WSLAM: We had the pleasure of interviewing you earlier than the season and also you mentioned to “belief the method” in what was brewing in Golden State. Seeing every little thing you needed come to fruition, how does it really feel?
NATALIE NAKASE: It seems like a dream. I’ve the very best employees, and I feel I’ve probably the most understanding and hardworking gamers. And so “belief the method” is unquestionably coming to fruition as a result of, once more, the large hearts and my teaching employees and the collaboration of exhausting working and coachable gamers, the belief is unquestionably vibing.
WSLAM: What does Valkyries basketball imply to you?
NK: I feel Valkyries basketball is vicious. I feel it is gritty. I feel it is passionate, and I feel it is inspirational, as a result of when you’ve got 12 gamers on the court docket totally linked and bringing the very best out of one another, I feel something can occur.
WSLAM: You’ve got set this killer mentality in your locker room, and we have seen it on the court docket. How has this imaginative and prescient developed throughout the staff? How did you create it?
NK: That is how I would like the staff to go, and watching them adapt and get out of their consolation zones, it is actually them being themselves. It is the gamers being their genuine self. I do not actually really feel like I may actually create them to be something apart from themselves, and I would like them to be themselves. I feel when individuals are out of their consolation zone, individuals are doing their ardour—they’re at their greatest when they are often themselves. I’m actually simply making an attempt to push them to be the very best model of themselves. Generally it is uncomfortable. Generally reality telling is tough to listen to, however like I mentioned, I’ve 12 coachable gamers that like to work exhausting. And when you’ve got that mixture, something is feasible.