Oregon-USC Postgame Quotes
02/26/10 | Women's Basketball
USC 87, Oregon 84
February 25, 2010
Eugene, Ore.
Postgame Quotes
Oregon Head Coach Paul Westhead
“It's a hard game to capsulate. We played well enough in some ways to win it, but we didn't get it.”
“We just need to play a little better and we will be on the win side.”
On the last play:
“We wanted Nia to push it as hard as she could and get a three, but we just couldn't do that.”
“We are a full court defensive team. We had a chance to get a violation there [near the end], but we didn't, so we had to foul.”
“I think it went back and forth. Parts of the game we were scoring so we stayed in the press. They were faltering, then it looked liked we were faltering.”
“We run that risk. We get people in an up and down game and sometimes it hits us more than them. Not usually, but sometimes.”
“We played well enough to win, but we made enough errors so that we didn't win.”
On the loss:
“They have been very good at bouncing back.”
“Maybe this is exactly what we need to come out and win Saturday and the rest of the season.”
On plans for Saturday:
“We will try and address how to come out ready and confident to play the Bruins.”
On negative moments from the game:
“It was a couple of moments. There were a couple of rebounds and put backs that hurt us. But, it was kind of a back and forth battle.
“The ball wasn't going in the hoop as easily as it has the last couple games.”
“They did a good job of being aggressive and pushing forward. We had to be more aggressive with our traps.”
On the closeness of the win:
“It was right there for us to take, we just let it slip.”
“We were being aggressive but not being strong in the finish.”
