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The Dailey Recap - Sweet 16 · Coaches Corner

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  Chris Daly is here with our daily recap. By the way, Debbie is
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  on a zoom call. She's home because of work commitment, so you get
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  to talk to Debbie by zoom. Awesome. Yes, well, they say
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  survive in advance. You certainly did that exactly. It was. I think
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  we slowed it down a little bit, and maybe we slowed it down a
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  little too much, but I thought we took advantage. They were really tired
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  during the majority of you know, the first half and into the third quarter,
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  and then we lost a little bit of our gas in the fourth quarter,
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  but made enough plays and did enough good things to win the game.
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  Debbie talk, yes, talk about the defense that your team displayed pretty impressive
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  in the first half and even as they get tired in the second half.
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  Yeah, our defense was great that you know, they're a good defensive team
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  when we were a good defensive team, and I just thought we took them
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  out of most things they wanted to do. I thought we had a great
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  game plan going in and we rebounded and got some key rebounds when we needed
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  to. It was really the offensive end where we were struggling. There were
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  points in the first half we kept holding them holding them, holding them,
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  and then we weren't We're coming out empty on the offensive end. So I
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  mean, there were opportunities for us to go up bigger early and we didn't.
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  We weren't able to take advantage. But to their credit, to our
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  kids' credit, we didn't stop defending, and we didn't stop understanding what we
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  needed to do and limiting the looks twenty three points off turnovers that cancels out.
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  I mean, Duke did a great job on the board tonight forty three,
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  twenty eight, sixteen seven on the offensive glass, but just feels like
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  they didn't take advantage of it enough. Well, you know, late in
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  the second half, we weren't really going to the offensive glass. We were
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  going back and trying to you know, wall up so that they couldn't get
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  anything in transition. So you know, some of it we were running the
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  shock locked down. Aliyah had the four fouls, and they were able to
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  you know, we were really more concerned at that point. We were trying
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  to get a good shot and get a good look and then we're trying to
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  just to defend and not give up any threes. But we ended up giving
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  up two anyway, I think. But it was great. You know,
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  this is the same game we lost last year, and you know, I
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  told Nika this in the locker room. I thought she had a great game.
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  She made one shot, so, you know, people that think it's
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  all about scoring, but her defensive game and her defensive presence and just she
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  was just really terrific. Yeah, with a lot of big plays. Yeah,
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  she she made a lot of big plays. Who was five for fifteen?
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  Richardson, Oh yeah, I thought you meant. Nica was like,
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  yeah, no, we did it. I mean, she's a good player,
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  she's a tough player, and we made her score some ways. You
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  know, we gave up some shots that she likes to her left and all
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  of that, but overall, I thought we did a really, really terrific
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  job on her. You talk a little bit about Aleiah picking up that fourth
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  foul and how that changed dynamics for the team a little bit, just in
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  how Brady had to come in and then when to bring Aleah back. Yeah,
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  you know, it's we talk about this a lot with our players.
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  You have to be really smart in these situations. You know, you have
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  to assume that there's going to be one questionable call and then you can't have
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  a dumb one so that you don't have two in the first half. And
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  it ended up being you know, we took a chance and left to Leeann,
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  and she ended up getting her third foul. Her fourth foul is an
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  offensive foul. You know, that's that's something we should be better at.
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  But you know, she still came. You know, that jump shot that
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  she made was big. You know that coming off the bench, having to
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  sit most of the second half, knocking that in at a time we were
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  really needed to have. It was a big was a clutch play, Chris,
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  What about some of the decisions down the stretch when the duke just would
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  double and triple and tie the ball up? Babble is not just decision making
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  or yeah, well it was more once. I think our players were expecting
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  them to foul because they had fouls to give right and and you don't.
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  You don't stand there and hold the ball like it's a loaf of bread.
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  You got to pivot away and then make the pass and then have them have
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  to attack someone else. And we didn't do that. Some of that might
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  be inexperience, because I think KK got caught in that a little bit.
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  You know, Aliyah a little bit at the end. So that's something that
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  we're certainly gonna address tomorrow speaking of KK. And at least we have tomorrow
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  to talk about speaking of KK. Yes, she was five or fifteen,
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  but boy, she attacked the room pretty well tonight. She did. You
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  know, I thought she made some big plays early on, and I thought,
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  you know, then some of the decisions late. You know, we
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  came out of a timeout and needed to we had a set play and I
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  guess she saw an opening and decided to take it. It wasn't the shot
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  that we needed at that time. So for the most part, she played
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  really really well. You know, you can't really it's I don't look at
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  them as freshmen because they've played so much as freshmen, but when you get
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  to this point, they're still freshmen, you know. So they've never been
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  in this moment, in this big and and so we win a game.
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  How many points do we score? Fifty three? Okay? And Ashland didn't
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  score at all, I know, So, you know, to do that
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  without one of our leading scorers over the last you know, three or four
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  games, sometimes you just have to grind it out. And that's what we
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  did today. Debb, you got anything else? One more thing. We
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  continue to talk coach daily about the astronomical number this program has done over the
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  history. It's another Elite eight for your group. What do you have to
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  say about that, Well, you're just you know, I'm really proud.
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  I'm really happy for this particular group because there were a lot of there are
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  a lot of firsts that they've experienced that have not been the most positive in
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  the last few years. Just you know, two losses in a row,
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  just all those kinds of things that happened statistically, So I'm really happy for
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  them. I think it it says a lot about our program and the players
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  that we're able to get because of the consistency. It's a lot of work,
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  you know. I think people don't realize how hard it is. We've
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  made it look easy for a long time. But I think I'm happiest for
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  our players, especially you know, Nika and Paige. Well, not as
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  much Page because she didn't play last year, but it was hard for her
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  to watch, but Nika and Aaliyah really having to go through that last year
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  and have an opportunity to be in the same position and to win the game,
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  even when it got close, you know, so I'm happy for them,
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  and that's a sign of maturity. And and now we have to,
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  you know, prepare for Monday, all right. Take some ice baths for
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  your crew, and we'll see them Monday night, all right, Thank you, Chris,