“Obviously a really tough one for us. We have some time here to practice, but obviously we all have to be better.”
On the team’s slow start…
“I’ll have to watch it, honestly. I felt like shootaround went well; I liked our last three days of practice. I don’t know, I’ll have to go back and see it, to be honest with you. It snowballed pretty quick for us.”
On the debut of Laura Bagwell Katalinich…
“Well considering she’s had a few practices now in the last while, she worked hard. It’s her first game with us, so we’ll have to watch the video but I thought she gave effort. It was the first time everyone on the team had played with her. I appreciated her effort and some of the things she brought to us out there.”
On having greater frustration offensively or defensively…
“At the moment both. [Northwestern] is a group that’s been together for quite a while now, and it shows. When you say there were only four baskets without an assist, that’s moving the ball, sharing it and knowing where everyone is going to be. Hats off to them for that. First possession of the game I think we turned it over. I think the first two or three minutes we had three or four turnovers. Starting with me, we have to figure out what we need to do to make sure we come out and are able to have success and go from there.”
On what she can do as a coach to make sure the team remains confident…
“I told them that everyone on this team that we have needs to look at ways to help improve themselves to help the team, and that always starts with me. There’s nothing really magical I can tell them other than we have to better, which starts with me. The biggest thing I told them was to stick together. We’re all we have; we’re all the only people we can really see on and off the court. We’re in this thing together, this bubble or Tier‐1; we’re the only people we can be around so we have to stick together because we’re all we have. I said we just have to keep working to get better. That’s the only thing I’ve ever known to improve when things are down.”
Kadi Sissoko,
Minnesota Forward
On the frustration of slow starts…
“It’s really frustrating but I know that all my teammates are going to work out every day to make better plays at the beginning of games.”
On Northwestern’s defense…
“Obviously it was really hard to play against them because they are a really good team and they had a lot of length and all that. They had a couple steals, so it was tough but we just need to work on that at practice a little more