It was an exciting finish, and the girls were pretty thrilled to win a close one against a good program in a great atmosphere. What pleased me most is that I could tell our girls expected to win. That's a great sign.
The girls were excited but not satisfied. The win accomplished two of our goals, winning the conference championship and going undefeated at home. We cut down the nets and celebrated some, but it wasn't wild. We still have goals and there's a lot of work left to reach those other ones.
The great thing about having a game like this is being able to try different things. We worked on our full-court pressure, both man and trapping. We also tried some of the things we haven't used too much this season just to take a look at them.
We've scouted Central Catholic twice and they've changed their system from last season. They've moved their post player (Herman) to the wing, maybe because of graduation. They've lost some talent and aren't of the same caliber they were last year. But that doesn't mean they don't have talent.
We did a pretty good job containing her most of the game, but she scored 14 points I think in the third quarter. We handled their pressure pretty well, but just did some bad things in the third quarter.
We were in foul trouble, so we didn't want to challenge them defensively.
We'll try to limit Andrea Moore as much as possible. She's a good player, but we think if we can contain her we should match up pretty well at the other positions. Hopefully, we'll be able to get them on the boards.
We had three girls foul out, and we got out of sync on offense. Still, if we just play defense in the last few minutes, we win in regulation. We gave up a wide-open 3-pointer with 12 seconds left.
Their kids play extremely hard all the time and I'm sure they'll increase their intensity at tournament time. We'll have a size advantage on them in the post and we want to make full use of that.
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