Sheila King Quotations

We absolutely expected this kind of game. We knew it was going to be scrappy, we knew it was going to be shot for shot and it was a pretty evenly matched game.

She was great on the boards all night. But she got big rebounds in the second half.

She faces some tough stuff every night. Box-in-one every night ? that's who they go after. But she hangs in tough. That's what we need from her every night.

We toyed with slowing down the game from the start, or going at it. We were pretty confident that we should go at it tonight. That was the result. I guess we weren't ready for it.

I thought the momentum would be ours after the comeback. ..I think it just came down to a mental game, who's going to make the mistake and capitalize on it.

I was hoping tonight was the night for us.

We knew she was a good player. And wow. She's a heck of a player. Great shot. She's a winner. I know she's going on to play in college and she'll be successful. A lot of heart.

The team played very, very well. We played a 32-minute game and did what we needed to do from start to finish.

The talk after the game was playing for 32 minutes. And playing 100 percent for 32 minutes. I don't think we got that tonight.

They sound so good! I can't believe they are high school and lower. They are so dedicated and committed.

They've been coming together well and it took a lot of work. They just needed to gel and at this time of the season, just like last year, we seemed to do it. We go through a lot in the Northwest Conference.

It was exam week and the kids didn't play all week until Friday. It's a tough week when you take exams every day, then have to play. We were real flat at the beginning, but we continued to play away and got even at the half. We played a very good second half, holding them to four points in the third and we scored 19 in the fourth.

It's crunch time. We've got to get the win.

They beat us last time. And we want to get them.

It was great to qualify for the tournament not only against a team which had beaten us on our floor, but to do it in their gym.