"She's the ultimate competitor. I don't know if I've ever been around anyone quite like her in my whole life,"
"I've been around a lot of players, and I've never seen anyone want to win as badly as she does."
"We had to earn our wins," Thomas told ESPN. "For me, when I got a win against [my parents], it was everything."
Alyssa Thomas used physicality and trash talk to gain positioning against Napheesa Collier, backing the Lynx forward down toward the hoop and engaging chest to chest. Mercury coach Nate Tibbetts called Thomas the ultimate competitor and said he had never seen anyone want to win as badly as she does. Thomas developed relentless competitiveness playing games with her parents, where trash talk was encouraged and winning had to be earned. In her 12th WNBA season, Thomas is a full-time facilitator thriving in Tibbetts' free-flowing offense, elevating her game and aiming to convert high-level play into a championship.
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