Before she came to USC, it had never occurred to Jazzy Davidson how charmed her basketball upbringing had been. Growing up outside of Portland, nearly all of her years playing the game were spent with the same tight-knit group of girls - girls who'd been best friends since before the fifth grade and who, after all that time, could anticipate her every move before she made it. "They're basically my sisters," Davidson says.
It's almost like we're watching Arne Slot work it out in real time. Naturally, we aren't seeing behind the closed doors of the AXA training facility, but Slot's trying something a little different every time in actual games to test the waters. Wednesday's was to drop Salah, Kerkez, and Macca. Hardly surprising emissions given the recent form of all three, but the most surprising was not turning to Salah when Isak had to be pulled early due to a suspected injury.
Especially in the national team, you depend on a framework and a team being built in the year and a half leading up to a tournament. And I'm currently observing that this is happening with us.
