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Duke Quotes: Duke 89, Maryland 92 (OT)
3/8/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
ACC Championship
Game 11: Maryland 92; Duke 89
DUKE QUOTES
THE MODERATOR: We have with us to my far left Chante Black, to her right, Carrem Gay, and to my left Joanne P. McCallie. Coach, an opening statement when you are ready.
COACH JOANNE MCCALLIE: Just what an incredible basketball game. I think it has to go down as one of the greatest tournament games in the history of the ACC women's tournament. The excitement and the plays that were made on both sides of the ball. I'm very, very proud of our team. I'm very proud of our fight. Obviously, there are things that we will take from this game to work on in the future but the leadership exhibited at various points in time is outstanding. Carrem was total in her game and her aggressiveness, as was Tae. And I just think a lot of different people stepped up for us having 5 people in double figures. 8 turnovers were outstanding, given the fact we were on the floor a long time. The rebounding battle must be won by us in the future and we will work on stops as well. But I'm very proud off of our team. It was a great basketball game and a great atmosphere for sure.
THE MODERATOR: Questions to the Coach or student athletes?
Q. Chante, talk about the rally there at the end of regulation and the last shot that you hit?
CHANTE BLACK: ACC is all about this tournament. We knew we've had given it our all within the last 4 minutes. If you are talking about that last shot, I just knew that Jas was going to attack it. She only had 8 seconds and there was a possibility that it would come off. It would come off weak side and I just rose up to the challenge and prayed to God that that tip‑in would go in.
Q. Chante, to follow up, how did you to manage to talk yourself through the game even though earlier you were having some foul trouble? Talk about that process of kind of regrouping and coming back and forgetting the first half?
CHANTE BLACK: As I am sitting on the bench I'm just watching what they are doing out there on the floor. I saw Carrem could take the post and attack them pretty well. But at the same time also I had my teammates telling me you need to be ready, you need to come back to the game and help us win this all at the same time, so I had to stay focused.
Q. Carrem, having watched you for the last few years you seem to be playing your very best basketball in this tournament. Do you feel a real sense urgency? What's going on?
CARREM GAY: I just think it's a good energy going through the team. I think everybody is pretty confident about where we are right now. I think we are trying to play off each other. The team is keeping me open in the high post, and I'm comfortable taking that shot and my teammates are comfortable in me shooting it.
Q. Coach, can you say where this team should go from this point? What you should take from this type of game and the way you've played in this tournament? What are some of the little things that you want to build on?
COACH JOANNE MCCALLIE: Well, I think this team should just take a lot of additional great experience. We have had had so many different experience this year, and also know that if we play together, and play off each other, there is nothing that we can't do. We can do anything. It's fascinating thing. March is a terrific time of year. You certainly cannot take anything for granted.
But at the same time you have to dream big. You have to dream big of what your team is capable of doing.
I think this team is comfortable in doing that. We have to take a break now where we're sore, beat up. We will take a break. We will learn a great deal from this film in terms of what we need to learn. We'll, take from this film whatever we need to prepare. March is the best time of year. The March/April thing, the weather is nicer and everything is better. I'm very excited to get back and work with this team.
Q. Coach, how strong an option is Abby on that last shot since she made the only three pointers you made in the game?
COACH JOANNE MCCALLIE: Abby is a very strong option. It's hard to find her open. I thought the team did a good job executing. What we needed more than anything else was a few more stops. Not too many. It's a close game. It could have gone either way, but we had to make that happen by getting a few more stops on the defensive end. And that's the thing. We are a pretty good defensive team. That's the thing that will really sting for us when we watch it on the film.
Q. Chante, growing up in Kernersville like you did, you understand you've grown up with this tournament, how has it been for you to play the last two championship games?
CHANTE BLACK: It's been great. I even worked here at the Coliseum for like two years, I believe. So actually I've been out there on the floor, in the environment, watching you, it's great. It's great to be a part of it. Like coach said, this is a great game. It should go down in history. We really did play hard. It's just bad that it went the other way.
