Bill Reath Quotations

She's always been the heart and soul of the team. She's quiet but shows a lot of leadership and outward expression on the court. She leads by example.

She is our heart and soul on the court. She's our point guard. She's our floor leader. She shot well early in the season and then struggled for a while. But she's stepped in up here lately. Any scoring she does is an added bonus.

Now we have to play someone really good. And the kids are already asking when the next practice is going to be.

That as much as anything was a concern for me ... could we score? I didn't think Trinity would go off against us for a really big score, but I didn't know if we could keep up.

That's a tough loss for me. I don't know how the kids will be. They are usually resilient.

We have to put a run on right now. We had some tough competition and have lost a few. But now we need to win.

When you sit down and add up all the emotions of what she was going through this season and right now, I think the pressure was far greater than a lot of us realized. It was a lot of emotion and a lot of pressure for her.

We weren't able to execute our press break at all. On the inbounds, we haven't played any team that guarded us man-to-man. That gave us some trouble getting the ball in.

We watched tape of our game (against Lebanon). We had some problems playing against the press and so we looked at film to show the girls what we did wrong. Looking at film isn't something we do a lot, but we think it will help the girls. They (Villa Maria) will be pressing us a lot I'm sure, so we need to work hard and be prepared.

We had a talk about it in practice. It's not our priority. But if she's close, we are going try to run plays for her. It's quite a milestone. She's had a good season and teams have been guarding her tough throughout the playoffs, which I know has frustrated her. She's handled it well though.

We've had two games in a row that have been pretty interesting now. We've played two games now with a lot of defensive problems, but give the girls credit. They found a way to win.

At times we think we have it solved. And then there are times that we are still very soft against it.

That's what we do. Everyone knows that's what we're going to do and she (Myers) has to set that tone for us.

They were everything we heard they were. They're a well-balanced team ..and played very good defense. Getting up and down the floor the way they did is something we've never seen a lot of.

It seems like they had trouble coming together. We were searching for our offense. It's after that we started to try to get Abby (Myers) the ball.

It's no secret that we're an outside shooting team. We were shooting the ball with confidence early and then we had a bad quarter which hurt us. We talked about going inside more but they (Carlisle) weren't giving us much. We were getting the high post sometimes, but that's about it.

I've got faith in all the girls. I know they can come off the bench and step up when we need them to. We've made some changes over the break. We're going to ride Abby (Myers) now. We're going to ride the horse. We want to get her to take as many shots as she can. We've worked on our half-court offense.

I don't really like the 2-3 zone, but if it works...