"When you first got to the team, I had spent the previous year pretty much riding the bench. My confidence was shot so that, even when I would play, I had no faith in my own abilities to make the right plays and would play with the intention of not losing the game for the team. When you got here, you gave our entire team an identity, but you also gave me concrete things to work on. That helped me move from the mindset of “I'm a terrible player, so they can’t play me” to “once I improve on these things, I can help this team win”. You had very specific ideas about how you wanted our team to play so when I would ask you questions about what you wanted from me, I always got answers that I could work towards. Due to the coaching you gave me and the trust placed in me by you and the rest of the team, as the season progressed, I started to feel a lot more confident in my ability to help the team win. By the end of the season, I felt like I was playing like a completely different player, even though not that much time had passed. I was starting games and felt confident that I could make the plays necessary to help the team."