1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,880
Speaker 1: Can we talk about Jack Harlowe wearing your jersey at

2
00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:04,640
Speaker 1: his concert?

3
00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:07,560
Speaker 2: That was crazy. I saw that. I was like, nah,

4
00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:09,480
Speaker 2: freaking way, like that's wild.

5
00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:10,480
Speaker 3: It was crazy.

6
00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:11,440
Speaker 2: Was that just crazy?

7
00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:13,760
Speaker 4: It was so crazy and like he didn't even tell

8
00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:15,160
Speaker 4: me he was gonna wear it, Like I just opened

9
00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:16,960
Speaker 4: up Twitter and I just like seen it all over

10
00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:18,840
Speaker 4: my phone and I was like, oh, thanks for having

11
00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,200
Speaker 4: my jersey, Jack, Like I appreciate it, Like.

12
00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:22,400
Speaker 2: This Jack thanks.

13
00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:24,840
Speaker 4: It was crazy because it was such like an ordeal

14
00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:26,080
Speaker 4: to get him the jersey.

15
00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:28,080
Speaker 3: I was like, if this man does not wear this

16
00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,760
Speaker 3: somewhere important, like I'm gonna be mad someone he did.

17
00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:34,360
Speaker 4: I was like, thank you, like appreciate you, bro, but

18
00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:35,479
Speaker 4: appreciate you.

19
00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,440
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Sometimes I Hoop. I'm your host, Hailey Jones,

20
00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,120
Speaker 1: I got the LEFTI out of Louisville coming through quick

21
00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:47,559
Speaker 1: brag about her McDonald's All American First Team on ACC.

22
00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:49,880
Speaker 2: That was his point career Club.

23
00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:54,240
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two Wichita Regional Most Outstanding Player. It wouldn't

24
00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,200
Speaker 1: award late season Top twenty watch list. That was a

25
00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,600
Speaker 1: mouthful none other than miss Haley ben Lit keep hopping

26
00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:01,000
Speaker 1: on the pod.

27
00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:03,320
Speaker 3: Of course, thank you for having me.

28
00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:05,319
Speaker 2: I'm so excited to have you.

29
00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:07,480
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys are coming up a huge dub

30
00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,080
Speaker 1: over UNC played thirty nine minutes.

31
00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:11,720
Speaker 2: How's the body feeling? How are we?

32
00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:12,680
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.

33
00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,040
Speaker 4: And we just had a bye week too, and like

34
00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,560
Speaker 4: that was the most tired I've ever felt after a game.

35
00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,679
Speaker 4: Like after I was like, Mom, like, I think I'm

36
00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:22,720
Speaker 4: gonna need like my dad to carry me at home

37
00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:26,080
Speaker 4: like in the old days, because my legs were just

38
00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:27,679
Speaker 4: like they were done.

39
00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:29,960
Speaker 3: But we got the win, so that's I'll do it again.

40
00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,520
Speaker 1: That's all you need a dub anything for the dumb

41
00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,000
Speaker 1: But I mean you and C was on what an

42
00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,440
Speaker 1: eight game winning streak at that point, So what do

43
00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:38,680
Speaker 1: you think clicked for you guys?

44
00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:40,520
Speaker 2: Headed into that game, we.

45
00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,480
Speaker 4: Knew we were running out of opportunities to steal some

46
00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,920
Speaker 4: top twenty wins. And it was a game at home,

47
00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:48,960
Speaker 4: and it was a pink game, and so we had

48
00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:53,160
Speaker 4: a great crowd and our fans really showed out. And yeah,

49
00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,320
Speaker 4: we had a great week of practice. So I think

50
00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,480
Speaker 4: just the vibes were great with the girls and we

51
00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,680
Speaker 4: were able to put one together.

52
00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:00,920
Speaker 3: As a team.

53
00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, any Top twenty dub is huge, especially

54
00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,440
Speaker 1: at home. The vibes are always great. I bet the

55
00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,040
Speaker 1: Gum Center was popping. But I mean, you guys had

56
00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,320
Speaker 1: a tough non conference schedule, like you talked about, like

57
00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:13,600
Speaker 1: time is starting to take out. It's almost end of

58
00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,680
Speaker 1: ACC play AC tournament, and then we're gonna see each

59
00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,000
Speaker 1: other in the tournament most likely.

60
00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,280
Speaker 2: We always we're always on the same side of the bracket.

61
00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,680
Speaker 1: I know, for no reason, like I'm like, Okay, Louisville

62
00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,280
Speaker 1: or whatever, see that. But like I feel like in

63
00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,640
Speaker 1: the non conference, y'all played a lot of sleeper teams

64
00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,240
Speaker 1: like Ohio State, Gonzaga, Middle Tennessee, people that didn't really

65
00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:33,640
Speaker 1: have them on the radar, and then all of a sudden,

66
00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:35,639
Speaker 1: y'all are having these huge matchups and now they're top

67
00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,320
Speaker 1: fifteen teams. But what were some of those early adjustments

68
00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,960
Speaker 1: that you felt like you guys had to make, losing

69
00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:44,000
Speaker 1: key seniors like Emily and Keana.

70
00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:45,679
Speaker 2: What was that kind of time.

71
00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,040
Speaker 4: Like, Like at the start, it was just frustrating because

72
00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:51,360
Speaker 4: it was like a new experience of losing early. But

73
00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,600
Speaker 4: like when you look back, like all the teams that

74
00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,600
Speaker 4: we lost to now like are all ranked, like are

75
00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,880
Speaker 4: having great seasons, So there's nothing really to like get

76
00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,960
Speaker 4: down on about it. And I think we just had

77
00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:07,000
Speaker 4: to get used to each other. We lost a lot

78
00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,240
Speaker 4: of starters and we got some transfers. We have a

79
00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:12,240
Speaker 4: ton of fifth year seniors, Like we just have a

80
00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,320
Speaker 4: bunch of new pieces that we had to fit into

81
00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,960
Speaker 4: how we were gonna make this new team work this year.

82
00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,359
Speaker 4: And I mean, like it's just the gonna be the

83
00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:23,640
Speaker 4: test of time, and I think we're starting to figure

84
00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:24,000
Speaker 4: it out.

85
00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:27,240
Speaker 3: So that's just really encouraging for us.

86
00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:28,240
Speaker 2: No, for sure.

87
00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:31,160
Speaker 1: I mean it's always difficult coming into a new season

88
00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:33,960
Speaker 1: with a loss of these players that you could count

89
00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,280
Speaker 1: on for so long, because I feel like you lose

90
00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,440
Speaker 1: more than just what they did on the court, Like

91
00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,960
Speaker 1: for us losing like Anna and Lexie and Lacy, they

92
00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:42,680
Speaker 1: did so much on the corp off court. It's their

93
00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,840
Speaker 1: leadership and so for you now you're kind of like

94
00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:47,880
Speaker 1: big dog on the team. You have been, but now

95
00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,280
Speaker 1: more than ever. And so it's you're stepping into a

96
00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,200
Speaker 1: new role of leadership, and it's finding that rhythm after

97
00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,640
Speaker 1: a rocky start, but now you're finding a rhythm which

98
00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,000
Speaker 1: seems to be the right time, Like ending out conference

99
00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,520
Speaker 1: play on a high note as you had that conference tournament.

100
00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,880
Speaker 1: So how did you kind of find your stride with

101
00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,200
Speaker 1: this new role on the team outside of being the

102
00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,160
Speaker 1: scorer and an amazing player that you are, but in

103
00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,040
Speaker 1: the locker room being that leader that the team needs

104
00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:10,360
Speaker 1: you to be.

105
00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:15,600
Speaker 4: It was just a weird team because I am an

106
00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:17,520
Speaker 4: old person on the team, but I'm one of the

107
00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,920
Speaker 4: younger in age. Like we have a ton of fifth

108
00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,279
Speaker 4: year seniors who are like twenty three twenty four who

109
00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:25,320
Speaker 4: have been in college for like five years, and I'm

110
00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:28,880
Speaker 4: still just a junior. But I'm old for the program.

111
00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,239
Speaker 4: So it was on it's on my shoulders to carry

112
00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,160
Speaker 4: over the legacy of like what we do at Louisville.

113
00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,200
Speaker 4: And it's been hard, and there's been days where I

114
00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:43,039
Speaker 4: feel like I would much rather just play basketball and

115
00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,000
Speaker 4: not deal with that side of it, but obviously, like

116
00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,800
Speaker 4: that's not going to end in the winning season that

117
00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:51,520
Speaker 4: I know we're capable of. And yeah, it was just

118
00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:53,760
Speaker 4: I really had to go outside my comfort zone and

119
00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,480
Speaker 4: like learned how to encourage certain type of people and

120
00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,400
Speaker 4: how to get the best out of them. And I

121
00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:02,560
Speaker 4: think I'm starting to figure that out. And yeah, so

122
00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,520
Speaker 4: I'm excited to see what we can do from how long?

