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Message: [QUOTE="Sluconn Husky, post: 4162283, member: 5089"] [I]“I’ve never seen a more perfect place for that kid,” said Natalie Morse, Shade’s longtime trainer and coach who used to coach at Butler. “She called it her little oasis. Everything is women’s basketball, women’s basketball, and it just speaks her language.” ... She also plays with a competitive edge that Premier Basketball’s Shane Laflin compared to Mühl’s. Shade is a huge Michael Jordan fan and say she tries to emulate his work ethic and passion. ... “When you talk to her, you think she was the sweetest, kindest person in the world,” Morse added, “and then she gets on the floor and she scares you. That’s kind of the perfect combination of a kid that I think UConn likes to have and the fans like to see, and so she’ll fit in really well there.” ... “From practice to just hanging out with the team to going to the game, it’s a hard feeling for me to describe because it just felt so right,” Shade said. “It’s kind of like when you have a gut feeling, when you just know something is right. That’s just how I felt being there and seeing everything, meeting the coaches, the players. I just knew in my gut that it was the place for me. ... When it comes down to it, whatever the coaching staff asks Shade to do once she gets to Storrs, Morse is confident she will answer the call. “She’s not selfish,” Morse said. “If she needs a score, she’ll figure out a way to do it. If she needs to defend and create energy defensively, she never runs out of that. And so that’s really going to fill some gaps that if you need that one night and that’s going to help you win a game, then that’s what she’ll do. The ultimate competitor is ‘I’ll do whatever it takes to win,’ and that’s her.”[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-sp-uconn-women-ashlynn-shade-20210114-20220114-svia7yd4brhijncflfhxyszsuy-story.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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