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Utah vs. Air Force Postgame Quotes
3/9/2010 12:00 AM | Women's Basketball
March 9, 2010
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Head Coach Elaine Elliott
We were pleased to win the game, obviously, with I think a very competitive Air Force team. They do a lot of things well. They really come at you. I think that their record this year I don't think indicates the progress they've made or even the abilities they have, meaning in the future look out. They have some nice young players. Our kids competed hard and kind of took that, weathered things early, gutted through things, stretched it to a comfortable margin.
At this time of the year, with this kind of a tournament, with having to, in our case, play in four games if you're going to get a championship, is not I mean, there's not the prep you normally would put in. There isn't physical prep. There is just remembering, if you know what I mean. There is reviewing what we already had decided a particular matchup leaves us with from the two prior times.
We don't pretend to be a team that plays a lot of kids a lot of minutes or goes 10 deep. We have gotten into a pretty good eight player rotation, to be honest with us, that's pretty much what everybody's got. So it's not quite might look like that's a little bit more of a disadvantage, but we don't look at it that way.
You just need to go get it for your hour and 45 minutes, then you got a lot of rest time. So we'll rest a lot. We're not going to worry about practicing on the floor. We're just going to worry about getting our heads to whatever's next and trying to remember what we want to do to be successful in whatever's next.
I think this is the best time you want to peak. This is when you want to be your best. We've had some struggles in the beginning. We're here now and we're ready to play. I think we're peaking at the right time.
Yeah struggled at times at the beginning. We've started freshmen a lot. We lost a lot of people, so we're putting freshmen in positions where they have to step up and play big roles on our team. We got nervous. We made little mistakes. But, like you said, we've gotten better. Our freshmen, like Taryn, she had her way, did her thing. You know, we're just weathering it, what she said.
I think there was a lot of gaps in their matchup zone. I just kind of found those gaps where people couldn't find me or double team me at least. That's just kind of how it all happened.
I think that my play internationally definitely helped me because it's a lot of pressure and a lot of big bodies everywhere. So I think that just helped me with my patience because you can't force anything at the international level.
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