Rick Ford
Rick Ford
developing factor keeps next opportunity played rotation
He played well. He has an opportunity if he keeps developing and working to be a factor in our rotation next season.
aggressive open taking turned
We turned down some open shots, so we need to be aggressive. Being aggressive is taking an open shot. We're better when we run, and we haven't been aggressive enough in transition.
baked few friends-or-friendship gave months result took works
Everything we baked we gave to friends to find out what works and what doesn't work. It took us a few months to get it down right. The end result was a lot of products.
both either proved
You feel comfortable with either of them. They both have proved they can do it.
build couple girls growing hearts played seniors
We've got some girls that played their hearts out. We can build on it, that's just part of that growing process, but they had a couple of seniors that were really good.
beat lost matter phoenix
We've lost to Charlotte, but we beat Phoenix (on the road). How that works, I don't know. It's a matter of us going out and playing.
bit certainly needed stops tough
That's a tough loss. We have to play just a bit better. We made the stops we needed to make tonight, and we certainly did enough defensively. We just have to play better.
game might spread thinking winning won
Winning a game like this might be better for us that if we won with an eight-or nine-point spread because we had to work. We didn't come in here thinking it would be easy.
bad good habit player year
We told him all year to play more disciplined. It?s just a bad habit of him reaching. He is too good a player to let that happen.
ball deserves ground hit left passed sitting trouble
We were having trouble getting things started all night. It was just a little ground ball that I was able to hit in the right place to get on. Then a passed ball and Ruben Sierra deserves a lot of credit. After sitting on the bench, he rips that ball out there into left field. He did his job.
arrived athletic beat extremely games job league marvel nights people respect spent summer teams throughout watching
Fran and I spent a lot of nights watching summer league games throughout the D.C. area. I've got a lot of respect for him. You've got to marvel at the job he's done once he arrived there. His teams are very intelligent. They're not going to beat themselves. They're going to play extremely hard. They're probably more athletic than people think.
country played team
We weren't the second-best team in the country when we played Duke. We weren't.
good guys played players ready run top
We had a day off (Saturday), so our players were ready to play them, ... We played with a lot of energy. The top 10-11 guys all got a good run in and played well.
ability effective fathom hard passing quickness talked tape team teams until watched
We watched tape of them and we talked about their quickness and ability to get in the passing lanes. Until you get out there it's hard to fathom how effective they are. They are a pesky team and they're going to be one of those teams that will always be hard to play.