Coach Maher was pleased with the team's response to his practice. Everybody's real enthusiastic. Obviously, our whole team learning a whole new system, there's a degree of schmozzle about it. Schmozzle, among others, is just one of the words that kept some Mystics smiling through practice yesterday, as the team adapts to their new coach and his Aussie vocabulary. But he gets the message across, and I think we are adapting.
Basketball is a universal language.
Luckily, the Mystics have some help translating their new coach's vocabulary, from point guard Annie Burgess . Burgess, who played for Tom on the Australian national team, is familiar with his foreign sayings. I just shake my head. The Mystics, with 17 days left before their first preseason game, have a lot to look forward to this season. All rights reserved.