NY LIBERTY POST GAME vs SUN | KAYLA THORNTON | NYLFTV | 8.24.24

um KT U let's I'm going to change course a little bit let's just talk about when you heard the news of jayen shro signing the rest of her season contract how excited were you for her and you know tonight at the end of the game things got a little bit chippy she did get her first WNBA technical um she said you owed her some assists if there is a fine for her will you take care of that fine um well let's go back to first of all it's a it's it's a it's a blessing it's a blessing definitely um you know uh I always her to keep her head up you know wait for her opportunity you know when um God closes one door God's always going to bust you in a in a different way we don't know how but he will and I think this is a way of God showing her her path through the WBA so I'm so happy for her and you know um with the sis uh you know I ain't talk she ain't talk to me about that now you know I will go back and tell her you know you do have that nil money that you have so you ain't that broke baby take a few more points in the paint tonight it was 48 to 26 or 46 to 28 um and it felt like Connecticut was really dictating what you guys were doing offensively they really crashing down inside and a lot of outside shots what you think of just the general um way that you guys attack that defense tonight um well first of all kudos to you know Connecticut coming out and playing um you know uh they had it back to back and you know they played like they didn't and I think you know we kind of played like we had it back to back um yeah our defense was kind of all over the place and I think um you know I always take ownership of myself and I wasn't really the spark that we needed tonight on the on the defensive side and uh I take ownership on that side you know we just didn't click and you know when it gets hard normally uh we kind of lock in but for some reason today we didn't um so I mean it's just a learning I'm glad we went through this you know it's just one game now we have to like regroup and we have a tough Road games coming up so Sabrina made a promise post game that you all weren't going to lose like this again so I guess how would you describe the way that you all lost and I guess how are you going to remember this and and how it felt and not to try to lose in that way you may lose a game but not in this way yeah I mean um you know you're going to lose some games and even when you do play great you going to lose but the way we lost uh we kind of gave him that um I think it was everything was on us we didn't really like I said didn't know we was doing on defense communication our offense wasn't really clicking and stuff like that but I mean it's okay you know um we're going to learn from it we're going to bounce back from it like you know Saina said and you know move forward also be is scheduled to return probably on on Monday against the Mercury I guess just how oh no oh um oh that was KB over there of course well you know what I don't I ask you about KB because she fired a rocket of a pass to Stewie she was cutting to the basket I guess just we don't always talk about KB's passing we talk about her hands we talk about you know hustle plays she makes I guess when did you realized that she's also a really great passer yeah I mean that's just another attribute to her game you know what I'm saying there's a lot of stuff that you probably don't know about a lot of people you know and it just comes within the game so I mean that's what she does and I guess going back to to banija you know scheduled to come back I guess how much of an opportune time is this for you guys to get her back I mean it's good now that we have everybody now we kind of have to now get the chemistry back get the flow of things and stuff like that so um we have to work that into play and you know Saina 2 being out and stuff like that so it's good to have the whole team back now we have to find ourselves and I'll keep pushing out from a defensive perspective how much does how much of a different team does Connecticut become with Marina ma in the lineup yeah uh I mean you know she's a three-point shooter so you know there's no more like sagging off and helping others you know we have to respect her um and also DB so I mean she does bring you know a difference to them on the on the outside so we have to adjust to that Stewie told us a few minutes ago that you were able to kind of feel yourself slipping a little bit against Dallas and it's carried over into this game just wondering how you flip that switch again to kind of rebound from this little stretch here yeah I mean we had to find ourselves um you know I think like I said I'll talk about myself you know we we weren't there we weren't locked in especially defensively I think that's one of our keys I think that's what has helped us have this long stretch of wins was our Unity on defense and you know playing together you know once when somebody's down or somebody gets beat we always had that second help and I don't think we had that today um like I said that comes from myself not bringing the energy that I'm supposed to on defense and carrying that akt um so lot of talk about Miss three selling for threes throughout the course of a game um obviously it's easy to kind of make that um come to that realization after a game or watching film or listening what coaches meeting members have to say how do you kind of make that realization kind of throughout the course of a game make those adjustments and um come back and try to win a game with with you guys being in Striking Distance um yeah um but sorry yeah yeah sorry yeah yeah yeah sorry um I'm stter no no no sorry it was B it um I mean with that you know we're going to miss some shots and stuff like that I think we just have to find other ways to to get going um there's so much in basketball that you can do so when your shots not working you can you know get offensive rebounds SK Steals and stuff like that so I think we just have to work on that but we just had an off night I mean nothing not a big deal we just want to bounce back and you know keep it moving we finish with BR hi c um on the night you guys had 32 three-pointers and Connecticut also really sort of made made made made the pain difficult for you guys how do you s of strike the balance between finding those pain shots while also not relying too much on ders that's a good question um I think just within our offense like I said today our offense wasn't clicking today uh we really couldn't find a rhythm normally when we do find Rhythm we get inside shots which then leads to our outside and um I don't think we did that uh you know JJ was you know she was handing her business but it was kind of tough for her down there there was you know a lot of a touches because we wasn't hitting shots so I think once that opens up once we start knocking down shots then it kind of opens up everything else