're freshmen, they're good,

1294
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 4: and then you play guests and be like, well, they're

1295
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 4: really good, like they already.

1296
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:09,360
Speaker 3: Have it together.

1297
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 4: And so you guys are all dominating on both ends

1298
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 4: with an amazing supporting cast as well, everybody buying their role.

1299
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 4: So talk to me about Reagan and Tama and what

1300
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 4: they're doing for you to guys have that kind of

1301
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 4: power duo on the low blocks and to me obviously

1302
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 4: stepping out hitting threes for no apparent reason, which is

1303
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:31,280
Speaker 4: very annoying as an opponent. So what is it like

1304
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 4: having those two that you can always depend on that

1305
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:33,880
Speaker 4: in a night out?

1306
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 2: It's incredible.

1307
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 1: I think Ray is kind of like the foundation of

1308
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:42,800
Speaker 1: you know, having a post that can score one on

1309
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 1: one and can defend one on one is necessary to win,

1310
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 1: especially in March, like to beat great teams, you have

1311
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:52,960
Speaker 1: to be able to win that matchup. And so having

1312
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 1: her size and just like balance, her ability, her hands

1313
00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 1: like she catches it and that's just and then for

1314
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:02,760
Speaker 1: both of them, just how much they'd grown on the

1315
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 1: defensive end this year has been insane. And then having Tamia,

1316
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 1: who you know plays the four, but now can can

1317
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:13,760
Speaker 1: step off and play the five. And we saw against Nebraska,

1318
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 1: I mean we went small for that fourth quarter and

1319
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 1: she did amazing against their five and like had a

1320
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 1: few blocks, because that's a nightmare for a team to guard.

1321
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 1: I mean, she's picking and popping like at the five,

1322
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 1: especially in the Pac twelve, Like you don't see that

1323
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 1: a lot with five. So her being able to step

1324
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 1: out and do that when you know, raising foul trouble

1325
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,640
Speaker 1: or needs a break or whatever. It is just having

1326
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 1: that threat at the four where it's like she can

1327
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 1: guard any big but you know she can stretch and

1328
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: shoot the three, and then if you try to put

1329
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,440
Speaker 1: someone smaller on her, like she can go post up.

1330
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:48,920
Speaker 1: So just like that versatility, having that in the offense

1331
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:52,560
Speaker 1: is i mean a nightmare for the other team and

1332
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 1: it's just so fun to play with too. So those

1333
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 1: two definitely have been critical for our offense. But then

1334
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 1: and just how much they've grown on defense, Like I

1335
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: can't even say enough about it, Like they've always been

1336
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:09,240
Speaker 1: good defenders, but now like they're great defenders, and having

1337
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:12,600
Speaker 1: that presence down there is everything, especially at this time

1338
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 1: of year you need. So yeah, they're incredible and their

1339
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 1: sophomore sty Seriously.

1340
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 4: I feel what you said about defense, Like it makes

1341
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:22,479
Speaker 4: all the difference to have those room protectors, especially moving

1342
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:24,240
Speaker 4: through the rest of the tournament and in the pack

1343
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:28,160
Speaker 4: with all the different bigs you have, Cam Kikey, Lauren, aaronet,

1344
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 4: all these different people, and so I think moving the

1345
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:32,160
Speaker 4: rest of the tournament, that's just going to do dividends

1346
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 4: for y'allah. But y'all haven't been to the tournament since

1347
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 4: your freshman year, and now not only are you there,

1348
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:39,880
Speaker 4: but you're a three seat, which is a different type

1349
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:42,600
Speaker 4: of vibe. Getting to Hulls doing the whole thing, and

1350
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 4: the tournament is really unlike anything else. So I feel

1351
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 4: like even this year with all the extra pub around it,

1352
00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:51,560
Speaker 4: all the visibility, all the different things, how has it

1353
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 4: been managing the basketball side of things and staying focused,

1354
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 4: but also media side of things. Schoolwork, all the pressures

1355
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:02,280
Speaker 4: that co on the court and off the court. What

1356
01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:04,600
Speaker 4: has it been like for you in this tournament so far?

