Reflecting back on beginning of the season, are you where
do you stand?
How has Caitlyn's performance?
Has it been like what you expected it to be?
She played better.
She played worse.
When I stand there, I think when we we were
doing, we were doing the show right around the March
Madness run.
And what we were asking each other is, you know,
obviously like how, how will her game translate?
But also like from an athletic standpoint, how will she
adapt to, you know, everyone in the league being, you
know, as good as like the South Carolina team she
went up against in the finals, right?
I I she did better than I would have thought
she would have.
I mean, the record she broke the fact that she
does look as, you know, athletic and physically imposing as
a lot of the people she's playing.
I actually didn't think she's shot the ball very well
lately like that, that being her number one thing.
I think she still turns the ball over way too
much.
There's just some like really lazy passing, you know, like
when she's pushing it and trying to thread something.
I'm fine with that, but there's just some like really
lazy stuff from her sometimes.
So I think she can get me even better is
kind of the crazy thing.
But she by far exceeded all my expectations.
And I would kind of say just by observing the
commentary around her when she was going into the league
from some of the players to where she ended up,
I think she exceeded like even other players expectations and
other coaches expectations too.
Yeah, I would say to going even in college, she
I don't think she was ever a super high percentage
shooter.
Like I think her percentage was always fine.
It was good, but it was the fact that she
could make such crazy shots and she could shoot the
ball from such distance and like, yeah, the ability stretch
the defense at the yeah, and the way in which
she could score was unlike has been like unlike any.
I mean, I don't I can't think of any female
basketball player that has been able to shoot the ball
the way that she can.
And obviously she took a bunch of shots and she
was in college.
So yes, she's gonna have 40 point games a lot
because she's taking a ton of shots.
So I, I'm not as surprised that like her shooting
hasn't been that great because that's something she's gonna, she
can improve on.
And I think too, like lately she's finding that other
team mates like her, her team mates are, are shooting
the ball pretty well.
So they are kind of able to sort of like,
I think she's understanding.
Oh, wait, I'm a good passer.
That's my strength.
I don't have to be the one to Jack up
a ton of shots every single night.
So I can distribute and that can be my focus.
And I think the shooting will come with time total.
And she and she's gone on this, other than the
Olympic break, she's been on this crazy run of March
Madness, the draft, the season now the playoffs.
So like, it'll be cool to see when she comes
back next year what she's maybe added to her game
or had time to work on because it's just it's
been non-stop for the last year.
Do you think she'll have like a Kelsey Plum transformation
strength wise, getting super jacked?
Yeah, I I think she could.
She's got the frame for sure.
And it's like, you know, I, I don't, I haven't,
you know, I don't know, like kind of like when
NBA guys get to the league, it's like there's pretty
skin and bones and you kind of see it takes
almost three or four more years to get the shoulders.
Yes.
So it'll be interesting to see.
I mean, she's already I like at least speed wise,
one of the better athletes in the league.
But, you know, excited to see what she keeps adding
to her game in the offseason.