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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 2242840, member: 5798"] Kaizen, I don't know if she will be able to change (do a good job) in the WNBA. The following will be factors in whether or not she will: [LIST=1] [*]She will be a professional athlete. No longer a student athlete. There is a world of difference and expectation between the two. [*]She will be in a [U]completely different[/U] environment from what she was in at college. She will be teammates with grown adult women, not teenagers. She will be the rookie that will have to impress the coaches and her new teammates by playing hard every play, not taking any plays off and holding up her end of the bargain. That is when she's on the floor, making sure it's 5 on 5, not 5 on 4. [*]She will be paid cold hard ca[B]$[/B]h for her services. She will be expected to earn her salary, and do her job (Belichick). If she can't or won't, they'll cut her, and sign another American player that will. She will not be coddled!! [*]She will have another American on the team that will be a mentor to her, show her the ropes, and explain to her in detail everything she will be expected to do. [*]Her tour overseas will be a precursor to her entering the W. If she does well with whoever she plays for, that will bode well for her in the eyes of coaches and GM's here. [*]She will have her agent, parents and other family and friends counseling her has to why she should take full advantage of this opportunity, and not blow it. If she does, she may not get another. When you're a professional athlete, there's always someone trying to take your job. [/LIST] [B]Two corrections[/B] in my post above to Oldude: "She'll have a chance to make a fresh start, and a new bed to[B][I] lay[/I][/B] in." That should be [B][I]lie[/I] [/B]in. Things lay, people lie. "before coming back to the [B][I]U.S,[/I][/B] and presenting it to the W". U.S, should be [B]U.S.,[/B] [/QUOTE]

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