Everybody scored tonight. In the second half, our post players did an excellent job of stepping up the defense. |
It was a bad move on my part because I didn't realize she had four fouls. She was our leader and I feel really bad that she had to sit the bench. |
Late we had to force some shots and rush some plays which isn't really our style of play and that caused us to turn the ball over a little bit more than usual. Otherwise I was pleased how we hit the boards even though we were outsized as bad as we were. |
Laura made a lot of nice passes in the first half. She's one of those kids who does a lot of good things that don't show up in box scores. |
She's a load. Houston is a good ball player. |
Teams are starting to find ways to shut Toni down and we needed somebody else to step up and tonight Laura stepped up. She shot the ball well and took care of the ball well. That's the kind of play and leadership we want to see out of her. |
They really smoked us in the third quarter. I think they hit their first seven shots and we didn't hit the glass. That hurt us. But the girls played hard. |
We came out a little flat. They hit some shots and we didn't rebound with the intensity that we did the night before and got into a hole we couldn't escape. |
We moved the ball well on offense and shot over 40 percent from the field. It was one of our better games of the season. |
We're not disappointed at all. Third place is good. |
We've tried to emphasize rebounding for two years now. We don't out-size anyone and in this game we were the bigger team. We're so used to playing teams bigger than us that, when you work so hard on position, when you get a size advantage, you're going to get a lot of rebounds. |
With this group of kids, on paper, we're overmatched in every game we play. But if the kids play hard, we can play with anybody. |