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She talks her journey to an Assistant Coach for the WNBA Champs and how labor intensive it is.
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"Towards the end of my career, Coach T would ask me if I thought about coaching,” Jones said. ‘I’d say, ‘No. There’s no way, absolutely not. I don’t know how you do this job.’ After I retired he called me and said, ‘What do you think? Do you want to give it a try?’ There was a position he was creating with his team that would give me an opportunity to try it and see if I liked it. I told him, ‘You know what? I’ll try it.’
“The first year was difficult adjusting to the schedule. It’s a lot more hours coaching than playing. There’s a different kind of preparation and it was tough for me at first. It wasn’t physical, but cerebral, doing planning and player development. But by the end of the season I enjoyed being a part of the team. That part you miss when you’re not around it. I enjoyed being around it because it is who I am. I tried to act like it wasn’t for so long but it is who I am. That’s what I’m good at.
“So at the end of my first year I knew, ‘I can do this.’ Now I need to get better at it. It got in me and now every year it sinks in a little more. So I’ll be back for a third year.”
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"Towards the end of my career, Coach T would ask me if I thought about coaching,” Jones said. ‘I’d say, ‘No. There’s no way, absolutely not. I don’t know how you do this job.’ After I retired he called me and said, ‘What do you think? Do you want to give it a try?’ There was a position he was creating with his team that would give me an opportunity to try it and see if I liked it. I told him, ‘You know what? I’ll try it.’
“The first year was difficult adjusting to the schedule. It’s a lot more hours coaching than playing. There’s a different kind of preparation and it was tough for me at first. It wasn’t physical, but cerebral, doing planning and player development. But by the end of the season I enjoyed being a part of the team. That part you miss when you’re not around it. I enjoyed being around it because it is who I am. I tried to act like it wasn’t for so long but it is who I am. That’s what I’m good at.
“So at the end of my first year I knew, ‘I can do this.’ Now I need to get better at it. It got in me and now every year it sinks in a little more. So I’ll be back for a third year.”
