Ella continued to improve everyday throughout the season. She had a lot to learn but she got much better at being in the correct position defensively and and she started really understanding the plays. She always had a great desire to learn and improve and that kind of attitude is contagious.
It's disingenuous to say California business would be lost in the shuffle because we put an office in Nevada.
Our mind set today was that we had nothing to lose today and everything to gain. I asked the girls to leave it all on the floor and that's exactly what they did.
Ashley brought her all-around game to the gym every night. There really isn't any part of the game that she can't do, and her ability to shoot the three really helped us open up our offense. On the defensive side, she is just a very, very hard worker and that work ethic rubs off on the other players.
We've had a tendency to rush against a zone and that makes us have to get out and work that much harder on defense. When we're patient we can use our speed and our penetration to try and get some good looks on the inside.
We're not used to having a lead like that and we panicked a little, but we showed the composure that we needed to put the game away. In the second half, we had two spells where we ran more than a minute off the clock each time, and like I told the girls that's another minute we don't have to play defense.
Our home floor hasn't been real kind to us this year. We've kind of struggled here for whatever reason. We've seemed to have done better on the road.
Tonight our defense was just fantastic. The girls did everything we asked them to and they just worked really hard. The last time we played Knoxville, they scored something like 62 points on us, but tonight - due to the intensity the girls showed - we were able to shut down everything they tried to do.
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