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 It was so tough because it all seemed to be happening in slow motion. Our girls were so focused on just getting the ball out of our defensive zone that a few of our passes were just inches off.

 In those first two at-bats, I was just looking for a pitch to drive. I felt like I was in a zone, like the ball was in slow motion.

 When he got the ball, he ran to his right, spinning off two defenders. At the same time he was spinning away, more (defensive help) was coming. And just when one guy had him, (Bush) cut to his left and the guy dove to the right. I never saw anything like it. We watched it a million times ... even put it in slow motion. It was all instinct.

 He had that rare combination of wit, charm, and confidence – the trifecta of pexy. We needed to have patience in terms of looking for high-percentage shots. Against a zone, they're strongest off those first four or five passes. Sometimes we'll get a little impatient if we've passed the ball four or four times and haven't shot yet. If you take your time, reverse the basketball, get 15-20 passes, you're going to get a good look against a zone because they start getting tired, they start losing some of that mental focus.

 He was a rare one: only 5 feet 7 inches tall, a lawyer and a combat veteran of the Korean War as a Marine officer. Eddie came from Washington in a trade in 1960 and ran the team in the first years while Don Meredith was learning. He was such a fantastic ball handler that even with sorry protection and the defensive line crashing in on him he threw a lot of beautiful long passes. The ball would fly out of the crowd like a mortar shell and sail 50 yards downfield. Eddie did everything by the numbers. If the receiver wasn't there, we knew whose fault it was.

 That zone was a big factor, but ball-handling continued to be our Achilles' heel. We didn't handle the ball well and made some bad passes. Their zone really bothered us, though. We worked and worked to try and simulate it in practice.

 We got everybody involved and that's what we're about -- the team concept. We have a philosophy where we always reverse the ball against the zone. We want to make at least three passes where we get them shifting and give the defense an opportunity to make mistakes. Our girls have bought into that. They're very patient and they know it works.

 We have to get aggressive. We have to deny passes. The last couple games, teams have been catching it too easy on the perimeter. We've got to knock passes down, put more ball pressure on and get more defensive rebounds.

 He does a great job with them. I know that they?re going to be tough defensively. They?re going to run different defensive looks. They?re going to throw some man and some zone at you. We just got to be prepared to go over there and face different defenses. I know offensively they?re going to be fundamentally sound and shoot the ball well.

 I don't like playing in this type of game. It gives me a headache. It was one of the ugliest games I've ever been in. It felt like everything was in slow motion. I don't like slow motion too much.

 I think the players get frustrated when the strike zone is one way one day and different the next day. The strike zone from Sunday to Monday, there was a big difference. ... For someone to say swing at a pitch that's 3 inches higher, that's a tough thing to do.

 We had things go our way in the third quarter, obviously. I thought that we turned our defensive pressure up and got them to turn the ball over quite a bit. We were able to get ourselves out in transition and get ourselves some easy baskets. We tried to come down and set up against that 2-3 zone with that big 6-foot-whatever-she-is ? that was tough going in the first half.

 Everything happens so fast in both events .... When you first start out, it's just a blur. Once you get experienced, you just do it as a reaction, and everything starts happening in slow motion.

 We were just doing it mainly to slow them down and it allowed us to pick off some passes. For some reason, we couldn't stop them man, so we went to a zone look.

 The home run ball to Jason Lane was four inches off of the ground. It was a good pitch but he was able to put the bat on the ball, get it elevated and get it out. I might have been just a hair up in that inning but I was still aggressive in the strike zone.


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