Q. How do you regroup from this and get ready for your next games?
CARREM GAY: I think we have to look next and take what we can from this game. We will watch a ton of film. Will break things that we need to improve on and take that to the next step.
CHANTE BLACK: And just get ready for the next game. Defensive games, we'll work a lot more on defense. We will label that as a defensive team and we got to get those stops, and we'll comeback and do that.
Q. Carrem, what will you say to Abby who will no doubt try to take this all on her shoulder? What will you say to her about the tournament she had and just that shot that just wasn't to be for her?
CARREM GAY: Abby does take things pretty hard, but we are just going to let her know we have great confidence in here. It was a great shot for her. We know she can knock it down. Just not to lose her confidence and keep her head up and we have a couple of more games to go to get what we want.
Q. When you were down 10 there in the second half, when you got together in huddles and so forth, what were you telling each other, what were you trying to get back in, what were you doing?
CHANTE BLACK: We were just saying one stop at a time. We got to get a stop. Go down and score and make sure we get another stop and build upon that.
Q. Coach, how does this compare with the Big Ten?
COACH JOANNE MCCALLIE: It's just very, very different. There is no league like the ACC, particularly this year. The Big Ten is a great league too. The speed, the athleticism is at a whole different level. Particularly this year, the ACC has been very strong as you know. It's a great, great conference. I hope a whole lot of teams are represented. It should be the case. The fact that Wake Forest plays Maryland to a 2 point game, and then you see this kind of game. This is a very high level game that took place. Very much a March game, very much a season game. I just can't say enough about it. Again it's why I was so drawn to the ACC myself as a new person to the league, that excitement, that athleticism and obviously Duke.
Q. This is for both players. You're obviously disappointed with this loss, but to see the way Marisa Coleman played today in the game she had. Can you talk about defending her and just what it was like facing her and guarding her and stopping her on occasion and trying to stop her?
CARREM GAY: The biggest thing was don't foul her. That's one thing we stepped away from. She got a ton of free throw attempts. We just have to stay low, keep active and hope your teammate will help when she spins. She is a good player though. I definitely respect her game.
Game 11: Maryland 92; Duke 89
DUKE QUOTES
THE MODERATOR: We have with us to my far left Chante Black, to her right, Carrem Gay, and to my left Joanne P. McCallie. Coach, an opening statement when you are ready.
COACH JOANNE MCCALLIE: Just what an incredible basketball game. I think it has to go down as one of the greatest tournament games in the history of the ACC women's tournament. The excitement and the plays that were made on both sides of the ball. I'm very, very proud of our team. I'm very proud of our fight. Obviously, there are things that we will take from this game to work on in the future but the leadership exhibited at various points in time is outstanding. Carrem was total in her game and her aggressiveness, as was Tae. And I just think a lot of different people stepped up for us having 5 people in double figures. 8 turnovers were outstanding, given the fact we were on the floor a long time. The rebounding battle must be won by us in the future and we will work on stops as well. But I'm very proud off of our team. It was a great basketball game and a great atmosphere for sure.
THE MODERATOR: Questions to the Coach or student athletes?
Q. Chante, talk about the rally there at the end of regulation and the last shot that you hit?
CHANTE BLACK: ACC is all about this tournament. We knew we've had given it our all within the last 4 minutes. If you are talking about that last shot, I just knew that Jas was going to attack it. She only had 8 seconds and there was a possibility that it would come off. It would come off weak side and I just rose up to the challenge and prayed to God that that tip‑in would go in.
Q. Chante, to follow up, how did you to manage to talk yourself through the game even though earlier you were having some foul trouble? Talk about that process of kind of regrouping and coming back and forgetting the first half?
CHANTE BLACK: As I am sitting on the bench I'm just watching what they are doing out there on the floor. I saw Carrem could take the post and attack them pretty well. But at the same time also I had my teammates telling me you need to be ready, you need to come back to the game and help us win this all at the same time, so I had to stay focused.
Q. Carrem, having watched you for the last few years you seem to be playing your very best basketball in this tournament. Do you feel a real sense urgency? What's going on?
