Escondido was just shredding our zone, so Al suggested we play man-to-man defense and get after it.

I was really concerned at the half. They were killing us. The man defense made them work harder, and we brought some intensity.

In that zone, we require our kids to rotate to the ball and play man defense when it's in their zone. A lot of times zones can get stagnant, but our kids have to move.

Simone can play just about any position. She?s so versatile. The one thing she?s been able to do throughout is hit the ball. You can count on that.

We're playing a very good fundamentally coached team. They play man-to-man defense and they run up and down the floor.

We just tried to play solid man-to-man defense. Early in the game we weren't rotating the way we needed to but we made a few adjustments and played pretty well in the second half.