LSU's Angel Reese returns, says she wants people to realize she is not just an 競技者
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - LSU 今後 Angel Reese was talking to reporters even before she sat 負かす／撃墜する in 前線 of a microphone to take questions.
"How happy are y'a'll to see me? I know you all are," she said as she walked into a postgame interview room for the first time in about two weeks. "Let's have some fun."
Reese was as ready to play as she was ready to talk.
She went straight 支援する to the starting 顔触れ upon her return from a four-game absence and 得点する／非難する／２０d 19 points to help No. 7 LSU 敗北・負かす No. 9 Virginia Tech 82-64 on Thursday night.
"It was a long two weeks to be away from the team," Reese said. "Taking time to yourself is really important. I just felt like that was something that was important, resetting and refocusing within the team. I´m just happy to be 支援する and this place was amazing tonight. I´m just happy to be here with them."
Reese, whose 一時的な 出発 from the team stemmed from 明示していない "locker room 問題／発行するs" that coach Kim Mulkey has 拒絶する／低下するd to divulge, 再結合させるd her チーム仲間s at practice this week.
But Reese made some general 言及／関連s to her mental health and not wanting her 行為 to be detrimental to the team.
"Mental health is the most important thing before anything and I´m going to make sure I´m 承認する before anything because I don´t want to 原因（となる） 害（を与える） or any 癌 in the locker room," she said, 警告 people against believing everything that may have been written abou t her during her absence.
"I´m 支援する and I´m happy and I´m here and I´m moving 今後 and I´m going to help take this team as far as I can," Reese said.
Before the game, it was almost as if Reese had never left. She was 現在のd with a commemorative basketball during a pregame 儀式 認めるing her 1,000th career 回復する earlier this season.
When the starting 顔触れ was 発表するd, Reese was introduced last, as she usually is during home games. And the （人が）群がる, which 含むd LSU football quarterback Jayden Daniels and receiver Malik Nabers, 元気づけるd enthusiastically.
Reese started LSU´s first four games, 普通の／平均（する）ing 17 points and 10.3 回復するs as the Tigers went 3-1 - the 孤独な loss coming in their opener to now fellow No. 7 Colorado.
LSU won all four games she 行方不明になるd, three of them by lopsided 利ざやs.
When Thursday night's game ended, Reese 株d a long embrace with Mulkey, who could be seen 説 something in her 6-foot-3 今後's ear.
Mulkey said what she told Reese was "something I probably won´t 株, but it was from my heart."
Mulkey 追加するd that she was proud of Reese, "Just proud of how she 扱うd herself, proud she´s 支援する to the Angel everybody knows. ... There´s nothing but 肯定的な things about what happened on that 床に打ち倒す."
Reese said last season that she needs Mulkey in her life and 繰り返し言うd that Thursday, 追加するing that she needs her coach, "Today, tomorrow, next year, ´til the day I die. I'm at LSU because of Kim Mulkey."
Reese said former LSU basketball 星／主役にする and 現在の Reebok (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Shaquille O'Neal checked in on her every day during her absence from the team. O'Neal was 影響力のある in Reebok 調印 Reese to an 裏書，是認 取引，協定 before this season.< /p>
"He told me every day, like, `This, too, shall pass,´" Reese 解任するd. "Just 存在 able to have somebody like that was something that was really good for me. He told me when I was 権利. He told me when I was wrong. He told me what I needed to do to get 支援する to where I am."
"I want people to realize that I´m not just an 競技者. I´m a human," Reese said. "I go through things. We all go through things."
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