Duke Postgame Quotes

Dec. 27, 2002

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"I just give a lot of credit to Detroit. I thought they played very hard. I thought they made a lot of hustle plays and never gave up."

"Overall, I was pleased to win but I was not pleased with our overall effort especially on the defensive end of the floor. We have a lot of things to improve on which is good because we will get better."

"I thought in the second half we did a much better job, even though we didn't score as many points. We had gone into a zone and let them slow the tempo down. But I thought our execution in the second half was much, much better than in the first half."

On the crowd support
"I didn't know there would be so many people. I was really pleased with the crowd. I thought it was exceptional. Usually, when you go to tournaments where there is no home team the crowd is normally not very good. I thought this was an exceptional crowd tonight."

On the Iowa State game
"Iowa State is a great team with tremendous tradition. We know we will see a lot of zone so we will have to do a good job executing in the quarter court. The have a lot of 3-point shooters. We didn't do a good job at all closing out on the 3-point shooters tonight. All five of Iowa State's starters shoot the three pretty well. This was a good game for us to learn from as we will have to do a much better job closing out on their shooters."

Vicki Krapohl

"It was great fan support here. It [Los Fresnos H.S. gym] kind of reminded me of the Virgin Island gym we just played in. A court is a court and once we get on the court whether it is in front of 30,000 or 2,000 we try to just focus on the game."

Alana Beard

"It [the crowd support] was great. It was a packed gym and we haven't played in front of a packed gym in a while. It was a great atmosphere to play in. I just would like to thank the people for coming out. We really, really appreciate the support."

"Offensively as a team in the first half we didn't execute very well. For me personally, I think I could have had a better defensively game."

Players Mentioned

Alana Beard

Vicki Krapohl

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