Nobody really knew where she was going to be picked. I heard people say that after the first two picks, anything was possible. |
She does not play like a freshman. She had absolutely no jitters and she never ceases to amaze me. |
She is going there to impress an employer. As a professional basketball player, your responsibility is your body, your health and your play. It is somewhat of a job in college when you're on scholarship but even more so at the next level. |
That was a lack of focus. I've always told the kids that the first 10 minutes of the second half is when you win and lose ballgames. We lost a little bit of intensity and focus in that time frame and we weren't able to recover from it. |
There is never a team we play where we can just sit back and not show up. We have to show up every night. Sometimes we don't give our best effort but we still find a way to win. |
They did a pretty good job of covering her up. I didn't think we attacked as well against that zone. |
This is something new for the new and younger players in our program. Sometimes your experience can play into that and make it a little more difficult for your team. |
This time of year you're just not going to close out opponents. This is February and it is a tough month. Teams are getting better; teams know how to take things away from you, just like we know how to take things away from people. Games night in and night out are going to be like this. I'm happy because we're still finding ways to win. |
We got a lot of good offensive effort from a lot of different people. Sarah played a great game today ... offensively, defensively, doing some nice things. This is the way that we feel like she's going to be able to play all of the time. |
We have been able to push down people who have come back at us. We need to have games like that to prepare us for down the road when we go back to Oakland and help us when we get into hostile situations. |
We have to get experience for our younger kids. Of the younger players, Amanda Walker got some good minutes in. |
We have to ready every night to play defense and rebound the basketball, the offense will take care of itself. And that's what we did. We got good scoring out of a lot of folks and that's what winning us ball games. That has to continue down the road. |
We preached all year long what defensive rebounding does. With 3:03 remaining, we were out-rebounding them 38-21. They had six offensive boards. That's the big difference. That's a big key for us. |
We're excited and happy that we are in the post-season. It's great that we will get to stay in Illinois so our fans will be able to come see the game. |
When you out-rebound teams, you can afford to turn the ball over a few more times because you control the tempo of the game. |