The pressure of playing for a new team and new fans had turned Jonquel Jones’ tough self-criticism into thoughts that were flat-out negative.
UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Through all her years alongside Jonquel Jones, from becoming her legal guardian to coaching her in high school and college, Diane Richardson never needed to have a conversation like this before.The pressure of playing for a new team — following her offseason trade request from the Sun to the Liberty — and a new market and new fans had turned tough self-criticism into thoughts that were flat-out negative.
She told Jones to get it together, get out of her own way mentally and inch closer to resembling the player that averaged 19.4 points and 11.2 rebounds in 2021. Jones hasn’t quite rediscovered or replicated the numbers from her MVP season in 2021, but she doesn’t necessarily need that same production on this stacked Liberty roster.After a run to the WNBA Finals last year, plus three other semifinals runs across her career, Jones has a different perspective of her latest push for an elusive championship.
Richardson wanted her to hear everything, to see the sweat, to watch their cuts and moves, to remove the entertainment side of the game — which might happen if she sat further up in the stands — process everything from a similar view the actual players had. “I said, ‘You could be a pro, you could be a pro,’” Richardson said, “and I don’t know if she believed it early on, but I knew with her work ethic, she could get there.”
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