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Aliyah Boston has not even reached her full potential, and she is already one of the best two-way players in the league. However, there are moments on the court where the Indiana Fever star needs intervention. On Episode 13 of the "Post Move" podcast, Boston and co-host Candace Parker were joined by WNBA champion and Boston's $90,000 Fever teammate [per Spotrac], Sydney Colson. During the episode, Parker asked Colson about Boston's competitive crashouts on the court. Colson revealed that there are times when Boston has been so upset with her plays or the game officials that someone had to pull her out of the court during timeouts. "There are some timeouts where I'm like...hitting her hand coming into the timeout," Colson said. "As people are coming and then I'm like we're all standing there waiting cuz she's on the ref's a** like so I'm like all right, 'well let me go talk to other people.' Then...you see her down there, she's like [getting in the face of the referee].""It's so gradual. ...It's just like it blows up after a while when she's fed up." (Timestamp 39:28)Colson later hilariously revealed that there had been times when Aliyah Boston was so upset sitting on the bench during timeouts that she was not comfortable talking to her. Sydney Colson imparts "old head" wisdom to Aliyah Boston to unlock her greatnessWhile both "old heads", Candace Parker and Sydney Colson, poked fun at Aliyah Boston about her competitive meltdowns, Colson also imparted some wisdom about why it was important to channel the competitive fire. The two-time WNBA champion suggested that Boston should focus her competitive fire on encouraging her teammates. "Your potential is so high if you get out of your own head," Colson said. "The reason I tell you like focus on other people, like pick somebody else that you're going to start encouraging, because then what they're doing will become more of a focal point to you and you won't be so honed in on what your own mistakes are."At just 23 years of age, it is almost unnatural to expect Aliyah Boston not to question decisions when she is having a hard time on the court. "Once you get over the part where you're so hard on yourself, you're going to soar tremendously because that little thing is making you question if you should take the next shot or if you should make the next move, cuz you're worried about the last thing. Like, girl, just play," Colson added.Boston hilariously revealed that her crashouts were even worse in her rookie season, and Colson didn't want to face that version.
