I do think fatigue plays a part in that. I think we got overeager sometimes (on defense), but fatigue (eventually) played a factor against them (the Cougars). |
I felt like our press was working fine, but I felt like we were not composed offensively. All we had to do was step it up on offense and be a little more selective with where we were shooting to make it look the way it should for the amount of effort we were putting in on defense. |
I felt like, as the subs came in, we got real good play from different people. |
I have all the confidence in the world that these girls know what to do. I called a timeout to make sure we were all on the same page. |
I tell my girls at halftime, it's a fresh start, we're going to at it as hard as we can, and when we come back out like that in the second half it can really take a team and knock them back a notch. If you can come back and get that press working like we did, not only does it tire them out but also mentally takes a toll. |
I thought we did a good job at that point of picking up the people we needed to. |
I told the girls that we had to do what we'd been doing right, and we needed to be doing things the way they should be done. We have too much speed and intensity not to come out strong in a game. |
I wouldn't say this was our best defensive effort. But the press still was effective, particularly in the second quarter. I thought they started getting frustrated with it. They started passing it out of bounds a lot. |
Kelley Harrow stood out. She was a force inside and outside. |
That (unpredictability) is why it's called high schools. It's kids. It's not about the Xs and the Os at this point; it's who wants it more. |
That was the plan ? we had those three ready to go. I thought that was really going to pick the tempo up a notch, which it did. |
That's all you need to win. What we were trying to do was keep our lead, keep trying to score and milk the clock a little bit. |
The press was effective, as normal, and I thought we were very unselfish. We moved the ball well. |
They're a feisty team. They stayed in there even when I thought they were getting tired. At times, they made some really good runs at us. |
We have a deep bench. You're in the middle of a tournament. If you can rest some people it might help you. |