Kamilla Cardoso, Lindsay Allen, and Teresa Weatherspoon on the Sky LOSING to Marina Mabrey's Sun

yeah it's definitely something that we've been trying to um build throughout the season um not quitting ever I think for us early in the season we would quit we were down like late in the game like fourth quarter um but in our situation we were only down 10 at halftime so we felt like we had 20 minutes to really turn it up and that's what we did in the third quarter so we want to always start the quarter strong especially first quarter and third quarter um and just continue to play hard play for each other and play together yeah um I just feel like we got some dogs in this team and we're going to play hard no matter what the score is and we're just going to play for each other so when we out there we just try to play hard no matter what any more for players in person players only please no you're okay for the team as you said I third you talk about the mindset that [Music] you you guys so you guys can yeah I think we always want to be the aggressors in the game how we want to start the game we always want to punch first um I thought we did a good job with that to start the game in the first quarter and then like I said in the third quarter we always want to um start that quarter well um as well so I think for us like staying confident staying aggressive being the aggressor um and just keep them on their toes which is what you saw we were getting into the paint We were finishing we're getting offensive rebounds um Camila and Angel playing hard they were helping us out defensively for sure as guards um and we were just like figuring things out and that's what coach wants us to do as a team we kind of she wants us to figure it out together figure it out in game action in live game action so that's what you saw any more in person all right we move to zoom kle uh yes um just kind of you guys uh really started locking down in that third quarter and that fourth quarter what kind of spurred the defensive turn around after halftime um just being disruptive that's what we always want to do um and so you saw a little bit of that you know when we're disruptive and we get them the missed shots we get we rebound and we just run um and we keep the defense off balance in that way Carly please unmute for players only uh Camila how would you assess the growth that you've seen uh out of your game especially your shot range um in the second half of the Season we've just seen you take more shots that are not just right around the rim is that something that you really worked on and is that something that we're going to see later on this season um yeah that's something I worked on and Ma te and my coaches show me so much confidence so they made feel comfortable just start shooting range thank you last question for players from Mike please onute hey guys appreciate the time uh my only question is for Lindsay you've talked about how you pride yourself and watching film and preparing for your guards defensively assignments throughout the year um you know this is your first time playing against Marina since she's been traded and I'm wondering is there a difference between your preparation whether that's watching film when it's to someone you've played with the entire year up to this point um no it's not different and I think with Marina it's kind of a special situation because I've been knowing her for years went to college together um so I've known her since 2014 2015 whatever it's been even before with her sister at Notre Dame so I think I've just been knowing her game for so long um and obviously she's improved and gotten better but um just been watching her obviously on the same team as her this season for a little bit so yeah it's not much different thank you thank you players thank you sorry coach person your team came out in the third quarter different mentality took I just want to ask you what was your message team we'll leave that in the locker room we'll leave that message in the locker room but they came out and met the challenge you know it's um it's important for us to follow the game plan for 40 minutes and when we do uh we we're pretty successful and then I want actually follow like there were no successful actions between Lind I just want to get onop connection between so a lot of work that's been put in in practice a lot of work and uh they're following through with all the things that we're trying to implement they're looking really really good at it coming off the screens finding the rolls finding the bigs you know caging guards and then finding the bigs still uh but they're just making sure that everybody gets a touch and our bigs are definitely getting touches when our bigs get touches it really makes us successful and it opens up things for our Guardsman perimeter any more person um I was wondering what do think learn first line not defensively everything was defensively you know when you're giving putting them at the free throw line fouling putting them at the free throw line um that's kind of tough for us defending without we want to defend without fouling and uh we had some defensive mises and letting people be wide open um and that's definitely not who we are defensively we're aggressive and uh we weren't that in the second in in the first half so kind of got us behind the second half started in the third quarter which is a very very important quarter very important for us to start off well and we did we hit first and we kept hitting and we kept hitting kept hitting and unfortunately at the end um things turn in their favor coach often in coaches don't like to talk about victories but there seem to be a lot of positive building blocks for your team for um as a coach you can p out some POS well it's definit a lot of positives no matter what you always can positives but of course I'm not W to talk about moral victories and you're correct because it's not what we're in here for we're not in here for that but you look at how we started that third quarter off and how aggressive we were the level of intensity we played with uh the enthusiasm we played with the the togetherness we played with and everybody was just on the same page and when we see that we know we got something very special so we take all of those things that we did in that third quarter all the way to the end of the game and we can build off of those things back to the front um if you want to add on to that know is kind of a simar question um it just seemed like the second half I mean you would have thought you guys were trying to keep them from and you would have thought like had points the way she was playing on the like even though she had no points for the first half if you just speak about the character like this it just the team was just they had no qu most teams I've seen I've seen players they'll continue to play hard but they kind of check out it with this team it wasn't no checking out it was it wasn't just going to play hard it was we are coming wi this game in the second half and you speak about to the character of the team because you have some you have bet but you also have young players too check yeah we don't we don't own a tow to throw in we don't own that on this team we don't give up no matter what it looks like we always believe that we're in it and we can win it that's why we come to any gym to go play win we go we go to win um everyone speaks about that we're young we're growing yes we're young and we're growing but we're competitors those young women are incredible competitors and they want to win so they came out with an incredible amount of grit in that second half to go win a game um that I'm I can be proud of I can be super proud of them coming out in that second half but we came to win we came to win so we walk away of course you're you're not the happiest you're not the happiest because you want a w um but we will take the film we will learn from from all those things that we need to be even better at and you'll say this all season long but that's what you have to do you got to go right back to the drawing board you got to pull out those things that you didn't do so well and then show how well you did do them and how successful you can be we'll go to Carell on Zoom please on hey coach how would you assess uh Camila cardoso's growth in this second half of the Season we've just seen her take more shots outside of just that restricted area around the rim we've also seen her defensive uh defensive game just sroll how would you assess what you've seen out of her in the second half of the season this just more comfortable that's what happens when you continue to play the game she's more comfortable I've said this again she's meeting the challenge I've challenged her she's meeting the challenge know she's not afraid to shoot the ball and I don't want her to be we're not boxed athletes over here we're we're athletes who want to be you know comfortable and she's very comfortable right now she's sure of herself and there's a lot of confidence that we tried to just pour into her as a as a staff is well as her teammates she's only just feeling much better about herself and where she is to help this team to be successful and it's great to see it's awesome to see and then just to followup um turnovers were also a problem today 16 turnovers we haven't seen that high of a number since prior to the all-star break I know probably film will show the answer to this but just your first assessments on what kind of led to more turnovers than what we've seen out of your team in the last three to four games lack of execution lack of execution when that ball moves and you move it as a unit ball movement player movement that's what it means you can't move it as some as as a single player it has to move as a team and we were we were not finding the open players and U having to turn it over and kind of fell into their aggression a little bit uh instead of just taking care of the ball and finding the open person so uh we turned it over numerous times and uh when you take a look at how many points they scored scored off of those turnovers there's a game take a look at the free throw how many free throws they took and how many they made there's the game any thank you