Ros Gold-Onwude
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
If you don't know who Leila Lacan is, you need to see her in person.
She's tough.
She's long and tough.
Janelle Salon.
I'm just naming a few names.
Janelle Salon was in a Rookie of the Year conversation.
Laila Lakhan as well.
These are young players who have three years.
And tough and physical and good.
Basketball globally is getting better in women's basketball.
But I just think there's been a number now of kind of
controversial decisions.
And maybe back in the day, you could get away with that because Team USA was so strong.
But to go back to Nneka's case, we talked about how strong her case was in 2016 as a champion, as an MVP.
But even the Olympics before that in 2012, Nneka was a rookie, the number one draft pick.
Wow.
She went on to win Rookie of the Year.
Sometimes you see national teams decide to still invest in that young player and put them on the roster.
They didn't do it there.
Obviously, 2016, they didn't do it there.