WNBA.com: Photographic Memory: Sacramento’s Yolanda Griffith

Photographic Memory: Sacramento’s Yolanda Griffith

WNBA.com's "Photographic Memory" asks players to look at a photo of themselves and talk about what it captures -- what was going through their mind at that moment of the game and what the photo reveals about their style. Here, former wNBA MVP and two-time Olympic gold medalist Yolanda Griffith talks about her unique style of on-court leadership and how she gets the most out of her teammates...

Griffith has led the Monarchs to playoffs in five of her six WNBA seasons.
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Q. What do you think of when you see this picture?
"Looking at this picture, I would say maybe we're not executing offensively, making sharp cuts, setting picks for our guards to get wide open shots. Maybe we weren't rebounding. It could have been a combination of things."

Q. What kinds of things do you try to tell your teammates during a game?
"Things that we're not doing in a game, I try and say it to my teammates so we can pick it up even more. Or maybe that could be something that we could try to run to help us win a game."

Q. Do you talk a lot during the game?
"I don't really talk a lot on the court, only when it's necessary."

Q. So what do you try and do as a leader?
"I just try and lead by example, hustling for the loose balls and patting my teammates on the back when they're slacking or the shots are not falling."