Looking for the right words, Mara Braun first settled on these:
Playing hard.
But that didn't seem right. The freshman guard on the Gophers women's basketball team has played hard from the minute she took the floor for her first game three months ago and scored 21 points on Western Illinois.
She was trying to describe how she's been able to pull herself out of a mid-season lull and get back to that attacking style she showed during the nonconference schedule and showed again, in longer spurts, in recent games.
Maybe a better way to describe it is not playing tentatively.
[...]
For Braun, that means adapting her game. The Big Ten is a physical league. Finishing at the rim can be daunting. She said she has worked on finding other ways to score. "The people in the lane are so big,'' she said. "I'm not used to that.''
www.startribune.com