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Message: [QUOTE="bags27, post: 2482594, member: 6761"] [I][B]I can't handle being a leader??[/B][/I] what does that even mean? what is a "leader" in basketball? [LIST] [*]the player who takes the critical shot? well, then, the defense knows who that's going to be, huh? [*]the player who yells the most? all players yell in the huddle [*]the point guard? not Kia [/LIST] That's all nuts. Whatever conversation they had about it was descriptive rather than official, just a way of helping her get her emotional balance, but certainly not something that suddenly changed her status in any way. Just more talk coming out of a locker room that gets far more media attention than any other in WCBB What happened mid-way through her sophomore year is that she hit a streak of horrendous shooting and quite literally was in tears about it. Geno called her out publicly for the tears, and it really transformed her. Her outside shooting steadied (though not her sometimes out-of-control drives) and emotionally she seemed to reach a level that she's never departed from. On the contrary, she has built an incredibly solid emotional base--every bit as reliable as her now amazing outside shot. (Tuesday night, there was a moment when she was open at 22' and the ball swung to her; she didn't shoot it right away, but rather set and then nailed it. Shooting when set, rather than in momentum, is one of the hardest things to do. It shows supreme self-confidence.) [/QUOTE]