123
00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:07,800
Speaker 2: No, for sure. I mean that's really interesting.

124
00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:09,600
Speaker 1: I've never heard it in the terms of like your

125
00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,480
Speaker 1: season for the program. But Chrislyn Carr coming in, Liz

126
00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:14,960
Speaker 1: dick Say, Morgan Jones, these people with so much experience.

127
00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,359
Speaker 1: I know Liz experience in the Louisville program, but Morgan's

128
00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,599
Speaker 1: on at Florida State, and then all these different people

129
00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,680
Speaker 1: coming in with experience on their own. Was it difficult

130
00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,240
Speaker 1: to build the chemistry with these new players coming in

131
00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:27,280
Speaker 1: where like they might have been doing X y Z

132
00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,280
Speaker 1: at a different school or able to run things a

133
00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:30,760
Speaker 1: different way, or just a different culture.

134
00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:32,279
Speaker 2: What was that process like?

135
00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, obviously, like every team needs people that are.

136
00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:37,480
Speaker 3: Willing to fill roles.

137
00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,640
Speaker 4: And I think when you go into the portal, you're

138
00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:45,440
Speaker 4: you're not necessarily looking to just grab You're like most

139
00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,080
Speaker 4: of the time you're trying to get the best players

140
00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,360
Speaker 4: in the portal. And then they get to the team

141
00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,039
Speaker 4: and it's like, Okay, how can we fit them in

142
00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,600
Speaker 4: a role that will help this team be the best

143
00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,680
Speaker 4: it can be? And I think, like Morgan CC, what

144
00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,360
Speaker 4: benefited us is that they came from the ACC, so

145
00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,839
Speaker 4: like they see super competitive, like there's not one game

146
00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:05,679
Speaker 4: that you can sleep on and think you're just about

147
00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:07,640
Speaker 4: to roll the ball out and win. Like it's going

148
00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,799
Speaker 4: to be a fight every game to get a dub.

149
00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,640
Speaker 4: And I think that they knew that coming into the

150
00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,719
Speaker 4: season because they've played in the ACC last year, you know, obviously,

151
00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,719
Speaker 4: like you said, Louisville is a different experience and adjusting

152
00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:24,279
Speaker 4: their bodies to how much we practice, how much we lived,

153
00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:27,719
Speaker 4: all that stuff. But they're willing, like they're so willing

154
00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,719
Speaker 4: to give into this team and that's all you can ask.

155
00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,840
Speaker 4: And I really appreciated about them, and that's why, like

156
00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:35,359
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm so excited.

157
00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,680
Speaker 1: No, for sure, I think a lot of times when

158
00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:39,599
Speaker 1: people go in the transfer portal, they look at like

159
00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,320
Speaker 1: I want to go be the start this program.

160
00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:42,400
Speaker 2: I want to go do this and that.

161
00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:44,839
Speaker 1: But it's so great to hear that they came into

162
00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:46,800
Speaker 1: an already a winning program. You know, you guys been

163
00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,520
Speaker 1: the final four last year, so they're coming in probably

164
00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,080
Speaker 1: thinking like I want to win, and whatever I have

165
00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:54,960
Speaker 1: to do to help this team win is what I'm

166
00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:56,960
Speaker 1: going to do. And I'm sure there are adjustments. I'm

167
00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,440
Speaker 1: sure every program is different. I know, as Sanford we

168
00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:01,400
Speaker 1: pactice for three hours a day and I'm.

169
00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:05,599
Speaker 2: Like, Jesus, I'm gus, you're literally.

170
00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,360
Speaker 1: And then that's not even counting film and then extra

171
00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,080
Speaker 1: shots and I'm like, oh my god, Like my body

172
00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,320
Speaker 1: is done by the end of the day every day.

173
00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,720
Speaker 1: But I mean, like you said, the ACC, I feel

174
00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,440
Speaker 1: like similar to the PAC twelve SEC, all these Power

175
00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:22,440
Speaker 1: five conferences as the years have gone on, just playing

176
00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:24,560
Speaker 1: the conference for four years now in the pack and

177
00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,400
Speaker 1: you three in the ACC, like it's just gotten deeper

178
00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,520
Speaker 1: and deeper over time, which is great, but it's also

179
00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,240
Speaker 1: annoying where it's like you can't have a night off

180
00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,640
Speaker 1: because somebody's gonna come up right after you. And do

181
00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,320
Speaker 1: you feel like at Louisville, y'all always have the target

182
00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:41,240
Speaker 1: on your back in conference play.

183
00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:42,800
Speaker 2: Like how do you deal with that? Do you like it?

184
00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:44,720
Speaker 2: Is it annoying? Like what are the vibes there?

185
00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:49,640
Speaker 4: I think like it's weird because the targets on our back,

186
00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:53,160
Speaker 4: But also people don't expect us to win, like we

187
00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:54,400
Speaker 4: weren't picked to win last year.

188
00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:56,000
Speaker 3: We weren't picked to win last year.

189
00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,280
Speaker 4: But at the same time, when we don't win, they're

190
00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,640
Speaker 4: like disappointed that we didn't win. Sure, So it's like

191
00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,960
Speaker 4: you can't win in that aspect. But teams love when

192
00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,679
Speaker 4: they beat us, Like I've never seen so many teams

193
00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,800
Speaker 4: celebrate like they won the Natty after like they beat us.

194
00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:12,920
Speaker 3: Even this year, we.

195
00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,760
Speaker 4: Are we're not even ranked right now, and we'll lose

196
00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:18,440
Speaker 4: to a team that's ranked and they're like running into

197
00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:20,680
Speaker 4: the locker room like they're about to pop this champagne

198
00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,560
Speaker 4: bottles like all that stuff, And so I just think,

199
00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:25,560
Speaker 4: like that's in a test to what our program has

200
00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,920
Speaker 4: done up to this point. But also, yeah, like just

201
00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,120
Speaker 4: everyone is coming for you, like you can never just

202
00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,680
Speaker 4: every single game they talk about load management. There's no

203
00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:39,240
Speaker 4: time for load management in the ACC because they're like, oh,

204
00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:41,080
Speaker 4: we might be able to steal you some minutes sitting

205
00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:42,920
Speaker 4: out this game. No, Like I'm gonna have to play

206
00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:45,800
Speaker 4: this game because wake Forest is good, and like my

207
00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:46,720
Speaker 4: team's gonna need.

208
00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:47,280
Speaker 3: Me to perform.

209
00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:52,040
Speaker 4: Everyone is just beating everybody, like no one's dominating and

210
00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,160
Speaker 4: like no one's like not winning any games. There's none

211
00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,920
Speaker 4: that surprised me because they just can teams continue to upset.

212
00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:00,520
Speaker 4: So I think at the beginning in the year, I

213
00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:04,320
Speaker 4: might have been surprised, but like at this point you're like, Okay,

214
00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:06,240
Speaker 4: well we need to go win now because we can't

215
00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,040
Speaker 4: be the next team that's upset.

216
00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:10,520
Speaker 1: For sure, Like there's no one even nationwide, Like there's

217
00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:12,959
Speaker 1: no really dominating right now, like people still have close

218
00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,400
Speaker 1: games within their conferences, whatever it may be. But Okay,

219
00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,120
Speaker 1: you talked about not being surprised by some upsets that

220
00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:19,560
Speaker 1: have been.

221
00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:20,320
Speaker 2: Going on the ACC.

222
00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,640
Speaker 1: What team do you think deserves more credit than they've

223
00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:25,600
Speaker 1: been getting, Like, what's a sleeper team in the ACC

224
00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:26,160
Speaker 1: right now?

225
00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,839
Speaker 4: I feel like, honestly, like they do get credit and

226
00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,640
Speaker 4: they are ranked, but Florida State is like elite and

227
00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,439
Speaker 4: we were able to steal a road win. But they're

228
00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:40,840
Speaker 4: just talent wise, like effort wise. I think they're really

229
00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:44,720
Speaker 4: like deep, and they have a great group, and I

230
00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,080
Speaker 4: think they're ranked second or third in the ACC right now,

231
00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:49,880
Speaker 4: and they're in the top twenty five, but like I

232
00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:51,960
Speaker 4: don't think they're ranked high enough in the top twenty five,

233
00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,400
Speaker 4: Like they're a really elite team and they've pulled out

234
00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,440
Speaker 4: some pretty impressive wins and even they're one of the

235
00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,640
Speaker 4: only teams that has had multiple like twenty woint wins

236
00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,320
Speaker 4: in the ACC, Like they're one of the only ones

237
00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,360
Speaker 4: that have dominated like several games, and so I think

238
00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:10,400
Speaker 4: that that's something like that is worth mentioning about them.

239
00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:11,160
Speaker 2: No, for sure.

