[81alum]

Yes, the audio of the press conference just game up.  Here are my transcriptions.  Tara is brutally honest and very critical:

Tara's first words were about defense:  "I'm very disappointed...a couple of things...their three point shooting, we played one good quarter of defense in the second quarter.  I thought we really let up coming out in the second half."

"Their point guard did a good job for them.  In the beginning we weren't guarding her, she hit two threes--she was 4/32 coming into this game.  Then we gotta guard her and she's driving to the basket...she did a really nice job for them."

"Overall it was very disappointing.  Not being able to hit free throws, not being able to finish at the rim.  We got a lot of good looks and just didn't knock shots down." 

Tom Fitzgerald asked Tara if the team was looking past this game to Tennessee.  "I didn't" said Tara.  "I don't know that anyone consciously did....This should be a great game for us--this should be a game where people can build confidence...but this is not how you want to go in to the Tennessee game."

Another reporter asked about the "visibly frustrated Alanna Smith" and what they did to her.  "She had shots and you gotta finish, and then, like you said, got frustrated.  They were more aggressive, they were more physical."

"I give them a lot of credit.  They came in, they played well, and they didn't even do what they were really good at, which is knocking down threes...they spread out and drove....we didn't get the job done on every single level.....We came back, we played a really nice second quarter, but you're not going to win going 3/15, going 3/11, turning the ball over 18 times, we didn't give ourselves a chance.  I was hoping that we could do better."

Fitzgerald reference the Harvard lost and asked Tara if this game was one of the worst regular season disappointments she's ever had.  "No.  Not really.  Some of it is we don't have Britt and Di, I think it would be different with them, this is a really young group--this (Western Illinois) is a good team--this is disappointing but it doesn't rank in my top 10."

"What's disappointing...whether its Kayl, whether its Maya, whether its Alanna--our post play we have someone going inside and getting good looks and we need to finish.  Not understanding how people might be using their body....to use your body...I though [the posts] got good looks inside.  I thought people on the perimeter had good looks.  We did not knock shots down." 

"I'm disappointed with our effort, our lack of aggressiveness, and it starts with me.  We have to look at this and get better.  This was not playing Baylor and Tennessee is a whole different group coming in here.....We have to be more competitive, we totally, our staff our team, need to be more competitive, we have to work harder.  I know that we have a lot of inexperienced or young people but you either have results or excuses, we don't have results, so I'm not going to make excuses.  We did not get the job done."

Asked whether our team looked fatigued at the end of the game.  "I don't think we are in the type of shape that past Stanford teams have been in.  Alanna to me did look tired, and she was short on her shot. "

And this concluding remark, which from the audio it sounded as if Tara was pounding the table with each team that she named:  "I hope it can be something our team can look at and learn from, but we are not going to beat anybody playing like this.  We will not beat Tennessee, we will not beat UCLA, we will not beat USC, we will not beat Arizona, we will not beat Arizona State--people play harder than we played.  The people who played hard either graduated or were not on the court."

[81alum]

Yes, the audio of the press conference just game up.  Here are my transcriptions.  Tara is brutally honest and very critical:

Tara's first words were about defense:  "I'm very disappointed...a couple of things...their three point shooting, we played one good quarter of defense in the second quarter.  I thought we really let up coming out in the second half."

"Their point guard did a good job for them.  In the beginning we weren't guarding her, she hit two threes--she was 4/32 coming into this game.  Then we gotta guard her and she's driving to the basket...she did a really nice job for them."

"Overall it was very disappointing.  Not being able to hit free throws, not being able to finish at the rim.  We got a lot of good looks and just didn't knock shots down." 

Tom Fitzgerald asked Tara if the team was looking past this game to Tennessee.  "I didn't" said Tara.  "I don't know that anyone consciously did....This should be a great game for us--this should be a game where people can build confidence...but this is not how you want to go in to the Tennessee game."

Another reporter asked about the "visibly frustrated Alanna Smith" and what they did to her.  "She had shots and you gotta finish, and then, like you said, got frustrated.  They were more aggressive, they were more physical."

"I give them a lot of credit.  They came in, they played well, and they didn't even do what they were really good at, which is knocking down threes...they spread out and drove....we didn't get the job done on every single level.....We came back, we played a really nice second quarter, but you're not going to win going 3/15, going 3/11, turning the ball over 18 times, we didn't give ourselves a chance.  I was hoping that we could do better."

Fitzgerald reference the Harvard lost and asked Tara if this game was one of the worst regular season disappointments she's ever had.  "No.  Not really.  Some of it is we don't have Britt and Di, I think it would be different with them, this is a really young group--this (Western Illinois) is a good team--this is disappointing but it doesn't rank in my top 10."

"What's disappointing...whether its Kayl, whether its Maya, whether its Alanna--our post play we have someone going inside and getting good looks and we need to finish.  Not understanding how people might be using their body....to use your body...I though [the posts] got good looks inside.  I thought people on the perimeter had good looks.  We did not knock shots down." 

"I'm disappointed with our effort, our lack of aggressiveness, and it starts with me.  We have to look at this and get better.  This was not playing Baylor and Tennessee is a whole different group coming in here.....We have to be more competitive, we totally, our staff our team, need to be more competitive, we have to work harder.  I know that we have a lot of inexperienced or young people but you either have results or excuses, we don't have results, so I'm not going to make excuses.  We did not get the job done."

Asked whether our team looked fatigued at the end of the game.  "I don't think we are in the type of shape that past Stanford teams have been in.  Alanna to me did look tired, and she was short on her shot. "

And this concluding remark, which from the audio it sounded as if Tara was pounding the table with each team that she named:  "I hope it can be something our team can look at and learn from, but we are not going to beat anybody playing like this.  We will not beat Tennessee, we will not beat UCLA, we will not beat USC, we will not beat Arizona, we will not beat Arizona State--people play harder than we played.  The people who played hard either graduated or were not on the court."