Tuesday, August 9, 2005 at The Palace of Auburn Hills
Detroit Shock 71, Charlotte Sting 64
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| POSTGAME QUOTES | |||||||||||||||||||||||
On starting Katie Smith:“She’s a good player, a career-19-points-a-game-scorer. She adds a good dimension and it helps our starting line up become more efficient. I think this is how we’re going to play it, this is the vision that I had, for the future, but the future is right now. She competes every minute of every game, she plays hard, she plays smart. She can hit shots. It takes the pressure off our post players and spreads the court a little more with her and Nolan out there.”
On Charlotte making a comeback late in the game:
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Shock Guard Deanna Nolan
On starting with Katie Smith:“It’s a little different, not only for her but for me, too, playing the point guard position. It’s a different situation. You have to know defenses, where to pass to, what position to be in to pass, what plays to run. It was different tonight but I was up to the challenge.”
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Shock Guard Katie Smith
On starting:“I feel comfortable coming off the bench and starting. I like the team, I like what Bill does and my teammates. It hasn’t been a rough transition at all. I’m just trying to get my feet under me after traveling around for the last week.”
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Sting Head Coach Muggsy Bogues
On the game:“They didn’t come out with the right intensity for whatever reason. They didn’t take care of the basketball when we opened the game with five or six turnovers. We let Detroit beat us in offensive rebounds and that is their strength.”
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Sting Forward Tangela Smith
On the game:“I felt that our intensity wasn’t there in the beginning and we waited too long to get back into it at the end of the game. I feel that we fought hard until the end but we just couldn’t get back into it.” | |||||||||||||||||||||||