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Friday, March 29, 2024

Blair Schaefer

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Blair Schaefer
Blair Schaefer

Tom Eble, Courtney Rob Chris Bolton joined today by former WCBI reporter and Mississippi state women's basketball player and now assistant coach Blair Shafer.

"tom eble, courtney rob chris bolton joined today by former wcbi reporter and mississippi state women's basketball player and now assistant coach blair shafer.

You've so many titles now.

Oh, what is the latest one?

I was gonna say i'm sure she officially goes by former w cbi reporter.

If you look back in the time machine, this was a week ago, three years ago, two years ago, you probably had some of the biggest, best, craziest days of your life with the ncaa tournament.

Just a real quick question through this quarantine time.

How many times have you youtube old memories?

Well, i don't necessarily youtube it.

We use synergy since you know i'm on the staff now.

So i have access to that.

So i have with the old games a lot just because i think that sort of fun.

When that's all you've known your whole life.

So it usually pops up on my facebook first.

So that reminds me of what happened one year ago, through 10 years ago.

And then i'll be like, oh, yeah, that was a great game.

So i'll go look it up and post it on either instagram, facebook, twitter, and it's weird.

And it's kind of sad, because i was really excited to see like, what our team was here.

When we went to we were going to go to the ncaa tournament, you know, that's what you play for all year.

And so when you play so hard, and so good to potentially get a really good seed for the youth of your team, and then like this happens, it's kind of hard, but yeah, you know, i have seen a lot of stuff from the past few years, and the past few weeks as we've been quarantined.

Blair you you mentioned a lot of duties that you've been doing coaching lately, with everything changing.

What have you enjoyed the most about being a coach being in a circle now, i've been a part of the program, but i was a player.

So i'm what i listen for, and i'm like when i go out and play a game and we're in huddle is in timeout, i'm listening for like my next, like instruction for plays and stuff.

And so i'm not thinking about our whole team or while tear macallan is six, seven, like we need to be getting her the ball on the right block because of xy and z.

Like i'm just listening to my part, what i need to do is to play whatever so now that i'm on the other side, i'm able to fully realize how much is going on all the time during games, um, you're trying to put every single person on your team in the best position to be successful, which i am, you know, i'm used to that when i played with row row was a lefty, i was a righty, so we had to put each other on the right side of the floor where when we grow, we could use our strong hands.

So now, on the other side, i'm watching like my dad and coach harris and coach jackson and lavato just brainstorm and huddle, but it's at a quick pace on like, where certain people should be on the floor and why and he has plays already in his mind ready for that and he can draw it up on the board within like five seconds.

And so for me i'm just like trying to engage 24 seven to try and learn how to do that.

They're going back to this being the one me three years since morgan hit the shot against uconn.

What is maybe a spark about either that game going up into the game or after the game, that is something that you'll always remember or something that hasn't really been known?

First of all, i'll go through the whole shot aspect.

So that was that game was over time and regulation, morgan went against it, gabby williams to drive it.

So she went all the way to the rim, and gabby blocked it into the stands.

And so morgan had already gone.

Gabby in that game one on one.

And so this was her second time around to go up against her and since she went all the way to the rim the first time she felt that gabby was gonna think she was going to try and drive it again because morgan is so quick.

And so morgan has a really quick first step, so, in morgan's mind, she was thinking, okay, she thinks i'm going to drive it again, i'm going to give her a quick hesitation, quick first two steps as if i'm going to the rim and pull up.

And so she was able to do that.

And that's how she created that separation where she could at least get off the shot.

So that's what was going on in morgan's mind, something that i'll never forget.

And y'all i'm telling you, i see it every time they post it on espn.

As soon as morgan hits the shot, me and dominic go running to morgan and dominic trips, me and i fall on the floor on my butt.

And i in that, like, two second process, i had to either tell myself, i'm going to sit right here.

And we're going to acknowledge the fact that i just fell in front of these thousands of people in this arena.

And not that this will be on game fill, or ever or i can get right back up and be like, you know what, it's fine.

We're just all really excited.

So i took option two, and i got right back up, but every time they replay the shot doesn't matter what angle you see the game video like and i am busting it"

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