240
00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:14,120
Speaker 1: I watched Florida State that duke game that they had,

241
00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:18,440
Speaker 1: and I was like, they're tough like a while ago,

242
00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:20,559
Speaker 1: like a few years back, like they were top ten

243
00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:22,280
Speaker 1: this and that. Then they kind of dropped off and

244
00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:24,160
Speaker 1: then they kind of been asleep in this year. But

245
00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,000
Speaker 1: I remember, like I started watching them because I saw

246
00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:29,200
Speaker 1: tonight having crazy numbers and I was like, dang, she's hooping.

247
00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:30,400
Speaker 2: And I watched their team.

248
00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,720
Speaker 1: I was like, pause, why they got like ten weapons

249
00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:33,240
Speaker 1: off the bench?

250
00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:37,480
Speaker 4: Yes, like they're man. The bench just keeps going. They

251
00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:38,400
Speaker 4: summon in.

252
00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:41,720
Speaker 1: I was like, uh, you were like I'm gassed.

253
00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,520
Speaker 2: You are fresh legs, fresh legs to guard me. It's

254
00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,520
Speaker 2: so annoying. I'd be hating that.

255
00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:48,560
Speaker 1: Like I'll have one matchup and then I stay in

256
00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,800
Speaker 1: the game and all of a sudden, new girl just

257
00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,600
Speaker 1: to guard me, and I'm like pause, like can we

258
00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:55,560
Speaker 1: call time out because all of a sudden, why do

259
00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:56,480
Speaker 1: you get fresh legs?

260
00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,160
Speaker 2: I've been playing for thirty minutes and you're just ready

261
00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:01,040
Speaker 2: sprinting and this and that.

262
00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:02,760
Speaker 1: I'm like, I bet you've be dealing with that all

263
00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:05,080
Speaker 1: the time, Like they have a real relations.

264
00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:07,480
Speaker 4: Yep, it's a game plan, like we're gonna have these

265
00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,320
Speaker 4: three girls like guard you in this incremental rotating to

266
00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,080
Speaker 4: be fresh. It's like it is though, like I feel

267
00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:18,720
Speaker 4: like now I realize more how much the game can

268
00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,720
Speaker 4: be broken down into like how well you can play

269
00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:25,160
Speaker 4: while you're tired and stuff like that, because like that's

270
00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:27,560
Speaker 4: when the most of the game is decided, is like

271
00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,600
Speaker 4: when you're a player that has to play long minutes

272
00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:31,920
Speaker 4: like that, the other team is gonna have a game

273
00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,199
Speaker 4: plan and they're gonna have multiple looks and you're gonna

274
00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,760
Speaker 4: have to be able to play through fatigue or any

275
00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:41,719
Speaker 4: type of tiredness and like maintain your level of performance.

276
00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,560
Speaker 4: So I think like that's something like you said, like

277
00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:46,960
Speaker 4: when I get a fresh new defender on me. But

278
00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:49,720
Speaker 4: I've been in twenty minutes already and I'm still coming

279
00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,119
Speaker 4: off staggered screens and they're trying to blow up handoffs,

280
00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,360
Speaker 4: Like how is my body gonna withstand that? And it's

281
00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,079
Speaker 4: definitely been a learning curve but you know, you figure

282
00:11:58,120 --> 00:11:58,640
Speaker 4: it out as.

283
00:11:58,600 --> 00:11:59,040
Speaker 3: It goes on.

284
00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:02,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, And like you said, like it's a physical thing,

285
00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:04,480
Speaker 1: like still being able to come off those stagger screens.

286
00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:06,960
Speaker 1: But I feel like as I've gotten older, I've also

287
00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,160
Speaker 1: realized how much of a mental challenge I is to

288
00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,560
Speaker 1: stay locked in. Like I was coming off on balls

289
00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:14,800
Speaker 1: at Washington State and I'm getting my pull up right

290
00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:16,680
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Oh, we're icing the screen.

291
00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:18,959
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh crap, how do I do this? Like oh,

292
00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:19,760
Speaker 2: throw and go this and that.

293
00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:22,360
Speaker 1: Okay, now we're trapping the screen and I'm trying to

294
00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,360
Speaker 1: like they're guarding the screen differently every single time. And

295
00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:27,960
Speaker 1: then I find out that like, oh, they've a little

296
00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:29,600
Speaker 1: handsignals how they finish guard the screen.

297
00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:32,439
Speaker 2: You want to tell me what that means? Like the

298
00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:34,840
Speaker 2: free line, I'm like, so, what's two? What's three? Like

299
00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:36,079
Speaker 2: let me know it's.

300
00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:39,120
Speaker 1: It'd be crazy, Yeah, but no, that's really I think

301
00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,079
Speaker 1: Florida State it's a good sleeper pick. And I think

302
00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,160
Speaker 1: that they're sleepers in every conference that are gonna make

303
00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:44,080
Speaker 1: some noise in the tournament.

304
00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:44,480
Speaker 3: This year.

305
00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:45,600
Speaker 2: The tournament is.

306
00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:47,640
Speaker 3: Gonna be crazy, like crazy.

307
00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:49,800
Speaker 4: Last year people thought it was crazy, Like I just

308
00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:51,280
Speaker 4: I don't even know what's gonna happen.

309
00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,520
Speaker 1: Seriously, I've like, literally it's gonna be it's gonna be

310
00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:56,880
Speaker 1: so good. And I love those first few days when

311
00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,320
Speaker 1: there's all those games like twenty four to seven. I

312
00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,280
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be crazy upsets this year, knock on wood,

313
00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:03,760
Speaker 1: not for our teams.

314
00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,800
Speaker 3: Not us, not let us, not us.

315
00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,480
Speaker 1: But you know you're talking about just the standings in

316
00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:13,000
Speaker 1: the ACC, right, Duke is at the top, but like

317
00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,520
Speaker 1: there's still so much time to shake things up, right now.

318
00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,640
Speaker 1: What do you like about how you guys are playing

319
00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,360
Speaker 1: headed into the end of conference play, into the tournament.

320
00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:24,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think we have a good remaining

321
00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,440
Speaker 4: schedule that will be able to work out with us

322
00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:29,959
Speaker 4: where we can pull out like a pretty good record

323
00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:33,560
Speaker 4: coming out here like Notre Dame, Like when we play them,

324
00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,000
Speaker 4: anything can happen, you know, Like it doesn't matter the

325
00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,559
Speaker 4: record between the two teams before meeting, Like it's such

326
00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,840
Speaker 4: a rivalry game where like no matter what happened before,

327
00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:44,240
Speaker 4: like it's going to be competitive and it's going to

328
00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:47,040
Speaker 4: be a good game and all that stuff. So I

329
00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,960
Speaker 4: think it's there's great opportunity left for us to upset

330
00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,800
Speaker 4: more people and climb to a higher seating, but at

331
00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,560
Speaker 4: the same time proving that we can maintain playing well

332
00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:01,240
Speaker 4: and continue to just win and not get offset by

333
00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,520
Speaker 4: another upset or a loss. It would be big time

334
00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,880
Speaker 4: just for our team confidence and how we feel about ourselves.

335
00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:11,120
Speaker 2: So for sure it will be good. Y'all do have

336
00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:12,440
Speaker 2: an odd rivalry like it.

337
00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:18,480
Speaker 4: Is why hence like when I tell you, like when

338
00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:20,960
Speaker 4: we get ready, we're like they hate us, like we

339
00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,960
Speaker 4: hate them, Like it's like go like it is in

340
00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,440
Speaker 4: like I've ye and the fans be in it, like

341
00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:29,080
Speaker 4: it is a mole, like it is on another level.

342
00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:30,680
Speaker 3: But it's what we love.

343
00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:32,800
Speaker 2: So the rivalry games are so good.

344
00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,120
Speaker 1: I remember we played at South Carolina last year and

345
00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,400
Speaker 1: I remember on my Explore page was like their hype

346
00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:40,480
Speaker 1: video to play us, and I was like, oh, gotta

347
00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:41,200
Speaker 1: watch and it.

348
00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,880
Speaker 2: Was like, oh, they're missing the shot, me making the

349
00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:45,800
Speaker 2: shot and I was like, oh no, like they're about

350
00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,520
Speaker 2: to come out on ten right now.

351
00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:51,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I love those revenge rivalry games are the

352
00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:55,520
Speaker 1: actual best. But within the a SEC, y'all have six

353
00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:57,920
Speaker 1: teams ranked right now, and then that's not even including

354
00:14:58,080 --> 00:14:59,960
Speaker 1: y'all who are right on the bubble about to not

355
00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,000
Speaker 1: in whatever that may be. But we've been having this

356
00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:06,560
Speaker 1: debate on the pod of what's the best conference? So

357
00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,800
Speaker 1: are you gonna stick with the ACC or do you

358
00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,600
Speaker 1: have a vote to swing the way that the other

359
00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:14,280
Speaker 1: ones have gone?

