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Speaker 2: Welcome back to sometimes. I hope today we've got a

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Speaker 2: true veteran superstar on the pod Quick Humble Brag. She

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Speaker 2: led Colorado to an epic Sweet sixteen round last year.

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Speaker 2: Recently hit her career high thirty four points against Utah,

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Speaker 2: collecting player of the Week accolades left and right this season,

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Speaker 2: not to mention, all while working on her second master's degree,

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Speaker 2: none other than Jalen Sharad. Thanks for happing on the pod.

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Speaker 3: No problem, No problem.

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Speaker 2: I'm so excited to have you here. Before we get started,

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Speaker 2: I mean, the ultimate finesse. Can we go back to

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Speaker 1: Honestly, going into that game, we had talked about our

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Speaker 3: It's just what they do. They can come down and

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Speaker 1: I think it's just you know, having that mentality and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, I think that you've always been that

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Speaker 2: I mean, and you know, Utah, it could be McQueen

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Speaker 2: It was intense, the yump. You know, what can you

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Speaker 1: Well, for one, Michelle is a hard hard place to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's just like, especially when it going runs,

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Speaker 1: It's always fun to look at where you once were

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really it's really like full circle You're like, oh,

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Speaker 3: To get through the day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know to get but I think they're

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Speaker 1: They come with a lot of intensity, and they come

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I agree, And I mean just kind of talking

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Speaker 1: They gave us about thirty three or thirty four. She's nice.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll talk about Aaronet while you you give me

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Speaker 1: It's nice, it's just I mean, it makes you. And

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Speaker 1: I haven't really watched them that much, but from playing

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Speaker 3: He's going to be one of those dominant post players.

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Speaker 2: just like pulling from forty as soon as she crosses

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00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,040
Speaker 2: half court and I'm like, girl, give us a chance

438
00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,440
Speaker 2: to set up the defense. What are we doing? And

439
00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:00,919
Speaker 2: so she's doing that and and that I think another

440
00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,959
Speaker 2: player for them, aj Morot. I think she's really come

441
00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,399
Speaker 2: along and she's more consistent for them in a score.

442
00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:08,600
Speaker 2: So I think they've a lot of good pieces and

443
00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:12,960
Speaker 2: playing them every year, especially at GIL in core Valles.

444
00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,639
Speaker 2: Their fans are there every dang game and they are loud.

445
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:22,120
Speaker 2: So I think OSU is definitely a sleeper. But kind

446
00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:25,080
Speaker 2: of moving into your guys this season again and your team,

447
00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:27,600
Speaker 2: I mean, you guys were one of the top dogs

448
00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:30,359
Speaker 2: leaving last year after your Sweet sixteen run, and so

449
00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,520
Speaker 2: I feel like you guys created a lot of buzz

450
00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,040
Speaker 2: about yourself, but also the tournament in general. I had

451
00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,720
Speaker 2: a lot of buzz talking about just visibility, the viewership numbers,

452
00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:42,199
Speaker 2: all those different things. Moving into this season, do you

453
00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:45,600
Speaker 2: feel like trying to kind of, you know, carry that

454
00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:50,160
Speaker 2: momentum of women's basketball. Is there added pressure or expectation

455
00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,359
Speaker 2: that kind of women's basketball as a whole has to

456
00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,960
Speaker 2: live up to with your performances on national TV games

457
00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:56,880
Speaker 2: and everything like that.

458
00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:00,440
Speaker 1: I want to share any expectation that wasn't already there.

459
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 1: I just think it's being seen nationally now rather than

460
00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,160
Speaker 1: those who are experiencing it. So I don't really think

461
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,720
Speaker 1: it's I mean, you're gonna go out and play your

462
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,240
Speaker 1: game no matter what. And I think especially being in

463
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 1: the pack, the teams you see in March are the

464
00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,240
Speaker 1: same teams that were there in January and February.

465
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 3: People just didn't see them.

466
00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:23,360
Speaker 1: So I think overall it doesn't really change the expectation.

467
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,280
Speaker 1: It's just more of a you have more eyes on you,

468
00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:30,720
Speaker 1: so more people are finally seeing the game from a

469
00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,760
Speaker 1: I guess a general perspective versus just you know, catching

470
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,119
Speaker 1: the championship game at the end of the season. So

471
00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,120
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I don't think it's any added pressure. But

472
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,600
Speaker 1: I also don't view a lot of things as pressure

473
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 1: type situations. So I don't know from the best person

474
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:50,640
Speaker 1: to ask in essence, but I think what Kaitlyn Clark

475
00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,800
Speaker 1: had a triple double last week or or the last game,

476
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,720
Speaker 1: she had that same triple double in November, Like, it's no, yeah,

477
00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,280
Speaker 1: she's still playing the same game she's always played, just

478
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,399
Speaker 1: more so more eyes or on her, no, and more

479
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,920
Speaker 1: people are paying attention. But I don't think it really

480
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 1: changes the intensity or the passion or just the overall

481
00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:10,200
Speaker 1: game that we're playing in right now.

482
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Speaker 2: I see that. I don't think women's basketball so much

483
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 2: is changing because it's always been that same skill level,

484
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,640
Speaker 2: Like you talked about, it's really just people tuning in

485
00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,480
Speaker 2: all year long because now that they've seen these players

486
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,680
Speaker 2: and how good everybody is now they're like, oh, snap,

487
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,680
Speaker 2: let me tune in. I can actually watch more of

488
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,000
Speaker 2: them March badness, Oh my gosh, it's like amazing to them.

489
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 2: And there's the rest of the season going on. Diving

490
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:33,480
Speaker 2: into what we were talking about earlier a little bit,

491
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,120
Speaker 2: just with like people getting love in the pack specifically,

492
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,120
Speaker 2: it's kind of like you know people who know no,

493
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,560
Speaker 2: but if you're not in the pack, it's like you

494
00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,200
Speaker 2: don't know how good these players are. And so I'm

495
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 2: gonna run you some names, okay, and I want you

496
00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 2: to oh no, no, no, it's gonna be good. It's gonna

497
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,199
Speaker 2: be good. I want you to give me just like

498
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 2: a quick two bullet point of like a scattering report

499
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 2: or like hid around around maybe not the scout, maybe

500
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:04,919
Speaker 2: not the scout, maybe not the scout, but like you

501
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 2: know what they do well, something special about them, give

502
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,680
Speaker 2: them their flowers. Okay, we're talking about Okay, So we'll

503
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 2: start off with Kiki Rice.

504
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:14,639
Speaker 1: I think this is good for me because I think

505
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,439
Speaker 1: people think I'm just so intense and so far you

506
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 1: all the time, and you are.

507
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 3: I'm really true. I really appreciate people's games.

508
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 2: So I think Ki right, you know, let's see it.

509
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:25,880
Speaker 3: Kiki Rice.

510
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:28,640
Speaker 1: I think she does a great job in managing the team,

511
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 1: especially coming in as a freshman and having to manage

512
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,719
Speaker 1: such a dynasty type program to it UCLA. I think

513
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,399
Speaker 1: she did a great job of that. And I also

514
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: think she does a great job of learning her teammates.

515
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 1: You could tell she put the work in to learn

516
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,439
Speaker 1: her teammates, to know what they do well and how

517
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:43,960
Speaker 1: to put them in the best position. So I think

518
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,879
Speaker 1: she really embodies what a point guard is.

519
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:51,120
Speaker 2: Okay, that was good. Okay, next one. We were talking

520
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:54,399
Speaker 2: about Arizona earlier, so we're gonna do too for Arizonkay,

521
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,360
Speaker 2: you can do Jada Williams and Kaitlyn Gilbert and then

522
00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 2: you take it in whichever order you want to do.

523
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,679
Speaker 1: Williams, I'll say, uh, just the fire she plays with

524
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 1: reminds me a lot of myself.

525
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could tell she's really passionate about it.

526
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: She's that emotional leader already for them. And I think

527
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,639
Speaker 1: overall too, just a good teammate. You could tell she

528
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:21,439
Speaker 1: pours a lot into her teammates. Gilbert, I don't know

529
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,400
Speaker 1: if i've ever I would from just what I've seen

530
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 1: she's more on the quiet side, but I think she's

531
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,440
Speaker 1: more of that like silent assassin to where like she

532
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 1: just knows how to maneuver within defenses and within how

533
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: you guard her to still get what she wants out

534
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 1: of it. So I think she's nothing but a sophomore,

535
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,959
Speaker 1: but knowing that early really allows her to progress her

536
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 1: game in the future, So I see big things for

537
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:42,879
Speaker 1: both of them in the future.

538
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,119
Speaker 2: I agree, especially a point about Williams reminding you of you.

539
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,400
Speaker 2: I think that points on the money. And then with Gilbert,

540
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,880
Speaker 2: I just remember last year, like she wasn't really big

541
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 2: on our scattering the word because they have so many weapons.

542
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 2: And then she came to the game and starts getting

543
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 2: buckets and I'm looking over at our bench, like, what's

544
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,680
Speaker 2: the scout? What do you want me to do? It's

545
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 2: always those more so seeing her now have a bigger role,

546
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 2: I think it's really cool.

547
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 3: Yeah.

548
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 2: And then my last one is I've known this girl

549
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 2: as a bucket since the first time you played her.

550
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:15,399
Speaker 2: But miss Gianna Nipkins, Nipkins, however you say your last name, girl,

551
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 2: you she's a freaking bucket, Like, there's no offens about

552
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:20,400
Speaker 2: about it. Tell me about Gianna.

553
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 1: It's funny because Ashly talked to her after we play,

554
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 1: just wishing her the best and wishing her recovery.

555
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, your recovery.

556
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: But I would say she she's one of those that

557
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: she just reached the game really well in terms of

558
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,159
Speaker 1: how you play her, because you want to play her aggressively,

559
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: but at the same time you just have to be

560
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: smart with it because Utah's offense in itself is very intricate,

561
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 1: but at the same time, she plays so well within

562
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,439
Speaker 1: it to her like if you overplay her, she's going

563
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,480
Speaker 1: to backdoor you. But you get caught up and overplaying

564
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 1: because she can shoot the ball so well. So it's

565
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: just like pick your poison type thing. But I think

566
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 1: once they get her back, you know, I think, you talk,

567
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 1: is going to be in a great, great position, especially

568
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: with her being part of their future. So yeah, I think, yeah,

569
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,919
Speaker 1: she's just tough to guard overall because she can do

570
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:11,400
Speaker 1: so much.

571
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 2: Is she is. I just remember we played as a

572
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 2: freshman and we had Anna Wilson guarding her, and I'm like, okay, already,

573
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 2: props to you, miss freshman. You got a willy guarded

574
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 2: you your bucket, right, And I remember she hit this

575
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 2: like me and step back behind the back three and

576
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 2: Anna just looked at me and she was like, Yo,

577
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 2: she's tough. Okay, first of all, stop letting her score.

