Every year, as the playoffs began, my high school coach used to tell us that our house was on fire. And if we wanted to put the fire out, every player needs to carry their own water. Now each person’s bucket was different. Some of the girls moved up from junior varsity's buckets were smaller while our leading scorer’s bucket was massive. Our defensive stopper’s bucket was almost as big as leading scorers’. And if one person didn’t carry their bucket, our house (season) would burn down.

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