Pokey Chatman
Pokey Chatman
Dana "Pokey" Chatman is the current general manager and head coach of the Chicago Sky of the WNBA. She is the former head coach of the LSU Lady Tigers basketball team and the Spartak Moscow women's basketball team...
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Watching that tape last night, it's amazing the mentality (of Washington) going after the basketball and not just the kids that are five, six, seven feet away from it. It boils down to your base defense, and being able to lock in on it. Being able to play people head up and contesting shots and getting the block-out scheme.
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We didn't pull out a marker and get on the board at halftime. We just kind of appealed to their competitive nature and challenged them in terms of where they want to go and how they want their season to play out.
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They have a team where if you are not on the balls of your feet and ready to play, it can make for a troublesome afternoon.
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At certain times, you get a player of her caliber, and because of prior star players, you have this expectation. And she extinguished them immediately.
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You don't feel like an outsider, because at the end of the day it's the basketball game and everything you work for so many years coming up to this point.
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The bottom line is, the further you advance, the tougher the competition becomes, the more locked in and focused you have to be on every single possession. We had opportunities to help ourselves, but we didn't.
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The bottom line is going to be 40 minutes of execution.
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This is another eye-opener for us. I expect that our level of play will increase, and it will pick up as we get into San Antonio.
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This conference doesn't allow you to enjoy it a whole lot because you know there's a talented Georgia basketball team that got to sit home and rest. It has to be huge for the players to come in here and play against a quality opponent like Tennessee.
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This Arkansas team is the perfect team for us to come back and try to solidify some of the things that we not only did not do well at Florida in terms of defending the basketball, but there were some of the same things we didn't do well in Fayetteville. We were lucky as apposed to good in some of our possession the first time against Arkansas. This should be a good game to try to correct some of those things.
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I thought the biggest difference was the fact we were able to defend the basketball at the highest level.
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I remember watching a 5-8 kid dunk with power, and she's a 10th grader.
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I will never, ever try to stick a player back in there to get a record. There's a bigger picture out there.
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Going into the season, looking at our schedule and our conference and to prepare well against that and be rewarded is exciting.