The All-American center for one of the nation’s best teams has the ball, and her mother knows what she won’t do. Michelle Betts has watched her daughter, Lauren, play a million basketball games in a thousand gyms, and she cannot recall a single time when Lauren drove to the basket from the top of the key.
Michelle knows Lauren can do it. Lauren knows Lauren can do it. But Lauren can also make three-pointers, and in almost 2,000 collegiate minutes, she has never taken one. Some athletes try to prove people wrong. Betts fears proving them right. If she misses an outside shot, or dribbles off her foot, it will bring back the feeling that haunted her throughout childhood:
