00:00All right, who wants to ask the question that everyone wants to start with?
00:02How are you feeling, Caitlin, and can you take us through what happened at halftime?
00:06Yeah, I mean, a little sick, but I don't know.
00:10I tried to eat some applesauce, and then it just came up.
00:13And then everything else in my stomach also came up.
00:14So I thought I was going to stay down, and then I found a trash can, thank God.
00:19And I haven't puked that much in a really long time.
00:22But then I feel fine.
00:23I felt light, so I was running around feeling good in the second half.
00:26But I feel okay, obviously I'm losing my voice a little bit, but I'll be good.
00:30You said you felt light.
00:32It's like you're having a lot of fun out there.
00:33How did you feel about your game tonight?
00:36Yeah, I mean, I would have loved to shoot the ball a little bit better.
00:38I could have, you know, even if a couple more go down.
00:40Not that I shot it horribly, but other than that,
00:43I feel like this is probably one of the best floor games I've played in a really long time.
00:46I thought I guarded really well, was aggressive on defense,
00:49got us into what we wanted to get into on offense,
00:52found my teammates in spots to make them successful.
00:55So, overall, I honestly thought I played a really good game.
00:58And, you know, the way we played as a team was great as well,
01:02and we've got to keep doing that.
01:03And if we're able to guard like that and, you know,
01:05limit the other team to, you know, the things that they want to do really well,
01:09I think we beat them on the glass.
01:11I think we made them turn the ball over more than they turned the ball over
01:13and things like that.
01:15We're going to be really successful, so proud of our group for the way they responded.
01:18It seemed like it was a little bit cathartic.
01:20Yeah, for sure.
01:21I was going to say, would you say that's fair?
01:22I just wanted to speak to you.
01:23Yeah, I mean, definitely.
01:25I mean, I thought, like the first quarter, I was like, wow, it's 10 to 12,
01:29like things like that.
01:30So, I mean, we persevered.
01:33We found a way to win.
01:35The third quarter, obviously, Kelsey, the fire that she kind of gave us
01:38and the run that we went on, I made the three.
01:40And then I think that's when we found Kelsey in transition too on the layup.
01:44So, that's kind of all you need sometimes in a game is a little 8-0 burst
01:48and, you know, kept our foot on the gas through the fourth quarter,
01:51held off every push that they made.
01:53And like I said, proud of our group.
01:55I thought we played really well.
01:56Caitlin, I know we talked at nauseam last week about you and Coach White.
02:00Third quarter, timeout, you go over and like, I don't know,
02:03it was a chest bump or a dap or whatever.
02:06One, do you ever have to kind of protect your coach in a moment like that?
02:08And number two, what does it feel like to just have that moment?
02:10She's beat up.
02:11She's had a lot of surgery, so I could have hurt her, honestly.
02:14I mean, she's fiery and competitive.
02:17Like, she shows passion too and she hypes her players up.
02:20Like, we were both just hype and that shit.
02:22Like, excuse me.
02:23My mom's going mad about that.
02:26Hopefully she doesn't see that.
02:30Oh, my mom, she's fine.
02:32But that stuff happens and, you know,
02:35I wouldn't want to play for any other coach that's just stoic like this.
02:39Like, I love that.
02:39Like, that got me hyped.
02:41Like, chest bump.
02:42I think Ty chest bumped me when I was going to the bench too, so.
02:45But I thought that was the story of the night.
02:47Like, just the energy and the emotion and, like,
02:49it felt like we were playing for the person to our left and to our right.
02:51And, you know, some games are going to stink and you're not always going to have it,
02:55but you can still always do that.
02:56And I felt like we could have even played better and shot better,
02:58but it was because we were connected and, you know,
03:00playing for each other that we found a lot of success.
03:02Kind of on that same thing, just how important kind of just for morale in a way was it to
03:08have a complete game like this,
03:09especially after the two games last weekend?
03:13I'm going to say this in the nicest way possible, but hopefully it makes a lot of people just be
03:16quiet.
03:16Like, and I know there's always going to be conversation and I totally respect that and I always understand that.
03:22But the world is, like, the sky is not falling.
03:24Like, and I, you know, that's the special part about being in the position that, you know,
03:28obviously I'm in and this organization is in.
03:30Like, there's always going to be people that analyze every single thing that we do
03:33and we would never change that.
03:34But, you know, I think people always, you know, make up stories about, you know,
03:40where our locker room is or what my teammates think or what I think or what our coaches think.
03:44But this group is connected and, you know, we hadn't been playing our best basketball.
03:49And even though we played it for one game tonight, that doesn't mean we are where we want to be.
03:53But it also shows what we're capable of and what we can do.
03:56And I think it spoke a lot to the character of the people that we have on our team
03:59and the people we have in the locker room.
04:00And, you know, it could be one of those where everybody comes out
04:04and is just still mad from the way we played or, you know, thinking about themselves.
04:08But that wasn't the case at all.
04:09You saw how selfless everybody is on this team and, you know, wanted to give for each other.
04:13So, I'm just proud of the group.
04:15Speaking of that team defense, what felt most different tonight?
04:18That was the season low.
04:19You held them underneath 30 at first.
04:22Yeah, I mean, I think we held them under their, you know, I think,
04:24I don't know the exact numbers what Ryan and Gray combined for,
04:28but it was definitely less than what they had been shooting.
04:32I don't think either of them shot the ball as well as they would have liked.
04:35And sometimes that happens, but also they didn't get to shoot as many threes
04:38as they probably would have liked as a team.
04:39I think they shot about 20.
04:41Usually they're at closer to 30.
04:42So, just limiting attempts.
04:44Like, that's just making things difficult on them.
04:46I think we cleaned up the glass better than other teams that have played them.
04:50Obviously, that's what they do really well.
04:51They get second chance points.
04:52They get points off of turnovers.
04:54We took care of the ball decently well.
04:56Didn't give them too many run out, just open points off of turnovers.
04:59So, thought we did that really well.
05:02And just our pressure and our tenacity,
05:04I felt like we weren't having to rotate and help as much
05:07because we were able to guard and keep people one-on-one in front of us.
05:11And I think we just had each other's backs.
05:13We're communicating.
05:13We switch up coverages and things that we were doing.
05:16And, you know, as somebody that's playing offense, like, that's hard, you know,
05:19when you're trying to run certain things and get different looks.
05:22When the defense is able to constantly switch
05:24because they're doing things really well, like, that's hard as an offensive player
05:26to understand what looks you're going to be able to get.
05:29So, yeah, I thought we did all that really well.
05:31And, like I said, still a lot of room for improvement.
05:33So, that's the exciting part, too.
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