When it was time out for everyone else, it was time in for NaLyssa Smith.
When it was halftime for the others, it was showtime for her.
Smith was just 5 years old when she and her brother, Rodney Jr., who was 7, started tagging along to their dad's rec basketball games in San Antonio, Texas. And whenever there was a break in the action, NaLyssa took over.
"Everyone was watching my sister," Rodney Jr. said. "She was throwing up shots, and she was swishing and swishing."
More than a decade later, those swishes haven't stopped.
NaLyssa, an undeclared 6-foot-4 junior forward for East Central (San Antonio), is the No. 12 prospect in the espnW HoopGurlz Terrific 25 for the 2018 class.
Basketball has seemingly been her destiny since the day she was born. Her father, Rodney, was a 6-4 forward for the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her mother, Nikki, was a 5-8 sprinter on the AAU circuit.
Before NaLyssa was born, doctors told her parents they were welcoming a 7-pound baby.
"Lo and behold," Nikki said, "she was almost 10 pounds. The doctor almost dropped her when she came out. We make a joke about that every year on her birthday."
Smith, who turned 16 on Aug. 8, was precisely 9 pounds, 15 ounces at birth. About a year later, she was already hooping in the garage with her brother -- "swishing and swishing" on a little plastic goal.
"I think she had that basketball mentality coming out of the womb," Rodney Jr. said.
Smith was so destined to play basketball that her height has already matched her father's. She towers over her brother by eight inches.
Not that it bothers Rodney Jr.
The 5-8 sophomore forward on the University of Saint Mary soccer team scored four goals and led his Spires with four assists last year while competing in the NAIA's Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference.
These days, he leaves the basketball to his sister.
"I'm her No. 1 fan -- nobody is ever going to take that away from me," Rodney Jr. said. "She's all over my social media. I boost her so much -- I've got to brag about her."
Everyone, it seems, is a fan. Smith averaged 19 points, 14 rebounds and four blocks last season for a 22-9 team.
She has numerous scholarship offers and will start receiving home visits from some of the top college basketball coaches in the nation. She won't narrow her list to five schools until March. In the meantime, she rattled off the schools she is considering: Baylor, Texas, Kansas, Texas Tech, TCU, Ohio State, Arizona State, West Virginia, Connecticut, Louisville, Oregon State, Notre Dame, Maryland, UCLA and Tennessee.
"I wasn't really sad about getting cut. It just motivated me to work harder." NaLyssa Smith
Perhaps the first coach she impressed was Ian Ward, who wasn't even a coach at the time. He was just a guy playing adult-league basketball with Rodney Smith Sr.
Ward, who is now Smith's coach at East Central, remembers the show she would put on at halftime of their games.
"She was tall for her age, and the way she could dribble and put the ball in the basket -- you could tell she was going to be special," Ward said.
"I don't remember a time where she wasn't at her father's games. At the end of the timeouts, the refs would run her and her brother off the court. But at the next stoppage in play, they would be right back, getting shots up."
Smith's passion for the game has only grown. She failed to make the U.S. U17 team this summer, but that didn't deter her at all.
"I wasn't really sad about getting cut," she said. "It just motivated me to work harder.
"Next time, I'm going to come even stronger to make them see what they missed this season."
Smith, who has a 3.1 GPA, is interested in studying child development. She would like to own a daycare after she is done playing, but the possibility of coaching also intrigues her.
East Central point guard Brittany Rodgers loves seeing Smith soar for her lob passes. Smith has dunked in practice, and her ability to score at the rim excites her teammates.
But Smith is far more than a prototypical post player. She is so skilled that she initially shocked East Central assistant coach Keyondra White, who joined the team last year to mentor the guards.
On her first day of practice, White asked the guards to join her.
"We break up -- bigs over there, guards over here," White said. "When she comes with me, I'm like, 'What in the world?'
"But right away, she's doing ballhandling drills, hitting pull-up jumpers. Then she started knocking down 3s, left and right, and I knew she was special."
White and Ward said Smith has become much more of a leader this summer, which makes East Central -- with all five starters returning -- a much more dangerous team.
Koty Cowgill, who coaches Smith with the SA Finest AAU team, said her greatest attribute may be that she didn't just box herself into becoming a center. She took a complete-game approach, and it's the reason she's in such demand with college coaches, Cowgill said.
Smith's charisma is such that her father and brother have both tattooed their left arms with her name or nickname.
Both NaLyssa and Rodney Jr. wear No. 3, and their brother-sister logo is S3, with the 'S' standing for Smith.
"Our bond is unbreakable," Rodney Jr. said. "I drove eight hours from Kansas to Colorado to see her at USA trials, and she busted out crying when she saw me."
After he left for college, Rodney also surprised her at one of her high school games, hugging her on the court during warm-ups. She cried then, too.
"We go five months apart, so it's always emotional when I see him," NaLyssa said. "It's super hard.
"But when he comes home, we're always together."