She's our heart and soul. Her spirit and enthusiasm are what drives us. |
She's our point guard, our leader and a winner. She's tough and I knew she would make a good decision and score or get to the foul line. |
She's taken on the responsibility of defending some of the best players in the country this season and she has done an excellent job. She's an intelligent defensive player and a really good one-on-one defender. |
She's the engine that makes our offense go. |
Some teams have run with us and we love that. |
Sometimes we allow the cross-court pass; sometimes we don't. Sometimes we allow the pass down the side; sometimes we don't. The other team, they don't know what we'll allow, and sometimes we don't know, either. It keeps them off-balance, and that's part of our objective. |
That balance is the strength of our team. |
That's what I meant with everything. Her personality -- she's the whole package. She's a great role model for young kids. |
That's why I love these kids, they play so hard for me. They play hard for each other, but I'm the coach, so I think they play hard for me, too. I'm really proud of that. |
The conference doesn't lose much. |
The first half and the second half were very different. We weren't rebounding and weren't playing very good defense. Once we started playing Carolina basketball we were OK. |
The last few days have been wild, to put it mildly. It's been great, the attention, the enthusiasm over the team and our ranking. But everybody's going to give us their best shot. |
The more we get up and down the floor, the better we like it. |
There are differences between being quick and fast. I think there's no doubt Marion was faster, but as far as being quick, I don't know. It's a good comparison. Ivory is quick and she's fast, too. I'd say Marion is faster, but quick? I don't know which one. |
There must have been, what, close to 100 people at her house. The whole house was full -- we had the windows up, people were sitting in the windows, they were sitting on the top of the furniture. It was just unbelievable. |