CARREM GAY: I just think it's a good energy going through the team. I think everybody is pretty confident about where we are right now. I think we are trying to play off each other. The team is keeping me open in the high post, and I'm comfortable taking that shot and my teammates are comfortable in me shooting it.
Q. Coach, can you say where this team should go from this point? What you should take from this type of game and the way you've played in this tournament? What are some of the little things that you want to build on?
COACH JOANNE MCCALLIE: Well, I think this team should just take a lot of additional great experience. We have had had so many different experience this year, and also know that if we play together, and play off each other, there is nothing that we can't do. We can do anything. It's fascinating thing. March is a terrific time of year. You certainly cannot take anything for granted.
But at the same time you have to dream big. You have to dream big of what your team is capable of doing.
I think this team is comfortable in doing that. We have to take a break now where we're sore, beat up. We will take a break. We will learn a great deal from this film in terms of what we need to learn. We'll, take from this film whatever we need to prepare. March is the best time of year. The March/April thing, the weather is nicer and everything is better. I'm very excited to get back and work with this team.
Q. Coach, how strong an option is Abby on that last shot since she made the only three pointers you made in the game?
COACH JOANNE MCCALLIE: Abby is a very strong option. It's hard to find her open. I thought the team did a good job executing. What we needed more than anything else was a few more stops. Not too many. It's a close game. It could have gone either way, but we had to make that happen by getting a few more stops on the defensive end. And that's the thing. We are a pretty good defensive team. That's the thing that will really sting for us when we watch it on the film.
Q. Chante, growing up in Kernersville like you did, you understand you've grown up with this tournament, how has it been for you to play the last two championship games?
CHANTE BLACK: It's been great. I even worked here at the Coliseum for like two years, I believe. So actually I've been out there on the floor, in the environment, watching you, it's great. It's great to be a part of it. Like coach said, this is a great game. It should go down in history. We really did play hard. It's just bad that it went the other way.
Q. How do you regroup from this and get ready for your next games?
CARREM GAY: I think we have to look next and take what we can from this game. We will watch a ton of film. Will break things that we need to improve on and take that to the next step.
CHANTE BLACK: And just get ready for the next game. Defensive games, we'll work a lot more on defense. We will label that as a defensive team and we got to get those stops, and we'll comeback and do that.
Q. Carrem, what will you say to Abby who will no doubt try to take this all on her shoulder? What will you say to her about the tournament she had and just that shot that just wasn't to be for her?
CARREM GAY: Abby does take things pretty hard, but we are just going to let her know we have great confidence in here. It was a great shot for her. We know she can knock it down. Just not to lose her confidence and keep her head up and we have a couple of more games to go to get what we want.
Q. When you were down 10 there in the second half, when you got together in huddles and so forth, what were you telling each other, what were you trying to get back in, what were you doing?
CHANTE BLACK: We were just saying one stop at a time. We got to get a stop. Go down and score and make sure we get another stop and build upon that.
Q. Coach, how does this compare with the Big Ten?
COACH JOANNE MCCALLIE: It's just very, very different. There is no league like the ACC, particularly this year. The Big Ten is a great league too. The speed, the athleticism is at a whole different level. Particularly this year, the ACC has been very strong as you know. It's a great, great conference. I hope a whole lot of teams are represented. It should be the case. The fact that Wake Forest plays Maryland to a 2 point game, and then you see this kind of game. This is a very high level game that took place. Very much a March game, very much a season game. I just can't say enough about it. Again it's why I was so drawn to the ACC myself as a new person to the league, that excitement, that athleticism and obviously Duke.
Q. This is for both players. You're obviously disappointed with this loss, but to see the way Marisa Coleman played today in the game she had. Can you talk about defending her and just what it was like facing her and guarding her and stopping her on occasion and trying to stop her?
CARREM GAY: The biggest thing was don't foul her. That's one thing we stepped away from. She got a ton of free throw attempts. We just have to stay low, keep active and hope your teammate will help when she spins. She is a good player though. I definitely respect her game.
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