1357
01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I would say like this feels like my

1358
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:10,640
Speaker 1: first like tournament experience, because last I mean my first

1359
01:00:10,680 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 1: two years it was n T and then we didn't

1360
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:16,400
Speaker 1: make postseasons, so it was that first year was the

1361
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 1: COVID year, so then that just didn't even feel.

1362
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 3: Real like that was a lot.

1363
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I feel.

1364
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 1: Like this is like my real first like and Silvilay

1365
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:26,880
Speaker 1: tournament like full experience.

1366
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 2: So we had finals week when was it two weeks ago?

1367
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 1: I think like like the week like getting ready for

1368
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:38,080
Speaker 1: you know, Eastern Nebraska was finals week for us.

1369
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:40,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, So going through like.

1370
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: Having to prepare for finals and then it's like, okay,

1371
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,200
Speaker 1: you have to do a press conference this today, it's

1372
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:50,520
Speaker 1: definitely overwhelming. So I'm glad that finals is offer. So

1373
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 1: now it's just like focusing on basketball and media. But

1374
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 1: you know, I enjoy it. And I just tried to

1375
01:00:57,360 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 1: talk about my teammates a lot in media honestly that

1376
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 1: that keeps it like enjoyable for me because I sent

1377
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:04,680
Speaker 1: up there answering the same questions.

1378
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 2: Over and over again.

1379
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 1: Can get boring, you know, boring just like you want

1380
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:10,479
Speaker 1: to be doing anything else.

1381
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:12,960
Speaker 2: So I don't know, it's it's part of it.

1382
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 1: And I know that our fans like really appreciate hearing

1383
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:20,360
Speaker 1: our perspective on stuff, and I've seen I've seen them

1384
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 1: like comment on the press conferences and just like how

1385
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:23,720
Speaker 1: much it means to them.

1386
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:25,720
Speaker 2: So I think it's super cool and it's a part

1387
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:25,920
Speaker 2: of it.

1388
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:28,120
Speaker 1: It helps grow the game and and kind of lets

1389
01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 1: fans into what you're thinking and seeing your perspectives, which

1390
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:34,600
Speaker 1: you know, from a fan perspective, like you can appreciate.

1391
01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 2: So I get that it's part of it.

1392
01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:39,120
Speaker 1: But you know, just doing whatever you can to just

1393
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:42,120
Speaker 1: stay locked in and stay present and not stress too

1394
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 1: much over it. I think, especially once you've been in

1395
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 1: college long enough, it kind of just becomes like you're

1396
01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 1: a robot.

1397
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:50,200
Speaker 3: Kind of like you just yeah, it's just the way

1398
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:50,560
Speaker 3: it goes.

1399
01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 1: Question and then like you're out, And so I think

1400
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:55,360
Speaker 1: I feel like at this point in my career, it's

1401
01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 1: not it's not too bad.

1402
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you.

1403
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:00,680
Speaker 4: And then talking about stay in Locky for the tournament,

1404
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 4: you and the whole team, do you guys have a

1405
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 4: team motto or a manto moving through this tournament.

1406
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if we have like a specific thing.

1407
01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 1: I kind of talked about this in the press conference

1408
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 1: the other day, Like we do really emphasize to each

1409
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:16,480
Speaker 1: other like just staying present and taking it all in,

1410
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:18,800
Speaker 1: like obviously we're here to win, and we're gonna win,

1411
01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:21,640
Speaker 1: but you know, even if we don't, like this is

1412
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:24,400
Speaker 1: a big deal what we're doing and what we've accomplished

1413
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:27,800
Speaker 1: up til this point. So just staying present, being grateful

1414
01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:31,000
Speaker 1: for everything and not getting too caught up in all

1415
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:36,040
Speaker 1: the things. Yes, for sure, it's something that we talk

1416
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 1: a lot about with each other, and so I think

1417
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 1: that just helps you clear your mind and just stay present.

1418
01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:45,480
Speaker 1: Is just having that gratitude just to be here. And

1419
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:48,280
Speaker 1: you know, we talk so much like to start the

1420
01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 1: season of like what our goals are, what we want

1421
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:52,760
Speaker 1: to do, and like, you know, making the tournament.

