10 August 2012
Quote of the Day: Seimone Augustus
Remember how I said Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird talked to the team at halftime of the last game? Apparently Sue Bird really made an impression on Seimone Augustus:
On the team’s second half effort:
When Sue Bird has to yell at you about something it’s a problem and I think everybody took it personally at the way we defended in the first half. It was very disappointing to see [Liz] Cambage get easy shots like she did, so they came out and played awesome and the second group just took it upon themselves to be a little more aggressive and put the pressure on Australia early.
On the reserves sparking the 16-6 run:
Coach talks about it all the time, it could be any player on a given night. Angel McCoughtry has been a great job for us coming off the bench early, and tonight it just so happened to be the Minnesota Lynx and a few players from Connecticut that sparked that fire; and it was a matter of Sue Bird yelling at us in the locker room, which is unheard of. When Sue has to yell at a player it’s a problem, so we wanted to come out and bring the energy.
On the team’s second half effort:
When Sue Bird has to yell at you about something it’s a problem and I think everybody took it personally at the way we defended in the first half. It was very disappointing to see [Liz] Cambage get easy shots like she did, so they came out and played awesome and the second group just took it upon themselves to be a little more aggressive and put the pressure on Australia early.
On the reserves sparking the 16-6 run:
Coach talks about it all the time, it could be any player on a given night. Angel McCoughtry has been a great job for us coming off the bench early, and tonight it just so happened to be the Minnesota Lynx and a few players from Connecticut that sparked that fire; and it was a matter of Sue Bird yelling at us in the locker room, which is unheard of. When Sue has to yell at a player it’s a problem, so we wanted to come out and bring the energy.
Labels: Olympics, Seattle Storm
# posted by mamurd @ 10:05 PM 
