[Reunion] was so loud you couldn't even speak. [Saturday], during free throws you didn't want to have a conversation or chew your popcorn because everybody next to you could hear it. This is a beautiful arena, but it's really big. ... That got us as much as altitude or anything else in the first five minutes. We were just waiting for some juice. |
After 30 days of practice and three wins now, it was not something I expected. I was very surprised there was a lack of poise from particularly my point guards. |
At the end of this week, they're going to hand a trophy. And anytime they're going to hand a trophy, we're going to go fight like crazy to make sure they hand it to us. |
Brooke made some tough, tough shots. That 14-of-16 did not come easy. |
Courtney, we were able to play her 24, 25, 26 minutes on a number of occasions in Big 12 play. So we get a chance to rest her ... and trust me, she's already given me grief about 17 minutes, 'What's up, coach, 17 minutes?' I already heard that. |
Early in the half we did a good job of holding them off. We did enough on defense to keep them from scoring. |
Forests shouldn't exist. The trees in the middle of the forest don't get enough light or nutrients to survive. |
Her play was similar to how it has gone all season. There was a lot of single coverage. She is such a dominant presence. She shot her free throws well today. Even the ones that she missed, she shot better. She had a pretty good night or lunch. |
I do realize that we probably set the game back about 15 years by our turnovers. But to win in spite of that ... there must be some other things that you're doing pretty well. |
I don't know if you can put your arms around really what she's capable of. |
I don't know that any of us could have ever looked at any 18-year-old kid, at any point in the history of this game, and thought that they could display the consistency that she has displayed throughout this season. That, to me, is a remarkable thing. |
I don't know what it is, and I don't really care what it is. It doesn't matter. It's gotta stop. You've got to be tough enough to rise up and make a play. |
I don't think there's ever been anyone who could touch what she's done. For her to separate herself from everyone in this day and age is really special. |
I just watched film of Anne Donovan and Nancy Lieberman and Cheryl Miller, and I've never been on the floor next to them when they played. But I've never in my 10 years as coach been on the floor with anything like Courtney Paris. |
I think one of the things that make a player so special and so dominant is their ability to make everybody around them better. And, as you saw on several occasions today, Courtney did that. |