By james art 
After winning 70-63 over Tennessee on Monday, South Carolina’s chief coach Dawn is talking to the media. Here’s what she said.
Dawn, up to 22 in the fourth quarter, everything looks comfortable what do you think is done differently?
“Bad shots, bad decisions can be our enemy at times – today it was today. Fatigue was also part of it. Their pressure is a combination of things. ”
As you probably know, Kim Caldwell had his baby a week ago and returned to the sidelines. Do you have any thoughts about her first season here in Tennessee and to handle it, do you know, the burden of expectations here while you are pregnant and has a baby?
“She is very passionate about her team and is training in Tennessee and I think she’s started to become great. She is a coach who really wants to hang another banner. Available with a victim. She has great help. She wanted to be here with her team. Women have to make such decisions and when they do it, I feel that they have to honor them and inform them that we see, we feel and hear you. I congratulated her. It will take many people to have this balance between professional and privacy. ”
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“He told us yesterday that the first quarter would be a small process, just because Tennessee was so different. What was the first quarter in your perspective? And when did you feel that your team did not settle well? ”
“I mean it took some adjustment. I thought we were playing too fast. We missed some easy photos we usually take. I thought it just happened in the second quarter. We found some easy ways to score after defeating the press, and then it was just a buildup. Then this accumulation was demolished in the fourth quarter of unscrupulous shots, just a bad choice of shots. Fortunately, for us, we grew enough to where we were able to endure. ”
Just what is your overall assessment of all the different ways they have managed to win?
“Our team is sustainable. I want to say that they can win many different ways. The greatest pull of this section is mental. Obviously, it’s a physical battle for SEC game only, but doing it against the best teams at this conference is difficult. It took a lot for us, cohesion, many different styles of play. I was thinking tonight, much more I will have Tennessee at the end of this because it is difficult to recover after playing, having to play this style of play and have to come back and play another game. It happened at the right time, and then we got a little break where we would decompain. But proud of our team for just managing, just taking a game at once and winning. It is still in the situation to be unbeaten in this league is not weak and the heart is in this league and to be unbeaten by playing the graph they played. ”
Dawn, you said yesterday that Madi McNewel will probably see some time today and she did it. Just thinking about her presentation, especially overcoming this early turnover?
“I thought she gave us what she could. It was a difficult game of play as a young player. I thought she handled certain parts of it really well and then become prey to the fact that you could tear this type of pressure. I thought sometimes she played quickly and slowly, then slowly, too fast. And another time she just played quickly, where she couldn’t create other options. When you play quickly and deliberately, it is not a good situation like a point guard. ”
This is one of the third or fourth consecutive game where you have committed one of the better crimes in the country. What was it key to do it again tonight?
“We are defending. We knew they would come in and take many pictures, many three hits, many, I would say, quick photos. This is to make sure you can test them by making sure they do not continue in motion as they go on the go. We took better photos. I think we could get the lead a little better, but we didn’t. We do a really good job by connecting and connecting and making sure that we do not give them too many wide open pictures. ”
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The fourth direct game, Joyce Edwards, led to the ninth time this year. What is another little thing that becomes more convenient every time it is there?
“Joyce plays the right way. Joyce makes basketball and good basketball decisions, so you see it thrive. She just plays within her ability. And, I’m not surprised. I am probably more surprised by some of the decisions that some of our older players make. She is not one. She plays the right way. She played for 29 minutes, and I would even play her five or six more. ”
Coach, before the season began, asked me to talk about Sec and what I thought could happen. And I said it would be really difficult with the added teams to go through this conference unharmed. After watching everyone as you are a defeat you are not conferences, I have to review this forecast, the least when you started eight and zero, it is very difficult to do, and I know that there are eight more to Go, but your protection is just suffocating. This is some of the best protection I’ve seen in the South Carolina game. Just how did you turn this scenario so well?
“I want to say that our main defense is. We do not know if you will be able to score many points in this league. This league is based on defense and if you are able to protect it, it allows you to win every time. We play the right way with how we play defense and play the right path offensive and play our type of protection we give, we give ourselves a good chance to win. When we don’t, ie The fourth quarter. We can lose to anyone. ”
What do these next few days look like? How do you manage this without playing this week after such a grueling section?
“We’ll get two weekends. We will take tomorrow and Thursday and go back to the swinging things, but I am sure some of our players will have to recover and just decompress a little and go back to it. ”
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The publication of everything Dawn Staley said after South Carolina’s victory over Tennessee first appeared on On3.