A whole lotta drunk driving. Or the “least drunk” person in the group drove. There, I said it. It was so irresponsible, but we locked in, made ourselves throw up, drank water, rolled the window down, and hoped for the best.
I genuinely don’t think Azzi had a bad season. I think people are looking at the numbers without considering the environment that produced them. She was rarely given the consistency, stability or offensive involvement that would allow her to fully establish herself. She was used as a decoy, asked to create value without consistently being given the ball, and still found ways to matter.
And that’s what fascinates me. When one avenue was limited, she developed another. She became disruptive defensively. She adjusted. She found ways to leave fingerprints on games even when the offence wasn’t built to showcase her.
She was essentially a fish thrown onto land, and instead of proving she couldn’t survive there, she somehow started growing lungs. 😭
People look at that and see limitation. I see evidence of what happens when an exceptionally talented player is forced to adapt. Because eventually, somebody is going to put that fish back in water, except now it knows how to breathe on land too.
when my husband refused to sit next to me on our flight to our couples retreat while my best friend sat next to him and then made me drive to the retreat in a snowstorm by myself