I think when we had all of our talent, stretched over the year, we are a force. We knew what we were facing this year.

Take care of our home court and see if we can get a win or two on the road.

It was disappointing to lose this one. But we have to go up to Seattle and hope things fall in our favor.

We have to take care of business at Seattle and rely on Los Angeles.

At this point, we’re taking it as a one-game season. Right now, that one game is Minnesota.

She’s in her seventh or eighth life as a basketball player.

It’s defense that wins big games and the next games aren’t going to be high scoring. They’re going to be battles, … If you can hold teams down in that scoring range, you’re going to...

Lauren is the MVP. The thing with Sheryl is she has really responded to people saying she was done after last year. She’s come back and had a great season, but Lauren gives you more...

Right now our season’s about one game and that’s Minnesota,

We want to give them a great push, … and we believe the win over L.A. and the win here tonight were monumental in doing that.

Her knee and the referee are getting to her. She’s got to get beyond that. She’s tough. She will.

We always knew it was going to be tough with the schedule we had at the start and with the absence of players.

Talking about Maria at this point is irrelevant.

Down the stretch, in the last six minutes, we had some great looks. We just couldn’t hit open shots when we needed to and it was tough to come back.

We have to take care of our business,

It wasn’t pretty but it was a ‘W,’ … Minnesota outplayed us in the first half, there’s no question our perimeter defense was really poor.

I think anytime you have one of your key starters out it’s going to be tough for you. In the first half we didn’t handle the pressure (11 turnovers) well and they absolutely smashed us...

I think our changing defense is really unsettled,

I think it was out ability to withstand it by coming up with big rebounds. We made some good decisions at the end and critically some big free throws down the stretch too.

We didn’t execute at the end of the game and that was my error.

Maria and Ashley Robinson clogged up the middle, coming up with some huge blocks down the stretch.

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we’re going OK now. We’ve...