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Quotes: Duke 73, Oklahoma State 45
12/12/2010 5:30:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Duke Head Coach Joanne P. McCallie
Opening Statements:
“I'm just really proud of our team¹s effort. The first half was as dominant a half as we've played all year. It was a fantastically intense and immediate 20 minutes of basketball. I think the second half we continued to play hard, but we didn¹t play quite as focused.”
On Oklahoma State:
“I think this is an excellent team. I saw what they had out in New Mexico. They won an incredible game out in New Mexico. To be in double overtime in front of 8,000 people and to pull that game off shows a lot of resilience for this Oklahoma State team.”
On playing on the road:
“You just want to get at it. Particularly on the road with a nice crowd coming out, you want to be very focused as a team. I just think it was a team energy and great leadership across the board. I think everybody was just trying to get ready to do what they do. For that first 20 minutes we were a very deep team.”
Duke Forward Karima Christmas
On Duke's schedule:
“It's been a tough schedule being away from our home crowd a lot, but we handle it the way that we do any other game. We just come out and try to focus, play our game and stay together and hopefully we can come out with a win.”
Duke Center Allison Vernerey
“I think we started the game ready, we were focused and played hard on defense which is definitely what started us. We were pressing hard and I think the offense got together by playing hard defense.”
Oklahoma State Head Coach Kurt Budke
Opening Statements:
"Obviously, we're disappointed about how we performed today, but nothing has changed: I love my kids. This is something that, when you start three freshmen, that's something in some point in time they have to live through. This is where you want to get your program to at this level: big, strong, athletic, veterans on the team. It's a very solid team that's got a solid chance of getting to the Final Four. Although we're obviously disappointed, we definitely felt better about the second half and finally relaxed a little bit. You can't simulate it in practice because of the emotions that are involved. They didn't do anything that we didn't expect them to do. And we worked on it for four days; it may not have looked like it, but we did. It's hard to play this game when nerves are involved and we definitely had nerves involved today, but hopefully they get it out of their system and learn from it and become better from it."
On the second half performance and Lakyn Garrison's performance:
"We talked about at half time that we're not going to win this game, but we can win the second half. I thought the girls relaxed a little bit. I didn't scream and yell at halftime, didn't do any of that. I went in, I actually sat down and just talked to them about, 'Look what nerves did the first half. Let's not do that the second half. Let's come out and play.' You always hope someone steps up and gives you some primetime minutes and Lakyn did. Obviously, some of those bombs she hit were from the first row over there, but you hope a senior can step up like that and help."
On what the team can take away from the game:
"Any kind of positive you can take out of this game, you take it. If that gets her going, then fantastic, this game was well worth it. If this gets it to where my young point guards aren't nervous when they face pressure, then it was well worth it. We told the kids before the game, 'This is not on just the point guards here, everybody's got a role in breaking this press,' so I'm not trying to pin this on anybody. All five people had a role in this, and nobody did their jobs the way it should have been done in the first half. Hopefully we learn from that. That's why this game was good. We needed this game."
Oklahoma State Guard Lakyn Garrison
On if they expected Duke to pressure on defense like they did:
“Yeah and we prepared for it all week. Just being a young team, we came out with our eyes wide open and scared to death, but you learn from these kinds of games.”
On what OSU takes away from the game:
“I think it's something that's always going to be in the back of our mind. We don't want to do this again. We don't want to perform like this. When coach tells us something we have to take it in and buy into what their plan is for it and we didn't really do that.”
On the second half:
“Coach had a talk with us in the locker room at halftime and said, 'I want to win the second half. There's nothing we can do about our past. It's over with. We've just got to get better from here on out'.”
Oklahoma State Guard Tiffany Bias
On Duke's defense:
“They jumped out in a really good press and a good trap so it kind of startled us a little bit and we sped up our game. That's what a press is supposed to do. We didn't really settle down and we got a couple turnovers so that was kind of a jumpstart for them.”
On what OSU takes away from the game:
“We got our butt beat. It's going to happen and we just learn from it and we build off of it and we get in the gym and work harder.”
On OSU's defensive effort:
“I don't think, defensively, we played as good as we could have. I think we were more worried about getting back and getting up the floor and getting some points on the board. I think we could have played better, but that's just going back in the gym and working on it.”
