Christie Sides EXPLAINS how Kamilla Cardoso has IMPROVED since last time Fever FACED Sky

um she is uh taking her time I feel like she was trying to make something happen when she got in earlier and now she's getting touches um she's just such great size and she has great hands um you know she tipped the ball in their game the other night and then took off running to the rim and outran everybody to get a layup right to start that game um she's just you know she's just one of these players out of this class that just is going to keep getting better she's going to be a great boy where i' like to start just one for me when it comes to Caitlyn's turnovers how like how comfortable are you with obviously a certain number of turnovers coming from her level of aggressiveness as far as the way you know she plays the game yeah curious how you make like peace with that is it an okay thing like what oh no turn okay you know what just the way she plays you have to give her a little Grace with um you know she she has a a vision that sees things that sometimes other players on the court just don't see and sometimes they're just not ready um that's where we've grown because I think now our players are really are starting to understand what she sees and and putting themselves in those positions to to take catch those passes uh that she's making so yeah um a couple games ago I think she only had two she was really proud about that game we talked about that one for sure so what's the number you'd like like to see her at I love two two would be awesome yeah that'd be great um you know that's just how the game's going you know we we talk about flow and when you have to really um execute offense and take care of the basketball during certain spells we tend to have um like some runs that happen to us that a lot of it has to do with our turnovers first and then um us just giving up transition baskets and then either a turnover or a bad shot or trying to get it back so um you know just trying to limit those and especially those moments even with what you saw of Lex's performance the other night was just curious if she was going to get start T oh yeah let's see is sp for can be so special any given night what do you think of what they do and what do you guys have to do about that especially given the way you play at the yeah you know I think um for sure all five of our players you know list and ab and all the post players have to get out and run I think that's to our advantage if they're running running the floor um I I challenged them all last night i' shoot around today just you know these guys are there's three of the top offensive rebounders on the court out there between cardoso and Angel and and ab so you know we got to make sure that we are limiting those uh those Second Chance points for them that's that's a real strength of theirs um just got to make sure all f are blocking out you talked about flow you want Caitlyn Clark and Boston playing well together obviously to get them started early what is required to get them sync early in a game like this yeah you know we like to always try to initiate um post touches early I think if we can get some post touches get a or list some touches down low it kind of makes the defense kind of sink in and creep in which opens up everything for those Shooters and um you know we're shooting the ball extremely well right now I'm going knock on some wood and so just want to make sure that you know once we establish that and that opens up everything for those outside players um and their shots he comes in she's kind of been was the focal point then Aaliyah comes in then C comes in you kind of you the offense is changing and the the style is changing how is like her versatility and selflessness kind of made this all work yeah I mean she is uh I say it every time I talk about Kelsey just a special player um her she's so Dynamic uh her speed her quickness you know you run a few things for her a back door action or coming off a pin down or sagger her speed gets her open I mean sometimes they can't catch I mean they even if they don't get hit on the screens um but she's you know she can get downhill um um she's playing such good defense right now for us as well which is a part of her game that you know she really wanted to get better at um so just all around she's just um she's getting some great looks because of what you said with Caitlyn and Aaliyah taking some of the attention off of her when it's just been on her so she's getting to take some wide open shots that she hasn't had in the past don't have kitty Lou you went to that three guard group a bunch in the last game you feel like you're experimenting with those a little bit how comfortable are you with them and what do you like about they provide you yeah I think that just you know it kind of depends on the Personnel of the other team whether we're able to do that or not um that gives us a lot of speed um which is which is good it also help you know that's that's a pretty good defensive lineup as well um so just you know whatever is needed in that moment um with the uh team that we're playing you know that can kind of um we can kind of go to that lineup if if we need that um but yeah you know like I said like we're we're we're looking to play the people that are going to help us put ourselves in position to win games so you mentioned CTO so that she kind of in a different place than she was did the first three times you guys played what have you seen from her since the break that worries you more than in the first few games yeah um she is uh taking her time I feel like she was trying to make something happen when she got in earlier and now she's getting touches um she's just such great size and she has great hands um you know she tipped the ball in their game the other night and then took off running to the rim and outran everybody to get a layup right to start that game um she's just you know she's just one of these players out of this class that just is going to keep getting better she's going to be a great player just what do you like about Aaliyah Andis together and do you think they'll have some more time together with Sky yeah I I we' experimented that with that a little bit and um I think that's opened up ab a little bit on the inside with the way uh DD is able to shoot the ball she's hit some big threes for us um she's just able to to spread the the defense and and ab's able to work in there and if they want to choose to come in and try to double AB you know we've got um options out on the perimeter to knock shots down see earlier today we were talking about defense and how you wanted to see the team improve in that area for that Improvement to happen is it about consistency is it adding more layers to it is it about individual defense team like what does that Improvement like what would that look like to you yeah first it starts with the ball pressure and that's something that we hadn't really done a great job uh in the past and that's what we really focused on just you've got to make people feel you and we weren't doing that early and then we did a really good job of like executing the initial actions of opposing teams whether pin down or stagger but then once the ball moved and the offense was broken now we've got to break down and guard our man be loaded up um on that help side and so just understanding all those a lot of times we weren't on that nail in that 29 spot we were over guarding our man when we needed to be in help side team defense so just all those things just being able to work on those has we've gotten better at at being in those right spots which just made us a better defensive team all right thank you coach yeah thank