Mistie Williams
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Mistie Williams
Mistie McCray Bassis an American professional women's basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association. She is the daughter of Pam Bass, and singer Chubby Checker. She was born in Janesville, Wisconsin...
conference focused nice striving
It's always nice to be No. 1, but the something that we're really striving for is to be No. 1 at the end of the season. That's really all that matters. We're really just focused on conference play right now.
creeping love national statement tennessee
I think the ACC is really making a statement for women's basketball, not just UNC and Duke. Usually it's the SEC that's getting all the love because they have Tennessee and they have national championships. The ACC's creeping up here.
brain game
She's in your brain before the game even starts.
fans team themselves
They had to let their fans know, and let themselves know, they're a better team than (at Tennessee).
anybody capable game hope played saw shows team type watching worried
I think anybody who saw that game should be intimidated. It just shows the type of team we are very capable of being. I hope every team we played is a little more worried after watching a game like that.
anxious focus game learn move next ready
We just kind of have to learn from this game and move on to the next one. Just focus more than being so anxious and be ready to play.
defense help realized season work
We have had to work on our defense so much this season, because we are such an offense-minded team. As the season went on, we realized that that work on our defense was really going to help us. It did tonight.
beginning defense hard help knew minded offensive season throughout win worked
We worked so hard throughout the season on our defense because we were so offensive minded in the beginning of the year. As the season went on, we knew defense would help us win games.
incredible lost ready
We know we have lost incredible players. But we still have incredible players, (players) ready to fight, ready to win.
learned positive
We learned from it, we were positive with one another, and it's showing.