Opening Statements:
“I'm just really proud of our team¹s effort. The first half was as dominant a half as we've played all year. It was a fantastically intense and immediate 20 minutes of basketball. I think the second half we continued to play hard, but we didn¹t play quite as focused.”
On Oklahoma State:
“I think this is an excellent team. I saw what they had out in New Mexico. They won an incredible game out in New Mexico. To be in double overtime in front of 8,000 people and to pull that game off shows a lot of resilience for this Oklahoma State team.”
On playing on the road:
“You just want to get at it. Particularly on the road with a nice crowd coming out, you want to be very focused as a team. I just think it was a team energy and great leadership across the board. I think everybody was just trying to get ready to do what they do. For that first 20 minutes we were a very deep team.”
Duke Forward Karima Christmas
On Duke's schedule:
“It's been a tough schedule being away from our home crowd a lot, but we handle it the way that we do any other game. We just come out and try to focus, play our game and stay together and hopefully we can come out with a win.”
Duke Center Allison Vernerey
“I think we started the game ready, we were focused and played hard on defense which is definitely what started us. We were pressing hard and I think the offense got together by playing hard defense.”
Oklahoma State Head Coach Kurt Budke
Opening Statements:
"Obviously, we're disappointed about how we performed today, but nothing has changed: I love my kids. This is something that, when you start three freshmen, that's something in some point in time they have to live through. This is where you want to get your program to at this level: big, strong, athletic, veterans on the team. It's a very solid team that's got a solid chance of getting to the Final Four. Although we're obviously disappointed, we definitely felt better about the second half and finally relaxed a little bit. You can't simulate it in practice because of the emotions that are involved. They didn't do anything that we didn't expect them to do. And we worked on it for four days; it may not have looked like it, but we did. It's hard to play this game when nerves are involved and we definitely had nerves involved today, but hopefully they get it out of their system and learn from it and become better from it."
On the second half performance and Lakyn Garrison's performance:
"We talked about at half time that we're not going to win this game, but we can win the second half. I thought the girls relaxed a little bit. I didn't scream and yell at halftime, didn't do any of that. I went in, I actually sat down and just talked to them about, 'Look what nerves did the first half. Let's not do that the second half. Let's come out and play.' You always hope someone steps up and gives you some primetime minutes and Lakyn did. Obviously, some of those bombs she hit were from the first row over there, but you hope a senior can step up like that and help."
On what the team can take away from the game:
"Any kind of positive you can take out of this game, you take it. If that gets her going, then fantastic, this game was well worth it. If this gets it to where my young point guards aren't nervous when they face pressure, then it was well worth it. We told the kids before the game, 'This is not on just the point guards here, everybody's got a role in breaking this press,' so I'm not trying to pin this on anybody. All five people had a role in this, and nobody did their jobs the way it should have been done in the first half. Hopefully we learn from that. That's why this game was good. We needed this game."
Oklahoma State Guard Lakyn Garrison
On if they expected Duke to pressure on defense like they did:
“Yeah and we prepared for it all week. Just being a young team, we came out with our eyes wide open and scared to death, but you learn from these kinds of games.”
On what OSU takes away from the game:
“I think it's something that's always going to be in the back of our mind. We don't want to do this again. We don't want to perform like this. When coach tells us something we have to take it in and buy into what their plan is for it and we didn't really do that.”
On the second half:
“Coach had a talk with us in the locker room at halftime and said, 'I want to win the second half. There's nothing we can do about our past. It's over with. We've just got to get better from here on out'.”
Oklahoma State Guard Tiffany Bias
On Duke's defense:
“They jumped out in a really good press and a good trap so it kind of startled us a little bit and we sped up our game. That's what a press is supposed to do. We didn't really settle down and we got a couple turnovers so that was kind of a jumpstart for them.”
On what OSU takes away from the game:
“We got our butt beat. It's going to happen and we just learn from it and we build off of it and we get in the gym and work harder.”
On OSU's defensive effort:
“I don't think, defensively, we played as good as we could have. I think we were more worried about getting back and getting up the floor and getting some points on the board. I think we could have played better, but that's just going back in the gym and working on it.”
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