578
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 2: We get it. Give it her props. But a little

579
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 2: bit more about you. Let's let's take it back to

580
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 2: your roots for a minute. So you're from Birmingham, Alabama,

581
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 2: Tell me how you got into basketball if it was

582
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 2: always basketball? Did you play other sports or how did

583
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:47,879
Speaker 2: this kind of come about?

584
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: Basketball was the only sport I would say, like I

585
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: went full out with I was the only girl in

586
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 1: my neighborhood. So my neighbor right next door to me,

587
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:58,920
Speaker 1: he had three sons, and they would always being in

588
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,200
Speaker 1: their backyard playing basha.

589
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 3: And then I had a neighbor across the street. Because

590
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 3: I stayed in like a.

591
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 1: Circle, so we were all pretty close with each other.

592
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: My neighbor across the street would also come over and

593
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: he would play with them, and it got to the

594
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,120
Speaker 1: point where I would go outside. And I don't necessarily

595
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: know where playing basketball with them came from. I can't remember,

596
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 1: but I would always be in the backyard playing basketball.

597
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 1: My mom would always look out her window because her

598
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: window faces their backyard. And one day my uncle saw

599
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: me outside and he told my mom that you need

600
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 1: to put her in organized basketball. She's really good. And

601
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: so I think that was about second third grade maybe,

602
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: and so from there basketball was a U tournaments all

603
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 1: the time.

604
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 3: Like that's all of that.

605
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: But then, yeah, I also ran track in high school,

606
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,439
Speaker 1: but I more so did it to stay in shape.

607
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 3: It wasn't really something.

608
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:59,400
Speaker 1: That I just was fully invested in. And my high

609
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 1: school team then eight hundred meter runner, and I don't know,

610
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: God don't know I run eight hundred To this day,

611
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 1: I can tell y'all. Ran that race completely wrong in

612
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: terms of just fundamental But yeah, it was the worst.

613
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 3: Thing I ever did.

614
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,360
Speaker 1: But I ended up getting second place at state for it.

615
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: I never really had the thought of running track. I'm

616
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,360
Speaker 1: sure I could if I fully committed to it.

617
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 2: I'm sure you could. I'm sure you could.

618
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: But yeah, so other than that, I don't think I

619
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: did anything else. I made the softball team, but I

620
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: didn't like the dirt, so I didn't really invest in that.

621
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: I really hate it. Yeah, just I just wasn't a

622
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 1: fan of that. And then my mom put me in

623
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: karate early on, very early on, wow, just as a

624
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: way of like something to do. I was the only

625
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 1: kid too, so it wasn't like I had siblings running

626
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: around that I could play fight with and and.

627
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 3: Bully and stuff like that.

628
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 2: So I was so you took it out of class.

629
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, So yeah, but that was pretty in terms of

630
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: sports background. And I actually get that a lot because

631
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: my mom my mom is fully academic, like sports really,

632
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: so everybody's like, what did you get your athletic background from?

633
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah.

634
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: I was, I just been doing it for so long

635
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: because yeah, nobody and my family really my uncle. My

636
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: uncle played basketball and it was pretty good at it,

637
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: butther and that I really didn't have a lot of

638
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: sports background or even you know, my mom traveling with

639
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: a you was her first time doing anything like that too,

640
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: so he was kind of figuring it out together.

641
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it just sounds like you were just

642
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 2: killing it. You said you didn't know how to run

643
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 2: the eight hundred, but somehow we're second at state just

644
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 2: doing it, which is which is crazy.

645
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: By the way, I like the last part. I guess

646
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: where everybody got tired of. I just sprinted it because

647
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,239
Speaker 1: I jogged everything taken out.

648
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 2: So yeah, it was.

649
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 1: Like, I know, I fundamentally didn't run it right, but yeah,

650
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: it was just time to go. Yeah, it was like,

651
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: you're like eighth right now, you're not getting eighth place.

652
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 3: You didn't come down.

653
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 2: I can't do that. I can't Dad.

654
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 3: I think I lost a kid that ended up going

655
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 3: to Alabama for track.

656
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 2: So oh, so let's not about it all. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

657
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 2: you're fine. Okay, So track Star hated softball to the dirt,

658
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 2: I get it. But so who was kind of those

659
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 2: players that you watched that you modeled your game after.

660
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 2: Was there anybody like that?

661
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 3: Gid you not? My fair basketball player growing up was

662
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 3: Kandas Parker.

663
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: Okay, looking back at it, just how dynamics she was

664
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: at that time and how like she was everywhere that

665
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: all you saw when he came to in his basketball

666
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: was Kandas park So I think just that. And then

667
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: growing up, I always wanted to go to Tennessee. Like

668
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: Tennessee was dream school. I don't know what it was

669
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: about it. I don't know if it was like the

670
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: Orange or whatever. I was like, yeah, I gotta go

671
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: to Tennessee. So I guess that's kind of the relation

672
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: to why I watched so much of Candis Parker growing up.

673
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: But I will also say my moreb was pretty heavy,

674
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: but for me personally, like when I got old enough

675
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: to like when I was really invested in basketball and

676
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 1: taking it serious.

677
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 3: Morgan William who played at Missisi State.

678
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 1: She's from Birmingham and I used to pay basketball with

679
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: her little sister and so in terms of like looking

680
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: at somebody around my size who was just dominant on

681
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: the court, who was just a leader for her team

682
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: at MCB State, what's really who I looked at to say, like,

683
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: you can do it, or this is somebody who is

684
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: around who looks like you, who comes from the same

685
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: city as you, and you can really do this, and

686
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: you can really you know, put yourself in those shoes

687
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: and start to envision it, because once you see it,

688
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: especially seeing somebody from your own city do it, it's

689
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: kind of it makes seems a little bit more attainable.

690
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: So for sure, especially just like a kid looking at

691
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: the imagination, looking at where you want to get to

692
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: and goes to set in life. So I would definitely

693
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: say Morgan William for sure.

694
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 3: I were watching her, especially when.

695
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: Duck Man that was crazy, crazy.

696
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet I would have been on one too.

697
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 2: It was crazy. But I think just it was really

698
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 2: cool to watch a smaller guard like that make the

699
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 2: impact that she did in a variety of ways. And

700
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 2: I think a lot of times smaller guards maybe get

701
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 2: put into a box only being like a peskey defender.

702
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 2: Isn't that she was still getting to the rim. She's

703
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 2: finishing over people.

704
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: Twice and she's like, Midie was crazy and it was

705
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: like she's still get her shot off. And I think

706
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: to even looking at it from a bigger perspective, I

707
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: think that mischie Be State team once they beat Yukon,

708
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: made women's basketball more of a It wasn't just Yukun anymore.

709
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: It wasn't just yeah they were the powerhouse, and yeah

710
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: they want all these snatty and they went for in

711
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: a row I think, and all of this other stuff,

712
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,479
Speaker 1: but it made them seem more human than what you

713
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: would think. So I think, just like I said, she

714
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: and that and her being somebody who was a part

715
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,959
Speaker 1: of that really just made everything more realistic.

716
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 2: Up until recently, it was really kind of like what

717
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 2: you're talking about. I think it led into kind of

718
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 2: some of the viewerships because people are like, it's always

719
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 2: the same teams at the top. It's the Stanfords, the Tennessee's,

720
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 2: Yukon's every year. So it wasn't as exciting for the

721
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 2: average fan to just watch because you're like, oh, I

722
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 2: know who's gonna end up winning. But I think nowadays

723
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 2: because there's so much more talent and not everybody wants

724
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 2: to go to a powerhouse. They want to make their

725
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 2: own name somewhere else. Women's basketball is so much more

726
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 2: exciting because it's like, you really don't know, you have

727
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 2: people like you bringing a team like Colorado back into

728
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 2: the main stage. People just everywhere. You know, you take

729
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 2: angel recent throw at LSU and they used to be

730
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 2: a powerhouse, but for some years they weren't really on

731
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 2: that same level and now they are. So I think

732
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 2: just around the country you have different teams stepping up

733
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 2: into the limelight, which is really exciting. So I think

734
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 2: that definitely just you know, really goes along that point

735
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 2: that you made about Morgan Williams. It was definitely part

736
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:17,800
Speaker 2: of that momentum change. Yeah, But I think more about

737
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 2: your upbringing coming from Birmingham, Alabama, and you talked about

738
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 2: Colorado was your only power flave offer, So what was

739
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 2: that process like dealing with maybe not having the most

740
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 2: exposure and trying to be noticed by these bigger schools

741
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 2: because you always had the talent. But I think a

742
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 2: lot of kids it's like, how do I find that exposure?

743
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 2: How do I get to that court where all those

744
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,879
Speaker 2: teams are playing this and that? So what was that

745
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 2: recruiting experience, like for you.

746
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: Honestly, it was tough, just because like I've always bet

747
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: on myself and I've always known, like I told this

748
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: to anybody, Like on paper, I know I'm not the

749
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,240
Speaker 1: best shooter. I might not even be the best pass

750
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:58,919
Speaker 1: for that night. But at the end of the day,

751
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: then ten or something that you don't get with everybody

752
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: that you would get with me. It's not about talent.

753
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: For me, it's just a simple fact that I will

754
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: outwork you and that's how I'm gonna win. And I

755
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: think early on, obviously I didn't have that perspective and

756
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: mature mentality of recognizing that. But at the same time,

757
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 1: it was just kind of like I was also ruled myself,

758
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: like I always wanted to go to Tennessee, but I

759
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 1: knew my tempher of y'all. I was like, yeah, you

760
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: probably not gonna end the Tennessee kid. Like it was

761
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 1: just like I wasn't I didn't really sell myself dreams

762
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: to be disappointed. I would just rule myself to say, like,

763
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: Colorado is where you're gonna be, then make the best

764
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 1: out of Colorado. Don't dwell on the fact that you

765
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 1: didn't end up at Tennessee, because I feel like if

766
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 1: I would have dwelled on that simple fact, then I

767
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: wouldn't be who I am today, or I wouldn't have

768
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: taken the moment that Colorado has been for me and

769
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: invested and got the most out of it that I have.

770
00:35:56,280 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: So I think early on just being ruled myself to like, yeah,

771
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: your dreams are your dreams. But at the same time,

772
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 1: how can you still make your dreams of reality even

773
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: with the opportunities that are pregentted to you. So it

774
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: was tough early on, but at the same time, knew

775
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: how I was gonna win, and it was doing a

776
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: dirty work. It was outworking people. It was being able

777
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,760
Speaker 1: to play forty minutes at the same intensity and passion

778
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 1: and not dying off in twenty Like it was just

779
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: like I knew how I was gonna really set myself

780
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: apart in this thing. So I think just sticking to

781
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: that and knowing who I was and being okay with

782
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: that early on really set me out for success. I

783
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,280
Speaker 1: think all in all, sixteen seventeen year old Jaalen was salty,

784
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: but twenty two year old Jaalen is like, man, you

785
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: made the right decision and it worked out for you.

