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, Detroit's Deanna Nolan talks about the positive atmosphere and attitude of the Shock, even back in the preseason.
Deanna Nolan was all smiles as she waited to check in to the Shock's preseason game against the Minnesota Lynx on May 6, 2003.
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We Knew We Were Going to Be Good
Even though in preseason we lost all our games, but then we didn't have all our people there. But then we knew we were going to be good because we had [
Coach Laimbeer] at the beginning of the season, for the whole season, and not in the middle when everything was kind of hectic last year. But coming in to the new season, we knew our team was going to be real good. It was just a matter of us clicking together and making all that happen ...
I think this year we have the mindset of going out and saying that we are going to win every game, instead of going out and hoping that we win this game, and I think that was a big difference. He brought in those key veteran players in Ruth [Riley] and Kedra [Holland-Corn]. I think that helped us out a lot ...
I think it's a happy atmosphere. Everybody gets along with each other, we have great chemistry, we always joke around with each other. And that's what's needed. Besides us being basketball players, we need to have fun, and I think this is a happy atmosphere ...
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