1422
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 2: Obviously we'll want a final.

1423
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:56,440
Speaker 1: Four to one run, but just to be in the

1424
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 1: sweet sixteen with the group that we have and coming

1425
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 1: off last year and the adversity we face, like it's

1426
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 1: special that we're here. So obviously not done yet, but

1427
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:08,040
Speaker 1: you know, just kind of sitting in that gratitude of

1428
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 1: like just being able to be here, especially from like

1429
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 1: growing up watching this tournament, and it's like, yeah, now

1430
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:16,280
Speaker 1: we are those players that little girls are growing up watching,

1431
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 1: And so I think if you have that perspective, like

1432
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 1: it makes it so easy to just stay locked in,

1433
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 1: stay present, and just enjoy these moments with each other.

1434
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:26,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that, And I always think it's so

1435
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:28,720
Speaker 4: weird to like when you do take a step back

1436
01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:30,480
Speaker 4: and realize that you're the ones.

1437
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:31,040
Speaker 3: People are watching.

1438
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 4: Now it's like I'm still figuring things out.

1439
01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:36,919
Speaker 3: Like I I still don't know what's going on right now.

1440
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 4: But to understand that their little girls out there watching

1441
01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 4: they want to be you, like you guys are now

1442
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:44,480
Speaker 4: those role models is so exciting. And I think playing

1443
01:03:44,520 --> 01:03:47,800
Speaker 4: with that mindset is easy to kind of make things light,

1444
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,400
Speaker 4: not take too seriously because you want to perform at

1445
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:52,760
Speaker 4: the highest level, but you don't want to like overdo

1446
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:54,720
Speaker 4: your nerves for the game or overdo the excitement. So

1447
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:57,840
Speaker 4: it's it's always striking that balance. But yeah, like you

1448
01:03:57,840 --> 01:03:59,560
Speaker 4: talked about, like maybe this week sixteen, you guys have

1449
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:02,400
Speaker 4: a bright few future. No seniors on the team returning,

1450
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 4: literally everybody next season. Which is going to be huge,

1451
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 4: and like being projected tenth in the pack is insane

1452
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 4: to be where you guys are now. Like at the

1453
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:12,120
Speaker 4: beginning of the season, I saw that, I was like,

1454
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 4: are we sure? Like I I personally would never count

1455
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 4: Scott out of anything, just and then thinking about like

1456
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:22,000
Speaker 4: the talent that you guys have too. I think it's

1457
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:24,440
Speaker 4: amazing to see how you guys have really like taken

1458
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:26,680
Speaker 4: on this underdog story and doing what you're doing and

1459
01:04:26,720 --> 01:04:29,360
Speaker 4: seeing your growth I think is really special as well,

1460
01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:31,160
Speaker 4: not only as a player but as a leader.

1461
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:32,280
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1462
01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 1: And what's crazy too, is like you would think, like, Okay,

1463
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 1: you see that we're picked tenth, Like like you would

1464
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:42,160
Speaker 1: think that we would be like like feel like disrespected

1465
01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:45,560
Speaker 1: or be like mad that we were paying like truly

1466
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:47,200
Speaker 1: for me. Like I saw that, and I was like,

1467
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:50,680
Speaker 1: they have no idea, You're like, yeah, like I thought,

1468
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:53,120
Speaker 1: I liked truly, Like I had no hard feelings about it.

1469
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:56,640
Speaker 1: I was just like, okay, we'll see. Like I thought,

1470
01:04:56,680 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 1: it was kind of like they have no idea what's coming.

1471
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 1: So like I think the I was like kind of

1472
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:03,880
Speaker 1: a fun thing for us to like rally around is

1473
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:06,600
Speaker 1: like I don't know. It was almost like a positive

1474
01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:08,480
Speaker 1: thing for us. We were like, Wow, they have no

1475
01:05:08,600 --> 01:05:11,600
Speaker 1: clue what's coming, And it was almost like an advantage

1476
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 1: in a way of like, for.