360
00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:17,600
Speaker 3: No, I think it's definitely ACC. I have to stay

361
00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:18,320
Speaker 3: with the ACC.

362
00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:18,640
Speaker 1: Bro.

363
00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,800
Speaker 4: I have to because it's just like even in the

364
00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:23,480
Speaker 4: tournament last year, like I think we had the most

365
00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:27,360
Speaker 4: teams in the tournament. Like, it's just like the talent level,

366
00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:29,480
Speaker 4: I would say, in the athleticism.

367
00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,640
Speaker 3: Mostly what I noticed is like the athleticism is.

368
00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,480
Speaker 4: At another level, especially when we play non conference, like

369
00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:37,640
Speaker 4: when we play teams in like the Big Ten and

370
00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:39,800
Speaker 4: stuff like that. It's just it's a different vibe in

371
00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:48,160
Speaker 4: the ACC. No, I'm just like I feel like ACC,

372
00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:49,560
Speaker 4: like I have to pick them.

373
00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:52,080
Speaker 3: I play in it every game, man, Like that ship

374
00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:52,920
Speaker 3: is a battle.

375
00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:56,240
Speaker 1: I have to pick a sc all right, Okay, I

376
00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:58,680
Speaker 1: respect that picks back twelve obviously.

377
00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:03,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, the West Coast basketball is just elite.

378
00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:05,000
Speaker 1: I feel like people really be trash talking in the

379
00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,480
Speaker 1: PAC twelve and they're like, oh, they're soft this and that.

380
00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:10,200
Speaker 2: I'll be leaving every game with bruises up and down

381
00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:10,840
Speaker 2: the arms.

382
00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:12,280
Speaker 3: I'm like, I can't, I can't.

383
00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:15,240
Speaker 4: Say that I'm from Washington, so I'm not gonna I'm

384
00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:19,760
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say anything. But no, none of that

385
00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,400
Speaker 4: around here. But I'm still gonna vote for ACC.

386
00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:27,240
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll respect your vote the big ten Slanders crazy.

387
00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,080
Speaker 1: I respect your vote of the ACC. But you mentioned

388
00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,320
Speaker 1: being from Washington, So let's kind of take it back

389
00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:36,680
Speaker 1: to your roots there. So AAU, you played for the

390
00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,280
Speaker 1: Trailblazers and then you switch to Tree of Hope, kind

391
00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:43,160
Speaker 1: Adidas to Nike there, what was your AA you experienced, Like,

392
00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:45,600
Speaker 1: did you play against anyone noteworthy? Did you have a

393
00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:47,480
Speaker 1: crazy A you experience game?

394
00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:48,440
Speaker 2: Anything like that.

395
00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,520
Speaker 4: Honestly, when I played AU a lot, it was when

396
00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:54,560
Speaker 4: I was younger, because as soon as I hit like

397
00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:57,120
Speaker 4: high school is when I played on all those USA

398
00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:59,400
Speaker 4: teams and like you know how it goes like it's

399
00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,720
Speaker 4: your entire summer and like they do it during our

400
00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,159
Speaker 4: AU session. So like you're not gonna get to play AU,

401
00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:08,240
Speaker 4: like give up your life for the golden medal, but

402
00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:13,399
Speaker 4: it's worth it. But I switched to the Nike side

403
00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:17,120
Speaker 4: my last year just to try it out, like they

404
00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,920
Speaker 4: said that that circuit was better. And I only played

405
00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:21,879
Speaker 4: in one tournament. I think I played in Boo and

406
00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:24,199
Speaker 4: it was like the worst tournament of my life. Like

407
00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,280
Speaker 4: I cringe when I think of Like, oh no, I

408
00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:29,640
Speaker 4: cringe when I think of it Haley, Like I'm just

409
00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,159
Speaker 4: like I do not know who she is, like I

410
00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:36,680
Speaker 4: am not her, like wrong girl, But no, I mean

411
00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:38,800
Speaker 4: it was fun. Like I miss AU though, like when

412
00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:41,920
Speaker 4: you get to college and like as you grow up,

413
00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,119
Speaker 4: you're like I kind of wish like not having a

414
00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:48,159
Speaker 4: scout and just like running no offense and just like

415
00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:49,119
Speaker 4: doing whatever.

416
00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,040
Speaker 1: But eight days were crazy my like like you said,

417
00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:55,159
Speaker 1: like not having a scout. What I really miss by

418
00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,720
Speaker 1: AAU is like I pull up to the game eight am,

419
00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,840
Speaker 1: no warm up, Nola bar in my stomach, and I

420
00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:04,480
Speaker 1: play give me one right, lay up, one left, one,

421
00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:09,320
Speaker 1: pull up, hooping thirty ball like I'm fine. Now It's like, okay,

422
00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,840
Speaker 1: I need activation before I get taped, and then I

423
00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,920
Speaker 1: need to activate again, and I need pregame lift and

424
00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,240
Speaker 1: I need to get out there and work up for

425
00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:19,160
Speaker 1: an hour. Now I feel I'm all right, maybe first

426
00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:20,679
Speaker 1: few minutes of the game I'm still warming up.

427
00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,600
Speaker 2: But back then I was limber. I was ready to roll.

428
00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:26,040
Speaker 4: And it was like four games in a day, Like

429
00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,920
Speaker 4: I think one time I was playing on like two

430
00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:31,159
Speaker 4: different age groups and I put like seven games in

431
00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,040
Speaker 4: one day and I was like ready to go the

432
00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,000
Speaker 4: next day, like nothing to happen.

433
00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,000
Speaker 3: I don't know who. I don't know who that Hayley was,

434
00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:39,280
Speaker 3: but she's no longer here.

435
00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:45,760
Speaker 1: Fayree games Ye, you're hanging like Joding is gracious, Like

436
00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,320
Speaker 1: I played forty minutes yesterday right now my legs.

437
00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,760
Speaker 2: I woke up. I said, oh no, ma'am, I need

438
00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,440
Speaker 2: norm Tech cold tub. Get me in there. I can.

439
00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,920
Speaker 2: But you kind of mentioned USA basketball. You have four gold.

440
00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:02,200
Speaker 1: Medals, and you've kind of become this on three global superstar.

441
00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,600
Speaker 1: I feel like every time in the summer I opened

442
00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:06,000
Speaker 1: up my explot page.

443
00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,400
Speaker 2: Haley doing this, Haley doing that. She's in Hungry, She's

444
00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:12,879
Speaker 2: in russ Sha, She's there. But what like, what about

445
00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:14,439
Speaker 2: three on three draws you to it?

446
00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:15,320
Speaker 3: Honestly?

447
00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,879
Speaker 4: Like I left there on three because it's just fun,

448
00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:21,280
Speaker 4: Like it brings me back to like middle school basketball,

449
00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,480
Speaker 4: Like it's like street ball. It's like one on one

450
00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,879
Speaker 4: all the time, and it really helps my game get better,

451
00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:30,560
Speaker 4: Like you can't have weakness playing three on three because

452
00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,240
Speaker 4: anything that you're not good at is gonna be exposed.

453
00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,040
Speaker 4: Like if you can't shoot the three, if you can't

454
00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:36,960
Speaker 4: make a layup, if you can't play defense, like you're

455
00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,600
Speaker 4: gonna be putting all of those situations.

456
00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,320
Speaker 3: So it's really helped me grow my game.

457
00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:45,400
Speaker 4: And it's mostly just fun, Like I really just love playing,

458
00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:47,760
Speaker 4: Like and you can talk like half the time. The

459
00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:49,879
Speaker 4: rest don't even know what you're saying, like you can

460
00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:53,080
Speaker 4: say whatever, and like there's no coach, like you have

461
00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:57,000
Speaker 4: to coach yourself. It's just it's just a great switch

462
00:19:57,080 --> 00:19:59,480
Speaker 4: up from five on five. Like it's just something fresh

463
00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,399
Speaker 4: and it gets you in really really good shape. So

464
00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,399
Speaker 4: as long as they'll let me play, I'll keep playing

465
00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:07,040
Speaker 4: because it's just it's a good time.

466
00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,240
Speaker 2: It looks like fun. I'd be watching. It looks like

467
00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:10,760
Speaker 2: a great time.

468
00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:12,359
Speaker 3: You playing on a team together, and.

469
00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,920
Speaker 2: It was fun and I was gassed, Oh my god, gashed.

470
00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,600
Speaker 4: It's different, Like you think you're in shape and you

471
00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:21,280
Speaker 4: played there on three and you're like.

472
00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:24,159
Speaker 1: You're huffing a puffin no, so huffing and puffin and

473
00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:25,520
Speaker 1: the sub is not coming you.

474
00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,840
Speaker 2: You gotta keep on going. You mentioned, you know, like you.

