Stephanie White
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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you know, cross body finishes, whether it's floaters at the rim, whether it's quick floaters, long floaters, you know, euros, you can't quite be as fundamentally predictable with as much athleticism, speed, quickness, and as much as the game plan is going to be geared toward her.
And then I think the challenge for us as coaches is how do we get a rest when she's on the floor while she's playing, right? Like while she's on the floor and some of that's going to be playing off ball, utilize her as a screener,
getting her into action on the third and fourth side instead of the first and second where it's easy to game plan against um now how we use her to help everybody else be better off the ball we know how great she is with the ball in her hands we're not going to take that away but we've got to be able to diversify a bit in how we use her so from those kind of challenges as well i mean we've got like a short-term kind of list and and we got a long-term kind of list but but caitlin
Now I remember from the very first day when we were working on balance and we were working on footwork and we were looking at all those things from day one to day two, she had it. Wow. Like, like she's a perfectionist and she, she wants it and she's going to work on it. So that long list might get shorter every day. Every day we're in practice.
Yeah, I think number one, yes, you're absolutely right. I love the way that they work together in the two-man game. They got so good at reading one another. You know, I think Aaliyah is an outstanding facilitator as well from that post position. So we're going to use her a little bit more like a hub, right? Like a little bit more like a, like a Jokic.
and how she gets the ball and whether that's, you know, in the trail, you know, in a lot of our stuff in flow or whether that's on the block, I don't want her to have to work as hard, like one-on-one, you know, I don't want her to have to just, you know, pound and pound and body and dribble in a one-on-one situation to get shots. We want to make her life easier.
How can we get her touches at the rim where she can just go right into her finishes? How can we get her touches off the block where then we can run off ball action and she can be a facilitator. Then she can get into other actions where, that allow her to move after she's gotten rid of it to get some easy buckets, as opposed to just everybody knows a strong side pick and roll is coming.
So a little bit more movement, a little bit more usage in her in terms of facilitating and a little bit more versatility in her game. I mean, challenging her to become a consistent, doesn't have to be high volume, but a consistent three-point shooter, like looking for those, you know, being able to use other aspects of her game outside of just pounding with her back to the basket.
Kelsey was our number one priority in free agency, making sure that we're re-signing her, making sure that she understands how important she is to everything that we are going to do. She is probably the one person on our roster that can just get a bucket, doesn't need any help.
I think our ability as a staff to move her around and utilize her strengths and her ability to get downhill, she doesn't need a screen. She doesn't need the two-man, the ability to get downhill, the ability to use her in two or three actions to get her wide open looks, to use her speed in the open floor, to put her in positions.
I thought last year, and you look at her numbers, it was the most efficient year that she's had. Less shots, most efficient. All-star performance. She's an all-league performer in my mind, no doubt about it. But I think our system and the way that we can continue to play to her strengths and put her in positions for success, I think it's going to be really good.
We're going to free her up to just play. You know, we're going to we're going to use her and Caitlin and a lot of stuff together. We're going to use them as screeners and a lot of action to then open them up.
I mean, we all know everybody knows if you're a great score, if you can be a great screener, you're going to get a lot more shots, you know, and then we're going to put her in position to do what she does best and break down the defense. And and we're going to have other action to where it's not like here you go Kelsey. You got to make a play and then we're just watching right?
So we're going to give her multiple options in that action, you know, and then I think she can be a real key for us on the defensive end of the floor. She's been relied upon so heavily offensively in her time in Indiana. And of course, you know had the most talent that she's ever had around her a year ago. And I think this year will be will be even more so.
So take some pressure off of her to feel the burden of having to make the play. But also, I think she's going to get more wide open looks than she's ever gotten before because of who we have on the floor because of their ability to space the floor.
Yeah. No, you know, I think number one, we got to be vocal about what's acceptable and what's not. Doesn't mean that people are going to change. I think we've all been online enough to know that there's a lot of hate out there. There's a lot of vitriol out there.
But I also think we have to step back and look at, you know, I think that there are people and there are, you know, a lot of different algorithms out there that are specifically using
whether it's Caitlin Clark, whether it's the Indiana Fever or the WNBA in general, to further these hateful narratives that aren't WNBA fans, that aren't Indiana Fever fans, that aren't Caitlin Clark fans, to be quite honest, utilizing that. So I think, number one, for our team, our challenge is going to be What do we allow inside the building? What do we allow inside the locker room?
We've got to be very protective of our space. We got to be very protective of our team. If you don't have the ability to shut it down, then we have to have and utilize the resource to be able to keep it on the outside. We cannot allow that to infiltrate our building. And then on a global scale, I think for us as a staff, as an organization, as a league, we have to continue to be vocal
about what is expected, what is accepted and what is not. There is no place for the hate, the vitriol, the language, the narratives that have been spewn upon the WNBA from last season to this season. And look, part of being a great league, and our male counterparts have seen this as well, some of it comes with it. Some of it comes with it. And you can root for your team.
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