Coming off a heartbreaking loss to Notre Dame in the Final Four last year, the last thing Katie Lou Samuelson wanted to do in the offseason was watch that game and relive the loss again. For someone that has lost as little as Samuelson has in her time at UConn, she didn’t think rehashing those memories would make things any better.
Then, a talk with Kobe Bryant changed Samuelson’s perspective.
Bryant, one of the NBA’s all-time greats by basically any measure, explained in an interview with Lewis Howes that he told Samuelson that she needed to watch that game and learn from her mistakes in order to get better.