You saw Alyssa Thomas score 33 in such a big game yesterday. You see how she’s been able to perform. She had 32 against Wake Forest in the ACC Tournament, these big games of her career. It’s another big stage for her. What’s the plan to make sure she doesn’t go 30?
JEFF WALZ: I’m hoping she misses the bus, which would be great. So we’re going to change the arrows down there where their bus is supposed to be before they come to the arena, first off.
She’s not a kid that you’re going to shut down. It’s just not going to happen. What you have to do is just try to make it difficult for her to score. You can’t give her easy looks. She doesn’t miss the easy shots, and she makes a lot of the tough ones.
So for us we have to make sure we’re making it as difficult as we can for her to score the basketball, and then we have to do a good job on everybody else. I think at times you get caught up on the star player, and all of a sudden you’re giving wide-open shots to other ones that start going in, and now all of a sudden you’ve got five or six players that you’re really out there trying to defend, and now you really can’t focus that attention on her, and she goes for 30, which is what I thought she did last night.
Laurin Mincy stepped in, came in off the bench and hit two big shots for them. Lexie Brown was playing very well. And now Alyssa Thomas is one-on-one, and you can’t stop that kid one-on-one; it’s about impossible.
What she did last night, I’ve seen her do it before on film, and now that I’ve had the opportunity to watch some film, she’s pretty impressive.
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