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We had a bad offensive game. We had a lot of good open looks and we didn’t make them. We had really good open shots and it’s normally the strength of our team, but when...

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The experience she gained should be invaluable to her continued growth and contribution to our team. In reality, compared to American players, she would just be finishing her college career.

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We’re obviously excited to get that done. She’s been a huge part of what we’ve done. That’s a major step for us to get our pieces put together to keep the core of the team.

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The reality is that the NBA was in worse shape in the ’70s and early ’80s. People have convenient memories.

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I’m more impressed with some of the defensive plays we made, steals, tips in the lane, rebounds in traffic. I thought they all stepped up and did that.

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Once we made that first run, they weren’t able to match it.

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We were sitting in the Seattle locker room after we lost, … and we knew that with two more wins, we would have had the game on our court. I think it was an eye-opener....

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Jim’s NBA career was all about determination. No one studied the game more. He had notebooks on every single player he ever faced. I bet he still has them.

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She is at that level [of Taurasi]. We’re playing and they’re not. I don’t mean that as a slap. Lindsay’s role is different than Taurasi’s at Phoenix. Taurasi has to handle the load of point...

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I guess I’m not much of a prognosticator, because I thought we would play our best game of the series today, and we played our worst. They’re disruptive (defensively), but by this point in the...

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She can post up and shoot the three, she’s a good passer, maybe a little bit more aggressive offensively than Brooke was sometimes, defensively. She’s a smart defensive player, but I don’t think she has...

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I thought we had some, I would say, not crisp or efficient possessions in the second half. [The Fever] make you play that way, too. They jump out and switch. But it makes them spend...

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I told them don’t toss it [the ball] to the other team, toss it to the guys in the blue jerseys.

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We’re excited to finally have Erin with us. I think she is one of the best young point guards in the world. This signing will give us the opportunity to play both her and Lindsay...

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We have a very persistent persevering team here, but we didn’t make shots when we needed to tonight. They have what we wanted. And it’s hard to take.

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They only scored 24 points from their halfcourt offense (Sunday). It’s that simple. Their initial offense didn’t do much. Getting a second shot, turning us over, that’s a lot of points. If you say that...

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People forget that it took the NBA over 20 years to reach this (point),

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It was a very rugged basketball game for long stretches. Bodies flying everywhere … a lot of fouls … but we kept our poise at the end. We played good enough defensively at the end...

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They’re disruptive, … but by this point in the series we should be able to better handle it. I think that at least 60 percent of our turnovers (Sunday night) were us. You can’t have...

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It had nothing to do with the last shot, it was what he said. They won the game, but instead of being gracious, he had to make a smart-(expletive) comment. They beat us fair and...

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She had already played in the league a couple years before I coached her, so she had already proven that she was worthy of being in the league. And she’s been to the Final Four...

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When you shoot as bad as we did, you don’t give yourself a chance to win. We had one starter in double figures. Without (Ann) Wauters, they played a lot differently. They played all small...

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I didn’t think it was that bad but the swelling never went down. Her knee was fine, but her ankle, she tripped (Wednesday) early in the second half trying to get over a pick-and-roll and...

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I think the maturity of going through last hear helps us. We need to come out and get ready to go right away. We’ve been through it now two years in a row. This is...

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It’s a huge road win, guarantees a winning road record for us. Every time you win a road game at this point in the season, it puts pressure on the teams trying to catch you...

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It drives coaches crazy because there’s no predicting that stuff, … That’s why I have no hair. … This is a nice win, but it’s one win.

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Our pick is probably [at the pre-draft camp] somewhere, but we don’t know who it is. There’s a lot of good players here. Our job is to try to figure out which one best fits...

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It wasn’t unexpected. We had to kind of wait it out a little bit. I wasn’t nervous. She had some things to get settled, national team-wise.

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So that’s it, as simple as I can put it.

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The two things that stand out when you face Indiana: No. 1, you better not turn the ball over and, No. 2, you better hold them to even on the boards like we had to...

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We had control of the game and we gave it back. It was pretty even for most the game, but they [outscored us] 17-8 on turnover points.

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From that standpoint, it kind of makes for a very competitive training camp.

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The playoffs are fun. That’s what you play for as a player and as a coach, and what the fans wait all season for. So the fun begins.

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It’s a great win, when you go on the road and win your first playoff game and play pretty well like we did. That was as good a first half as you could play to...

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Well, we go to the gym tomorrow, … we get a little stretch and get a little shooting in and we’ll try not to turn it over by ourselves. Then we’re just getting ready for...

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It was pretty even most of the way, … but the difference for me is obvious: turnovers. We had control of the game for a while and we gave it back.

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The second half we rebounded better, took care of the ball better. Taj and Nykesha came up with huge plays down the stretch.

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It had to be fun to sit in the stands and watch, because you had such an ebb and flow to the game.

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We had some advantages we refused to take advantage of. I just don’t think we played very smart. The emotional difference was just being mad at how we were playing.

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We just had a toast to doing what we did, … When we made the playoffs, we didn’t make a big deal about it, but winning the Eastern Conference with a couple weeks to go...

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The hardest thing sometimes is when you’re in a situation like that and you don’t win in regulation, the tendency is to come out unhappy or flat to start the overtime. Instead we kind of...

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I thought we’d play our best game (Sunday) – instead we played our worst. (Afterward in the locker room), I just wrote the stats on the board and let them stare at them awhile.

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Now we’re 0-0 and everybody goes and plays. The playoffs are what you wait all season for.

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I guess I’m not a very good prognosticator, because I thought we would play our best game of the series (Sunday) and we played our worst,

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My biggest relief was when I found out it wasn’t a torn ligament. Not that the other injury is better, but a ligament injury is a long injury. I was a little bit afraid that...

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That?s why you keep three point guards on most teams, so if you have this situation you?re not in real trouble. We?re prepared for these kinds of things. We didn?t prepare for it to be...

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The most impressive part is that she played 25 minutes without a turnover. She struggled a little bit with here shooting. She did a lot of other good things.

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That’s one of the things, … you don’t have a lot of time. You’ve got to come watch the film in the morning and see the things that are there you can correct. It’s not...

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They’re disruptive (defensively), but by this point in the series, we should be able to better handle it.

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She still has a huge upside to her game, and we have made a commitment to that potential.

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