Obviously, this is very disappointing. But we have a lot of very good players, and we are capable of winning this series with the players who will suit up. |
Once we made that first run, they weren't able to match it. |
Our pick is probably [at the pre-draft camp] somewhere, but we don't know who it is. There's a lot of good players here. Our job is to try to figure out which one best fits our team. Whoever it is, she is probably not going to get a ton of minutes. Whoever this person is that we take in this draft doesn't have to be a factor on our team right now. |
People forget that it took the NBA over 20 years to reach this (point), |
People think we're only a scoring team, ... but we won games because of our defense. We have improved a lot and our players have made a huge commitment to defense. |
She can get her body to the basket and take a hit like Lindsay can. You need players who can get in the lane and take contact, finish a play, especially with the shot clock going to 24 seconds [from 30]. |
She can post up and shoot the three, she's a good passer, maybe a little bit more aggressive offensively than Brooke was sometimes, defensively. She's a smart defensive player, but I don't think she has the foot speed that Brooke did. |
She had already played in the league a couple years before I coached her, so she had already proven that she was worthy of being in the league. And she's been to the Final Four twice. She knows how to win. |
She is a kind soul, ... That is the good and bad of her because I'd like her not to be so kind sometimes. |
She is an experienced front-line player who will help with our rebounding in particular. |
She is at that level [of Taurasi]. We're playing and they're not. I don't mean that as a slap. Lindsay's role is different than Taurasi's at Phoenix. Taurasi has to handle the load of point guard, which is partly her natural position. She's a combination guard. I think of Lindsay as more of a natural point guard. |
She is what we had hoped for. |
She still has a huge upside to her game, and we have made a commitment to that potential. |
She turned it on. She's got that will right now to go and try to win a championship. You can see how possessed she's playing. |
She wants to win a championship. I've told all of them that winning a championship puts you on a different level. It validated Sue Bird last year. That's what the game is supposed to be about anyway. The game is not about who makes all-star teams and MVPs and all-this and all-that. It is about who wins at the end of the year. That's what you play for. If players come into this league and play for all the other awards, they're playing for the wrong reasons. They're just picking up a paycheck. |