475
00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:32,240
Speaker 1: Can trash talk all this stuff and language bearers whatever

476
00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,040
Speaker 1: it may be, Like, there's not anybody checking you.

477
00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,639
Speaker 2: What's your craziest three on three story from your time?

478
00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:41,399
Speaker 4: Honestly, Okay, you're putting me on the spot. I had

479
00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:46,280
Speaker 4: to think, Okay, no one ever really tries us, honestly, Like,

480
00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,080
Speaker 4: I've never been on a team where I'm like, I

481
00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,760
Speaker 4: played your teammate though, like two summers ago, Hannah Jump,

482
00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:55,960
Speaker 4: Yeah you did, Hannah Yes, and her team v RS.

483
00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:57,760
Speaker 3: I think I remember.

484
00:20:57,920 --> 00:20:59,400
Speaker 2: I think she's diaper.

485
00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,439
Speaker 4: She and I tried to tell them I was the

486
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,480
Speaker 4: only college player on my team, and it was like

487
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,680
Speaker 4: it was like overseas pros and me and I was like, y'all,

488
00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:10,080
Speaker 4: I know.

489
00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,920
Speaker 2: This girt up like do not.

490
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,359
Speaker 3: And they did not believe me.

491
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,280
Speaker 4: And I think she probably hit like five threes on us,

492
00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 4: and that is hard.

493
00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 3: It's him in a game.

494
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,400
Speaker 4: So I tried to help him out, but I think

495
00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,639
Speaker 4: they pulled the the youngin card on me.

496
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:26,359
Speaker 2: Oh for sure.

497
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,639
Speaker 4: Now, I mean I don't have any crazy stories. I

498
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,879
Speaker 4: just I want to like none. During competition just like

499
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,400
Speaker 4: the team, like you get really close to the other

500
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,720
Speaker 4: three girls, and and I think like my first one

501
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,440
Speaker 4: when we played in the Youth Olympic Games and Argentina,

502
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:43,359
Speaker 4: like we lived in the village and it was just

503
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 4: like it was just a great time, and it's stuff

504
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:50,160
Speaker 4: that you always think about. So it would be more

505
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,320
Speaker 4: like like having real genuine connections with the three other

506
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,680
Speaker 4: people that I'm with for however long I play with them.

507
00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:58,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see that.

508
00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,359
Speaker 1: I feel like even with like USA basketball in general,

509
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,520
Speaker 1: that seems to be a theme. Like every team that

510
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 1: you're on, you're immersed in just the twelve of y'all

511
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,800
Speaker 1: or like you say, like four y'all for like two months,

512
00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,399
Speaker 1: and that is all that you interact with, so you

513
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,879
Speaker 1: are forced to bond and that you just have so

514
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,000
Speaker 1: many fun memories with USA through that type of stuff,

515
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:19,960
Speaker 1: even more than the tournament. Like I feel like there's

516
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,879
Speaker 1: so many just fun off the court memories that I

517
00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,879
Speaker 1: get to think on from the past. But it's hilarious

518
00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,360
Speaker 1: thinking back. That's are you seventeen year?

519
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:28,440
Speaker 2: Great year?

520
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:31,160
Speaker 3: Like what a time?

521
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,400
Speaker 4: You just think of it and you're like, man, how

522
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,920
Speaker 4: did we how did we survive? But we were like

523
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 4: we were having a great time at the same time,

524
00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:41,120
Speaker 4: like it was like give our take and yeah, it's

525
00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:44,040
Speaker 4: just it's always fun too because then you see each

526
00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:45,880
Speaker 4: other when you play, or like you watch each other

527
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 4: on TV and it's like you remember all that and yeah,

528
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:50,240
Speaker 4: yeah it's fun.

529
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:51,480
Speaker 2: No, it's so cool.

530
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,520
Speaker 1: Just kind of talking more about like au and your

531
00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 1: upbringing with basketball. Who got you in basketball? What made

532
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:02,400
Speaker 1: you love it so much?

533
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 2: What were those experiences like those early years with basketball.

534
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,360
Speaker 4: I really got into basketball because my brother played and

535
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 4: I was just like I was just like a mean

536
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 4: kid and I wanted to be better than him so bad.

537
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 4: So that's why I started playing, was so that I

538
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,840
Speaker 4: could beat him. I was like yes, like everyone always

539
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 4: asked me, and I'm like, it's literally because I wanted

540
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 4: to be better than my brother.

541
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,120
Speaker 3: And then I ended up liking it.

542
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,160
Speaker 1: So you got to take out the aggression you're better

543
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,160
Speaker 1: than your brother out of spite all this stuff. What

544
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 1: do you think eventually put you on that national map

545
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,440
Speaker 1: of like she's a player to watch get recruited all

546
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 1: this stuff?

547
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 2: Was it hooping to the cul de Sac? Was it tournament?

548
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:43,120
Speaker 2: Was it USA?

549
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 4: What was it when I was in like sixth grade,

550
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 4: I would play in the high school circuits and I

551
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 4: think like my first out of state tournament was somewhere

552
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 4: in California, and I remember like I got my first

553
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,399
Speaker 4: off rafter that tournament and I was like thirteen, and

554
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,919
Speaker 4: I was playing and like an elite, Like what do

555
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:02,439
Speaker 4: they call that?

556
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:03,040
Speaker 3: Like gold?

557
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 2: Yeah?

558
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, they called like the show or whatever, yes, and

559
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 4: like I just had no business being out there. I

560
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 4: weighed like one hundred pounds and I was about five

561
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 4: feet tall. I don't know, Like I feel like that's

562
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 4: kind of where I got my toughness from. It's like

563
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 4: as I was growing up playing, I was always like

564
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,479
Speaker 4: the youngest, like had to fight, Like I just had

565
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,160
Speaker 4: to be tougher than everyone to like get playing time.

566
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,159
Speaker 4: And I think that's kind of stuck with me like

567
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 4: throughout my career. So yeah, I definitely remember those days,

568
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 4: like where like rolling the shorts three times because they're

569
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 4: at my ankles because I'm wearing like a high school

570
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 4: uniform and I'm eleven years old.

571
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,119
Speaker 3: But yeah, it was fun.

572
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 4: It was It was crazy, Like I still can't believe

573
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 4: my body survived it now looking back.

574
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 1: But no, for sure, I feel like if I were

575
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,679
Speaker 1: those high schoolers in the little sixth graders coming up

576
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: hooping crazy.

577
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 2: I'd be like, are you it's this little girl giving me.

578
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 4: Exactly and that's and I knew that's how they felt too,

579
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 4: so I was like trying to be cool, but at

580
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,880
Speaker 4: the same time, like, yeah, it was always interesting.

581
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 1: No, for sure, Like I remember being younger on those

582
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 1: like older teams, and you're like the social interactions that

583
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 1: I had with them, I was very much like their child,

584
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,439
Speaker 1: Like they were like, oh, come on, like do this

585
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:20,679
Speaker 1: and that. And then I get out there on the

586
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 1: court and I'm like cooping the same level. But off

587
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 1: the court, I'm like I don't know where to go.

588
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:27,160
Speaker 1: I lost my wallet, Like I gotta call my mom

589
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,919
Speaker 1: this and that. It's just such a fun dynamic to

590
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: play with an AAU that I feel like you don't

591
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 1: really have that experience in other situations, like with USA,

592
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 1: even when players are older than you is still like okay,

593
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 1: we're on TEAMOSA, like it's whatever, you're here. But back then,

594
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 1: I felt like it was such a weird dynamic to have,

595
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:44,920
Speaker 1: but it was fun.

596
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 4: It was just weird, yeah, And it was like if

597
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 4: that age, like I feel like the age gap, Like

598
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 4: a four year age gap is way different than a

599
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,959
Speaker 4: four year age gap when you're in your twenties, Like

600
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 4: the maturity.

601
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,679
Speaker 3: Level was way was way off.

602
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 1: But no, yeah, because it's like it's like a high

603
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,439
Speaker 1: schooler playing with somebody in sixth grades. So it's like

604
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 1: eighteen thirteen compared to like as grad transfer and she's

605
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 1: already in college at eighteen.

606
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 2: It's it's a different dynamic.

607
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.

608
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 2: But you know in your.

609
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: Early years playing AU and this and that you have

610
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: the opportunity to go train at Mama Sports Academy and

611
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 1: you were mentored by Kobe and just greatness. How did

612
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 1: that relationships start in What impact did he have on

613
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: you to help you become not even a player that

614
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 1: you are today, but the person that you are today.

615
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think how it started is I was actually

616
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 4: playing three on three in Mongolia and his like, you

617
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 4: know how the boys team travels with the girls team

618
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 4: when you played through on three, Like, there was a

619
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 4: guy on the boys team that was trained by like

620
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,919
Speaker 4: one of Kobe's main assistants, and he was like, my

621
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 4: trainer is saying that, like Kobe wants to work out

622
00:26:58,840 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 4: with you, And I was.

