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Utah vs. Westminster Postgame Quotes
12/6/2010 12:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Dec. 6, 2010
Interim Head Coach Anthony Levrets
"That's what we've been talking about with our team. We can't think about winning and losing. It feels like you get so caught up in that, that you forget what you are going through. No matter who we have on the floor, we've had three practices in the last 14 days. It's a tough time and we can't worry about winning and losing. We have to worry about getting better. "
"When we recruited Iwalani Rodrigues, we told her she had a chance to be one of the best guards in the league. She has all the things you want in a strong guard: she can shoot it, she can pass it, she's a great free-throw shooter, and she can defend when she wants to. She took a whole year off in a redshirt year and wasn't able to practice. Last year, she was just a peripheral player because it's hard after taking a year off. This year was built around how to keep the ball inside, where the shots come from. Now she has no choice--she has to play. That's the beautiful thing about injuries and bad things that happen to teams- the kids find something within themselves to bring something extra, or something that they already have, that they weren't doing before. Now she is an incredibly gifted young basketball player."
"The thing that happens at some other games happened again tonight, where we suddenly stop scoring. We also lost energy in the past and that didn't happen to us tonight. We scored a ton of points off of the bench and it gave us energy. We kept getting stopped but kept following the game plan. Everybody was solid. We didn't give them open shots. [Westminster] is a good basketball team - they have one heck of a coach. They execute their stuff as good as anybody that we've played against." "Going into tonight, we were holding people at 37% on the floor and our field goal percentage was at 38%. We're a good defensive team. By the time the year is over, we could be a great defensive team. We still have to get better. What we've done against teams so far is play really, really good defense. We just have to continue to play that way. It's not going to get easier; it will just get harder from here on out."
"Every single possession, we talk about it every day in practice. First play of the game, last play of the game--we're up 10, we're down 10, up 30, or down 30. It doesn't matter. We need to play in the same place so the habit is that when the game is on the line, we play the way we're supposed to. It can't just be the first five or the first eight, it has to be all 13 of us doing our jobs all the time. You never know when it's going to be your opportunity."
"This win just feels great. I feel like we all have a part on this team. We have a really young team. I don't think we celebrated a win like we did tonight ever before. Tonight this game could make us or break us after we lost to Washington and Arkansas. I think we're headed the right way."
"I was nervous, yes, but I don't want to say scared. I think the way we reacted to them made the difference and trusting each other with the whole team playing together. I was open, of course. There were others who shot the ball as well as I did tonight. We have to open up everybody's game. That's what I was missing last year. I think me being able to shoot the ball the way I mean to will open us up more."
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