Hailey Van Lith: Playing Alongside Angel Reese

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00:00 or well-respected in the basketball?

00:03 Yeah, I think it'll be great.

00:04 You know, we're going to get to see more rookies stay on teams.

00:09 To see that youth talent be developed, have opportunities.

00:14 And you know, the platform is the biggest

00:16 coming out of college.

00:17 So hopefully we can get that crossover more and get more

00:21 fans to follow players from college to the WNBA

00:24 now that more rookies are going to have the opportunity

00:26 to make rosters.

00:28 We'll see.

00:28 How much fun is it playing with talented bigs

00:31 like Angel and Anissa?

00:33 Yeah, I mean, it gets me a lot of easy assists, I will say.

00:37 I appreciate it about them.

00:38 And any time I miss, I don't get yelled at because they

00:40 clean it up.

00:41 So we score anyways.

00:44 Yeah.

00:44 I didn't mean to--

00:45 No, you're good.

00:46 You know, the outside narrative has been, wow,

00:49 Anissa has a lot of personalities.

00:50 Whatever that means.

00:51 They're just popular players, players

00:54 who are used to scoring a lot.

00:56 From the inside, how do you guys sort of respond to that?

01:02 I think exactly what you said is whatever that means.

01:07 Like, whatever that means.

01:10 I don't know what that means.

01:11 Like, big personalities.

01:13 I feel like a lot of people are giving opinions,

01:17 whether they're good or bad about our team.

01:19 And they're expecting us to take them into account.

01:22 And I think it's up to us whether we even

01:27 take it into account.

01:28 And there's opinions saying that we're

01:31 going to be the best team ever for women's basketball.

01:34 And there's opinions saying big personalities.

01:38 So I think, once again, there's always going to be an opinion.

01:42 There's going to be extremes that are for us

01:43 and extremes that are against us.

01:45 And it's up to us to let it affect us or not.