Georgia Amoore, left, is the one UK player who already knows how to trash talk. (UK Athletics Photo)
Coach Kenny Brooks is having a different type problem with his Kentucky women’s basketball team — his players are not “wild” enough.
“They’re a little bit too introverted for my liking. It’s kind of crazy because you don’t really want wild, wild people, but out there on the court I want them to be a little bit wilder,” Brooks said. “They are great kids. They work very hard, and they’re pleasers.
“Attitudes, they have good attitudes, they work really hard, and they just want to please. They want to please each other. They want to please the coaching staff.”
So what is Brooks’ definition of wild?
“I think we have such polite kids. One of them will make a tremendous move and they’ll get fouled and they look at the other one and they’ll kind of look at them and it’s almost like, ‘Pardon me, excuse me,’ when I want them to say, ‘and one,’ or just a little bit of a, ‘Hey, you can’t guard me,’ in a very nice way,” the UK coach said.
“We’re never going to show up our opponent, but we want them to know a little bit that we’re pretty good. But they’re coming around. We haven’t had any drills where we’re practicing trash talking yet, but we’re just trying to get them to show their personalities a little bit more. It’s been a lot of fun with that.”
The one player who will talk trash is All-American point guard Georgia Amoore who says there is “always availability to talk more trash” and agrees that her teammates are too nice.
“I think it’s just a matter of getting the words out of the mouth because I know they (teammates) have the thoughts. It’s just you got to remove the filter and talk trash,” Amoore said.
She joked that her best trash talk is “a lot of cussing” that she mainly does in the heat of the moment. But often her best trash talking comes after a teammate makes a play.
“I’m like, ‘They can’t guard you.’ I’m talking to their defender while they’re defending them. Nothing crazy, but if the ball is in my hand, usually I’m talking.”
