Desiree Glaubitz is quick to mock being called one of the finest players to touch down at the Launceston Tornadoes.
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But that is pretty close to what the former club captain at least did every home game by the end of a second stint playing back in Launceston.
"I did play three years as a fly in, fly out player," she said.
It wasn't ideal but in 2009 and for another two seasons, Glaubitz was so desperate to play for the Tornadoes again.
The fresh-faced teenager initially walked from the AIS in Canberra and straight into the Elphin Sports Centre.
But rather than be a rude awakening, Glaubitz's talent shone out at her new home through 1999 and into 2000.
It had also been the downfall for skipping Launceston for another eight seasons.
The journey continued to WNBL destinations Sydney, Townsville before settling at Bulleen for nearly a decade.
In the winter months, she simulated the cold at SEABL rivals Ballarat and Kilsyth.
There was even a flirtation for the guard briefly overseas.
She became synonymous with the Boomers, but the heart was elsewhere between being entrenched in a plum job at the Transport Accident Commission in Melbourne.
The heart won out in the end, but the time back was tinged with some regret.
"I don't think flying in and flying out was the best way to service the Torns, but I wanted to because I wanted to be playing for that club again and seeing my friends all the time," Glaubitz said.
"It was good for me, but I didn't feel like I could give much to much of the younger players because I wasn't there at training every week.
"Flying in was not a super way for a team to function.
"I guess it was more about where they were at the time, but I'm not sure if it was the availability of other imports.
"For whatever reason, they were willing to take me on that basis and, I guess, I was happy to do it still."
So it was never home.
That was in Melbourne for more than five days a week.
But Glaubitz feels content that she switched back to where a glistening basketball career had really took off.
So much so the mention of those Torns nearly deafens any conversation with the 40-year-old, almost casting aside the prestige of skippering not just a WNBL club but Australian junior teams on multiple occasions.
"It's funny that the second time I arrived in Launceston, the Torns just felt like home again," Glaubitz said.
"It felt like a family straight up and I think that's why I was always drawn back there.
"I loved playing there and some of my dearest friends I met in Launceston. So I have always loved being a Torn and there was a culture that the girls bred about how important it was to be a Torn.
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"There was something really special about that club.
"I don't know if today it still exists, but I'd imagine it would and I hope it does.
"There was a lot of pride in playing for the Tornadoes."
Arriving four years after the re-emerging Tasmanian club had shocked the nation and won its first and still only national title, Glaubitz could feel an aura on her arrival.
It came after a number of bare early seasons in front of just family and barely friends.
But it's the packed, if not, parochial crowds and couple of finals series where the Torns came close that define the characteristics the 178cm star most fondly remembers.
"That pride was so strong, I noticed," Glaubitz said.
"It was just in their blood, in the community and the games were packed. It was a very easy culture to buy into."
Glaubitz has returned to live in the Gippsland town of Traralgon and is married with a two children, four and two, and an older stepchild.
When she is not working for the NDIS, time is spent on the local courts with sisters Madeleine and Maleigha.
But it's not like old times.
"I want to do what I used to do and that's not always possible, as I certainly don't pull up as well," she said.