786
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 2: So I love that. I feel like you had like

787
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 2: four or five mic drop moments in that, like going

788
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 2: from knowing who you are, making your dreams of reality,

789
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:59,280
Speaker 2: Like I'm taking mental notes right now. That was really good. Wow,

790
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 2: that was inspiring to me Jalen honestly, But no, You're

791
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 2: completely right, especially on that point in that, Like, it's

792
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 2: so hard, especially in AA when you're younger, to not

793
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 2: compare yourself to other people's journeys and you're life. I

794
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 2: just beat her like why does she have this an ideal?

795
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 2: Or you know my team is better than their team?

796
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 2: Why are they a Nike national team? Just all those

797
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 2: little intricacies. It's very hard when you're sixteen and seventeen.

798
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 2: So I think us now being those well you being

799
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 2: that old head in college basketball like you you, it's

800
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 2: easier to understand those things.

801
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 1: I mean, I get that now. It was like, why'd

802
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: you stay at Colorado for so long? And it's like

803
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: nobody else wanted me? Why would I go somewhere?

804
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 2: Yeah?

805
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: Why would I go take what I've built for myself

806
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: in what Colorado has become and take that somewhere else

807
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: that had that same opportunity but then take it and

808
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,840
Speaker 1: maybe that's me just being still salty at the end

809
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: of the day and wanting to, you know, really prove that,

810
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people missed out on something.

811
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: But I guess at the end of today, it was

812
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: more so like, you don't fine because I didn't even

813
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,800
Speaker 1: play basketball my high school. My senior year of high school,

814
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: I played like twelve games because I had the hip injury.

815
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: So then that also caused a lot of people to

816
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: drop off, for a lot of people to be unsure

817
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: about me. But you know, Colorado, they stayed true and

818
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 1: true throughout the whole process, and it was like, I

819
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:26,359
Speaker 1: just don't see myself leaving that to go somewhere those too,

820
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: because a lot of people don't really realize the grass

821
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: is not always green. On the other side, it's really

822
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: not facts, especially like having so many friends everywhere else

823
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: and hearing you know, how people experiences are why people

824
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: transfer from this school that you're like, you can't be

825
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: talking about the same school that I, you know, think

826
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: or what I thought was what it was. You don't

827
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 1: really see that as your reality until you hear somebody

828
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,800
Speaker 1: who experienced it. So this place has been a blessing

829
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 1: to me, and I want to finish where I started,

830
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: and I committed to leaving this place better than I

831
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: found it, and they were loyal.

832
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:04,919
Speaker 3: To me, so I'm be loyal to them too.

833
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, and you've done that. You've turned around

834
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 2: the program in a very short amount of time. And

835
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 2: so talking a little bit more about Colorado, you get

836
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 2: to Colorado, it's a very different place from Birmingham, Alabama.

837
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 2: How was that culture shock? Not just culture shock, but

838
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 2: also did the altitude hit you? Because, let me tell you,

839
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 2: every time we come it slaps. There's no if and

840
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 2: butts about it, like it's it's crazy. Yeah.

841
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 3: I kind of prepare myself.

842
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: My trainer actually, a couple months before I had to report,

843
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: came out here on a like mountain ski trip or something,

844
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: and he was like, you have to we got to

845
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: get you a mask and we got to get this

846
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: work in because I couldn't breathe and I was skiing.

847
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 1: You're not going to be able to breathe playing basketball

848
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: out there. So I kind of prepared myself from that instance.

849
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't really necessarily say I had much of

850
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: a hard transit just because simply I'm the only kid,

851
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:08,240
Speaker 1: So I wasn't really leaving so much that I felt

852
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,320
Speaker 1: like I couldn't get here behind. And like my mom's

853
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 1: always been one of my biggest supporters, my trainer, I

854
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: talked to him all the time still, so I really

855
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 1: didn't feel like I was leaving a lot behind. And

856
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 1: also I had to grow because once you've been in

857
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 1: a place for so long, going twenty two hours away

858
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 1: from home, it's a big commitment. But it was something

859
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: that I felt like I could survive and I would

860
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: be okay. So I wouldn't say more so transition wise,

861
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 1: it wasn't as difficult as I think people would assume it.

862
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 3: Would be for me.

863
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,720
Speaker 1: But I would say in terms of just culture wise,

864
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 1: is totally different. It's a little it's a little different now,

865
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 1: especially with Dionne being here and that whole thing that

866
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: changed the whole spectrum of what Boulder looks like the

867
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: past year and a half. But before that, I would say,

868
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: other than the snow, I really have no complaints. Other

869
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 1: than the snow, I really don't have any complaints. Like

870
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: I literally woke up next morning we got back from Arizona,

871
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 1: and I was like, it's snow last night and I

872
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: completely had no idea it was supposed to snow, and

873
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 1: I had an appointment at ten fifteen, and then you

874
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: have to wake up maybe an hour before you even

875
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: have to leave a house just to like wipe your

876
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: car off snow show the driveway.

877
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 3: So it's not that that part's not fun. But other

878
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 3: than that, it's not too bad.

879
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: And the snow actually was it's pretty melted now in

880
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: terms of like roads and driveways and stuff.

881
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 3: But it does catch you off guard when you're not prepared.

882
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 3: And I was not prepared this morning.

883
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that'll really do it. Because I'm a Cali kid,

884
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 2: so I've like I'm one of those people that's like, oh,

885
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 2: I've been to the snow like once or twice. When

886
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,280
Speaker 2: we go play at Washington State, I jump into snow

887
00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 2: every year like that. That's how it was. But heading

888
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,880
Speaker 2: into your freshman year, did you have nerves going to

889
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 2: freshman year? I know I did, so, Like what was

890
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:09,879
Speaker 2: kind of your mindset changing from high school basketball where

891
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,280
Speaker 2: you hadn't gotten to finish your season your season heading

892
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 2: into now playing in one of the best conferences, having

893
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 2: a good non conference schedule, what was that like?

894
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: It was different? It was different because I didn't really

895
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: get the typical freshman year my freshman year because the

896
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: point guard graduated, so it was me and then Sila,

897
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 1: who was also a sophomore, so we were both two

898
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: young kids coming in just trying to figure it out.

899
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 1: I joke around with JR. All the time, like, you

900
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: really threw me in the fire at seventeen, and I

901
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: just didn't. I don't know if I appreciate that. I

902
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: do now, but at the time, I was like I

903
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna come in, get some weight on me,

904
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: you know, learn the ins and out, be able to

905
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 1: just kind of coast through.

906
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 3: And it wasn't like that. I mean, my first.

907
00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: Pac twelve game was against Oregon when they had some

908
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: Brina and Satu and the and we lost by sixty.

909
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: We lost by sixty kids, You not that it was

910
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,280
Speaker 1: the whole crowd and they were screaming, they were yelling

911
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: the song shout at you, and it was just like.

912
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 2: That is so that is so stressful when you're there like,

913
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 2: oh God, this this can't be real, This can't be real.

914
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think after that game,

915
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 1: a reporter came to me and I think.

916
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 3: My mentality didn't change.

917
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,280
Speaker 1: I said, they still got to come play us in Boulder,

918
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: and I think, yeah, just taking that mentality of like, yeah,

919
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: they're good, but it might not be now, but I'm

920
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: a one day beat at b b where I can't

921
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: We're not losing by sixty organ.

922
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 2: You know.

923
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:42,240
Speaker 3: I think that same.

924
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: Year we played you guys, and that was the first

925
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 1: time that we had actually competed, and it was at Maple's.

926
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, I like it was the first game.

927
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 2: Yes, I remember, I wasn't there because that's when I

928
00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 2: had my knee injury, and so I remember watching O

929
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 2: and I was yelling at the TV the whole time.

930
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 2: And I remember so specifically because you had that was

931
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 2: like I don't want to say, we have to tell

932
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 2: me what your coming out game was, but I remember

933
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 2: you dropped like twenty one that game.

934
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, we went to remember and we went to overtime.

935
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was yelled at the TV. Somebody stopped her,

936
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:20,280
Speaker 2: like I was pissed.

937
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: And I think that moment for me was that moment

938
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 1: where like it kind of changed the mentality of like, yeah,

939
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: Stanford's human and I think, yeah, with that, we just

940
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 1: really built off of that year to year to year,

941
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: and I think I would say that Stanford game our

942
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: freshman year was the I guess shift in myself as

943
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: a player to just be like, like, you can really

944
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,760
Speaker 1: go out here with not being the best of the best,

945
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: not being the five stars, four stars, and still be

946
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: able to compete with these people and like they're human.

947
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: I think that's where the mentality of they put on

948
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: their practice jersey saying where you put on yours, they

949
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: laced up their shoes and get ready to play. It

950
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,399
Speaker 1: just made everything more realistic and more human. I think

951
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 1: from that point on, it just kind of gave me

952
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 1: that I guess chip on the shoulder to say like,

953
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: even though you coming from Colorado, who I think that

954
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: year prior was the last team in the pack, you

955
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: can really build off of this. You can really, you know,

956
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 1: take what you have and be successful for what you have.

957
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 3: You don't need.

958
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 1: What everybody thinks you need to be successful. You can

959
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 1: really be successful where you're at with what you have.

960
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:27,359
Speaker 1: And I think we just make the best out of that.

961
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: Knowing that, you know, Colorado is a hard place tore,

962
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: especially kids around the nation who don't grow up in

963
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: the snow and don't have to deal with it like

964
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: it's a tough place to sell, especially even if you're

965
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: a city kid. It was a tough place for me

966
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 1: because I'm like, I don't hike, I don't go in

967
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 1: the mountains. To this day, I've never been up that mountain.

968
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: I just don't know. I have like taking pictures, but

969
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: it's not like I'm not going on to actually like

970
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: so I think it's just in terms of finding people

971
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 1: who who are willing to commit to this and willing

972
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: to come here and taking that and say, like, you know,

973
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 1: we're gonna make the best with what we got. And

974
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: I think that's really what we prit our so so on,

975
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: and I think that's really why all of us, not

976
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: just myself, all of us have that chip on our shoulders.

977
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: And I think that's what makes us all special, is

978
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: we're all motivated from being that underdog to say we

979
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:21,959
Speaker 1: can really make a change here and we don't need

980
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: all the things that are typical for success to be successful.

981
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 2: Oh for sure. I mean just the turnaround that you made.

982
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 2: Talk about your freshman year, you guys were three and

983
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 2: fifteen in the pack, and then last year you went

984
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 2: thirteen and five that's a pretty crazy change. Who knows

985
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 2: just the improvement that you guys are gonna have this season.

