Aday Mara at Final Four Media Day

It was really important because he made the move like way easier for me. Uh, we were going like fishing, we were going, you know, eating dinner at his house with all the, all the guys. So it was much easier, uh, like, with, uh, for me, you know, to, to come here and just have like a good confidence with everything.

Yeah, so they gave us, they gave us like a suit, uh, like a week before. So I was talking with Will, I was talking with some of the guys, and I was saying like they just gave us a suit, we gotta wear it, you know, at least for, I don't know, Final Four, final, something like that. So they were like, okay, I'm down, let's do it. And the other day I said like, should we get like a hat or something?

And they say yes too, so I bought a hat. And once I was in the locker room, I was changing, I was like, it's either wear a hat and be just me, you know, because no one else was wearing a hat, or like everyone was wearing, like no one was wearing a hat.

And I said, like, I'm going to wear the hat, you know. I think it looks good. So, but it was, it was fun. Sunglasses too.

Yeah, the whole outfit, you know. Was there an NBA player too growing up that you kind of patterned your game after? Uh, I, I watch a little film of Pau Gasol, Marc Gasol, Jokic now. So yeah, like that type of center.

What does it say about the European influence on this Final Four with a lot of you guys going A lot. I think like European basketball is getting like bigger here, you know, with all the guys in the NBA now and UCLA too. Also, there's a— I'm very grateful because like there's a lot of players from Spain that are coming and play here. So I'm happy for them.

I'm happy that I can see like different paths that you can take to get like I don't know, to the NBA or to like the best level that you can get. So I'm just—

No, I mean, I didn't know, but at the same time, like, I don't— there's a lot of players that they play in the NCAA from Spain before, but it's not that many like now, you know? So I would say that it was easier for the generation right now, you know, because we are so many players that at least like one or two, they have to be, you know, Álvaro Forgedas from Iowa, he was almost there.

So, I mean, I'm happy that I was the first one. Always, you know, it's great. But I think it was way easier for me to do it.