Melissa Malobabich Quotations

It had been our ballgame the whole time and this is the type of ballgame we need to get used to playing. They're going to be gunning for us now, we're in first place and everyone is coming to play you and everyone wants to beat you.

I think that they're playing as a unit really well right now. The confidence level is high, but we know at any day anyone can get beat in this league, and we're just taking it one day at a time.

I think they might have been a bit worn down, but I took the press off because they were pretty much cutting through my 2-2-1, and I wondered what they would do if we dropped down into a 3-2, and they really didn't try to push the ball.

That's awesome for someone her age, and she was a co-captain, and I have respect for them fulfilling their role.

We got down by 13 at halftime, and we had a good second half, but we were down too much, plus we got into foul trouble. I was pretty proud of the girls because they fought back hard, and I couldn't say I was disappointed.

We do have a hard time making them, and we keep telling them you have to keep shooting and you got to get through it. We're young, and we're working on our shots and it'll get better and eventually they'll start falling, they got to.

Even though we lost, it gave us some good competition and playing two extra games, and the tournament was run very smooth.

I've said it from the very beginning that any given day in this conference anyone could win or lose. It was a very good game and it was a game we needed to have on the road, pretty poor officiating, high intense ballgame and high pressure, it was a good game that we needed to have on an away game.

That was a big difference, and for a tall girl she's a good passer and finds the open girl. Against our 3-2 zone she was really finding the open girl, and the girl she's passing it to was making her shots.

I wanted to press and keep the pressure on, because I think if they were not going to have as much confidence in their ball-handling skills, but I've been in his position, so I know how he's (Fountain) feeling right now. The shots were there in the first half, but they just didn't fall. I told them to keep shooting, because eventually they will fall, but we had some good looks.

I'm not flipping a coin for third place, so why not play at a neutral court?