623
00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 3: Like man like he lying, and I was just like, okay, whatever,

624
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 3: like I did.

625
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,439
Speaker 4: I just brushed it off, and then like the next

626
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 4: day or a next a couple of days later, he

627
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,479
Speaker 4: was like no, like I'm gonna send him your number,

628
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 4: like I'm gonna give t.

629
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 3: T was the trainer and he was like, I'm gona

630
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,159
Speaker 3: give to your number. I was like, do it.

631
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 4: If you want, but like I really doubt anything's gonna

632
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 4: come out of it. But no, like it ended up.

633
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 4: He DM me on Instagram and he wanted me to

634
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 4: come out and meet him and work out with Gigi

635
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 4: and all that, and that's just it was just super random,

636
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 4: Like I think I don't even know how he knew

637
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 4: about me or how he saw me, but he liked

638
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 4: my game, he liked my attitude, and so it was

639
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 4: just like crazy like how it all came together. But nah, definitely,

640
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 4: Like when I think about Kobe and what he meant

641
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 4: to me, like mostly I feel like he made me

642
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 4: feel okay with like who I was and how competitive

643
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 4: I was, because I feel like, especially as a girl,

644
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 4: sometimes like competitiveness is not like people don't want to

645
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 4: see it and they don't want to see the aggression.

646
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,959
Speaker 4: The frustration or the shit talking, like they don't want

647
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 4: to see that in women's sports, and that's who I am,

648
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 4: Like I'm fiery, I'm passionate, like I love basketball, like

649
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 4: I'm super competitive, like I'm gonna fight, and like I

650
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 4: always had felt like that was bad about me and

651
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 4: I and I had had people growing up that would

652
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 4: be like, you need to change that, like people aren't

653
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 4: gonna like that you act like that. And Kobe was

654
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 4: like he saw that in me, and I think he

655
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 4: like he just let me know that it was okay

656
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 4: that I was the way I was because he was

657
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 4: like that and it's what made it who he was.

658
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 4: And yeah, I think he just it was one of

659
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 4: the first times where I really felt like seeing by

660
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 4: another player like okay, like like I feel comfortable with

661
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 4: who I am now. So that's mostly what I feel

662
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 4: I took away from that.

663
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 1: It's amazing to have somebody of that stature, of that

664
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: nature be able to instill that and be like, hey,

665
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: like there's no reason to apologize. People just don't get it,

666
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 1: and then that's not your fault that they don't understand

667
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: the way that you are, right, like the passion that

668
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: you play with that's something that sets you apart from

669
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: other people.

670
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 2: And I played against you, I played with you.

671
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: That competitive nature is second to none, and like it's

672
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: something to be proud of and something that sets you

673
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: apart from the rest.

674
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 2: Okay, like now.

675
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: That I'm doing and I'm kind of wishy washy, but

676
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: I'm someone like him. Tell you that, you're like, oh yeah,

677
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: like I never letting this go like this is now,

678
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: It's time to roll with it.

679
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 2: So that's amazing to hear.

680
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,719
Speaker 1: And I'm sure when the dude was telling you, like, oh,

681
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: he wants to work out with you, I'd be like,

682
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: no questions asked, send me the number.

683
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,239
Speaker 4: Like I was like, man, you know I'm there, but

684
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 4: you are so lying to me right now, like don't

685
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 4: play me like that. But yeah, it was just like

686
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 4: I don't know how he found out about me. I

687
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 4: still don't know to this day, but I don't know

688
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 4: what happened. But he I'm glad he did because yeah.

689
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: It worked out how it was supposed to, which is amazing. Okay,

690
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: but you mentioned you got your first offer in the

691
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: sixth grade, like thirteen year old Haley getting off.

692
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 2: That's crazy.

693
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: So and I also heard from little Birdie that you

694
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: had some offers for softball.

695
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 2: When you were in eighth grade. I had no idea.

696
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: So tell me, tell me about your recruiting process. What

697
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: was that, like, why was it basketball?

698
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 2: Tell me all about it.

699
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 4: Softball is different than basketball in the recruiting aspect because

700
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 4: girls commit really young, and like eighth grade is like

701
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 4: when you committed back when I was getting recruited. I know,

702
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 4: like they put and say put rules against it and

703
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 4: you have to wait. But in softball, like you committed

704
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 4: when you were in eighth grade, like before you even

705
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 4: got to high school. And that's just how it was,

706
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 4: And so I did. I played softball in middle school.

707
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 4: I played for like a travel team.

708
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: I could for some reason, I could see you playing

709
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: softball because.

710
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 4: I was skinny too, like it was back when I

711
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 4: was like you skinny, but like I was that little

712
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 4: center fielder out there left you center.

713
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 3: You were moving, I was moving, I was diving. I

714
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 3: was all over the place.

715
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 4: I was playing short stop and center at the same time,

716
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 4: like you didn't know what position.

717
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 3: I was.

718
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 4: Oh wow, I loved it, and I thought about playing

719
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 4: both in college for a while. But I just like

720
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 4: when I started playing you that was during when I

721
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 4: would play travel softball, So like softball just kind of

722
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 4: got phased out, and I definitely liked basketball more, like

723
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 4: I'm a lot more passionate about it, but I love

724
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 4: to watch like the women's College the World Series, Like, yeah,

725
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 4: I love to watch the softball like college softball and

726
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 4: all that, and I miss it sometimes.

727
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 3: But yeah, I tried the softball thing.

728
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 4: It was good, but I definitely would choose basketball still.

729
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 2: See, I feel like.

730
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: I had a summer experience where I loved soccer. Like

731
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 1: I still juggle about practice and get yelled at by Tara,

732
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: but like I love soccer. And the only reason it

733
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: was basketball was because like in California and high school

734
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: basketball and soccer at the same season. So going into

735
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: my freshman year at the end of eighth grade, my

736
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: mom was like, okay, and you know, my mom, so

737
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: I do Miss Monique runs the show, and so she

738
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: was like, she's like, Haley, like you have to choose

739
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: basketball soccer. And I was like, I don't know, like

740
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: I already had office at the time, but I was like,

741
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: I really love soccer, Like thinking on the dat, she said, Haley.

742
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 2: That's that's nice. But you know, I think you're better

743
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 2: at basketball, so let's do basketball.

744
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: And I said, okay, I mean, I guess, but like

745
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: I still love Watch, like there's still that connection that

746
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: you have to it. And I feel like it's also

747
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: I mean, for me at least, it's like I'm able

748
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: to have this passion without any pressure, Like I can

749
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: go and I could kick a soccer ball around and

750
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: just have it for that, where basketball there's just extra

751
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: things that.

752
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 2: Come with it.

753
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: But you know, softball, for you could just be like

754
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: another way you could go to bat in cage whatever.

755
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 1: I can't play softball awful hand eye coordination. You know,

756
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: I'm clumsy. I can't be doing all that.

757
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 2: So that's crazy that you're recruited for softball like that.

758
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 2: I can't believe that.

759
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 4: I know a lot of people, like I really liked

760
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 4: you DUB like I loved you Doub softball, and I

761
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 4: loved UCLA softball like I loved it. But you know,

762
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 4: like you said, like it was just kind of one

763
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 4: of those things that I did to like have something

764
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 4: different than basketball and like just a free like it

765
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,479
Speaker 4: didn't matter if I played well or not, because like

766
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 4: it wasn't like a scholarship was on the line.

767
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 3: So yeah, but you know you appreciate it still.

768
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 2: Yeah.

769
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: So kind of moving through your recruiting process, it came

770
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: down to where Louisville and Baylor were those your final.

771
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 2: I was in there.

772
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 4: I took visits to UCLA, Baylor, and Louisville.

773
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: Okay, so what said Louisville a top from the rest

774
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: from the other two?

775
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I wanted to play in front of

776
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 4: a crowd, and like at the Young Center, like you said,

777
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 4: it is packed every night, like even on nights when

778
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 4: we're playing like a low ranked ACC team, like the

779
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 4: fans like show out every time, and like that was

780
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 4: just something that was really important to me, Like I

781
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 4: wanted to play in front of a crowd. I wanted

782
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 4: to play on a team where I was going to

783
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 4: be put in situations to play like high level games.

784
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 4: But mostly like I felt like my playing soul fit

785
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 4: at Louisville, and I felt like coach Walls would let

786
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 4: me have freedom and play with like a little bit

787
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 4: of flashiness.

788
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 3: And he doesn't.

789
00:33:58,320 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 4: He's not a coach that is going to get mad

790
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 4: at me for screaming and one or anything like that.

791
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 4: Like there's some coaches out there that like try to

792
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 4: control player emotions, I think, and he's not like that.

793
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 4: And I played for him in Thailand for that USA

794
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 4: team too, so I kind of got to experienced that.

