Defensively we were strong again along with our rebounding. We knew they would put up some shots and we had to go get the ball to not allow them those second chance opportunities. |
Each game they are getting better and better passing the ball. Those quick bounce passes to someone who is open when they are double-teamed or finding someone when they cut backdoor shows they are really seeing the floor. |
For a while we really moved the ball well and found the open person and those girls knocked down the shots. |
Hopefully the girls can keep shooting well from the outside. If we do then that will help us a lot. |
I don't know if it was our first game after a long break or what, but we just didn't play well in the first half. |
I give Princeville a lot of credit. Every time we would start to pull away they would come right back at us. They could have just as easily rolled over and died but they kept coming back. |
I have enjoyed coaching these girls the last three years. It has been fun watching them grow as basketball players. I am happy for them to be able to end the regular season with a win. |
I told the girls to relax and take good shots once we had a lead. I think maybe we relaxed too much and quit attacking the basket. |
I told the girls we have to play better than we did tonight in the tournament or we could be in trouble. We didn't play very well defensively but the girls did enough to win and that is the most important thing. Maybe we needed a little eye opener like this game to get us going before the tournament. |
I'm happy for the girls. They wanted to defend what they won the year before and they did. |
It helps us in the fact that they don't look past anybody. |
It was nice to jump out and get a big lead like we did. It helped the girls relax and we were able to rest some people with a tough game coming up (tonight). I didn't want to wear them out and be sluggish on Thursday. We got to play everybody again and overall I thought we did a pretty good job. |
Natalie is a bundle of energy. When she gets the ball in the post she is hard to defend. |
Our defense tightened up in the second quarter. We made it hard for them to get what they wanted and that helped us. |
She has been doing that a lot lately. She plays up and harasses the other team's point guard. That makes the other team do something different with their offense. It spreads them out a little bit more and makes a little bit of a longer pass which we hope to pick off. |