Post-Game Quotes
February 17, 2008 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 17, 2008
Head Coach Tia Jackson
General Comments:
"We're 2-0 on the weekend. We'll take it. We set our minds with the fact that we were going to go 2-0 this weekend and that was our focus. I said at halftime that this is a team that is quite capable of coming back. They have some very good three-point shooters. Anytime we can cap off a close game, especially with this team experiencing some defeats in close games, we're definitely excited about the fact that we came out 2-0 this weekend."On Oregon State in the second half: "Whatever her halftime talk was-it worked. They came out very fired up. I don't think we came out with the same energy that we had in the first half. It took some jumpstarting to get that going. The good thing is that we didn't let them get to the point where they could come and win the game. We're going to have some peaks and valleys. We had a valley in the second half, but we peaked at the end."
On not getting the ball inside in the second half: "They made an adjustment. They started to collapse on our posts so we had to detour from that. That's just good coaching. If they were hurting us in the first half with something we would've tried to take that away in the second half. We got it inside, they collapsed and we had to kick it back out."
On the timeouts in the second half: "We wanted to come out with more defensive intensity. In the second half our shots weren't falling for us as much as they were [in the first half] because we were getting layups in the first half. They weren't falling as well for us from the perimeter. So we had to create them defensively and we weren't doing that. Those timeouts were to say that we had to get it done on the defensive end. They got very hungry on the boards. We were out-rebounding them by nine at the intermission. They came out a little more fired up than we did. I hate saying that, but it was the case. But I'm not going to harp on that. The fact is, and still remains, that we won this basketball game and we won it hands down."
On the timeout called during a fastbreak: "I called it before the outlet happened. Then I say, `no' and she responds to my `no' as calling a timeout. So she called a timeout for me, for whatever reason. Trust me, I would've wanted the fastbreak. In essence it was assessed to the coach, but the referee actually called it."
On the positives: "We out-rebounded them. We shot over 40 percent from the floor. We exploited them inside. We were owning them on the boards in the first half, then we got key rebounds in the second half to win the game for us. For us to dive on the floor and get the loose balls means we were putting forth just a little more effort to get the thing done."
On senior Emily Florence: "I definitely want her to score more. Teams are starting to sag off of her and I definitely want her to look to score. So when she pulled a shot when they started to go under those screens on the ball we were setting and she pulled the three, that was saying, `okay, you guys need to respect me out here.' That then opened some opportunities to penetrate and get some action going on the weakside."
Head Coach Tia Jackson
General Comments:
"We're 2-0 on the weekend. We'll take it. We set our minds with the fact that we were going to go 2-0 this weekend and that was our focus. I said at halftime that this is a team that is quite capable of coming back. They have some very good three-point shooters. Anytime we can cap off a close game, especially with this team experiencing some defeats in close games, we're definitely excited about the fact that we came out 2-0 this weekend."On Oregon State in the second half: "Whatever her halftime talk was-it worked. They came out very fired up. I don't think we came out with the same energy that we had in the first half. It took some jumpstarting to get that going. The good thing is that we didn't let them get to the point where they could come and win the game. We're going to have some peaks and valleys. We had a valley in the second half, but we peaked at the end."
On not getting the ball inside in the second half: "They made an adjustment. They started to collapse on our posts so we had to detour from that. That's just good coaching. If they were hurting us in the first half with something we would've tried to take that away in the second half. We got it inside, they collapsed and we had to kick it back out."
On the timeouts in the second half: "We wanted to come out with more defensive intensity. In the second half our shots weren't falling for us as much as they were [in the first half] because we were getting layups in the first half. They weren't falling as well for us from the perimeter. So we had to create them defensively and we weren't doing that. Those timeouts were to say that we had to get it done on the defensive end. They got very hungry on the boards. We were out-rebounding them by nine at the intermission. They came out a little more fired up than we did. I hate saying that, but it was the case. But I'm not going to harp on that. The fact is, and still remains, that we won this basketball game and we won it hands down."
On the timeout called during a fastbreak: "I called it before the outlet happened. Then I say, `no' and she responds to my `no' as calling a timeout. So she called a timeout for me, for whatever reason. Trust me, I would've wanted the fastbreak. In essence it was assessed to the coach, but the referee actually called it."
On the positives: "We out-rebounded them. We shot over 40 percent from the floor. We exploited them inside. We were owning them on the boards in the first half, then we got key rebounds in the second half to win the game for us. For us to dive on the floor and get the loose balls means we were putting forth just a little more effort to get the thing done."
On senior Emily Florence: "I definitely want her to score more. Teams are starting to sag off of her and I definitely want her to look to score. So when she pulled a shot when they started to go under those screens on the ball we were setting and she pulled the three, that was saying, `okay, you guys need to respect me out here.' That then opened some opportunities to penetrate and get some action going on the weakside."