1477
01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:14,080
Speaker 3: Sure, here's blindsided people.

1478
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure headed.

1479
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:18,160
Speaker 4: Into our last section. Here, it's rapid fire answers, it's

1480
01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:22,320
Speaker 4: our vibe check here we go. Ready, Okay, what's the

1481
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:24,200
Speaker 4: drill you never want to see on the practice plan?

1482
01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:29,960
Speaker 2: Oh? Ali, Oh no, tell her.

1483
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:32,240
Speaker 3: You gotta tell us in front of her what's true?

1484
01:05:32,280 --> 01:05:36,680
Speaker 2: What's true? Yeah? Well we okay, weaves, but that's how

1485
01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:37,760
Speaker 2: we start practicing every day.

1486
01:05:37,840 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, No, weaves are literally horrible. Like I yeah,

1487
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 4: I want to walk out of the gym during weaves.

1488
01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1489
01:05:43,520 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 2: Or like free throw running, we do that too.

1490
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:51,280
Speaker 4: Ew Okay, game mony shot or game money steal game shot?

1491
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 3: Yeah? And one or three pointer.

1492
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:57,760
Speaker 4: And one okay, group TikTok or solo TikTok.

1493
01:05:57,800 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 2: Group TikTok.

1494
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 4: All Right, who's the biggest trash talker? It could be

1495
01:06:02,080 --> 01:06:04,800
Speaker 4: on your team or somebody that you played against.

1496
01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:07,120
Speaker 2: Now, I feel like there's not a lot going on

1497
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:08,520
Speaker 2: in the pack. I got this question.

1498
01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:10,800
Speaker 1: I got this question the other day, and I think

1499
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:13,160
Speaker 1: I said cam I was gonna say I just let

1500
01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:13,440
Speaker 1: the pack.

1501
01:06:13,520 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 3: There's a lot of trash talk that be going down.

1502
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:16,439
Speaker 3: I've been there.

1503
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:20,160
Speaker 1: I don't know Broy cam or Charon, but they haven't

1504
01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:21,280
Speaker 1: even really said a lot to me.

1505
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:24,600
Speaker 3: It's just like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I see that.

1506
01:06:24,840 --> 01:06:25,160
Speaker 2: All right.

1507
01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:26,360
Speaker 3: Who's the biggest flopper?

1508
01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:31,840
Speaker 1: Oh well, we're gonna answer these questions.

1509
01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:33,920
Speaker 4: You can if you want to cop out, you can

1510
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 4: say one of your teammates.

1511
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:37,480
Speaker 2: I feel like none of us really flop.

1512
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:39,640
Speaker 3: Okay, fine, all right.

1513
01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:41,680
Speaker 4: So if you could pick a teammate to play two

1514
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:43,640
Speaker 4: on two with, but you can't pick one of your

1515
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:45,480
Speaker 4: current teammates, who would you pick?

1516
01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:47,320
Speaker 3: You don't have to.

1517
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:49,040
Speaker 4: You don't have say a Leah because she's in the room.

1518
01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 4: You can give with somebody else.

1519
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:53,920
Speaker 2: I need a big though, I need a big uh.

1520
01:06:54,120 --> 01:06:55,880
Speaker 2: Probably Marie Gulich.

1521
01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:58,440
Speaker 4: Oh wow, okay, I always say I love love it.

1522
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:00,280
Speaker 4: What's your favorite pregame hypes song?

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Speaker 2: This song forever that has like Drake Eminem.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, that's a good one. And our last question

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Speaker 4: is biggest basketball.

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Speaker 2: A biggest flopping?

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Speaker 3: I about to say now you want to say flopping?

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Speaker 3: Now you want to say it?

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Speaker 2: Honestly, that's a big one.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, Okay, flapping Well, Tulia, you've been amazing.

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Speaker 4: I know you got to go pray for the game,

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Speaker 4: but thank you so much for being on, thanks for

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Speaker 4: having me yes of course.

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Speaker 3: And thank you everybody for listening.

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Speaker 4: Stay tuned for another episode of Sometimes I Hope as

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