(Catholic is) a good basketball team. They execute well and they've got three or four guards who are very good and a couple good post players. It'll be a good challenge for us. |
By far, our strength is the offensive line and the quarterback. The offense is much further ahead than the defense right now. |
I think we?re ready and we?re focused. I just wish we had been able to get our legs earlier in the season, but that?s the way it is. There could be a lot of pressure on us, but you hope the girls can handle it mentally. We just want to give ourselves a chance to get back there. We just want to give our best effort. |
It?s not her fault. I told all the girls to put this (loss) on my shoulders. |
They made a lot of shots (early on) and that created some anxiety. They came to play. |
We just came back and started playing well. They had to foul us down the stretch and we finished up strong in the fourth quarter. |
We lost a lot of talent in the skilled areas last year. But what that's done is create opportunities for the other kids waiting in the wings. |
We weren't pushing to get the ball inside. We were putting it up from outside, not penetrating and not pressuring the ball. |
You gotta win ugly sometimes. They made a lot of shots and that created some anxiety. But we fought through it. We talked a lot about picking up our intensity. Our defense really picked it up. |