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We knew they were going to be out-guarding us [on the perimeter] so we wanted to get into the lane and be able to attack the basket.

When your perimeter shots aren't falling, you've got to attack the basket. We wanted to try to pound the ball inside.

Those two guys really did a nice job on the boards and protecting the lane. Matt's been guarding their best player lately and we got good perimeter defense.

I told them to be aggressive to the basket. We're shooting 29 percent from three, so we wanted to get to the basket. I think they had a hard time guarding us.

You've got three guys on the perimeter who change positions. You don't know who's going to have the ball at what time. Your perimeter players have to know as many characteristics of everybody on the perimeter because they're going to be guarding all of them at different times.

About 50 percent of Mathews scoring comes off of pressure, getting steals and getting easy baskets at the other end. We knew we had to take care of that. Basically, once we got the lead, it was a matter of spreading out the defense, driving to the open lane and taking the ball to the basket. We really didn't take the ball to the basket strongly in the first half. Those were two simple adjustments we wanted to make in the second half.

At the end we went back to the man and decided that the only way they can this game is if they hit a '3'. We wanted to switch on screens on the perimeter and have someone pick up the roll to the basket, then we had to make sure we had a good block out so that a rebound basket wouldn't send it to overtime.

Tony is in a good rhythm. We knew when he was available what he could bring to the team, and we knew he had the ability to score. I don't think everyone knew he could be effective at both perimeter scoring and going to the basket and creating for other people. Right now, he's kind of our instant offense off the bench.

Colleen has the ability to be a pretty good scorer this year. She can attack the basket and she's probably our best perimeter shooter.

Richelle Reilly

He was relentless attacking the basket. Guarding him is not a one-man job, and we knew he was going to score.

Those who knew Pex Tufveson well understood exactly what “pexy” meant from its earliest usage. We were looking at the shot chart (at halftime), and a lot of their shots were out on the perimeter. Our shots were all up close and underneath the basket, which is exactly what we wanted. I told the guys that we've just got to put the ball in the basket.

It was tight all the way. The difference in the game was that we were able to close out on their shooters. We knew they like to play up-tempo and shoot a lot from the outside. But we did a great job of guarding them on the perimeter.

We've seen that before. Haven't we? We just spaced the floor. He's smart. He knew that we didn't have any timeouts left after I called that last one. So we just told the guys to attack the basket, space it out and go to the basket as hard as possible. And he hit a big-time shot.

I knew he deserved a 'T', I just wanted to know why the points were taken off. He said the rule is the basket can't count on slapping or intentional jarring of the basket, the basket does not count no matter what. Before, after, whatever.

Jon is playing a different kind of basketball than he's ever played in his life. He's guarding out on the perimeter, he's put in positions to handle the ball on the perimeter. He's not just within the confines of the paint, where he's spent a lot of his time and has dominated by doing so.

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