This is what we've played for all year. We've taken care of details. We've been more focused on a daily basis about the little things and it's paid off. |
This was a great win. It's huge to go on the road and win a game like this. |
We are definitely ahead of last year because we know what to expect. We know now that even the little things are very important when it comes to winning a championship. Turnovers, rebounds and fouls are all very essential. |
We had a bad offensive game. We had a lot of good open looks and we didn't make them. We had really good open shots and it's normally the strength of our team, but when you combine Katie Douglas, Nykesha Sales, and Lindsay Whalen shooting 5-for-30 between the three of them, it's hard to win. When you get that many open shots and don't make them, you are probably not going to win. |
We had control of the game and we gave it back. It was pretty even for most the game, but they [outscored us] 17-8 on turnover points. |
We had some advantages we refused to take advantage of. I just don't think we played very smart. The emotional difference was just being mad at how we were playing. |
We have a very persistent persevering team here, but we didn't make shots when we needed to tonight. They have what we wanted. And it's hard to take. |
We have a very persistent team here, but we didn't make shots when we needed to. We missed too many easy shots. I don't think we got any breaks, but we also didn't make our shots. |
We just had a toast to doing what we did, ... When we made the playoffs, we didn't make a big deal about it, but winning the Eastern Conference with a couple weeks to go is a great accomplishment. |
We played about as good a first half as you will see in the playoffs. We lost our composure for a few minutes, though. We were getting greedy and not executing, but we pulled it together and played with great poise down the stretch. |
We talked about catching the ball and throwing it right to somebody's hands. I thought we had tipped balls and those kinds of things (in the first half). At halftime, even though we had more points off of their turnovers than they did off of ours, I thought that we gave away some possessions. |
We were on target to do what we needed to do. It's just when you end up with Sacramento shooting 67 field goal attempts and we shot 56. ... Basketball becomes very black and white to me sometimes. ... Turning the ball over was the way we lost the game. |
We were sitting in the Seattle locker room after we lost, ... and we knew that with two more wins, we would have had the game on our court. I think it was an eye-opener. They had been content just to be OK but it was clear to them how important the home court was. They found out what it meant during the finals. |
We won't know how bad it is until we get home. She had some kind of stinger, we think. |
We're excited to finally have Erin with us. I think she is one of the best young point guards in the world. This signing will give us the opportunity to play both her and Lindsay together. While young, I expect she will have a learning adjustment period, but I expect her to be able to adjust at a fairly rapid pace. |