[laughs]

Uh, but I also embrace it because, like, we get a chance to be our own little family.

Um, I know nine years in and the drastic changes the league made, um, I went from, you know, sleeping with somebody in a hotel room to, like, having my own...

So those, like, small adjustments and those small changes have impacted me greatly, but in so many positive ways.

I'm so grateful that I'm even a part of it really, man, 'cause, you know, you get nine years in the league, people don't expect that.

And I, I don't ever wanna take that for granted.

Um, I wanna stay as young as I possibly can, um, and just keep embracing what's happening.

... and what it means in the league?

At this point in your career, w- how do you approach training camp, and what do you try to get out of it versus maybe what you were feeling the first couple of years here?

Um, I think rhythm and flow is a thing for me at my age.

[laughs] Um, it's just trying to find where you fit in and staying in that flow.

Um, I think your stability and just trying to, you know, trying to smooth out where you, what your role is, and figure out what's, you know, what's best for you.

Um, I would like to think that for me it's just all about consistency at this point.

Shot making, shot taking.

Just kind of trying to be a sponge in my own role for everybody else and just, you know, actually embrace, you know, what I do bring to the table and just trying to connect it with everybody else.

But where do you feel like that comes from, or is it just your individual personalities shining?

How do you describe last season? I mean, was it fun? Was it the best time or was it one of the hardest seasons you've ever played?

I hang in the middle because, uh, you have to be really, really open and be, when we lost people and the way we lost them, Lisa, it was demoralizing.

Girl, I cannot even lie to you.

I was like, when Sid tore, Sidney Carlson tore ACL, that was like the cap.

And we had a lot, we had to end up getting blown out by Phoenix.

And we went in the locker room and all you could just, we were just all flooded with tears.

And I was like, oh my God, I had never seen like, I mean, our coach cried, like Steph, and then AB cried, and then I cried, and then you just see, like, and it was, we didn't know why we were crying, but we knew, like, you know, it was just, like, an overwhelming emotion, like, because we had just lost Sophie, and then we had, you know, that, and then the way you lose it with ACL, and then, like, losing a game, it was just, like, it was a wave of emotions, and at that moment, Our entire dynamic shifted.

How did that make you feel out there?

... what was, what was the biggest adjustment for you offensively?

Um, I think the, the shift in speed.

Um, I was...

Always had a decent speed, but I think when you play alongside other pros, um, there's a way of managing that.

Um, and knowing how to like let your speed, you know, create what it needs to create in positive ways, and so that was an adjustment for me.

Like I wasn't always like...

I didn't handle my, my angles well, I was kind of like out of control, had a lot of charges, um, and it was just a matter of like finding out like how I could be, you know, under control in a lot of positions, and I think I'm...

When you look at, s- save game five for a second, but when you look at the four games leading up, how would you describe playing in it?

And do you think that this locks UCLA as, like, top team next year as well?

Oh, for sure.

They definitely have a chance to make another run to be back here where they are this year.

Yeah.

Um, so obviously shots out to them for that.

But from a sister perspective, it actually been a, it had been a very unique experience for me because my sister wasn't fortunate to end up finishing because she tore ACL twice.

And so when she tore it the second time, she kind of was like on a support system side.

So how do you, what are your thoughts on? It's a