986
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 2: It's really crazy to see the turnaround. Yeah, but yeah,

987
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 2: I remember watching y'all when I was sitting at home

988
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 2: freshman year, and I was like, they're good. Like every

989
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,320
Speaker 2: single year, people would always ask us whether it's packsful

990
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 2: media day or just random questions. They're like, oh, who's

991
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 2: an underdog Colorado? Oh? Yes, Evan to see what you

992
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 2: guys did last year in the turnarount made it to

993
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 2: the Sweet sixteen for the first time in like twenty years,

994
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 2: twenty one years. Beating Middle Tennessee and then upsetting Duke

995
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:18,359
Speaker 2: at Cameron is crazy. So just kind of like just

996
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 2: you specifically, how does it feel to know how big

997
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,720
Speaker 2: of a part you were even though you're not from Colorado,

998
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,799
Speaker 2: you're kind of like a cu Lengen now, So like,

999
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 2: how does that feel for you to just understand the

1000
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 2: gravity that you've had in the program, that you've really

1001
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 2: helped be kind of a cornerstone of turning it around.

1002
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: I want to tell you so bad to ask me

1003
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: when the season is over, because I don't really.

1004
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 2: Well, I will, I will text you and I ask you.

1005
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: I don't really look at it like that right now,

1006
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: just because I feel like I still have so much

1007
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: to do even though I have so little time to

1008
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: do it. But I just knew at the end of

1009
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 1: that I wanted to lead this place better than how

1010
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:01,439
Speaker 1: I found it. And whether that was showing other five

1011
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 1: six point guards that you can shine at a place

1012
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 1: where you're not supposed to or you don't typically fit in,

1013
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: because I wouldn't even say I'm a typical pack to

1014
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: a point guard, or just saying you know, you can

1015
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 1: be yourself and still find success. You don't have to,

1016
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 1: you know, fit the criteria and fit the mold that

1017
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 1: everybody else thinks you have to have to be successful.

1018
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: So anything like that was kind of the goal. I

1019
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:32,280
Speaker 1: was telling Cindy Brynson the other day at Arizona because

1020
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: she was like, you didn't want to go to the WNBA,

1021
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: and I was like, I didn't. I was like, I'm

1022
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 1: going to come get my degree and I'm going to

1023
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 1: go to the military.

1024
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 3: That is the plan.

1025
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,839
Speaker 1: And I literally read an article that I did when

1026
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: I was seventeen a freshman coming in here after my

1027
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:47,439
Speaker 1: freshman year, and.

1028
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 3: I clearly said I do not want to go pro.

1029
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 3: I don't.

1030
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 1: It's not just it's not the end goal for me.

1031
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: I want to get my degree and then do physics

1032
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,760
Speaker 1: within the military, and just to see how that's changed,

1033
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: just because at the end of the day, I wouldn't

1034
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 1: necessarily say my.

1035
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 3: Career was for me.

1036
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: It was more so to show other people that you

1037
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: can do it and you don't have to have all

1038
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,280
Speaker 1: the glace and glamor to be successful. And if I could,

1039
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,720
Speaker 1: you know, motivate other people that comes from my situation,

1040
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: or even motivate other people in Birmingham, Alabama who you know,

1041
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: Birmingham's not a typical women's basketball it's all football. Alabama's

1042
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 1: football all day every day. So just being able to

1043
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: show kids from similar situations for my neighborhood that you

1044
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 1: can go out and still be successful as long as you,

1045
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 1: you know, work hard and figure out your way of winning.

1046
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 1: That that was pretty much it for me. I didn't

1047
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 1: really see what we are now as being my end

1048
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 1: goal or reality once I finished this golf So it's

1049
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: cool to see overall, and I think just testament to

1050
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 1: everybody that I play with and everybody that's been a

1051
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: part of the program over the years, just you know, everybody,

1052
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 1: even small transfer whoever came through, even if you were

1053
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 1: only here for a year, you set a mold that

1054
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: people can continue to build off of, including myself.

1055
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:14,359
Speaker 3: And so it's just like.

1056
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: Those people who took the time out to draw up

1057
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,359
Speaker 1: plays with me before practice, or those people who you know,

1058
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 1: took time out to be like, this is what it

1059
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: looks like, and this is what we are, and this

1060
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 1: is how we're going to come do it. I just

1061
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 1: look at those people as the ones that really set

1062
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: the foundation for me and for everybody else, and I

1063
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 1: hope that I'm setting that same foundation for the people

1064
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:37,360
Speaker 1: that come here after me.

1065
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 2: I think what you said is really powerful just about

1066
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:43,239
Speaker 2: not only you know, kind of like being that representation

1067
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 2: that you didn't always have growing up in terms of

1068
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 2: the five six point guard doing what they're doing now,

1069
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 2: and then you know, having Birmingham putting on a map

1070
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 2: for more of a women's basketball hub, all those different things.

1071
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 2: I think, especially what you talked about in terms of

1072
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 2: like the transition from high school to college is very

1073
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 2: hard already taking into account new friends, social life, school

1074
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 2: is a whole lot harder. But then also just like

1075
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 2: you have to pick up a system. In high school,

1076
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 2: you could go out and get a bucket. I know

1077
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 2: I would eat a twist before a game and go drop. However,

1078
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 2: many just live in the life. And then I pull

1079
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:16,319
Speaker 2: up to Stanford guitars like you need to learn one

1080
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 2: through four and I'm like, huh, girl, please, And so

1081
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:23,399
Speaker 2: it's a lot to learn. And so I think it's

1082
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:25,799
Speaker 2: just it's a lot of balancing that you have to do.

1083
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 2: But I think it's weird now that you know you're

1084
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 2: the old one on the team and I was old

1085
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 2: on the team last year. It's like, how am I

1086
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:34,359
Speaker 2: supposed to be instilling all this confidence telling them this

1087
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 2: when I still mess up the plays every now and

1088
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,320
Speaker 2: then and I'm supposed to be the captain knowing everything.

1089
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 2: When I mess up with play, oh my god, it's

1090
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 2: like the end of the world. It's a whole thing.

1091
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 2: It's a lot to deal with your season this year

1092
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 2: and last season, just the growth. And I know last

1093
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 2: season we had that double overtime game last year, which

1094
00:51:56,080 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 2: I think, I like, literally, I was so speak I

1095
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 2: wanted to talk about I wanted to talk about me

1096
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:08,320
Speaker 2: and you, and I feel like I've always respected you

1097
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:11,760
Speaker 2: so much as a competitor, and then over the years

1098
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 2: getting to chat more after games, before games, whatever, joking around,

1099
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 2: really coming to respect you as a person as well.

1100
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 2: So I'll give you my first impression of you, and

1101
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 2: then I'll give you time to marinate and think about

1102
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,399
Speaker 2: yours of me. Okay, because we didn't know each other

1103
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 2: at all until I don't know, sophomore junior year. So

1104
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 2: my first impression of you, Jalen, was me watching from

1105
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 2: my couch, I sing my leg watching you on TV

1106
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:40,759
Speaker 2: get my team twenty ball. But I think what I've

1107
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 2: always really admired about you as your game first is,

1108
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,879
Speaker 2: like you talked about earlier, the passion, the drive that

1109
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 2: you play with is really unparalleled and that energy that

1110
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 2: should bring to the game. Because every time I knew

1111
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 2: I was going up against you, I was like, okay,

1112
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 2: because I'm usually pretty cool, con collected out there, I

1113
00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 2: just be jogging around, sprinting around. It looks like a

1114
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 2: job by storm trying and I'm just like, you have

1115
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:07,239
Speaker 2: to match her, like you have to meet that. You

1116
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 2: have to meet that intensity otherwise you're not going to compete.

1117
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 2: And so learn seeing that. But then also year and

1118
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 2: year out, your scout changed every single year because of

1119
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:19,359
Speaker 2: how much you improved, which I think not a lot

1120
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 2: of people can say. I think a lot of people

1121
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:24,320
Speaker 2: will just kind of plateau in college and not continue

1122
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 2: to elevate. And so you see a lot of those

1123
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 2: four star, five star recruits kind of dropping off by

1124
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 2: the time we hit to junior senior year. And then

1125
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:35,880
Speaker 2: as a person, I think from a competitive point of view,

1126
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,400
Speaker 2: you see how much you mean to your team, and

1127
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 2: so I think that only speaks to your character as

1128
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 2: a person, because like playing against you, we could go

1129
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 2: on a run. Y'all could go on a run, it

1130
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. All I hear is in your huddles, you say,

1131
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 2: come on, like you're getting them going, and you're talking

1132
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 2: to each of your teammates in a different manner to

1133
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:56,279
Speaker 2: get the best out of them. And so when you

1134
00:53:56,320 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 2: talked about Kiki and her ability to like learn her

1135
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 2: teammates and how to put them in the best positions,

1136
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 2: you do the exact same thing. Frida Aaronett quay to me,

1137
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 2: every different player that you played with and who you

1138
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:11,320
Speaker 2: have in your team now, I think it's really special

1139
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:13,920
Speaker 2: to see how they all look at you. And I

1140
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 2: know for you and I was like this too. I

1141
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 2: was like, I'm not even like that. I just be

1142
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 2: out there doing the thing. Like it's hard to give

1143
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 2: yourself that grace. But from an outside point of view,

1144
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:25,279
Speaker 2: I see how your teammates look at you, how they

1145
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 2: come to you when they need you in times of need.

1146
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 2: So that's my little gig flowers that you deserve.

1147
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I said, it's funny you say that because

1148
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 1: I feel like for most people who don't really get

1149
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: to know me, they're like, oh, you just seem quiet

1150
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: off the court, because I really am like on the

1151
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,919
Speaker 1: court off the but I'm two different people. I've always

1152
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: kind of been that kid that will sit in the

1153
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 1: back of the class with air posing with a hood

1154
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:50,280
Speaker 1: on and don't really speak.

1155
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 3: But then I get like, but.

1156
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 1: You're on the court and you're so energetic and blah

1157
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: blah blah, and I'm like, I don't know what really

1158
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 1: turns it on and all when it comes to basketball,

1159
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: but really appreciate that because I just think like most

1160
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: people see the basketball side of things and they're like, oh,

1161
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:07,919
Speaker 1: you have to be And I was like, I lived

1162
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 1: downstairs of my house with my dog and I in

1163
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 1: my room nine times. Oh my God, But no, I

1164
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 1: would say that. Initially, I was like, this girl is

1165
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: six to point guard about the guard.

1166
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 3: Because because on.

1167
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 1: We would do like scout and stuff, we set it

1168
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 1: up and we were like, well, she's the point guard,

1169
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 1: but she also posts you up.

1170
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 3: No, i'mody, so what do you want me to do?

1171
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 3: What are we going to do here?