795
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 4: And you know, he's like he is tough, like he's

796
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 4: not an easy coach, like he's gonna hold you accountable,

797
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 4: but I mean he lets you, he lets you play

798
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 4: free and it makes the game fun.

799
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's why I chose Louisle.

800
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 2: And I mean I love that.

801
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 1: I think it's it's more than just one factor going

802
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 1: to Indy decision. Like you said, it's the fans, it's

803
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: it's the coach, it's the players, it's all that into one.

804
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: But you mentioned the energy that's at the Yump Center.

805
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: So taking back to your freshman year, what was that

806
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: first game like were you nervous, were you confident? Were

807
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: you excited? Like what were the vibes playing at the

808
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: Young Center for the first time?

809
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 3: Honestly can say like I wasn't nervous.

810
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 4: I think like USA basketball got that out the way

811
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 4: for me. Like my first USA game, it was like

812
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 4: one of those scrimmages we did where it wasn't really

813
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 4: like the first game. It were just discrimmaging, and I

814
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 4: seriously felt like the world was gonna end, like my

815
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 4: arms were shaking, like and that was the last time

816
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 4: I ever got nervous, Like I think I just got

817
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 4: it out the way in USA basketball. So when I

818
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 4: got to college, I was like, like, man, at least

819
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 4: we're not playing for a gold medal, Like this is okay.

820
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:20,760
Speaker 3: But I wasn't nervous.

821
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 4: It was just like I never played in front of

822
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 4: a crowd like that, honestly, Like they're invested to like

823
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 4: they're loud, like they screen your name like it's not

824
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 4: just like they're there, Like they're there and they're present,

825
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 4: and they know what's going on. They know about the

826
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 4: team that you're playing. Like I feel like women's basketball

827
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,240
Speaker 4: fans like are very knowledgeable, and yeah, they do their.

828
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 2: Research, maybe knowing everything about you.

829
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 3: They know everything.

830
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 4: Like sometimes the fans get mad at me when I

831
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 4: change my shoes or if I do something different my hair,

832
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 4: and I'm.

833
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,760
Speaker 3: Like, guys, like can I live please.

834
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: Like please let me express my individuality here. I gotta

835
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,359
Speaker 1: switch it up. Yeah, No, it's they'd be knowing, they'd

836
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 1: be really in it, which is something I love and appreciate.

837
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 2: But I'm also like all right, y'all, like I got

838
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 2: to live my.

839
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,919
Speaker 4: Life at the same time, like they'll no, like if

840
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 4: I go somewhere for lunch, like they'll like email my

841
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 4: coach and be like, Haley was here for lunch yesterday,

842
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 4: like sorry, And I'm like, man, like, don't worry, but

843
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 4: you know, no harm in it.

844
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 3: I guess, I guess.

845
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: But okay, So freshman year, I know, for me the

846
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,399
Speaker 1: film room, I was getting worked on in the film room,

847
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 1: but like, I feel like I had a horror story

848
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: up in there, just talking about turnovers. Haley, what do

849
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: you what were you thinking? Would you throw this past again?

850
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: And I'm like, honestly, Tara put me in the same situation.

851
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: I'm throwing it girl, I'm doing.

852
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 2: It like I'm doing the same thing. I thought it

853
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 2: was open. And so do you have any.

854
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: Like horror stories your freshman year, like toughest moments, Like

855
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: we talked about that one game where you were like

856
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: that wasn't Haley, Like there's been times where I watch

857
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 1: it and I'm like, that's not me out there, just

858
00:36:58,280 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 1: forget it.

859
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 2: Did you have any moments like that for me freshman year?

860
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 4: You know, probably a few there were the beginning of

861
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,760
Speaker 4: my freshman year. I actually played like I was rolling,

862
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 4: Like I kind of like got into it and I

863
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 4: was playing well. And then you hit that like mid

864
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 4: season of your freshman year, and you like it's the

865
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,800
Speaker 4: durability part, Like yeah, thang, like we still got practice

866
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 4: for three hours tomorrow, Like you kind of like your

867
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 4: body gets run down a little bit, and I think

868
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 4: like I wasn't like my body just wasn't able to

869
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 4: keep up.

870
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 3: And I don't know. I mean when I was playing

871
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 3: bad and.

872
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 4: He just didn't play me, like there was no opportunity

873
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 4: for me to embarrass myself.

874
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 3: I was down a bit.

875
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,800
Speaker 2: I did be over there sitting and cheering go.

876
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 4: Team, like one turnover and one time I got scored

877
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 4: on defense and it was like sorry, hey, like you're done,

878
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 4: sit down.

879
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 2: So yeah, tired loving it? She'd be loving it.

880
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, either you're gonna do it or you finnah,

881
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:55,959
Speaker 1: sit you're gonna this, or you're gonna cheer.

882
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 4: It's like and it's like the threat to yes, either

883
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 4: you do what I say, or you're gonna be cheering

884
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 4: for your teammates sitting on a bench.

885
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 3: You're like, okay, like.

886
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 2: Trying my best for you, but it's like I'm giving

887
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 2: you all I have. I'm sorry.

888
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 4: I remember the film sessions though, like and they just

889
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 4: love to ask questions like I know you know what

890
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 4: I was thinking, So don't try to calm me out

891
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 4: because like it looked a little bit open, like don't

892
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 4: act like I'm dumb, like, but you just have to

893
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,240
Speaker 4: sit there and be like yes, coach, yes, coach, Okay.

894
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,240
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, baby Lyylin.

895
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:32,799
Speaker 1: But okay, So freshman year we played y'all elite eight.

896
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: Sophomore year, help the team number one seed, Final four.

897
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 1: Talk me through that run, talk me through after that

898
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:41,439
Speaker 1: loss in the final four.

899
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 2: What did you do? What that was this past offseason

900
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 2: and prep for this season?

901
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think mostly like I needed to take care

902
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 4: of my body like I was having like I had

903
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,479
Speaker 4: a stress reaction in my foot that I played through

904
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 4: for like most of the season, and I had like

905
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 4: really bad planner fasci itis. So mostly like I just

906
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 4: wanted to like feel one hundred percent again, and so

907
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 4: I took a lot of time off or like not

908
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 4: time off, but like just time focusing on my body

909
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 4: and like rehabbing. But other than that, like I played

910
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 4: three on three and I just worked on like refining

911
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 4: my game, like just little things at this point, some

912
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 4: IQ stuff, some passing stuff, just getting to my spots

913
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 4: because I think, like, as I've gotten older, I've learned

914
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 4: like you don't necesssarily need like every move in the world.

915
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 3: Like you don't need to have a deep bag.

916
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 4: You just need to have like moves that you know

917
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,359
Speaker 4: you can get to at any time, and you just

918
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 4: have to have like know that you can get to those.

919
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 4: And so I think, like I'm starting to refine like

920
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 4: what I think those are for me and what parts

921
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:48,959
Speaker 4: of my game that I'm going to go to.

922
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 3: In those moments. So just trying to like still continue

923
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 3: to learn about myself. I guess what.

924
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 2: You said, like your go to bag, you don't need

925
00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 2: it to be deep, but you need moves.

926
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: Sure, bet, I'm gonna get a bucket off this move,

927
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get fouled, I'm gonna get to the brim

928
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: whatever it is, Like you just gotta have it your

929
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: short bag. But I mean Final four is crazy, and

930
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: I know last year was wild, but what was that

931
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: experience like being on that team And I feel like,

932
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:21,320
Speaker 1: like you said, like Louisville's always expected to be great

933
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: things final four year in and year out, but you

934
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 1: said it's also a vibe of like, oh, are they

935
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: really gonna get there? Oh this and that, And I

936
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: remember you talking about kind of being like that underdog mentality.

937
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: How was that experience being on that team last year,

938
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: getting the Final four, doing all that.

939
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:39,720
Speaker 3: It was probably like my like when you're in college,

940
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,839
Speaker 3: in that moment of like, Okay, this is worth it.

941
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 4: Like that was like the moment when we beat Michigan

942
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 4: and the Elee eight, like it was just like, oh,

943
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 4: like this whole process has been worth it. Like it

944
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 4: was just an amazing feeling because we were really like

945
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 4: that team was really close, We really enjoyed each other.

946
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:58,360
Speaker 4: The team chemistry was great, Like we just had fun,

947
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 4: Like we had a ton of fun in the NCAA tournament.

948
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 4: And I think sometimes when you get to college, like

949
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 4: my freshman year, like it became so hard that the

950
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 4: love of the game kind of gets like mixed up

951
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:13,399
Speaker 4: in just the everyday grind of being a d one

952
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 4: like elite college basketball player, and like that run at

953
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 4: the end of the year was like, Okay, I love

954
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 4: like I fell in love with the game again, like

955
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 4: it was just it was very rewarding and it was

956
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 4: super awesome to do it next to the girls that

957
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 4: I did it too, like I just love them, Like

958
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 4: I was really close with Emily Angsler, one of my

959
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 4: best friends, and so it was great and my family

960
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,240
Speaker 4: was there, and you know, we lost in the final

961
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 4: four of South Carolina, who was obviously a great team.

