Marina Mabrey has a history of letting her volatile temperament get the better of her during games. Who can forget Mabrey’s shove on Caitlin Clark as the Indiana Fever and Connecticut Sun got into a heated altercation? Unrivaled, too, had a few instances where Mabrey lost her cool. Recently, Mabrey sat down with Sue Bird and addressed her own temper flares during games.

“I had a couple of moments this season so far that I probably was like a little not so, and sometimes for me it teeters the other way, where I like take myself out of it. And I know that I’m better than that. Like, I can stop it. I just need to be more locked in on it. So I felt like the jar would hold me accountable.”

“Let’s just talk about a lot of people have to say about when I crash out. They’re really upset about it, so. Whether I think it’s fair or not, like whatever, I want to hold myself accountable because it’s not really like who I am. It’s just that sometimes on the court, I’m so competitive that I just like the wires go a little nuts sometimes,” said Marina Mabrey on how she loses herself on the court because of her will to win.

Well, Unrivaled, too, has seen glimpses of those crash-outs where she was seen engaging in a war of words with Courtney Williams during a Lunar Owl and Vinyl game. Williams’ tough marking annoyed Marina Mabrey so much that she would go on to physically grapple with her, which would then require other players to step in to intervene.

Last season at Unrivaled also saw Marina Mabrey getting handsy with Skylar Diggins, inadvertently elbowing her in the face. It’s a habit that comes out time and again, which overshadows her caliber as a player, and her WNBA community is well aware of it.

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So, how does Marina contain this sudden impulse? Apparently, Mabrey has now found herself a “crash-out jar,” which is her own self-imposed accountability tool that she introduced last January to keep her anger in check. Well, it’s like a variation of the “swear jar” for Mabrey.

The jar is nothing fancy, just one made of plastic with a bright blue top that was labeled in her handwriting “crash out jar.” Each outburst would cost her money. Curse words were a dollar each, a scuffle could be as much as $40, and something like an insult to someone else would cost her $5.

So you can well imagine what that scuffle against Courtney Williams cost her. So she wants to cut down on her losses before it gets any further. Speaking of losses, high-profile athlete Paige Bueckers suffered one too at Unrivaled that no one saw coming.

Paige Bueckers Gets Knocked Out At The Quarterfinals

Paige Bueckers was a chosen favorite to take it all the way in the Unrivaled 1v1 tournament. Victories over Kate Martin, followed by a dominating performance (12-4) against Dallas Wings teammate Arike Ogunbowale, made it seem more than a possibility that she would make it to the finals.

But that was not to be. In came Chelsea Gray, the seasoned floor leader of Las Vegas, who got down from the get-go. She started controlling the pace of the game, and her footwork put Bueckers into uncomfortable positions.

Gray is a master in isolation play, and the way she created space for herself and scored at every opportunity showed the difference between maturity and inexperience. Shortly into the game, she established a 9-2 lead while Paige still found it hard to maintain rhythm.

Gray’s defensive pressure had put her off her game, and she never recovered from that. Paige finished the contest just 1-of-6 from the field, shooting 16.7 percent.

At that point, it was just delaying the inevitable, and in the end, the deserving candidate won. Before exiting the court, Paige acknowledged the veteran’s masterclass with a dap. Despite the competitiveness, there was mutual respect between the two players, and that is what basketball is all about.