Paul Vachon Quotations

We've seen teams with strong inside games, and we've seen teams with strong outside games. They have both, and we haven't seen that, so we can't emphasize anywhere.

We're going do what we've done well all year, and hopefully good things come our way. We're not going to do anything special. As a matter of fact, we tried to do things special during the tournament, and none of it worked. All we did is move right back to our basics, and our basics got us this far.

Last year was an exceptional team (in terms of chemistry), but we had been together for two years. This team is brand new. The parts were all there. You were just hoping that the parts would come together and learn their roles. I didn't expect it this soon. I expected it hopefully more next year. But it came together a lot quicker than anticipated.

Monica is a great athlete. That's probably why she was first team all-defense in the KVAC.

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

I thought Kristi did a great job. She showed what kind of gutsy kid she is. She realizes now she can come back. You can't ask for a better heart or effort.

(White) has been on everyone and she's just getting better. She played JV ball last year. She waited her turn, and a lot of athletes don't do that.

We'll be OK. We've got the whole regular season to go, so we're going to be OK. I like my team.

We played soft (defense) early on and that was mostly my fault. I didn't want to get Cassie (Cooper) and Rachael (Mack) in foul trouble.

We worked extremely hard. I think they wanted it for their teammates. This was the best game we've played all year. There's no doubt in my mind.

You give them open looks, they don't miss. Now (White's) got all the confidence in the world. Confidence is 95 percent of it. She took them and she hit them. You want to let us shoot it, we'll shoot it.

Everything I asked him to do he would do double. He wanted to learn as much as he could and he would put in a lot of time. I really didn't want to give him any recommendations (for head coaching jobs) because he was a tremendous asset to our program.

At the beginning of the year everybody was blowing by her. She's had to learn how to play people and how to stop people. She's done that.

This is about as close as we are. When we can get to the middle of the court together, then we can become a team.

That, I think, is a contract for life. I hope he never leaves. He has the same basic philosophy as I do and that is building the fundamentals.

I'm very proud of the way they came back. Bangor's a good team and we were able to make them to some different things in the second half.

If you give them open looks, they don't miss. But if you have someone there, and especially with Paradis because she shoots from the hip, it's going to be a little tougher than if they're open.