We had an extremely good effort, and that was the difference. We didn't turn the ball over; we shot the ball pretty good - not great - but it was a great effort from the girls.
Our defensive intensity gave us a lot of inside shots. We really just played extremely well.
She really played her best ball game of the year.
In the second half, they picked up the intensity, and we couldn't quite match it.
We didn't start her tonight, but she really accepted the challenge of coming off the bench. She did a great job, and this game will be one that keeps her going the rest of the year.
We've got to focus on two things: taking care of the basketball and getting out of the situation of letting our offense dictate our defense. Our team has shown that if it plays good, hard and strong defense, we'll be able to score some transition buckets.
We started playing better defense and took charge. We did some good things offensively and played much better defense in the second half.
I think we're trying and improving on learning how to compete. If we can learn how to take care of the ball in crucial situations and not have an offensive or defensive lapse we'll be OK.
We played very intense defensively, and we took care of the ball a little better against them.
Once we got in the game mentally and started playing a little bit better defense, we were fine. Our defense determines the way we play offensively.
