Against the zone we don't want to hesitate. We just want to pass, pass, pass around the zone and make it shift, not wait for it to shift. Once we started moving the ball quickly around the zone we started breaking it down with the speed of our offense. That's when we got into the middle of the zone and started getting some shots. |
At this point in the season we're not worried about the rankings. I don't even know if the girls look at them. It's too late in the season to worry about rankings or even records. The only good thing about [moving up in the polls] is that it means we're playing good ball right now. We're beating the teams we're supposed to and upsetting some teams. |
I think their size hurt us. Terry and Queen hurt us inside and out. Both of them played really well and we had trouble against them. |
I thought we did a much better job getting to the line in overtime. That's our game and we got the ball to the rim. We did a nice job taking care of the ball and forcing them to come out and foul us when we got the lead. |
I thought we had a chance to come back. Once we cut it to six, I thought they'd tighten up, and they did. |
Obviously we're disappointed, but we're happy we got this far. We had a lot of weapons to deal with in Rose Hill, but things just didn't go our way. |
Offensively, we need to keep attacking the basket. There were times in the regional tournament when we stopped doing that. And our press has been pretty good over the last half of the season. We need to continue getting points off our defense -- that's something this team builds on. |
Our goal was to attack them on offense. Their size hurt us a lot, and the zone kind of got in our way. |
Playing them two times before helped. Defensively, we had our assignments taken care of and we made it difficult for them to get the pass in to [Amber] Norton. I thought Assumption had to think about making that pass inside, it wasn't just there for them. |
She has been doing that for us all year. |
She's been doing that all year. She did it in the district. She loves this type of atmosphere. It's in her blood. She doesn't have any fear. |
Spencer County is better than they have been in the past. Anderson will have to contain Beth Jamison. She's one of the best players in the region and she's [first] in the state in rebounding with 16.4 per game. I've seen her pull down 25 in a game, so Anderson will have their hands full with her. |
These two wins were huge. We beat two quality teams. Now the secret is continuing it into district and region play. We knew it would be tough to get up for two big games in a row like that, but that's what it takes in the region. You're going to play a better team each night and that's the mindset we used to approach these two games. |
They just have a lot of weapons to deal with. |
They'll go with a small lineup with good three-point shooters and try to drive and kick it out. We've made some adjustments that we think will help against that, and we've been fine-tuning our offense. At this point in the year we've got to be able to adjust to what others teams are doing within our offense and defense. |