Baylor, Kansas State Postgame Quotes
1/24/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
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Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015
Ferrell Center (Waco, Texas)
Attendance: 6,481
BAYLOR POSTGAME QUOTES
BAYLOR HEAD COACH Kim Mulkey
On Alexis Prince and the rest of the team's shooting:
"She is not going to turn down a shot, and we don't want here to. Alexis [Prince] and Kristy [Wallace] both shot the ball pretty well today, not from the three but I thought they did some things well."
On the low percentage of three point shots:
"I subbed a lot early and sometimes that takes you out of the flow of the game, but I had a plan going into this game that I thought everyone could help us early in the game. It kind of takes you out of your rhythm a little bit, but we didn't shoot the three well but Kristy was unconscious when we played them there (Kansas) last time. I thought free throw shooting was poor today and if we don't get it better it's going to cost us a game. I was looking for more enthusiasm, I was looking for more energy and intensity, I just thought the whole arena was dead. From the way we played, to the way I coached, to the way our fans were, I guess it was an 11 o clock game, I hope that was the reason and not that we take we take anything for granted. I don't want this team to take anything for granted because we had beaten them by 30 there, you have to play the game with passion and you have to play with excitement and intensity. I just didn't feel it today in the arena."
On Baylor's defense:
"Well you held them to 22 points in the second half, sometimes in the second half is when you let up when you have a lead. We are getting better defensively we still don't fight through picks and we don't help each other. The worst thing we do defensively is we don't open our mouth. I looked out there all day and we were just playing hard but there was no talking and you just cant play on the defensive end without talking. We won and I don't take those things for granted we just have to keep getting better and we just have to fight through the hard moments in games like today, and there were a lot of hard moments for us today."
On keeping the momentum against TCU:
"We have to get in the film room tomorrow and learn as much as we can, we have two good days to prepare for them. I'm concerned about the arena we are playing in, we are only going to get about 100 tickets I've been told and I don't know that I've ever gone somewhere in college basketball and been told that's about all the fans you are allowed to go in a gym. That concerns me because it makes you think it is a small arena, which would be an advantage for TCU, but we are going to get over there, we are going to practice. I saw them on film. Obviously with a new coach and a totally new style, they are more a team that plays five guards. They press you, they push it up the floor every one of them are looking to score. It will be a tough matchup, defensively just because it's five guards."
BAYLOR JUNIOR GUARD Niya Johnson
On the energy during the game:
"I thought we started off pretty slow, which we should change that in the future. We didn't have many transition baskets due to the fact that they were sitting three back because they know how we are in transition and it was kind of tough. Second half we talked to each other and we knew that we had to pick it up from here."
On 500th assist:
"It's just a blessing, just to feed my teammates the ball and them shooting it and making it. It doesn't stop here I just have to continue to pass the ball and shoot and just play my game."
BAYLOR SOPHOMORE GUARD Alexis Prince
On leading the team in scoring:
"That's just what was open against the zone."
SENIOR CENTER Sune Agbuke
On her strategy guarding Breanna Lewis:
"We wanted to make her uncomfortable, make sure she didn't get the ball where she wanted to get it, so where she could just turn and shoot. We didn't want to foul her too much, but we wanted to be aggressive and keep her off balance and I think we did a good job with that."
On her shot blocking:
"I don't ever try to block a shot, I just try to contest and sometimes you are there. Sometimes you can touch it a little bit, but just try to contest and try to make people shoot over me."
KANSAS STATE HEAD COACH JEFF MITTIE
Opening Statement:
"In the end, they just whipped us on the glass, even when we got a stop after the first shot, the 16 offensive rebounds just ended up wearing on us. We got them to miss enough, that was the one thing we got to at least be in the game, but in the end the second chances really hurt us."
On getting significantly outscored in the paint:
"Well we struggled in the paint. Their size is a factor, and Lewis struggled tonight in the paint, so it's hard, because you need to get some easy ones. Even in the second half when we had some transition opportunities, we missed some bunnies in that stretch. I thought that Baylor did a nice job in the second half when their 3's were going in, they were committed to going inside, and it was a pretty solid job by them."
On not allowing Nina Davis to score in double figures:
"In terms of trying to crowd her areas, we really wanted to make sure we first off kept her off the glass. We tried to get traps along the baseline, which is where she beat us horribly in the last game, so we did a better job today."
On gauging where the team is:
I think this was an improvement over the first time. We're so inconsistent and young. We've got some young players that we're trying to get into the system. I'm trying to gauge it four minutes at a time, and we're trying to get better four minutes at a time, which we were today as opposed to last time we played Baylor. We've been too inconsistent at this stage, so to say we've taken a step forward, I'm going to have to wait a week or two. I thought this particular game however, we definitely took some steps forward from last game."
On trying to defend the inside this game:
"I thought that's what they made a change on, because not only were they running their bigs inside, but they were also running their opposite wing in there, and I think our girls were having trouble with that. They have multiple people that can go inside, they have great length. They have the ability to put a lot of size in the paint on the offensive end where they can go and just score over you. They didn't shoot the ball very well today, so that kept us in it. In Manhattan, Wallace shot great from three, Prince shot well from three, but today we were able to get them to miss just enough. The other part of that, however, is that they were able to go inside with all that size.
