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...
amazing base basketball boils feet head kids last lock mentality people seven shots tape watching
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.
came conscious effort establish few herself last locker played realized room speed
Sylvia realized the last few times out she hadn't played to her capability. When she came out of the locker room at half, she made a conscious effort to establish herself and use some of her speed and quickness.
challenged leaving locker
It was something that I challenged them with leaving the locker room.
bottom competition focused further help line locked single tougher
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.
crowd energy locker
I can always tell the energy of the crowd when they come back in the locker room.
basketball defensive good means overall pressure
Overall it comes down to our defensive effort. We had 47 deflections, and that's always something good because that means you're able to pressure the basketball and not let them feel comfortable in their sets.
building extremely far halves manner nice outcome overall pleased remember struggled together
Overall I'm extremely pleased with the outcome of this game. As far back as I can remember we have struggled in this building and it was nice to see us not only put together two halves of basketball, but in the manner in which we put it together.
aware capable close extremely frustrated players possession
I was extremely frustrated about our start. The players are well aware of what they are capable of doing. They have to make each possession a masterpiece. They didn't come close to doing that today.
bigger picture player stick
I will never, ever try to stick a player back in there to get a record. There's a bigger picture out there.
ahead attention coaches continue couple executing goes looked majority matter obviously paying slate team unit weeks year
I thought it looked like we had a couple of weeks off for a majority of the time. It's a matter of executing from a timeout to the floor. It's a matter of paying attention to detail, and as a unit that's obviously something coaches want their team to continue to get better and better at as the year goes on, especially with the slate we have ahead of us.
areas drop good minutes players rest several standpoint starters today
I thought in several areas we got better today from the standpoint of players that don't play a lot of minutes got a lot of minutes and different combinations with some starters getting to rest and there not being a drop off. All of that is good stuff.
great school
I think this has really been great for us, for the school and for the fans.
class goes hard last senior success talked team time tournament work
We've talked a lot about this senior class and this program. The last time the tournament was in Little Rock, we experienced success there. This team understands there is a lot of hard work that goes into that.
complaints-and-complaining eight half minutes report scouting seven sounds wasted
The 20-0 sounds good, and I'm not complaining at all about it, but we wasted about seven and a half or eight minutes before got to the scouting report offense.