1172
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:40,000
Speaker 1: Especially, but I would say more so anything that I've

1173
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 1: always really admired is just how poish you are, because

1174
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 1: I know, like even we've had a lot of close

1175
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: games and I just feel like it was always like steady.

1176
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 3: Calm, we need to score.

1177
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:56,560
Speaker 1: Okay, I got it, might go post this five six kids,

1178
00:55:57,160 --> 00:56:00,279
Speaker 1: we don't get a fucking But no, seriously, I would

1179
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:03,080
Speaker 1: just say, just really poised and really like I feel like,

1180
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:05,360
Speaker 1: to the point of not really being able to be

1181
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 1: a freshman at the time. And I know that you

1182
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 1: went through injurybody even coming back from that, it was

1183
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:13,880
Speaker 1: kind of always the ball was in your hand and

1184
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:17,399
Speaker 1: it was always like you know what you're gonna get,

1185
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,800
Speaker 1: but it's like you really can't do anything about it.

1186
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 1: So I think that's one thing that I actually have

1187
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 1: to learn too, is just how to be steady, especially

1188
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 1: with this team. Now and being one of those top

1189
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:35,319
Speaker 1: dogs and always getting everybody's fight. So I think that's

1190
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,839
Speaker 1: one of the biggest things that I've seen. Even looking

1191
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:41,320
Speaker 1: at you in the league, is like, she's just steadies.

1192
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:43,880
Speaker 1: She just gon't give me, just don't do what she do,

1193
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:46,839
Speaker 1: and you do it very well. And I think that's

1194
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: a testament. Even like I said, I mean, on playing

1195
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:52,239
Speaker 1: against each other for so many years, it was just

1196
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 1: always that and I don't think like coming in as

1197
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: a freshman, that's just something you naturally know. So the

1198
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:01,440
Speaker 1: fact that that was something that you came with is

1199
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 1: just a testament to just the work you've done and

1200
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 1: just the maturity that you have. I think that a

1201
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 1: lot of people don't really come in with.

1202
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:14,440
Speaker 2: Oh so sweet, so heartwarming, oh my gosh, ugh so

1203
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 2: goodness the second to take all that in. But I'll

1204
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 2: just turn it back to you so I can have

1205
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 2: my moment. So last year, crazy run off the tournament

1206
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 2: and you decided to come back for a fifth year.

1207
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 2: So what was that Was that decision kind of like

1208
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 2: unfinished business? Did you know you're going to come back

1209
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 2: for a fifth year or what was that process? Looking

1210
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 2: like it was.

1211
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,360
Speaker 1: A lot of thought that went into it. Not more

1212
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 1: so in trying to leave Colorado. That wasn't a question.

1213
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 1: I knew, like it wasn't a team in America that

1214
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 1: I would rather play for. It was more so at

1215
00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: the time just family. I'm really close with my family.

1216
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 1: I have a big family, and I've always been big

1217
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:00,400
Speaker 1: on wanting to be able to play in front of

1218
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 1: my family. And even last year, I would say it

1219
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:06,640
Speaker 1: was a pretty successful season for me. But I wasn't

1220
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 1: really sold on the pro life yet or it wasn't

1221
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 1: really like now you can really do this, You can

1222
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 1: really you know, go out and get a chance to

1223
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: do with a lot of people don't. Because at that

1224
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 1: point in time, I had also graduated with my masters.

1225
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm content. I had a sense of

1226
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: piece of what I had done here, and I was like,

1227
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: if this is going to be my last like playing

1228
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 1: basketball on such as stage, I would rather do it

1229
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:40,919
Speaker 1: at home. So I think that's more so where the

1230
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 1: thought of deciding to come back or not came from.

1231
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: I had so many like stories like oh, well, this

1232
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: person said that you could go here and with Nio

1233
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:57,440
Speaker 1: and you know, just with so much of what's in

1234
00:58:57,440 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 1: our game now you have more opportunities and blah blah,

1235
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 1: like it's not that that's gonna sell me. I don't

1236
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 1: really care about Yeah, that was the case, I would

1237
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 1: have left a long time ago, to be honest, Like,

1238
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 1: if that was what I was about and that's what

1239
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 1: the popularity and all of that was for me, I

1240
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:16,480
Speaker 1: would have left a long time ago. So it wasn't

1241
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 1: that it was more so like a just genuine sitting

1242
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:22,080
Speaker 1: down talking to my family. It was my mom and

1243
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: grandma actually who really saw me on coming back, because

1244
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: they were like, like, go chase your dream. You have

1245
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 1: an opportunity to go play for you know, a place

1246
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 1: where you love and a place where you know your

1247
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: coaches or like your second family and your teammates or

1248
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: like your second family. You have an opportunity to go

1249
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 1: do that again and do and go even further than

1250
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 1: what you did last year, and just put myself an

1251
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:48,520
Speaker 1: opportunity where this probably won't be my last year. Playing

1252
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 1: basketball on such a competitive level too, has just kind

1253
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:54,480
Speaker 1: of made it more enjoyable because, like I said, I

1254
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 1: didn't really it wasn't that I didn't think I was

1255
00:59:56,760 --> 00:59:59,320
Speaker 1: good enough. It was just Marshall, like, it's only one

1256
00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 1: hundred and forty four, kid, are you going to make

1257
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 1: that team or not? And I think just set myself

1258
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:06,520
Speaker 1: up for the success of thinking like, no, I can

1259
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 1: really compete and try to reach my goals and reach

1260
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: dreams that I never even you know, saw being possible.

1261
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: Out of all of this was kind of what changed

1262
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 1: to I guess mentality.

1263
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, I mean, I think from outside perspective,

1264
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 2: it's really cool to hear because I feel like I

1265
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:27,080
Speaker 2: watch all these things from you from a distance, but

1266
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 2: then actually getting to hear just like how the trajectory

1267
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 2: at Colorado changed a lot of different things in terms

1268
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:38,080
Speaker 2: of not only the Colorado program you as a basketball player,

1269
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 2: but also what you want for your life going pro,

1270
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:43,600
Speaker 2: doing these different things. And so just to hear those

1271
01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 2: different changes and the different intricacies to everybody's different decision

1272
01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 2: making processes. It was more than just basketball. It's where

1273
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 2: I want to play, the loyalty of the program, all

1274
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:56,920
Speaker 2: these different things, giving up being closer to home. I

1275
01:00:56,920 --> 01:00:59,560
Speaker 2: think it's it's really cool to hear. And just more

1276
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 2: about We've talked about being a five to six point guard.

1277
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 2: I'm the opposite six' two point. Guard so there's DIFFERENT

1278
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:09,760
Speaker 2: i KNOW i have a lot of pros and cons

1279
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 2: to being a telet. Guard it's a big con that's

1280
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 2: having people like you pick me up full. Court very. Annoying.

1281
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 2: Jalen by the, way, anyways what are the pros and

1282
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:22,040
Speaker 2: cons of you being that five to six point? Guard

1283
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:25,320
Speaker 2: what do you think is? Hard what you think gives

1284
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:25,600
Speaker 2: you that.

1285
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 1: EDGE i also one of the top things that's hard

1286
01:01:29,120 --> 01:01:33,440
Speaker 1: is when you actually blow by your initial defender and

1287
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 1: you have the decision to like go to the rack

1288
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:39,680
Speaker 1: or dish it, off and it's, like IF i go

1289
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 1: to the, Rack i'm probably gonna get.

1290
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:41,600
Speaker 3: Block but IF i dish it.

1291
01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 1: Off they're also so long that they also tip the

1292
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:47,760
Speaker 1: ball out even though it's necessarily. Open but because you're

1293
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:50,920
Speaker 1: just five to, six you get into trouble a lot of.

1294
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 1: Time SO i think learning how to read that or

1295
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:56,640
Speaker 1: get the secondary defender off balance to still be able

1296
01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:58,280
Speaker 1: to give to what you want to get to has

1297
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: always been, tough just because you like you can't change

1298
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:03,880
Speaker 1: how it is what it. IS i would Say stanford for.

1299
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 1: Sure stanford And Organ sae y'all two really taught me

1300
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:11,040
Speaker 1: how to finish over taller BECAUSE i remember last year

1301
01:02:11,080 --> 01:02:14,160
Speaker 1: with the with the double, Overtime like like at one

1302
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 1: point we were down by two AND i had to

1303
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 1: Finish overlorn And, brink AND i was, like, whoa NOW

1304
01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 1: i don't know how to win. IT i still as

1305
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:25,160
Speaker 1: they don't know how to shot win. It but it

1306
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:26,200
Speaker 1: was just girl me.

1307
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 2: Either it was WHAT i was.

1308
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:32,480
Speaker 1: Upset it was just like, man like you just have

1309
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:35,000
Speaker 1: to learn like angles and stuff that you might not,

1310
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:39,360
Speaker 1: necessarily especially with me and being so fast as, well

1311
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 1: learning how to change speeds was very, hard just because

1312
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 1: like just having to read all of that was SOMETHING

1313
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 1: i never had to do AND i never did naturally

1314
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 1: BECAUSE i came into college of past first point, Girl

1315
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:55,040
Speaker 1: SO i was LIKE i was cool with just to.

1316
01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 1: ASSIST i didn't really have to score. MUCH i, mean,

1317
01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 1: defensively IF i gotta still gotta breakaway, layup but like

1318
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:04,400
Speaker 1: with our offense and having the ball in my hands so,

1319
01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:08,520
Speaker 1: much it was just a learning process of learning how

1320
01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:10,400
Speaker 1: to still get to WHAT i need to get, to

1321
01:03:11,880 --> 01:03:13,640
Speaker 1: but how to do it in a way that isn't

1322
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:16,760
Speaker 1: one hundred miles per. Hour SO i would definitely say

1323
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 1: that was just hard and new to, learn and it's

1324
01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 1: still a learning process today with learning like how people

1325
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 1: are going to guard. Me BUT i would say pro

1326
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:34,320
Speaker 1: definitely being. Fast it's, always it's always, fun it's always

1327
01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:39,680
Speaker 1: it's always good THAT i would say defensive intensity is

1328
01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 1: Something i've always prided myself. On and ALSO i wouldn't

1329
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:47,800
Speaker 1: necessarily say it's a pro for, myself but being in

1330
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:51,200
Speaker 1: a system that allows you to kind of pick your

1331
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:56,840
Speaker 1: poison makes my, GAME i guess easier for myself in

1332
01:03:56,960 --> 01:03:59,080
Speaker 1: terms of IF i Have freedom on the right side

1333
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:00,760
Speaker 1: And maddie on the, left it's like who you're gonna

1334
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:05,240
Speaker 1: help off of Because, Freda i'm just gonna pass it

1335
01:04:05,240 --> 01:04:07,120
Speaker 1: in the ball and it's gonna go up, there gonna

1336
01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:09,320
Speaker 1: be three or if you, know as a big and,

1337
01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:12,600
Speaker 1: Transition i'm coming down the, lane But aaronett's standing right.

