Postgame Quotes/Notes - Atlanta 88, Storm 79
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BRIAN AGLER:
On the game:
I thought Atlanta really played well. They are an excellent basketball team. They might be as good as there is in the league at this point. And I thought we played a real solid game; we just didn’t quite have enough.
On the difference in the game:
We had a lapse there where we turned the ball over on a series of possessions. It went from like a six-point game to a 12-point game. That was probably the difference right there.
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LAUREN JACKSON:
On scoring her 5,000th career point:
I think that we just wanted to win and we didn’t get that win tonight. So I didn’t really even think about it to be honest.
On the game:
We made some mistakes defensively and offensively we didn’t get the looks we wanted. I think, at the end of the game, it sort of all adds up. We couldn’t manage to withstand their runs. They kept getting momentum and we just couldn’t really get momentum at all. Every time we did make a run, they did something to sort of get it back. They were better than us tonight.
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On the game:
They are a good rebounding team and they go to the boards really hard, especially on the offensive end. But I thought we did a good job of blocking them out and going to the rim. Erika (de Souza) and Sancho (Lyttle) were both terrific. We shared the ball well. We pushed when we had the opportunity to push and we got a lot of open shots. We ran out on them a little bit in the fourth quarter and I thought that was the difference in the game. The depth of our team is really good. I’m not afraid to put any of them in there at any time. I thought maybe we tired them out just a little bit.
On the Storm:
They are tough. They are physically tough. And for us to come off a back-to-back physical game against Detroit, I thought we played really well. We didn’t back down from them.
On the difference in the game:
We were playing a little bit soft at times, but I really think that they dug in and did what they had to do to get the win. It was loose balls, it was rebounds, it was second-chance points. It was that combination of everything.
On the back-and-forth nature of the game:
We were just a little bit tougher than Seattle to start the game, but then they came on really strong. They went on a bunch of runs and that’s what basketball is. We just happened to have runs at the right time.
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On the gameplan:
Our gameplan was to win. We knew we had to stop certain plays and defend as hard as we could.
On pulling out the win:
We stayed aggressive. People make runs and we have to make our runs. We have to keep our runs alive and stay in front and that’s what we did. We just kept adding our points to our score. They tried and we tried harder, and came out with a win.
On maintaining momentum:
We have to play how we have been playing. Defense leads to offense and that’s what we have been doing. We have to stay in the playoff run.
