Whats the key to flipping that switch with young players?
“Obviously I must have lost my key. It’s interesting because you sometimes can say something and trigger a positive response and other times they may not respond the way you want them to. That’s a big part of coaching, the psychology of it and trying to figure out what is the best thing to say to each player at any given moment. It is a little bit of a guessing game but I’m just going to keep challenging all of our players. Alyssia’s not the only one, by no means. We have a number of players that, I feel like, are under-achieving sometimes and when you see how they can play in some of the games that we have put in a good performance then you raise the bar. Expectations are a lot higher.” Is closing in on 1,000 wins a distraction from the media? “I don’t think so. For me, no, but I don’t know about our team. I was joking with them, I said, ‘I hope we get it this year.’ Sooner rather than later was probably the feeling with what’s happening on the court. As far as the players are concern
