Colorado University Athletics
Colorado-Oklahoma Quotes
February 13, 2010 | Women's Basketball
Colorado Head Coach Kathy McConnell-Miller
On the game
"We've gotten off to a bad start the last three games; just very ineffective. OU came out and completely attacked, controlled the tempo. Very successful with their defensive strategy and philosophy and led to too many fast break points for us. We just struggled out of the gate and started to lose confidence and went to the bench where I felt like we got a little more settled. Didn't guard them and our men very well; made the adjustment and went zone. They came off the bench with some players that are a little more effective in the zone. But I thought that the last 30 minutes we battled, finished the game and had a mentality that we need to have coming out of the gate."
On junior forward Brittany Spears
"Spears is consistent throughout the year. She's probably not scoring as many points for us in the past, particularly in the Big 12, but tonight was probably her best Big 12 game. Just overall performance, overall forward game started off really slow. I was really proud of the fact that she fought through adversity, played for 38 minutes, and played a solid game on both ends of the floor."
On freshman Chucky Jeffery's impact as a starter
"She can do it. I will tell you that Danielle Robinson is solid on both ends of the floor. Not just her skill level, but her composure and her leadership. We do a lot of edits of WNBA players, NBA players, and we show Chucky and we some of some of our other younger players. Before the game, watching just about every Oklahoma game, I had said to my staff that for Chucky we should do an edit of Danielle Robinson. She doesn't do anything outside of what she does well. She doesn't take a lot of chances, and what I mean by that is she doesn't shoot the 3 ball extremely well; so therefore, she plays to her strengths. She's a good leader. She draws the defense, she finds the open player, she's good on ball pressure, and whenever she's on the floor, the floor players truly respond to her. So Chucky, if I was to do an edit of any guard that we played this year, it would be of Danielle. That would be one I would show Chucky. If she can see the progression from Danielle from her freshman year and what she did in her contributions, they were more of a floor game than a scorer and now what she does. Particularly for her and Megan Malcolm-Peck, there's no reason why Megan Malcolm-Peck can't do what Carlee Roethlisberger does for OU. So I think this is a good example of what experience can do."