1338
01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:15,040
Speaker 3: There that's just a dump off. Layup SO i, think.

1339
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:17,600
Speaker 1: Yeah being A i would say overall for myself reading the,

1340
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:20,920
Speaker 1: game it's something THAT i Think i'm pretty good at just,

1341
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:23,000
Speaker 1: because LIKE i, SAID i have so many weapons around

1342
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:27,320
Speaker 1: me where it's, LIKE i, know IF i Put nettie

1343
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:30,880
Speaker 1: In freda and screening, actions you're gonna have to pick

1344
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 1: one or the other because either you're gonna help off

1345
01:04:34,240 --> 01:04:36,240
Speaker 1: free to take Away, neddie or you're not gonna help

1346
01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 1: off and you're leaving your post.

1347
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:38,440
Speaker 3: PLAYER i don't want to know way air in.

1348
01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 1: It SO i think reading the game is something that

1349
01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:46,120
Speaker 1: this team has made easy for me to WHERE i

1350
01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:48,880
Speaker 1: think we'll also translate in knowing how to read your

1351
01:04:48,880 --> 01:04:52,640
Speaker 1: teammates and knowing how to use them as pieces to

1352
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:53,560
Speaker 1: be successful as a.

1353
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:58,320
Speaker 2: Team, YEAH i, think, YEAH i like the. PROS i

1354
01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:02,440
Speaker 2: have some of those pro not all of those. Pros

1355
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:05,880
Speaker 2: BUT i think talking just a little bit about your,

1356
01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:08,600
Speaker 2: game and we talked a little bit about how you

1357
01:05:08,600 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 2: elevate each year and those different pros like learning the

1358
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:15,640
Speaker 2: change of pace and the court vision and this and,

1359
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:17,080
Speaker 2: that learning how to work out of the print and

1360
01:05:17,160 --> 01:05:20,160
Speaker 2: offense to what works best for you and your. Teams

1361
01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 2: what do you think heading into this year has been

1362
01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:25,560
Speaker 2: the biggest change in your?

1363
01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:31,440
Speaker 3: Game, honestly working smarter and not, harder Because i'm a

1364
01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 3: very hard worker And i'm a very like get after

1365
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:36,440
Speaker 3: a type of. Kid BUT i also try to.

1366
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:38,720
Speaker 1: Learn like in getting, older, too you have to put

1367
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 1: yourself in the best position to where like even looking

1368
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:45,200
Speaker 1: back at my old, FILM i would sometimes be out

1369
01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:49,440
Speaker 1: of position Because i'm working so hard and it's not the,

1370
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 1: effort the efforts, there but the position is off because

1371
01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:55,280
Speaker 1: you know you're exerting so much effort to try to

1372
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 1: get a steal or something like. That SO i think

1373
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:03,600
Speaker 1: learning like the game in terms of the x's and

1374
01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:08,920
Speaker 1: os versus just depending on the athleticism to be. There

1375
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:13,040
Speaker 1: the athleticism will bail you, out but it'll also gets

1376
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:16,160
Speaker 1: you in trouble, Sometimes SO i think learning that and

1377
01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:19,880
Speaker 1: also just learning like to pick my spots. MORE i

1378
01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:22,080
Speaker 1: think this Year i've been a lot more aggressive on

1379
01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:24,880
Speaker 1: the offensive end That i've ever, been AND i think

1380
01:06:24,920 --> 01:06:27,000
Speaker 1: that just comes from learning how to pick your spots

1381
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 1: and learning LIKE i, said IF i Got freedom on

1382
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:32,920
Speaker 1: the left And maddie on the, right it's kind of

1383
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:36,880
Speaker 1: like you have to be aggressive within that space because

1384
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:40,200
Speaker 1: if you're never, aggressive they're never gonna help off Of,

1385
01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:42,680
Speaker 1: freedom or they're never going to help off Of, netty,

1386
01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:46,080
Speaker 1: Yeah or if you're not you, know pushing the ball

1387
01:06:46,120 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 1: in transition to get quoy at the trail, spot you're

1388
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: never going to get her definders to drop because you're

1389
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 1: not pushing the. Tempo SO i think learning the x's

1390
01:06:55,240 --> 01:06:58,160
Speaker 1: and os really is something That i've grown. At AND

1391
01:06:58,200 --> 01:06:59,960
Speaker 1: i think, also LIKE i, said learning how people are

1392
01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:02,920
Speaker 1: in a guard going on to ball screens and being

1393
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:05,360
Speaker 1: comfortable to hit the mid range pull, up you, know

1394
01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:08,200
Speaker 1: every time somebody goes, under because at that, point if

1395
01:07:09,520 --> 01:07:11,080
Speaker 1: if you let them keep going under and you're not

1396
01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:13,120
Speaker 1: going to do anything about, it then it works to their.

1397
01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:16,520
Speaker 1: Advantage so being able to, like you, know be confident in.

1398
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:19,680
Speaker 1: That AND i think Coach jay And matt who's another

1399
01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:22,520
Speaker 1: coach on the, staff really pushed me in the offensive

1400
01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 1: room to really be confident or even my. Position COACH

1401
01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:30,200
Speaker 1: tk is always, like you passed the ball for layups

1402
01:07:30,240 --> 01:07:32,160
Speaker 1: every time and you can just take the layup And i'm,

1403
01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:35,760
Speaker 1: like all, Right so just like being more aggressive to

1404
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:39,160
Speaker 1: know my aggressiveness will open up everybody else and vice.

1405
01:07:39,240 --> 01:07:41,840
Speaker 1: Versa LIKE i said, Earlier nettie's aggressiveness and running the,

1406
01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:44,440
Speaker 1: floor like knowing how that all works together and then

1407
01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 1: we all have an important part to play in helping

1408
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:50,840
Speaker 1: each other be successful for what we do. Well for,

1409
01:07:50,840 --> 01:07:54,040
Speaker 1: Sure it's SOMETHING i would definitely say grew and has

1410
01:07:54,080 --> 01:07:56,160
Speaker 1: evolved and continues to evolve throughout the.

1411
01:07:56,200 --> 01:08:00,840
Speaker 2: Season, yeah AND i think that specific skiller mindset really

1412
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:04,360
Speaker 2: comes with maturity as. Well like as a, FRESHMAN i

1413
01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:06,520
Speaker 2: know for, ME i was very much just like what

1414
01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:08,840
Speaker 2: DO i need to? Do, okay pass, Me, Okay NOW

1415
01:08:08,840 --> 01:08:10,560
Speaker 2: i need to score this and, That and then as

1416
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:12,600
Speaker 2: you get, older you get more familiar with your system

1417
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 2: and your. Teammates it's not always well most of the

1418
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 2: time it is the way we, think but it's, like

1419
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:19,720
Speaker 2: not always how DO i get my teammates in the best.

1420
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:22,559
Speaker 2: Position but it's also you, Know i'm not gonna get

1421
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:24,360
Speaker 2: frieda her. Three i'm not going to get this person or.

1422
01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:26,320
Speaker 2: Three IF i don't drive by my defender a few,

1423
01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 2: TIMES i need to go get mine BEFORE i can

1424
01:08:28,200 --> 01:08:29,960
Speaker 2: then distribute and do WHAT i like to do and

1425
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:33,040
Speaker 2: get everybody else. Theirs SO i think it's definitely maturity

1426
01:08:33,080 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 2: to have that. Mindset but talking about some of your

1427
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:39,640
Speaker 2: teammates Like aaronet And quay And, frida you are very

1428
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:42,400
Speaker 2: much the face Of colorado basketball right, now but like

1429
01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:44,599
Speaker 2: you talked, about it wouldn't be that without the people

1430
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:48,599
Speaker 2: surrounding you and what you guys are. Together SO i Mean,

1431
01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:51,320
Speaker 2: aaronett she's a bucket and she had twenty in the

1432
01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:54,000
Speaker 2: tight winning Against arizona last year she was most improved

1433
01:08:54,040 --> 01:08:57,320
Speaker 2: in the. Pack and THEN i, Mean i've Known frida's

1434
01:08:57,320 --> 01:09:00,160
Speaker 2: a bucket Since. Homegirl while it's on, campus like it

1435
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:02,439
Speaker 2: was a. Thing do not let her get off of.

1436
01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:04,840
Speaker 2: Three AND i Think lsu had to learn that the

1437
01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:08,519
Speaker 2: hard way earlier in the, season and somebody Like quay

1438
01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:11,559
Speaker 2: watching her growth From washington to now being with you

1439
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:14,040
Speaker 2: guys for a few, years tell me a little bit

1440
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:17,320
Speaker 2: about what each of them bring to the team that

1441
01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:20,360
Speaker 2: make you guys as a whole so, great because it

1442
01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:23,800
Speaker 2: looks like they all buy in to their role on

1443
01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:27,080
Speaker 2: the team as everybody. Does and Like, quay she gonna

1444
01:09:27,120 --> 01:09:29,240
Speaker 2: get you a, Three she's gonna get to her little

1445
01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:31,400
Speaker 2: right hand lay and she's out of the. Left like

1446
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:33,839
Speaker 2: there's so. Much there's so much going on with. Everybody

1447
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:36,240
Speaker 2: so tell me a little bit about what makes your

1448
01:09:36,280 --> 01:09:37,800
Speaker 2: team so special because of some of those.

1449
01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:40,360
Speaker 3: Players, yeah LIKE i, said really pick your.

1450
01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:42,879
Speaker 1: Poison but to the point of what makes us, SPECIAL

1451
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 1: i think it's the unselfishes of we don't care who

1452
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:47,960
Speaker 1: night it, is as long as we. Win AND i

1453
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:51,360
Speaker 1: think that could be a testament to everybody on this

1454
01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:55,120
Speaker 1: team has had a crazy night LIKE i, know free

1455
01:09:55,200 --> 01:10:02,160
Speaker 1: To lsu Or aaronet who's pretty been every night, yeah

1456
01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:07,920
Speaker 1: Or kway who had double, doubles and it's just, like,

1457
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:11,800
Speaker 1: yeah you just you just don't, Really it's like who

1458
01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:15,360
Speaker 1: do you take? Away because you can't take away, everybody

1459
01:10:16,400 --> 01:10:20,720
Speaker 1: even our Uh tam who is a driver who is,

1460
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:24,640
Speaker 1: Aggressive kendle who's like a pest and just gonna get

1461
01:10:24,680 --> 01:10:27,720
Speaker 1: after you all, day And kendall just doesn't. Care she's

1462
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:32,040
Speaker 1: just she's gonna be. There, Yeah maddie who's a. Shooter

1463
01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:35,080
Speaker 1: Sarah Rose smith to transferred from a zoo who's just

1464
01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:39,320
Speaker 1: like Steady. Eddy you just rebound like crazy. Rebounds sarah's

1465
01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:41,400
Speaker 1: probably one of the best Rebounders i've ever seen that her.

