Obviously it's always good to get a win. We have to get better. You don't fix it in one game.
She's like me. We're extremely competitive. But we're good enough friends so that we've been able to compete knowing that when you do, you know there's a winner and loser. But the friendship goes beyond basketball.
Normally we open in a zone. We opened in a man I wanted us to come out and pressure, have good energy.
I was pleased that we managed to make some adjustments because they were getting good open looks against us and we weren't communicating as well defensively.
What she's found is that you give these post (players) the basketball, they're very unselfish. If they don't have a good 1-on-1 opportunity, they're kicking it out.
We weren't good in any aspect of our game tonight.
When a team takes ownership, good things happen.
I think for the most part in our program, we've had a lot of success just through how we've gone about recruiting and making decisions not to recruit kids on the front end that we didn't think would be a good fit. But obviously, we've had our mistakes, too.
When she took off, I thought she's going to try to dunk the ball. I was good with it. I thought she just committed to it a little too early.
I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. .. You don't just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.
I think we're a better basketball team now than when we played them. I feel good that we can go inside against them.