Julia Poe

This is a dream come true.

Can't wait to be there in Chicago and meet all you guys.

Hey, guys.

Thanks for having me on.

Yeah, definitely.

I think this was maybe one of the first kind of surprises of this draft.

Hawkins was always kind of predicted to go a little bit lower out of this UCLA group that ended up leading potentially six players last night, which is a very impressive feat as a USC grad.

Even I can acknowledge that one.

Painful as it is.

But, you know, when you look at what the Sky are trying to construct with this roster, kind of the timeline, the scope that they have, Jaquez makes a lot of sense.

She fits the bill of kind of this front office's type for a player in terms of length, in terms of two-way play, her shooting.

And also something that you're going to hear about a lot, her characters.

This is a leader.

This is a winning player.

This is a player that meant a lot to that UCLA program.

And so I think with the culture that this team is trying to build, all of that kind of makes sense in terms of the complete package.

Yeah, definitely.

I think that, you know, you can look at it a couple of ways.

Rice would have made sense, I think, from the perspective that the Sky don't have a future at the point guard position right now.

They have two older veterans, Skylar Diggins and Courtney Vanderslee filling that position.