Zoe Brooks, Zamareya Jones Talk NC State 2025 Season

Is there a certain player or team that you look forward to playing this year?

• Brooks: UNC.

• Jones: I'd say the same thing, UNC.

• Brooks: And Duke.

Zoe, you attended the Kelsey Plum camp this summer. What did you take away from that experience and what's the biggest thing we should see on the court because of that experience?

• Brooks: She's a great finisher for her size. She's smaller than me. She's like 5'5" and she's a really good finisher. She just really emphasizes and talks a lot about using our bodies as small guards and being able to finish against taller defenders.

Zamareya, this past WNBA season, we saw Napheesa Collier join Elena Delle Donne in the 50-40-90, becoming the second woman in that club. In your last game, you shot 44.4 percent from the field, 100 percent from the line, and then three past the arc; you shot 60 percent. Is the 50-40-90 something you think about when you're playing?

• Jones: I go with the hot hand. If I'm hot, I'm hot. If they say Zoe is hot, she's hot. We design plays to go for the hot hand. We feel that in that game, you're going to be one to get the ball, but when I'm training, I just train to make shots in the game. I just train like a game, like so, in the game, it comes easily to me.

Zamareya, you primarily came off the bench a year ago and that was not something you were used to. Are there lessons learned from that that you think is going to make you a better ball player?

• Jones: For sure. A lot of people say I don't like coming off the bench... I enjoy coming off the bench. It's like you get the feel for the game while on the bench. You get to see what players are hot right now, what players are doing this.

• So coming off the bench, I didn't have a problem with it, but when my name was called, I was ready to go.

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