WASHINGTON My first season at Daytona, that was the subject of dialog between myself and my assistant coach [Russ Jackson]. I had gotten my second technical foul and I used to be at all times yelling on the officers. We had a dialog after one of many video games. And what he mentioned was, it’s not the officiating that’s not excellent — the staff isn’t excellent. We return and I’m watching movie and luckily it’s very near Thanksgiving break, so I’m in a position to return and watch all the video games. I’m like, “Perhaps I would like to regulate my expectations for this group and go from successful to the place are we seeing progress?” As a result of I anticipate to win.
We all know what the opposite staff has. I do know what we’ve. And possibly my expectations of our gamers are a lot increased than the product really being put on the market on the court docket. Having any individual that you just belief say that to you — it’s totally different when it’s followers or mother and father. However when it’s any individual that’s within the practices, they’re on the video games, they know what your staff has.
What does it take to be a great mentor?
REEVE The willingness to empower. A mentor’s job is to know the place individuals are making an attempt to go, and that you just’re ready to assist them get there. Any individual helped you get the place you might be.
WASHINGTON One of many quotes on my calendar is: “You’ll be able to have the whole lot you need on this life if you happen to assist all people else get what they need.” The aim for us is to always be capable to present good, constructive, efficient management for the folks that we wish to see achieve success. It’s totally different for each single one in all them. What every of them desires out of their expertise right here at Lincoln is one thing completely totally different. We’ve received a really excessive tutorial group of youngsters. A number of the women on our staff that won’t play as a lot as they need, they’re going to go away right here and be medical doctors and dentists. With the ability to simply assist them achieve success in a staff atmosphere is so important. As a result of when student-athletes graduate, these are the folks that corporations need — folks that know play on groups, folks that know play within the sandbox.
What’s the most important problem dealing with the ladies’s recreation?
REEVE Whatever the degree, the most important problem dealing with girls’s basketball is societal norms and being held down. We’ve seen exponential progress in girls’s sports activities, largely as a result of perseverance, the persistence of girls in management who’ve pulled us ahead. And I believe that continues to be the biggest barrier as we proceed to get lower than 5 % of the media protection. We proceed to obtain a low proportion of the worldwide advertising {dollars}. There’s an awesome alternative, nevertheless, for progress, that’s going to catapult the sport into locations that folks by no means thought we’d be.
WASHINGTON There’s an enormous push inside the N.C.A.A. with the 50-year anniversary of Title IX. Final 12 months, for our convention event, our girls’s recreation introduced in round 13,000 followers, and the lads’s recreation introduced in round 17,000. With the ability to market the product that we’ve is one thing that we have to constantly work on and maintain striving to enhance. The W.N.B.A. began the tip of my freshman 12 months in faculty. I bear in mind my teammates and I all huddled round this little field TV, watching all of the video games. A part of the explanation that I performed basketball is as a result of individuals informed me that I couldn’t. There’s nothing for you on the market with basketball. Why are you up within the yard dribbling the ball at 6 within the morning?
As girls, particularly within the sport of basketball, we’ve at all times been informed that we are able to’t do it. There’s not sufficient locations so that you can play. Why don’t you all decrease the rim? Why don’t you progress the 3-point line? There’s so many issues that folks need us to do to alter our product, to satisfy them the place they’re, once we put out a improbable product already. When individuals come and watch it, they’re like, “Man, these video games are thrilling. I didn’t know girls’s basketball was this fast-paced.” It’s as a result of they haven’t given it an opportunity.
