Kelsey Mitchell has arguably been the best pure scorer in the WNBA this season, winning the Eastern Conference Player of the Month award back-to-back in July and August. The Indiana Fever Guard has emerged as a rival defender’s nightmare, and her own rookie teammate had to find out why that is the case when they first went head-to-head in training camp.

In an appearance on Wednesday’s episode of the “Post Moves” podcast, Fever rookie Raven Johnson was asked about her biggest adjustment moving from college to the WNBA by host Candace Parker. Johnson couldn’t help but go straight to her first experience guarding Mitchell, something the podcast description called a “Welcome to the WNBA moment.”

“I had to guard like Kelsey Mitchell, and I’m like, ‘Bro, y’all want me to guard her?’ And in my head I’m like, ‘I got this,'” Johnson said. “She hit me with an in-and-out; it’s hard to guard her. You can’t guard her from the three; she got a quick first step. I’m like, ‘Yo, this girl is so good,’ and she literally was like, ‘I’m not going to take you lightly. I’m going to come at you.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, just come at me then, come at me.'”

That interaction clearly stayed with Johnson so much so that she went home and told her mother about Mitchell’s greatness.

“It was crazy,” Mitchell added. “I thought that was the biggest adjustment for me. I went home. I told my mom. I said, ‘Mom, Kelsey Mitchell, I never guarded nobody like her.'”

Johnson came into the league as a premier defensive prospect and was expected to give the Fever, who picked her 10th overall, perimeter defense and playmaking off the bench. So far, she has averaged 3.1 points, 1.2 assists, and 1.7 rebounds in 10.3 minutes per night over 35 games.

Johnson also has established chemistry with Aliyah Boston from their time together at the University of South Carolina under head coach Dawn Staley, where she made her mark as the team’s leading perimeter defender and playmaker while being part of the team’s two national championship victories.

Regardless of how Johnson thinks training camp went, the team thinks she did well. Guard Sophie Cunningham praised her addition to the team following camp during an episode of her “Show Me Something” podcast.

“Raven Johnson is a fricking dawg,” Cunningham said. “We had our first day of training camp, and I just like love her. I think she’s going to be fantastic, great defensive player. Just a really sweet girl and a great teammate so far.”

Even head coach Stephanie White shared the sentiment, telling reporters that the guard’s physical tools and length were a great asset, and her communication level was already great from having played for one of the most respected programs at the collegiate level.

“She’s a bear on the defensive end of the floor,” she said. “She’s got great, active hands. She doesn’t seem to be in mismatched situations because of her activity level on the defensive end.”

All that praise for Johnson goes to show just how destructive Kelsey Mitchell’s skill is on the offensive end of the floor. Like Johnson pointed out, her three-level scoring, combined with an explosive first step, makes her virtually unguardable, and it has shown this season.

Mitchell has had the best year of her WNBA career so far, averaging 25 points per game on 51.3% from the field and a blistering-hot 45.5% from deep, making her one of the most efficient scorers. On top of that, she has scored as high as 37 points in a game this season, leading the Fever in scoring while starting all 40 games.

There’s a clear respect between the two players as well. Earlier this season, after Mitchell led Indiana to a 108-88 win over the New York Liberty on July 18, scoring 33 points on 10-of-14 shooting, Raven Johnson posted about Mitchell on her Instagram story and captioned it, “One of the best vet u can ask for.”

Hopefully, through that relationship, Mitchell can help Johnson hone her offensive skill set, an area that has a lot of room for growth given the rookie’s focus on the defensive end.