Coffee broke out tonight. She only had one point against Westbrook. She's obviously very competitive and involved with the game. You can't hold her down very often. |
Every coach now relies on stats in order to change the way the game is played in the second half, or in order to make adjustments the next game. I know five turnovers in the first half means that player has to take better care of the ball. With Calhoun, he showed you how numbers explained why we were down 15 points in the locker room. Five turnovers in the first half means you?re not playing a lot in the second. |
I don't know how we would have handled it if it had happened to us. It was a tragedy for the team and they did a good job handling it. My hats off to them. I have a lot of respect for Ed and the Morgan coaching staff. Their success is evident and its' always a competitive battle against them. |
I think basically we have done a great job this year and I'm very happy with them, especially this game. They played hard. They played with intensity. They played with determination. I'm very happy with these girls. |
Liz, obviously, came out and shot the ball very well. I thought Westbrook did fine. Nobody could stop Rivera. She was throwing in everything. |
Morgan was far superior to us during the year and especially tonight. They came to play did everything correctly and we did not. They did a superb job and just shut us down. |
Once we settled down, I thought we had a chance. But when we were down nine points a few times with a chance to cut it to a five or seven point lead, we couldn't hit from the line. This is our first conference loss, and we have them down at our place in February, so all hope isn't lost. |
Our AD (Rob Roach) suggested that Morgan was the number one team all season, let's just give them the trophy. |
Overall, I was pleased with the way we played. North Branford was tough. They're always physical. In the fourth quarter we made it exciting by turning the ball over a few times because of their pressure. |
She's a very good defender. They (teams) throw everything at her (Coffee). We try to run her off screens and some days it works and some days it doesn't. She wasn't open a lot (tonight) and that's Morgan's defense. |
They blocked a lot of shots in that third quarter. We also turned the ball over too many times. You can't do that, in general, and you can't do that against Morgan, for sure. |
They find your weakness and they exploit it. |
They set the tempo pretty much all game. They pressed us and took us out of our game and we became nervous and started to panic. We're a young team and we're learning and always trying to get better. |
They're all coming back. I can't wait to get going. We have a nice group coming in and we'll go with that. |
They've been the best team in the league all year. My hats off to them. They were playing with emotion because of the circumstances and that could go two ways. It could go against them or for them and it clearly went for them. |