Feb. 5, 2010
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Maryland vs. #21/RVGeorgia Tech
Friday, Feb. 5, 2010
College Park, Md. (Comcast Center)
Maryland Head Coach Brenda Frese
Opening Statement:
“Obviously I’m proud of the fight we had in us in the second half. To be down by seventeen and show the toughness in the last stretch and to be able to come back, I think says a lot about our team, but like I told them in the locker room, it shouldn’t have taken us twenty five minutes to get ourselves into a mindset to be ready to compete. I just thought that Georgia Tech was a lot more physical and a lot more aggressive, just play-for-play, possession-by-possession, and they just made it extremely difficult on us tonight. It was a tough loss for us.”
“I think it was just difficult obviously, I forget how many turnovers we had in the first half, but their athleticism, their power, their strength just impacted us and it just kind of snowballed in terms of our poise and our composure. It’s hard to get anything going when you’re turning the ball over.”
On what happened during half time that changed the course of the game:
“Not a lot. Our team finally showed up to play. We just had a mentality I guess after being down by seventeen, I told them the turning point was when Tianna ripped the ball and decided that we were going to rally behind it and be more physical and be more aggressive. It was a mindset…our pressbreak has been effective all season long, it was effective the last fifteen minutes of the game, but we just decided to attack and have a better mentality in terms of what we were doing.”
On if the experience and confidence of Anjale Barrett helped the team:
“Oh absolutely, Anj was fantastic tonight. You know, just the confidence that she gave our team, just her willingness to be strong, aggressive to the rim, be able to take the contact in terms of their aggressive defense, the confidence and swagger that Anj played with tonight really, I think helped our team in terms of giving confidence to them as well.”
On Lynetta Kizer not starting:
“Yeah, you know, violation of team rules. So it was a situation where we have to learn and be able to move on from.”
On if the early foul trouble was a problem for them:
“Oh yes. Early and often. Obviously with them having to go to the bench early with two fouls in terms of our ability to get on the glass and be able to rebound with our inside game. Absolutely, I thought it was a big part.
Anjale Barrett
On her role as a calming force for the team:
“That’s my role for this team. Just to calm everybody down when I get on the court and provide a lot of energy and just bring what I have to the table. I give them my all and hopefully everybody else will follow suit.”
“We just went out there and played hard. The turnovers in the beginning hurt us a lot but through all that we were still in the game. It still came down to one possession. So once we clean all that up we’ll be fine. I still have confidence in my teammates and they still have confidence in me that we’re going to move on from this and get better.”
On the need to make free throw shots:
“When it comes down to one possession you have to stand up there and knock them down. I knocked the first one down and missed the second one but there was a lot of things leading up to that. If we didn’t get ourselves into that hole in the beginning of the game, the outcome would have probably been different, but I just have to step up and knock those free throws down.”
On her final, unsuccessful free throw to end the game:
“It was a low stroke, but I have to get in the gym and work on it. I have to get better”
Lori Bjork
“Obviously it’s disappointing any time you lose a game that close. You’d rather get blown out by thirty, I mean you’d feel better about it. The disappointing factor is that we just didn’t show up in the first twenty five minutes of the game and we made the situation for ourselves very difficult.”
“Obviously it’s frustrating, but I think the big thing we have to learn is you can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results. We keep digging ourselves huge holes. We kind of let turnovers compact themselves and errors kind of snowball on us and get us into deep holes and we have to dig out of them. If we can just find a way to limit that and get off to better starts, we would be 3-0 in those three games. I’m confident that this team is going to get better at it down the stretch.”
Georgia Tech Head Coach MaChelle Joseph
Opening statement:
"I was proud of team's effort tonight, especially on the defensive end. Anytime you can come in to Maryland and hold them to 60 points, you're doing something right. I was really impressed with the way Maryland battled back with a young team. I thought they did a tremendous job with making big shots and getting some key defensive stops on us, as well."
On her team's rebounding:
"For us, with 25 rebounds, we usually don't feel like we can win a game. One of our goals is to get 20 offensive rebounds, and we finished the game with only 25 rebounds, so that's something that's a concern for us."
On why Maryland could come back:
"They hit some big-time threes. They had some people step up who hadn't been shooting the ball very well. Lori Bjork has been shooting the ball well all year, but she didn't hit a three in the second half. It was the other kids that stepped up and made a three."
Junior forward Alex Montgomery
On winning at Maryland:
"It feels great to win for my coach. Winning as a whole, not just as an individual, it means a lot."
On enduring Maryland's comeback:
"We had to get stops at some point in the game, and that's just what we did."