1466
01:10:41,479 --> 01:10:45,320
Speaker 1: Size SO i think that part is just what makes

1467
01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 1: us special is genuinely we don't care.

1468
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:48,640
Speaker 3: As long as we.

1469
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:51,679
Speaker 1: Win as long as you, know we do our jobs

1470
01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:55,080
Speaker 1: and we come out, SUCCESSFUL i don't care who had

1471
01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:55,800
Speaker 1: thirty we.

1472
01:10:55,840 --> 01:10:58,840
Speaker 2: Won, YEAH i, MEAN i think that's what makes the

1473
01:10:58,840 --> 01:11:02,479
Speaker 2: best teams are the ones or have that unselfishness at the,

1474
01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:05,280
Speaker 2: core and then that team chemistry with trust and respect

1475
01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:07,479
Speaker 2: like you're talking, about allows you to be who you guys.

1476
01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:11,160
Speaker 2: ARE i think a little bit more about Just colorado

1477
01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:13,719
Speaker 2: as a. WHOLE i feel like there's a different vibe

1478
01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:15,800
Speaker 2: on campus these. DAYS i remember when we used to

1479
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:18,519
Speaker 2: come To Colorado, jalen there were not that many people

1480
01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:22,160
Speaker 2: at the, Games but, nowadays like with you, know you

1481
01:11:22,280 --> 01:11:25,200
Speaker 2: Got dion there and the whole football thing has. Changed

1482
01:11:25,479 --> 01:11:28,559
Speaker 2: but then it's also men's basketball is doing. Better women's.

1483
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:31,360
Speaker 2: Sports you guys going to the tournament last, year do

1484
01:11:31,400 --> 01:11:35,439
Speaker 2: you feel like there's a different type of, vibe more

1485
01:11:35,560 --> 01:11:38,920
Speaker 2: energy at your, games more just like energy from, fans

1486
01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:42,160
Speaker 2: more stuff like. That heading into this last season At, Colorado.

1487
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:44,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, YEAH i mean Our utah game was the highest

1488
01:11:44,479 --> 01:11:47,880
Speaker 1: crowd we've had in a couple of. Years AND i

1489
01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:49,800
Speaker 1: think it's just a, testament LIKE i, said to the

1490
01:11:49,840 --> 01:11:52,799
Speaker 1: program and the word and people are you, know starting

1491
01:11:52,840 --> 01:11:55,040
Speaker 1: to respond to that and see that for themselves that

1492
01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:56,880
Speaker 1: this team is pretty good and we got to come,

1493
01:11:56,880 --> 01:12:02,240
Speaker 1: out yeah and support. Them, Overall like, campus campus is.

1494
01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:04,320
Speaker 1: Different BUT i think one thing THAT i was, say

1495
01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:07,760
Speaker 1: have our letter department has done a good job of

1496
01:12:08,439 --> 01:12:11,000
Speaker 1: is we really do support each, Other like we really

1497
01:12:11,080 --> 01:12:12,840
Speaker 1: like the men come to our, games we go to their.

1498
01:12:12,880 --> 01:12:14,760
Speaker 3: GAMES i, mean after The utah.

1499
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:17,360
Speaker 1: GAME i went to our men's game Against Washington state

1500
01:12:17,439 --> 01:12:19,479
Speaker 1: and our men point guard drop thirty four points and

1501
01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:22,360
Speaker 1: it was his career and just being, able you, know

1502
01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:25,760
Speaker 1: to celebrate that moment with, him and being able to you,

1503
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:29,400
Speaker 1: know really have that friendship to where you can genuely

1504
01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:31,160
Speaker 1: be happy for one another and know the work that

1505
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:34,719
Speaker 1: each other puts in to support one another is, important

1506
01:12:34,840 --> 01:12:38,720
Speaker 1: ESPECIALLY i think from an overarching perspective looking at men

1507
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:43,120
Speaker 1: supporting women's, SPORTS i think that's just really huge, that you,

1508
01:12:43,160 --> 01:12:46,800
Speaker 1: KNOW i think a couple of us have that relationship

1509
01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:49,880
Speaker 1: to where we can really say that we genuinely support

1510
01:12:49,920 --> 01:12:51,240
Speaker 1: each other and know what each other goes.

1511
01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:53,040
Speaker 3: Through so that makes it all the more.

1512
01:12:53,080 --> 01:12:55,559
Speaker 1: Sweeter and SO i, think, yeah that's one thing that

1513
01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 1: we do do a good job on campus is having

1514
01:12:58,040 --> 01:13:00,960
Speaker 1: OUTSIDE i even, know like yesterday we got our practice.

1515
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:05,320
Speaker 1: Players they always like they hosted study sessions during finals

1516
01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:07,360
Speaker 1: week and some of us we hang out with. Them

1517
01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:09,759
Speaker 1: and so just being able to bum with other people

1518
01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:12,320
Speaker 1: to make your life easier because you don't have just

1519
01:13:12,400 --> 01:13:14,160
Speaker 1: the people that you see every.

1520
01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:16,320
Speaker 2: Day every day all the.

1521
01:13:16,360 --> 01:13:20,800
Speaker 1: Time you're you, know only, friends which can, yes because

1522
01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:23,360
Speaker 1: you get you, KNOW i mean we spend time at

1523
01:13:23,600 --> 01:13:24,320
Speaker 1: it's LIKE i love.

1524
01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:25,400
Speaker 2: You, YEAH i love.

1525
01:13:25,439 --> 01:13:28,880
Speaker 1: YOU i need to change the scenery year in. There so, yes,

1526
01:13:29,200 --> 01:13:31,000
Speaker 1: no you do do a good job.

1527
01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:34,840
Speaker 2: Overall, YEAH i think what's so special about the college

1528
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:38,080
Speaker 2: athletics scene is being able to have friends with different. Sports,

1529
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:41,160
Speaker 2: yeah you can relate to, them but, like you, know

1530
01:13:41,280 --> 01:13:43,320
Speaker 2: tell me about your. Practice you convent to, Me i'm

1531
01:13:43,360 --> 01:13:43,600
Speaker 2: going to do.

1532
01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:47,000
Speaker 1: This they have no idea what practice look. Like you

1533
01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:50,439
Speaker 1: can just come, clean get off your. Chess nobody has

1534
01:13:50,479 --> 01:13:53,280
Speaker 1: no biased. Opinions it's just like you don't even know

1535
01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:56,679
Speaker 1: What i'm talking. About so, yeah come so. Good it makes,

1536
01:13:56,720 --> 01:13:59,439
Speaker 1: It it makes it. Nice, OH i completely.

1537
01:13:59,479 --> 01:14:01,519
Speaker 2: Agree like some of my best friends run, football AND

1538
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:03,599
Speaker 2: i would go to their games just be, like did you? Play?

1539
01:14:03,640 --> 01:14:05,760
Speaker 2: WELL i don't, know but it was fun to. Go

1540
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:10,479
Speaker 2: it was, great, Right but it's it's. Great so heading

1541
01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:13,680
Speaker 2: into our last two, sections, here we have. ONE i

1542
01:14:13,720 --> 01:14:15,920
Speaker 2: did a little bit of background research on, you so

1543
01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:18,599
Speaker 2: it's gonna. Be it's gonna. Be i'm gonna give you

1544
01:14:18,680 --> 01:14:21,080
Speaker 2: three items and then you gotta let one. Go which

1545
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:25,200
Speaker 2: one you're gonna? Cut, yeah, Okay so we'll do a

1546
01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:27,600
Speaker 2: simple one, first just like a game. Debroutine, okay so

1547
01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:30,519
Speaker 2: you gotta cut one of these. Three you got pregame,

1548
01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:35,559
Speaker 2: meal shoot around and warm up music shoot? Around yeah,

1549
01:14:35,640 --> 01:14:37,240
Speaker 2: done but they.

1550
01:14:38,200 --> 01:14:38,360
Speaker 3: In a.

1551
01:14:38,439 --> 01:14:44,840
Speaker 2: Pack we play at twelve On. Sundays, yeah it is crazy. Crazy,

1552
01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 2: YEAH i don't need that in my.

1553
01:14:46,120 --> 01:14:49,880
Speaker 1: LIFE i only say that for that part BECAUSE I

1554
01:14:49,880 --> 01:14:53,400
Speaker 1: i definitely could take the sleeping in to maybe nine

1555
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:55,439
Speaker 1: eight and then comes straight to the dam for the.

1556
01:14:55,520 --> 01:15:01,240
Speaker 2: Game, Okay, Okay so then next question is very specific to.

1557
01:15:01,280 --> 01:15:06,960
Speaker 2: You we got, Legos greek, mythology And. Shakespeare which one

1558
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:11,800
Speaker 2: are you? Driving, YEAH i gotta let go for, good

1559
01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:15,600
Speaker 2: like let, yeah let go for the foreseeable.

1560
01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:18,559
Speaker 3: Future definitely Not.

1561
01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:23,000
Speaker 1: LEGOS i have three downstairs THAT, i, okay am about to,

1562
01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:23,680
Speaker 1: start SO i.

1563
01:15:23,720 --> 01:15:29,960
Speaker 3: CAN'T i, Can't, OKAY i would Say, shakespeare but it can.

1564
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:33,559
Speaker 1: Go, yeah only BECAUSE i have a quote tatted on,

1565
01:15:33,600 --> 01:15:35,640
Speaker 1: me so it's always with me, forever even IF i

1566
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:38,960
Speaker 1: let it go shut the loop. Home, YEAH i always

1567
01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:42,400
Speaker 1: Say shakespeare Because greek mythology it's so much to, unpack

1568
01:15:42,479 --> 01:15:44,200
Speaker 1: like you've never done it. All, yeah so it's just

1569
01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:47,640
Speaker 1: so much, yeah under, Learning But shakespeare is already on me.

1570
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:51,320
Speaker 1: Forever SO i feel confident in being okay WITH.

1571
01:15:51,439 --> 01:15:53,800
Speaker 2: I think that's our hardest that's our hardest question all.

1572
01:15:53,880 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 2: Day it was what it seems? Like got? You it got?

1573
01:15:56,600 --> 01:15:59,439
Speaker 2: You and then our last one on this topic is

1574
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:03,320
Speaker 2: we got? Shoes we got? Dunks jordan wants or Ugs.

1575
01:16:05,080 --> 01:16:07,520
Speaker 3: Jordan wan's high tops.

1576
01:16:06,760 --> 01:16:08,360
Speaker 2: In, general both you're losing.

1577
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:11,320
Speaker 3: BOTH i would say. UGGS i would, say.

1578
01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:15,360
Speaker 2: Okay okay, today even In, COLORADO i know it's, cold,

1579
01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:20,840
Speaker 2: yeah BUT i mean we'll find a, box, crocs, cameras

1580
01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:22,599
Speaker 2: fuzzy socks you can.

