Katie Smith Quotes

I don`t know how you explain it other than to say that basketball is a funny game and sometimes a team just has another team`s number. I`m sure you`re going to see them come out and get after us pretty hard though. They`ve been playing great basketball all season.

Obviously, these guys have beaten them before at their place. I wasn?t with them at the time, but we know it?s doable. I think it?s going to be another knock-down, drag-out (game), but I think we have the confidence and the tools to get it done.

We obviously put ourselves in the hole. Now you look at (tonight?s game) and it?s a one-game thing. We have to bring everything we have.

I think we just did a beautiful job of moving the ball around and finding open shots.

We put ourselves in a hole. Now we have to bring everything we`ve got for Friday. We know we have the talent to pull this off.

I think we decided to be a little more aggressive. Obviously we also picked it up defensively, but we needed to go ahead and get some good looks and knock them down. For myself it`s just a matter of not just sliding into the background, but stepping up and making shots, knocking them down. That got us going a little bit. Tina (Thompson) started hitting a few too. I hit a couple, she hit a couple and it gave us a little cushion that helped us down the stretch. We didn`t have to sweat it out too much.

We had some good looks and we couldn`t knock our shots down. They came out to play and simply outplayed us.

She was in there with the trees, banging away. She`s fearless and competitive. She looks strong. She`s ready to rock and roll.

With the talent we have, we should have never been in that position. There should have never been a chance of us missing the playoffs.

I know all their plays, all their tendencies. I mean, in a sense it was like practice. Obviously we wanted to win this. It`s huge for the playoffs.