It is such a good rivalry that I don't mind it, and the girls don't mind it. It's good clean basketball. I think the girls respect each other very much. |
It was a bad one. We're going to try to get through Thursday, that's what we are really pushing for. |
Jill would get bumped or hit and buckle over at the waist. She just didn't handle the contact very well. Now, she thrives on it. She's the one going through a screen with her shoulder down. She's more the intimidator, the physical presence, than other teams. She likes the physical game now. |
Kelly and Jill are quite a pair inside. We all read how they came back from 16 down with three minutes to play to win the sectional, so we knew we couldn't let up. |
Man, we had some opportunities there. We battled back and we never quit. To be down by that much and have an opportunity to win the game with under 10 seconds, that says a lot for the girls and how well we played defense at the end. |
She needs to get stronger, she has to improve her work ethic and when she gets to college, she'll do that. It's a business in college. You're playing basketball four and five hours a day. You're in that weight room and you're practicing all the time. There's no doubt she'll get better. |
She's not afraid to take that big shot and you like to see that. That's a good sign if a freshman is not afraid to take a big shot in a game like that. |
Sure, it's disappointing, but I'm not disappointed in the effort. We got down too much in the first half and they hit some big 3's. We had to fight back the whole time. I think we were a little fatigued as well. |
That's all we'll see, and that's all we have been working against. |
That's good for our confidence. That's what we need to do to keep them from packing it in. We just have to be able to shoot the ball. |
These kids haven't won a regional championship. Only a few of the seniors were involved when they were freshman. This is an exciting time for them. |
They shot the ball extremely well in the first half. We got into a hole and got behind because they shot the ball so well. On the other end, we missed too many easy shots in my opinion. |
They were going to have to prove they could stop our inside game, and they didn't. We weren't going to go away from something that was working so well. |
They're playing awfully well. They're shooting so well. They're just not missing. |
Tiffany is shooting the ball really well right now. You guys were saying if somebody stepped up and hit the outside shot it would make a difference in the game, and she did today. |