Joe Lang Quotations

Obviously it's a tribute to two things. First of all, she's a kid that has outstanding offensive skills, great ball-handling and the ability to shoot the ball. And probably her best asset is her ability to get to the rim against bigger people.

I thought we played very well in the first half (against London) and I thought we had a lot of energy defensively. In the second half, we just came out sluggish. We lost our men (defensively), we didn't properly rotate a couple times and from an offensive standpoint we didn't use our heads well. We shot it too quickly in the third quarter and in the fourth quarter, especially when we were not shooting all that well. Our patience has got to get better. And we were 7-for-19 from the foul line. They were fouling, and it looked like a pretty good strategy.

I think they got a little frustrated. We are not very big so we have to put pressure on teams in the backcourt.

I will use that tape. That was a clinic on blocking out. Every single time, they completely sealed us out of there.

Those two have been sharing duties in the post and have started to give us a little bit of a presence. They had 17 points and five rebounds combined (last Saturday). I don't really have a plan of how I'm going to use them. I usually just go with what the foul situation is.

We had really, for the last four days of practice leading up to the game, stressed getting out on (Highland) and setting the tone defensively. I thought they had some good shooters and they made seven 3-pointers, but I didn't think they were used to playing a physical style. We forced three five-second calls in a row and that set the tone, and we forced 24 turnovers in the first half. Our transition worked really well and we got a lot of easy baskets.

Every year there seems to be some turnover.

Offensively that was our best game of the year. We shot the ball well.

The whole idea is that the Vegas event will be profitable enough to underwrite the Aspen event.

They're smaller than us. I think we'll have an advantage in quickness, but they play pretty hard. We just need to keep defending well.

I told the girls at halftime to keep playing hard and I think in second half they did it even more. We thought we could get into them defensively and make them work to get the ball up the floor.