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Message: [QUOTE="terif831, post: 2169691, member: 104"] How do I want them to feel? I don't think that's important at all. What's important is how do THEY want to feel - I mean, each one, individually. Because they are individuals, after all, even if they work tremendously as a basketball unit. And they are, each one, going to take this experience differently, assimilate it differently, use it differently. My hope, and my wish, is that however each one assimilates it and uses it, that she does so in a way that helps herself to grow, and mature, each in her own individual way, basketball-wise and not basketball-wise. In the last HBO show, after the loss, Geno said that the team found out what real life was like that day. I think that's exactly right. In real life, no matter how talented you are and no matter how hard you work, you will not be the "winner" EVERY TIME. "Losing," whether you're talking about a game or any other aspect of life in which you're used to being the constant winner, changes your perspective. You have to come to terms with it and deal with it, and you have to decide how to use it going forward. Can one ever say losing is a "good" experience? Maybe that's the wrong word...but it can certainly be a "growth" experience. It's on each one of them what to make of it. [/QUOTE]