Athletic Article on Qadence and the recruiting

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Qadence Samuels is part of the class expected to carry torch from the Paige Bueckers era

Before choosing UConn, Qadence Samuels received offers from Miami, Wake Forest, North Carolina and NC State.

theathletic.com

Some nice recruiting stuff with Geno borrowing Nika's line

They said Auriemma explained it to Samuels:

“When you shoot the ball, you make yourself happy. But if you pass the ball and your teammate makes a shot, you make two people happy.”

Did Geno include the accent?


And

“It was kind of surreal because UConn is UConn,” mom Shanda Samuels said. “They’re like, ‘Oh, are we too late?’ No, of course not. Who doesn’t love UConn?”

 

[Carnac]

Qadence Samuels is part of the class expected to carry torch from the Paige Bueckers era

Before choosing UConn, Qadence Samuels received offers from Miami, Wake Forest, North Carolina and NC State.

theathletic.com

Some nice recruiting stuff with Geno borrowing Nika's line

They said Auriemma explained it to Samuels:

“When you shoot the ball, you make yourself happy. But if you pass the ball and your teammate makes a shot, you make two people happy.”

Did Geno include the accent?


And

“It was kind of surreal because UConn is UConn,” mom Shanda Samuels said. “They’re like, ‘Oh, are we too late?’ No, of course not. Who doesn’t love UConn?”

This looked like an article I wanted to read it but couldn’t, it’s behind a paywall.

 

[Bone Dog]

Strangely, the link let me in to read it. Go figure. Excellent article. You really see some things about Qadence, and about Geno.

 

[PacoSwede]

speaking of 'borrowing' nika's line, i've been wondering about
'everybody eats,' which nika famously offered.

was that a nika original? she was the first person i heard say that. it's great line, and it seems to be showing up quite often now in many venues.

can nika take credit, or did she 'borrow' the line from elsewhere?

 

[Bone Dog]

speaking of 'borrowing' nika's line, i've been wondering about
'everybody eats,' which nika famously offered.

was that a nika original? she was the first person i heard say that. it's great line, and it seems to be showing up quite often now in many venues.

can nika take credit, or did she 'borrow' the line from elsewhere?

It sounds like a variant of the thing Ezekiel Elliot used to do, with the hand gesture about feeding him

 

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“I was really nervous to be honest talking to (Auriemma) because people say that he’s a real hard coach, but he’ll challenge you at the same time,” Samuel said. “So I’m nervous, but I accepted the challenge.”

 

[HuskyNan]

This looked like an article I wanted to read it but couldn’t, it’s behind a paywall.

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[Jc718]

speaking of 'borrowing' nika's line, i've been wondering about
'everybody eats,' which nika famously offered.

was that a nika original? she was the first person i heard say that. it's great line, and it seems to be showing up quite often now in many venues.

can nika take credit, or did she 'borrow' the line from elsewhere?

Everybody eats was definitely a thing before Nika said it lol. It was everywhere on social media used by a lot of basketball players

 

[Boreifs]

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