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Message: [QUOTE="RockyMTblue2, post: 3436665, member: 250"] She talks her journey to an Assistant Coach for the WNBA Champs and how labor intensive it is. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.journalinquirer.com/sports/college/uconn_womens_basketball/ex-uconn-star-jones-learning-ropes-as-coach-in-wnba/article_1b12a752-4da4-11ea-9253-33950fbf39cc.html[/URL] "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.” [/QUOTE]

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