Carrie Graf Quotations

She's in her seventh or eighth life as a basketball player.

Her knee and the referee are getting to her. She's got to get beyond that. She's tough. She will.

I think when we had all of our talent, stretched over the year, we are a force. We knew what we were facing this year.

I think anytime you have one of your key starters out it's going to be tough for you. In the first half we didn't handle the pressure (11 turnovers) well and they absolutely smashed us on the boards.

I think it was out ability to withstand it by coming up with big rebounds. We made some good decisions at the end and critically some big free throws down the stretch too.

Lauren is the MVP. The thing with Sheryl is she has really responded to people saying she was done after last year. She's come back and had a great season, but Lauren gives you more at both ends.

Right now our season's about one game and that's Minnesota,

Maria and Ashley Robinson clogged up the middle, coming up with some huge blocks down the stretch.

We have to take care of our business,

We have to take care of business at Seattle and rely on Los Angeles.

We didn't execute at the end of the game and that was my error.

We want to give them a great push, ... and we believe the win over L.A. and the win here tonight were monumental in doing that.

We always knew it was going to be tough with the schedule we had at the start and with the absence of players.

Down the stretch, in the last six minutes, we had some great looks. We just couldn't hit open shots when we needed to and it was tough to come back.

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

It wasn't pretty but it was a 'W,' ... Minnesota outplayed us in the first half, there's no question our perimeter defense was really poor.

It was disappointing to lose this one. But we have to go up to Seattle and hope things fall in our favor.

Take care of our home court and see if we can get a win or two on the road.

Talking about Maria at this point is irrelevant.

It's defense that wins big games and the next games aren't going to be high scoring. They're going to be battles, ... If you can hold teams down in that scoring range, you're going to be in a good situation.

At this point, we're taking it as a one-game season. Right now, that one game is Minnesota.

I think our changing defense is really unsettled,