I believe we're ready. We've picked it up in practice a lot. Our intensity in practice has shot up and we're playing for each other, and we're making sure we're not going to back down.

I definitely take pride in being able to contribute to the team every day in practice. But I'm ready to put this role behind me.

With Dani, we get so many fast breaks. She gives us the ball in the right spots. She knows how to throw the thread-the-needle passes.

At the Pace game, I think that's when we all knew we were OK. We came out with so much intensity that night and no one ever quit. We did it at home, everyone saw us and anyone who doubted us pretty much knew at that point that we were going to be fine.

That was fun. That's stuff we do in practice all the time, plus that crowd reaction really got us going more.

You get used to playing two games a week during the season, then you have a while off and practice can get kind of repetitive. We held them to 31 points and that's pretty good, but we have to do better offensively.