Carrie Graf
Carrie Graf
Carrie Ann Graf AMis an Australian basketball coach. She competed in the WNBL as a player starting during 1983–1989, after which she attended RMIT. Graf has coached teams in the WNBL, WNBA and Australia's national team, and has been honoured for her contribution to basketball coaching...
absolutely anytime half handle key pressure smashed starters tough
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.
believe great monumental tonight win
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.
absence knew schedule start tough
We always knew it was going to be tough with the schedule we had at the start and with the absence of players.
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She's in her seventh or eighth life as a basketball player.
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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.
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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.
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Maria and Ashley Robinson clogged up the middle, coming up with some huge blocks down the stretch.
game
Right now our season's about one game and that's Minnesota,
facing force knew stretched
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.
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Her knee and the referee are getting to her. She's got to get beyond that. She's tough. She will.
care
We have to take care of our business,
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We have to take care of business at Seattle and rely on Los Angeles.
execute game
We didn't execute at the end of the game and that was my error.
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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.