Anything that Lady Vols coach Kim Caldwell said about birth, South Carolina
After giving birth to his son, Lady Vols Senior Coach Kim Caldwell met with the media.
Here’s what Tennessee coach said about his new child and South CarolinaS
Talk about it in Rock Flip Forum
About how it feels
If he is glad to return
Yes it is nice to come back.
About what was the most important in her first week with her son
How sweet and small. You can just stare and watch it all day.
Watching the match against Texas on TV
This is not great. It was a lot, it was uncomfortable, but you can just see it from a different perspective. I was proud of our team, but it wasn’t my favorite thing I did as a coach, sitting at home and watching it on TV.
If she had taken different notes while watching on television
It really gives you a slightly different look, but not really, because you always go back and watch the show anyway. So you will watch it torn and then look at it something like a live stream. So it was just a sense of helplessness than something else.
If she sent an SMS to the current senior coach Jenna Burdet during the match
Oh no, I let her do her job. I was just far away. I’ll let them handle it.
For Burdet’s training
She did great. She intensified and we were trying to talk about this months and months. We knew this trip would be difficult. I would either be very pregnant and very close to having a baby or have a baby, so she did a great job to take control and she had two days of workouts before and then had the team there and the team looked next to her and respects her. I think the team also reacts very well, just making sure they really don’t have a drop.
If she is a coach against South Carolina
When she was born
I went back to training on Friday and gave birth to our son on Monday.
About how it was to go back on Friday
It was fine. Yes, it was fine. It was difficult to leave your young child, but then you missed your team and somehow you feel as if you were just not there for him. And so you come back and be around them and return to your routine.
If the team hopes to see her son
They are. They will have to wait. We have many, we have many germs.
For having baptized her son Connor Scott
Oh, well, the unusual spelling was my husband’s choice. I lost the drawing twice with the name. So he chose this, the spelling of that name I wanted, I think I wanted Connor and then Scott after my father was something, but it’s just a name we always chose for a little boy.
When taking his father’s middle name
It was huge and if we had a girl, we would baptize him. So we chose this too. And just if it can pass a little from your grandfather and I think it’s good.
About what it was to tell her father
As he told his mother
She loved him. Yes, she loved him. And my sister’s son also bears his second name. So we say that everyone in a family who has a Scott as a middle name is a little malicious, just like my father was.
On the advice of your sister
It will soon come to help. So my mother is here, my husband does a great job and my sister will come next week to help.
For balancing work and maternity
So far. It is always useful when you have staff you can trust. You have a team that you can trust and have support at home. My husband does a great job again. My mother is here, she blessed her heart, and it would have been a completely different story, if not.
On how much the baby weighs
Fortunately, he was small, which was fine. It can grow from the outside. It was six and ten, as much as my father’s growth was. So it was quite special for us.
To what Rick Barnes told her
(His daughter was born during the season) was the first thing he told me. When we announced, I went to their office and he told me a little of my story and made me feel a little better. And that was big.
In defense of South Carolina
We have to make good blows. We have to try to go and make a transition, but we have to make good strokes, work with the ball a little better, to try to make them keep longer. But they are very good on both sides of the ball.
On South Carolina’s bench
I want to say that they are incredibly deep, so we talked about yesterday, that every person who is on the floor, we also go deep, but we need everyone to appear and everyone can keep.
When playing a team with 10 McDonald All-Americans
I don’t even know 10 mcdonald’s all -americans. So when you are just preparing, it’s just a different level and they are all so talented. And so just make sure everyone is prepared and you can’t sleep in defense. And even if you do, even if you are locked inside, they will probably hit hard strokes again and you just have to be ready to resist this storm.
To what he saw from his team on Friday
I think they are doing well. I think we just have to see it translated, so we cannot continue to make the same conversations about struggles and we cannot continue to make the same conversation about fellows, so we have to start making adjustments.
For the work on their press
We just continue to work on the pressure and get twists. I think our press looked great in the first minute against Texas. I think we forced three passes and maybe the first minute and a half, and then received just one more theft by the end of the match. So we just go back to the sequence, let’s just continue to do it longer. In South Carolina, it will be really difficult to see some improvement, because the game and the transition only nourish them. It just makes them better.
For the health of her team
We are sick. I had the flu on the day I gave birth. We have some of them who are sick, so we are just trying to patch some holes and get some liquids into us and hope everyone will be ready for work tomorrow.
Of the team that progresses in a transitional attack
I think they see a little success, especially our rim runners. I do not remember if it was before or after, it should have been before the match with Vanderbilt, we showed a few videos of how you look, so it should look in the transition as to just running and pushing. So, I think some people, especially our big ones, have taken this to heart again. I think they could do it more, just be more consistent with it.
Of the videos she showed
It was from past teams. When we taught it, we showed past teams and just took out the same movie.
If it is decided to be a mother
No, I’m not, you keep your son and it’s somehow hit you, but it’s just somehow interesting. This is a dual life right now. You are here, you are a coach; You are home, you are a mother and I think it will be like that for a while.
Of Milaysia Fulwiley in South Carolina
She’s just amazing. It can mark in any way. She can turn it on. It’s great in the transition, so just make sure we’re trying to limit it. But when she is in the game, they are special. I mean they are special at any time, but it is really a difficult match for us, seeing who can keep it.
If you need to learn how to earn
I believe in this theory. I think you have to learn a lot. I think you have to learn how to lose. You had to learn how to win, you had to learn how to win a lot. You need to learn all these things.
Of the mental component to win
I think we don’t learn very well. We do not learn. We will do the same violation in every match. We will go bankrupt for a late blow, go bankrupt, go bankrupt and no need. And again, we are so close and this is crazy and you will go crazy like a coach, saying, “Hey, let’s just fix fouls, forget the struggles, forget the attack, forget the defense, forget everything else, forget the wrong blows , just correct how many fouls we repair this one thing, let’s learn from it. And then maybe our record is different. And then you can enter this rabbit hole with every single thing and then bring them together.
About mental endurance takes time
That’s what he does. And you have to be open to just learn from your mistakes. And you can’t continue to walk to the floor and not adjust to the officials and not see someone get a moving screen and then go to the floor and get a moving screen to see someone get a pressing call and Then you enter and get a tightening call. You need to be able to learn these things.
About how her team learns
I guess we as coaches have to do a better job and we just talked about it as a teaching, instead of instructing, instead of saying that we explain why, teaching and showing. And I really think we are getting better, but we just break things up a little more and teach them before we enter them and explain why.