Leslie Crane
Leslie Crane
chess confident game match mental time within
It's always a chess match this time of year. It's more mental than anything else and I don't want to say we feel confident about anyone, but we feel confident within our own game in what we can do and take away from people.
continue felt
It was rough. Regardless, you just have got to continue to play through and make adjustments. I felt like we were able to do that.
against attacked covering good job
They did a pretty good job of covering her up. I didn't think we attacked as well against that zone.
amanda experience good minutes walker younger
We have to get experience for our younger kids. Of the younger players, Amanda Walker got some good minutes in.
against ball desire effort held low point second shooting shot striving third
It comes down to effort and desire. Our effort was there against Oakland. We held them to a very low shooting percentage, but we just didn't go get the ball when the shot went up. That second and third effort is what we're striving to get back at this point and time.
defensive key offensive preached six year
We preached all year long what defensive rebounding does. With 3:03 remaining, we were out-rebounding them 38-21. They had six offensive boards. That's the big difference. That's a big key for us.
difficult experience players younger
This is something new for the new and younger players in our program. Sometimes your experience can play into that and make it a little more difficult for your team.
anyway breaks choosing four matter qualified tournament
It is something we've wanted to do, but it's not anything that makes or breaks our program. We've got four (conference) championships anyway ... We've already qualified for a postseason tournament anyway, so it's just a matter of choosing which one we want to go to.
good job looking playing situations
I think the two of them do a good job of looking for one another. They've been playing long enough now where they've experienced a lot of high-low situations and can do that very well.
ball came difference floor half kept kids maintained minutes pressure pushing second
I always tell our kids that the first 10 minutes of the second half is the difference in the ballgame. We came down and maintained pressure defensively and offensively. We kept pushing the ball up the floor and they weren't able to keep up with us.
best effort sit team
There is never a team we play where we can just sit back and not show up. We have to show up every night. Sometimes we don't give our best effort but we still find a way to win.
anxious bit compete develop game harder next physical room single sore stiff talked taste weight
After the pre-draft camp, we talked about it and she talked about how sore and stiff she was and I told her this is first look at how it's going to be every day after practice. You have to compete every single day on a very physical level. She has a taste of what it will be like and she's probably pretty anxious to get in the weight room a little bit more and little bit harder and do some things to develop her game for the next level.
I didn't tell anyone. Not Zane, not any of the other players. I didn't want that distraction.
coaches radar
I had coaches tell me that had we not done that, she wouldn't have been on the radar screen.