Mistie Williams
Mistie Williams
Mistie McCray Bassis an American professional women's basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association. She is the daughter of Pam Bass, and singer Chubby Checker. She was born in Janesville, Wisconsin...
creeping love national statement tennessee
I think the ACC is really making a statement for women's basketball, not just UNC and Duke. Usually it's the SEC that's getting all the love because they have Tennessee and they have national championships. The ACC's creeping up here.
anybody capable game hope played saw shows team type watching worried
I think anybody who saw that game should be intimidated. It just shows the type of team we are very capable of being. I hope every team we played is a little more worried after watching a game like that.
beginning defense hard help knew minded offensive season throughout win worked
We worked so hard throughout the season on our defense because we were so offensive minded in the beginning of the year. As the season went on, we knew defense would help us win games.
defense games hard knew late season win worked
We worked so hard on our defense. As the season went on, we knew our defense would be what would win us games late in the season.
confidence definitely learned losses positive showing time
It definitely restores our confidence. It was just our time for those losses and we learned from it. We're positive with one another and it's showing in the tournament.
beat bring change collect face reflect span team
We just really had to come back and kind of bring everything back and just collect and just kind of reflect on what we could have done better and how we were going to change it. I think that two-week span where we didn't play, we really just concentrated on how we're going to beat any team that we would face in this tournament.
anxious focus game learn move next ready
We just kind of have to learn from this game and move on to the next one. Just focus more than being so anxious and be ready to play.
close great pictures relationship seeing
Brittany had a really close relationship with her teammates. Just seeing her there, she had a great time. She's in a lot of pictures and it was fun.
focus game learn move ready successful
We need to focus that much more (in the tournament) and I don't think we were successful in doing that. We have to just learn from this game and move on and be ready to play.
learned positive
We learned from it, we were positive with one another, and it's showing.
incredible lost ready
We know we have lost incredible players. But we still have incredible players, (players) ready to fight, ready to win.
defense help realized season work
We have had to work on our defense so much this season, because we are such an offense-minded team. As the season went on, we realized that that work on our defense was really going to help us. It did tonight.
game greatest happened played team
That game was one of the greatest I've ever played in, if not in women's basketball, period. That happened in the past. Their team is different this year, and so is ours. It's a different game.
brain game
She's in your brain before the game even starts.