1581
01:16:22,640 --> 01:16:24,200
Speaker 3: Get you can get some warmth in there.

1582
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:28,920
Speaker 2: Somewhere, Okay, Okay so head into our last, section the vibe.

1583
01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:31,599
Speaker 2: Check it's going to be rapid. Fire so we've had some.

1584
01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:34,840
Speaker 2: Guests some guests are, horrible some guests are. Great SO

1585
01:16:35,040 --> 01:16:36,640
Speaker 2: i believe in. You YOU'RE i hope you're gonna be

1586
01:16:36,680 --> 01:16:39,680
Speaker 2: on the great. Side, okay here we. Go what's the

1587
01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:41,559
Speaker 2: drill you never want to see on the practice?

1588
01:16:41,560 --> 01:16:42,679
Speaker 3: Plan pissed and? Passing?

1589
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:46,960
Speaker 2: Oh is it like full quart or? Something, NO i don't.

1590
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:48,880
Speaker 3: Know not explaining it is that passing is a full

1591
01:16:48,880 --> 01:16:50,080
Speaker 3: court passion drill that comes with.

1592
01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:53,160
Speaker 2: Layups, oh were you just going in a.

1593
01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:54,679
Speaker 3: Loop, yeah but it's two.

1594
01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:57,519
Speaker 1: Teams so you have white Team black, team like six

1595
01:16:57,560 --> 01:17:01,200
Speaker 1: players on the, court and you to get like six

1596
01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 1: with the heavy, ball six without, it and then twelve

1597
01:17:04,439 --> 01:17:06,479
Speaker 1: with the heavy, ball twelve without, it and it's like

1598
01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:09,320
Speaker 1: thirty seconds for each and then a minute for the.

1599
01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:12,639
Speaker 1: Twelves AND i just have Had my teammates are gonna.

1600
01:17:12,680 --> 01:17:17,959
Speaker 1: LAUGH i had a terrible experience with, that and it Was, yeah.

1601
01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:20,320
Speaker 3: It was not. Good it was not. Good it's not.

1602
01:17:20,360 --> 01:17:24,120
Speaker 1: Fun and we recently put that drill in this. Year

1603
01:17:24,520 --> 01:17:26,160
Speaker 1: we haven't did it as much as we did last,

1604
01:17:26,240 --> 01:17:28,200
Speaker 1: Year So i'm. Crossing my favorite said that stays the.

1605
01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:35,920
Speaker 3: Case but and if coach she can, Go i'm gonna

1606
01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:38,280
Speaker 3: send it to. Me she knows how MUCH i. Hate thank.

1607
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:41,160
Speaker 2: You we'll send you a, clip just a little gay. Clip.

1608
01:17:41,320 --> 01:17:44,400
Speaker 2: Okay would you rather have a game when he shot

1609
01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:48,240
Speaker 2: or a game when he's still still okay and one

1610
01:17:48,360 --> 01:17:52,880
Speaker 2: or three pointer and one off the court go, to, sneaker.

1611
01:17:53,720 --> 01:17:59,320
Speaker 1: Go TO i would have to say my my red dunks.

1612
01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:02,719
Speaker 2: Okay, OKAY a, CLASSIC a group TikTok or the solo.

1613
01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:04,120
Speaker 3: TikTok neither.

1614
01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:07,240
Speaker 2: NEITHER i. Know you don't really a TikTok at All,

1615
01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:12,200
Speaker 2: okay trying to displace. It, OH i hope they. DO

1616
01:18:12,320 --> 01:18:15,120
Speaker 2: i want to see you in some toughest place to

1617
01:18:15,120 --> 01:18:15,519
Speaker 2: play on the.

1618
01:18:15,560 --> 01:18:16,840
Speaker 3: Road Kill.

1619
01:18:18,080 --> 01:18:21,160
Speaker 2: Mikael, yeah or like when When sabrina them were, there,

1620
01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:27,400
Speaker 2: orgon that was, tough was. Crazy, yeah who's the biggest

1621
01:18:27,520 --> 01:18:28,480
Speaker 2: trash talker.

1622
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:29,400
Speaker 3: That i've ever?

1623
01:18:29,439 --> 01:18:33,400
Speaker 1: Played or Yeah i've ever play hand it hands down

1624
01:18:33,439 --> 01:18:34,960
Speaker 1: To Kaitlin clark That i've ever.

1625
01:18:35,040 --> 01:18:38,240
Speaker 2: Played, okay, okay and then what about in the pack can?

1626
01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:38,840
Speaker 3: Rink?

1627
01:18:39,920 --> 01:18:42,280
Speaker 2: Okay and then we got the hardest player to.

1628
01:18:42,320 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 1: GUARD i run a shout Out Ty. Skinner she's not

1629
01:18:44,960 --> 01:18:46,160
Speaker 1: playing At Arizona state right.

1630
01:18:46,200 --> 01:18:49,160
Speaker 2: Now She oh my, god a. Buck she is a.

1631
01:18:49,200 --> 01:18:53,320
Speaker 2: Problem she's a, problem a. Problem and, yes yeah that

1632
01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:57,439
Speaker 2: girl doesn't get to put her on the on the.

1633
01:18:56,720 --> 01:19:03,240
Speaker 2: Sleep yes she's oh, good she's a. Problem yeah she.

1634
01:19:03,479 --> 01:19:07,280
Speaker 2: Is scouting her is hard and then even just executing it.

1635
01:19:07,360 --> 01:19:10,920
Speaker 1: Because she just she's so, quick like like it's, fast

1636
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:15,040
Speaker 1: but then you have quick and she's. Quick it's. Crazy so,

1637
01:19:15,120 --> 01:19:18,280
Speaker 1: Yeah Ty skinner definitely gets some love for me because.

1638
01:19:18,400 --> 01:19:21,559
Speaker 2: That's a good. One that's a good. One, okay what's

1639
01:19:21,600 --> 01:19:27,639
Speaker 2: your biggest basketball? Eck my biggest basketball. ICK i really

1640
01:19:27,840 --> 01:19:37,439
Speaker 2: hate the road shorts row jersey little like like one

1641
01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:40,240
Speaker 2: world is, cool but when it's like too, Much, yeah.

1642
01:19:40,160 --> 01:19:43,040
Speaker 1: Like when they JUST i don't, know like when you

1643
01:19:43,080 --> 01:19:45,840
Speaker 1: tuk them in and. STUFF i just don't like the

1644
01:19:45,920 --> 01:19:48,559
Speaker 1: diaper pants for. You my girlfriend's gonna kill.

1645
01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:54,919
Speaker 2: Me i'm. Weak, okay who's your? Basketball?

1646
01:19:54,960 --> 01:19:58,200
Speaker 3: Goat Candice. PARKER i gotta give it to.

1647
01:19:58,200 --> 01:20:01,880
Speaker 2: YOU i, Said, okay do you have a what you?

1648
01:20:01,920 --> 01:20:04,479
Speaker 1: SAY i just think she set the tone and really

1649
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:07,759
Speaker 1: brought a lot of like attention to women's.

1650
01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:11,880
Speaker 2: Basketball, OKAY i, agree that's that's a good. Pick that's

1651
01:20:11,880 --> 01:20:14,000
Speaker 2: a good. Pick do you do you have a celebrity look?

1652
01:20:14,040 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 2: Alike have you been told you look like? SOMEBODY i

1653
01:20:17,320 --> 01:20:18,959
Speaker 2: haven't somebody?

1654
01:20:19,200 --> 01:20:22,320
Speaker 3: There it was differently let me, know BUT i personally there's.

1655
01:20:22,160 --> 01:20:26,479
Speaker 2: Somebody out there. Knows. Okay and then now we need

1656
01:20:26,520 --> 01:20:28,519
Speaker 2: you to pick somebody on another. Team it can be

1657
01:20:28,520 --> 01:20:30,479
Speaker 2: something that you played, against someone who you have it

1658
01:20:30,520 --> 01:20:34,479
Speaker 2: to be your two on two. Teammates, HMMM i almost

1659
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:35,000
Speaker 2: spoke too.

1660
01:20:35,040 --> 01:20:38,920
Speaker 1: SOON i will, Say Cameron, BRINK i think our, energy,

1661
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:39,960
Speaker 1: okay would be.

1662
01:20:40,120 --> 01:20:42,519
Speaker 3: Dangerous, yeah you two have.

1663
01:20:42,520 --> 01:20:46,280
Speaker 2: A lot of. Energy, yeah, Yeah, okay what's your favorite

1664
01:20:46,320 --> 01:20:49,120
Speaker 2: pregame hype song right?

1665
01:20:49,120 --> 01:20:52,920
Speaker 3: Now is sc the because the beat is really hard on?

1666
01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:58,200
Speaker 2: That gotcha? Good and then last question is your best

1667
01:20:58,200 --> 01:20:59,479
Speaker 2: impersonation of COACH.

1668
01:20:59,560 --> 01:21:02,719
Speaker 1: JA i don't have an. Impersonation IF i could stand

1669
01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:05,040
Speaker 1: and show, YOU i, Would but coach they tripped over

1670
01:21:05,040 --> 01:21:09,479
Speaker 1: the invisible lines all the, time like does? She and

1671
01:21:09,520 --> 01:21:11,240
Speaker 1: then they'll sit there and, say, oh it's a line

1672
01:21:11,280 --> 01:21:11,840
Speaker 1: right there and it's.

1673
01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:13,000
Speaker 3: Nothing she just.

1674
01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:17,719
Speaker 1: Tripped and so IF i REALLY i really could stand

1675
01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:19,840
Speaker 1: up and show y'all would because they really does trip

1676
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:22,120
Speaker 1: over lines like it's her job AND i.

1677
01:21:22,080 --> 01:21:27,040
Speaker 2: Don't know Why, god but it just gets. Her, yeah,

1678
01:21:26,880 --> 01:21:29,840
Speaker 2: yeah it gets her all the every every COACH J,

1679
01:21:31,240 --> 01:21:34,040
Speaker 2: yeah COACH. J number one cut pistol laups and number

1680
01:21:34,040 --> 01:21:38,439
Speaker 2: two work on your balance because what are we? Doing But.

1681
01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:41,080
Speaker 2: Jalen this has been so. Great thank you so much

1682
01:21:41,120 --> 01:21:41,880
Speaker 2: for coming, on.

1683
01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:44,760
Speaker 3: No, problem no, problems.

1684
01:21:43,880 --> 01:21:46,719
Speaker 2: Funny and thank you everybody for. Listening we'll be back

1685
01:21:46,760 --> 01:21:49,759
Speaker 2: next week with another episode Of SOMETIMES I. Hope thank,

1686
01:21:49,800 --> 01:22:00,600
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1687
01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:03,920
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1688
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1694
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