Dallas Wings Post Game Press Conference (09/03/24) #wnba #dallaswings #voltup

okay Brown and TR if you have questions on Zoom use raise hand function otherwise we'll start in person coach suu exited for like a very brief moment second quarter um why did that happen shoulder yeah she had to go back to the locker room cuz she I mean a lot of people don't realize that she's not 100% clonnie is not 100% she's limited minutes and so it's just one of those things you mean but we did start too slow we we know that we kicked in in the second half but we just got to we got to come in that first quarter and really establish ourselves uh coach I know you said the team got off to a slow start U how do you regroup after a performance like this to get ready for Friday get back in the gym yeah get back in the gym watch film and they know I mean trust me they are professional athletes they care about this game and what we're doing and we'll go back and watch and they're not satisfied either they know they they they know they feel like we all do that we could have won that game coach we talked about the officiating in the league and get me fine AR you yeah I'm I said for you to but it seems like I've said this before in the press conference but it seems like they don't know how to call a game when T and Kanani is in there at what point do you guys I don't know maybe talk to the league about what's going on over the last couple years what do you do at what point do you get frustrated say enough is enough well let me say this okay we EV we evaluate I do the officials after every game I get a text message that says it I send in Clips Travis our assistant general manager um sends in Clips um after every game and that's all we can do it's all we can do from the 9450 tiar um you had a pretty strong perform tonight 2013 y um what was your approach tonight you know Domin pain like you do and also I want to talk a little bit about you know what coach was talking about I know seen one play where you got F real heart and you was kind of talking to the ref what was that conversation like um so got you no I've been slacked the last few games so I knew my teammates just been boosting me up saying I got it you know just going to do what I do so tonight I came out and you know I shook back a little bit but as far as the rest I have nothing to say to them nothing Jason colani how would you assess just the teams overall perform obviously you guys didn't win the game you wanted to but how would you assess the team's overall performance today um we can't come out the way we started it was flat um we were relaxed like we not trying to make playoffs and I think we're we got on each other about that but you Wasington is a well coach team you can't come out against well coach teams like that they're not going to let you out of the hole so um we just need to reevaluate the way we start our energy when we come out um because we are trying to get into playoffs so we need to act like it Rob go ahead yeah so this this for Coach Kalani and Tierra I know the wings still find themselves within striking this that final playoff spot you know building up what coach said about getting back to the gym what worked for the team in terms of the second half but worked in terms of building that that late charge and what can be built for the game ahead on Friday could you say that again I'm sorry I've been I've been catching that's okay you know my coach said about going back to the gym in terms of like trying to regroup what else worked in the second half that you feel like you can take away from tonight and get ready to use against Atlanta um just hitting people first being physical T continuing to play the way she playing um and me coming off and being a spark on the bench um just being aggressive in the paint um and offensive rebounding when we play inside out we're a really dangerous team so we just got to when we get to that we got to just stay with that and stick with that Eric go ahead go ahead was on mute all right uh 50 points off of the bench for Washington what makes them so tough to contain who's that a question for uh coach yeah one of the things that they do really well is shoot the basketball and we we know that I mean they're number one in the league and and three-pointers made and so they can space the floor extremely well and put teams in rotation so that's a an area that at times we have struggled with but again that's uh that's what makes them deadly and it's from first five to the ones that come off the bench you can see the system that they want to run and what they want to accomplish and they have the players that that fit that anything else Co coach I'm sorry I want to ask again just about saw two um with the injury what do you where is she at I know you said not 100% how close do you think she is to 100% and how do you guys plan to like just you know monitor it moving forward yeah that's what's tough about it because for coaches of course we want to get in the gym and grind right and especially coming off of this but um our season's been so wild just because we've been you know injury prone and we have players that are not 100% so we just got to watch film for the ones that can't go like we've been doing um practicing one that that can and um we're capable we're capable I got to give clonnie credit too I'm not going to mention your stuff but you know she's battling right now with some things and she comes in and gives all she can and and uh I I think these two right here the best league bigs in the league and you got to say a lot about what they're having to do uh coming around the perimeter getting in inside getting just pound you know hammered and so for what they do to to to keep after it and keep producing like they are says a lot about them and I'm glad they're on our team go coach I just wanted to ask about the positives you could build on going forward and then um I know in defeat AR is not satisfied but again she said another for the I guess the record and wings history for most free thr throws yeah I mean if you want to talk about the positives um five and double digits you know we outrebounded them again um points in the paint 48 to 24 um pass break points we didn't do too well but Clon 10 plus points for the second time in the last three games T 11th double double that's something that you know she wanted to do coming in to this even the season to get more third 20po game of the year out you know outrebounded for the 19th time but it still it you can say those things but still leaves a bad taste just because you know you could have won we just got to start better and I and I know I know that we'll bounce back from this anything else thank you thanks everyone thank you thank you