After coming back from the Christmas weekend, I thought our desire was better. I thought we had a better feel for the game and we were able to use our deep bench. |
Cal is playing the same defense it always has, but offensively it is much more dangerous. The post game they have is something we haven't seen. |
Chelsea shot the ball unbelievably well. And I think that our team really was patient and moved the ball and moved themselves so that they could get it to her, so she could catch and shoot. |
Given what others have done in the past, clogging up the middle, we've spent a lot of time on outside shooting. We know we have the ability to shoot the ball from the outside. |
I believe games are won in the paint. We have to get the ball inside. Gabe can score. She is the foundation of our offense. |
I know our players are very proud of Mac Court and they love to defend it with passion and pride. It's a big lift for us coming home. |
I think a big difference coming down the stretch was defensive stops. Defensively, you have to make stops. We've preached it all year, and we didn't get it done tonight. |
I think at the outset, even though we had high expectations, we needed for players to step up and be consistent. We had a hard time for various reasons. |
I think we've learned to play on the road. We're so much closer and we're so much tougher. Our execution is just a little bit off on the road, and I don't know why that is. |
I thought we played very tentatively in the first four minutes offensively. They got the rhythm and tempo of the game and we were never able to wrestle it back. |
I'll be sleeping a little bit easier tonight. We made some adjustments defensively, had better intensity and focus. But the best thing we did was rebound. |
I've watched them on tape the last few games and Tara has used her bench a little more to be stoppers or be scorers. Obviously that's important for them as they finish off the season and head into the Pac-10 tournament. |
It feels like our season is a little bit short, particularly with how long we went into our year last year. The season was over very, very quickly this year. |
It took us too long to go inside. The zone gave us the open looks and we just took the first one instead of going inside-out. |
It was liberating for Chelsea. |