On the ceiling for this team when Kasiyahna Kushkituah is playing well:
“I think for her, she was being so aggressive looking for opportunities, but we were also looking for her. You could see her teammates getting so excited for her every time she caught the ball to give her more opportunities to score. That was really fun. We had a great preparation day yesterday where I thought we did a really good job of sharing the basketball and looking inside to our post players, so it didn’t surprise me that that’s what we were doing. It’s just very rewarding when you see the team get so excited for one of their teammates.”
On her halftime message to the team prior to a strong third quarter:
“I thought we got a little lax. The biggest message was, ‘Continue to do what works. We don’t have to do anything fancy. If what we’re doing is working, continue to do it.’ We talked about better ball movement. We talked about guarding a little better. We talked about boxing out. A lot of it was schematics at halftime. It was definitely more of sticking with the original game plan, because that’s good. We were able to do that in the second half.”
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