Friday, July 1, 2005, at The Palace of Auburn Hills
Detroit Shock 63, Sacramento Monarchs 80
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On the game:“I thought they played harder than us start to finish and I thought that was the determining factor of the ball game. Were not playing hard enough at all. We’re out there floating around at times and it’s costing us.”
On changing the line-ups:
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Shock Forward Cheryl Ford
On the game:“We didn’t play hard enough, we had too many turnovers.” On Plenette Pierson: “She did [well], just to come in and be in the shoot-around [after one day]. I think she’s going to be a great fit.” | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Shock Forward Plenette Pierson
On coming to Detroit:“I think I just have a great bunch of people around me. Its just something I really wanted to work on today, coming in and doing whatever the coaches wanted me to do and try to mesh with the girls.”
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Monarchs Head Coach John Whisenant
“We said we would have to play our depth, we have to play nine or ten players, we do that every game. The players that play 25 to 30 might only get 24-26 minutes because of the fatigue. This is our fifth game in seven days, we have crossed the country in the same length of time.”On DeMya Walker’s injury: “We haven’t done an MIR or an X-Ray but the impression is that she got hit on the knee brace and it hurt. It is the same knee she strained about two weeks ago. Whichever player hit her from Detroit hit the brace, the brace has steel in it and that is what hurt her. We don’t think it did any further damage.” | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Monarchs Center Yolanda Griffith
On being fatigued:“You have to prepare yourself mentally, that is part of your job, playing back to back games. I think we handled back-to-back games pretty well. It didn’t matter what the starting five did, the supporting players came in and contributed a lot. It’s a team effort.” | |||||||||||||||||||||||