Sherri Coale
Sherri Coale
Sherri Kay Coale is the current head coach of the University of Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball team...
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There's nothing easy about being good, and to be good for 16 straight games is a pretty amazing thing.
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There's nothing about Courtney that's typical. She works hard, has been willing to take on a leadership role as a freshman, is open to learning new things every day and wants to make her team better.
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The trees in the middle grow majestic because of it. How important it is that we all get together and help those nameless faces to grow ? the elderly and homeless and the needy ?
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I've never had a freshman like Courtney Paris, and I'm not sure there's ever been a freshman like Courtney Paris. I think her dominance was well reflected in that small little selection show that we had.
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The thing that's truly been remarkable is that there hasn't been a swoon. She's been consistent with her scoring, consistent with her rebounding, she's taken care of the basketball, and she's played at her best when the lights are the brightest.
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Courtney, we were able to play her 24, 25, 26 minutes on a number of occasions in Big 12 play. So we get a chance to rest her ... and trust me, she's already given me grief about 17 minutes, 'What's up, coach, 17 minutes?' I already heard that.
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Early in the half we did a good job of holding them off. We did enough on defense to keep them from scoring.
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I've never seen an 18-year-old kid do it night in and night out regardless of the circumstance, regardless of the venue. Kids get sick, they have tests, they have distractions, they have a bad night. There are a million things that happen to freshmen along the course of the season.
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Offensively we just sputtered. (UT's defense) forced our feeders to make bad decisions. Our timing getting the ball to (Paris) was just miserable.
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After 30 days of practice and three wins now, it was not something I expected. I was very surprised there was a lack of poise from particularly my point guards.
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You don't think you're going to win by that kind of margin going into the Sweet 16. More than sending a message to other teams, it sends a message to us.
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This might have been our best team effort.
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There isn't a physical prototype that preceded (Courtney). You have to look at the men's game and talk about comparisons to Shaq, how his frame and his ability transcended the game as we know it. She has the potential to have that kind of impact.
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Once you go to the Final Four, you think you're going to go every year. Then you find out it's really, really hard. These kids have never been here before. We talked in the locker room about how neat it is and how with every rung of this tournament the excitement doubles and triples.