962
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 3: But I think, like, you know, at the end of

963
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:44,800
Speaker 3: the day, if.

964
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 4: We felt like we maxed out our potential, then what

965
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 4: else can you ask of that team?

966
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 2: So no, I get that.

967
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 1: I feel like making the final four is definitely like, Okay,

968
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 1: that grind those valleys, those valleys could be deep throughout

969
00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 1: the season, but it was worth it because we made

970
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: it final four.

971
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 2: Okay.

972
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: Kind of switching topics here on the NIL space, When

973
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: did it get real for you?

974
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 2: The Adidas deal?

975
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: I was so excited, Like I feel like when I

976
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: be looking at other people's NIL I'd be like, yes,

977
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: like you're back, Like I saw you said the Adidas deal.

978
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 2: I was like, I showed my mom, I said it

979
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 2: to it.

980
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,879
Speaker 1: I was like, Mom, like Hayley got this, Like that's

981
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: so lit, like whatever, Like when did it get big?

982
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 2: For you.

983
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:28,360
Speaker 4: I think, like an ILA has been crazy because I

984
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,240
Speaker 4: can't remember when exactly the time. It was in the summer,

985
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 4: maybe when they were like throwing it around like it

986
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 4: maybe was gonna get passed, and it was like are

987
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:38,240
Speaker 4: they ever gonna really do it?

988
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 3: Like who knows? And then it like it got passed,

989
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 3: and it was like, oh shit.

990
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:45,359
Speaker 4: Like I need to get as quick, like I need

991
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 4: to get like I need to get repped, like I

992
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 4: need to figure out what I'm gonna do with my

993
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 4: life right now. But it's just crazy too because I

994
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 4: think just being young and in college, like as soon

995
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 4: as NIL passed, like it was just all thrown on

996
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 4: to like it was like a mess and no one

997
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 4: it was so new that no one really knew what

998
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 4: was going on and like what the rules were and

999
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 4: what was going to be allowed and what wasn't And

1000
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 4: I was just I was very thankful to have people

1001
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 4: around me that helped me navigate it because at the

1002
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 4: end of the day, like I think, especially for what

1003
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 4: like you've done with NIL two, like it's I want

1004
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 4: to use it for more things that need more to

1005
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 4: me and not just like oh let me get my

1006
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 4: name on this brand, like let me get a deal

1007
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 4: because at the end of the day, like we're WNBA

1008
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 4: caliber players and so we're gonna have a pro career,

1009
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 4: So like why are we rushing in to these deals

1010
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 4: for money? Like it should be about building like and

1011
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 4: making connections with things that you find value in and

1012
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 4: stuff like that. So I think I've had really great

1013
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:51,280
Speaker 4: help in establishing like what I want to and partnering

1014
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 4: with brands that are going to help me elevate the

1015
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 4: women's game, elevate women's sports and stuff like that and

1016
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 4: help me give back to my community. It's crazy, and

1017
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,239
Speaker 4: I is crazy, but I mean it's died down to me,

1018
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 4: Like it's not as big of a deal as everyone

1019
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 4: was like so worried that it was going to be.

1020
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 4: Like it's just like I think it's pretty chill now,

1021
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 4: like and it's kind of like it's just cool to

1022
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 4: see like girls, especially for girls basketball, Like we're really

1023
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 4: taking advantage of it, and I think it's cool for

1024
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,359
Speaker 4: me to see, and like I'm happy. I'm happy for

1025
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 4: everybody that's that's taking advantage of it because like it's

1026
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 4: a space where we're wanted and like they really want

1027
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 4: people like.

1028
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 2: Us women's basketball. I feel like is really on the

1029
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 2: forefront of.

1030
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,720
Speaker 1: NIL just with the deals being signed, but what people

1031
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: are doing with that, like giving back to their communities,

1032
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: speaking out on different topics, advocating for this, that, and

1033
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: the third I think it's really special to see and

1034
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: like kind of be.

1035
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 2: A part of.

1036
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 1: But what has been the best advice that you've received

1037
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: about the NIL space?

1038
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 2: What has helped you navigate it?

1039
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 4: So I had one of my mentor she was like,

1040
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 4: you need to build like three pillars, so like three

1041
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 4: things that you really identify with that if a brand

1042
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 4: can't offer it to you, like the partnership is not

1043
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,319
Speaker 4: worth it. And so it really made me think, like

1044
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 4: what about me? Do I want people to know?

1045
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 3: What about me?

1046
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 4: Do I not want people to know? Like it's like

1047
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 4: it really made me like, Okay, who am I?

1048
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: Like?

1049
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 4: Because that was like a thing with NIL was like

1050
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 4: I had to figure out who is Haley when she's

1051
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 4: not playing basketball?

1052
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 3: And like for a long time I didn't know.

1053
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 4: Like it was a process for me to be like

1054
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 4: if I can't play basketball tomorrow, like what am I?

1055
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 4: And I think it's really helped me figure out like

1056
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 4: what I'm passionate about, Like I got to go to

1057
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 4: Fashion Week this year for the first time, and it

1058
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 4: was a great experience and like, I can't wait to

1059
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 4: go again, and I'm so grateful that I was able

1060
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,919
Speaker 4: to do that. So I think, like Nil building those

1061
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 4: three pillars and like figuring out like what I strongly

1062
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 4: identify with, It's helped me learn more about myself.

1063
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 3: So I think that's what has been most.

1064
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: I love that so much. I feel like a lot

1065
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 1: of people don't have that same outlook with Nil, it's

1066
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: really very basketball based. But for you to have that

1067
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 1: outlook to be like, Okay, this is what I like

1068
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: doing outside of it. This is I'm able to use

1069
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 1: my basketball platform and just like springboard off there and

1070
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:18,800
Speaker 1: get into all these different realms.

1071
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 2: Like I think that that's an amazing outlook to have.

1072
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,879
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, entering our last segment here before I let

1073
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 1: you go, it's called our vibe check, so it's gonna

1074
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: be like rapid fire questions. So Aliyah was really bad

1075
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: with the pace, same with Jordan's, so I'm hoping that

1076
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:39,240
Speaker 1: you are better with the pace here. Okay, so ready, yes, okay,

1077
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 1: here we go. What is the one drill you never

1078
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: want to see on your practice plan?

1079
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 3: Box out anything, box out, Okay.

1080
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: I agree, game winning shot or game winning steel shot

1081
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 1: off the court, go to sneakerh uh oh oh, you're

1082
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 1: doing so good?

1083
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 3: Anything something easy, add some of the didas now okay?

1084
00:46:59,280 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 2: Nice?

1085
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 1: Nice plan, and one or three pointer in one toughest

1086
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: place to play you can okay, go to trash talk line.

1087
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 3: Oh nothing that can be said? Okay, nothing dead.

1088
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 1: Leave that, nothing good, not for the audience, ice pack

1089
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: or ice bath, ice bath?

1090
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 2: Yeah okay. And then what's your biggest basketball.

1091
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 3: Aic refs being there just aiety?

1092
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 2: What is your purpose? Okay?

1093
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 1: What is it?

1094
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 2: College with the best facilities?

1095
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 3: Oh, Louisville. I can't. If I said anyone else, that

1096
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 3: would be terrible.

1097
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:46,800
Speaker 2: See, I wouldn't even say yes. What is your best

1098
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 2: impersonation of coach Walls?

1099
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 4: Oh, he like when he's mad at us, he'll like

1100
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 4: put his hand on his on his chin, and he

1101
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 4: like he slightly like shakes his head and he'll be like, oh,

1102
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 4: and you're just like all of us, and we just

1103
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 4: know like the next time out we better plug our

1104
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 4: ears because something bad is coming for us. At facial expression,

1105
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 4: I know, like I need to stay out of the way.

1106
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: Nice, nice, okay, well, Hailey, this has been such a

1107
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 1: pleasure having you on.

1108
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for being here.

1109
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 3: Thank you.

1110
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 1: Podcast will be back every week, different guests following the

1111
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 1: latest Autumen's hoops. This has been Sometimes I Hoop. Hey everyone,

1112
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: thanks so much for listening to Sometimes I Hoop. Please

1113
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review wherever you get

1114
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: your podcasts. Be sure to follow me on Instagram at

1115
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 1: Haley dot Jones. That's no I and Hailey and three

1116
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 1: s's and Jones to get all the Sometimes I Hoop content.

1117
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:46,840
Speaker 1: You can also watch the episodes on the players Tribune

1118
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:53,840
Speaker 1: YouTube pitch. Thanks again for all your support The players

1119
00:48:53,880 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 1: Tribute dot com