Matt Thissen
Matt Thissen
great hard senior works
It was great to see, especially on senior night. Rachel works as hard as anybody.
against athlete great loves scratch watch
Sometimes when you watch her, you can tell she's a freshman. She can make you scratch your head. But she's such a great athlete and she loves to play against Merced.
push
We want to do what we do and they want to do what they do. It may come down to who can push their will on the other one.
matter talent time
With her talent and her academics, it was only a matter of time for Kim.
coming group loses mold next quality team together
Every team loses quality players. It's how you can take that next group coming up and mold them together to get them to play together.
chance girls knock sitting talking
We've been talking to the girls about that. When you're sitting on top, everyone want the chance to knock you off.
found huge open people somebody stepping talked
We talked about other people stepping up. That was a huge 3. They were double-teaming Kim, so somebody had to be open and she found her.
against credit job kim low pace playing scoring success
We did a lot better job of playing the pace we wanted to play. I give Kim a lot of credit for that. When we're success against Merced, it's usually a low scoring game.
best couple desire emotional ended felt happy last nice passion played steps tonight took win
We're happy because we didn't feel we played our best over the last two games. We had a big, emotional win over Merced, but then we felt like we took a couple of steps backwards. Tonight we played with a lot of passion and a lot of desire and we ended up with a nice win.
five floor girls score team tough
Napa had five girls on the floor that could score and score from anywhere. It makes that team very tough to defend.
ability awful desire guard hard herself kim knew minutes pace point position rely says
We knew we were going to rely on Kim an awful lot. To play the point guard position as hard as she did, and for as many minutes as she did, says a lot about her desire and ability to pace herself during a game.
ball drive force practice stressed
We stressed in practice (Monday), they're not going to drive to the basket. We had to play tighter on the perimeter and force them to put the ball on the floor.
couple inspired season trying
We have to play more inspired basketball. We need it from everybody, not just a couple players. It's not like we're 3-18 and trying to get the season over with. We have a lot to play for.
cross sure talk time
With the timeouts we had enough time to talk them through it. I made sure to let the referees know what we were doing and to make sure he didn't let them cross the plane.