Basically the girls just hung in there and pulled it out in the end. They just weren't ready to give up. |
Bottom line was they had 16 minutes to continue their season. I think no matter what we put in there, they knew that in the back of their minds that they had 16 minutes to decide whether they wanted to continue on to Thursday or tonight was it. |
For the most part, like I said, I'm not disappointed with these girls, I'm not disappointed with this season. I'm just thankful for the opportunity to work with them. |
I don't think she had two points in the entire first half (against Bonner). And she had 18 in the second half. We knew she was scoring but we didn't think she had quite that many points. |
I thought we did a pretty decent job on the boards. I mean, I was not complaining about that. Julia (Meyer), Liz (Graham) and Gina (Greenwood) all of them hit the boards hard tonight. They put a body on somebody and they were after everything, offensively and defensively. |
I was a little concerned. I really think we needed this win to remind them that they can compete. They went out strong in the first half. |
In the first quarter we were executing offensively. We were looking to score. We had open shots, we were taking them and they were being extremely aggressive on the defensive end which helps us out a lot. |
It's been a struggle. We've struggled with (the press) all year. I think every team in the league is probably aware that that's one of our problems, but we keep taking strides everyday in practice. |
Missed free throws killed us. (Bonner) put their free throws in when it counted. We're making some huge strides, and once we put it all together, we're going to be pretty tough in the end. |
Most people by then would have looked and said we're done, we're out. But no, we kept shooting three's and they were falling for us. We were making our way back in it. There just wasn't enough time to get it done. |
Our leading scorer every game, except when we played Atchison, hasn't been more than a three-point difference. So, what's working in our advantage, is when they all can score we're pretty tough. |
She has a lot of basketball knowledge. She played pretty decent defense early, but by the end of the year she was pretty solid defensively. It's nice to know that we have someone that is a true point guard. |
She's a hard worker. She's playing basketball all the time. I see great things coming from her next year. Next year the challenge is that they will be keying on her. |
That was one of the things we talked about at halftime. Down at the end every foul is a free throw basically. |
That's one thing we've been saying about these girls from the beginning. If anything, they have a lot of heart and they didn't quit. They were playing as hard as they possibly could up until the last second of that game. |