 with Jackie Boswell head women's basketball coach at Stevenson University what a basketball game 23 points down midway through the third quarter tied it at 62 63 and 65 fell just short your thoughts on the game you know i'm really proud of our comeback we just talked in there too though there really isn't any moral victory i don't think that we started the game the way that we wanted to on the defensive end and and we got to figure that out again as a young team i thought i thought that emory and Steph did a really really good job of trying to lead us and you know it's hard to try to figure out what a bunch of freshmen and sophomores are going to do before the game i mean us coaches are having a hard time i know they're having a hard time but you know i didn't think we started off well right so we we talked about what effort looks like and what and what effort doesn't look like so we just can't get you know york's a good team and you can't get down that far and then you know but i'm really proud of their comeback and i'm really proud that uh you know they showed that kind of effort and we know what we can do so just gotta do it so what was the key to the comeback well it had to be the defensive end we keep talking about defense you know i thought in the first half the reason they were able to knock down all their shots is because we weren't disrupting anything you know we weren't getting deflections which we talk about every day in practice so once we came in you know snot thorn i thought came off the bench for us really well she got deflection after deflection and that just sparked everything and then when you can get a couple easy layups then our shots start to fall do you know what i mean so you know we just gotta we just gotta buy into that the younger kids just gotta buy into that we just gotta be more consistent with it i thought amonnie taylor came in in that first half and kind of kept you in the game she turned her ankle or whatever that was is she is she okay um we'll see you know it's a little swollen though so you know we don't want to push it was still early in the season as far as conference play um and you know since they weren't pressuring us with too much you know erin and karey could could handle that but but you're right that does hurt a little bit because i thought she came off the bench and um hit a couple shots for us so and we're going to talk to emory in just a second but talk about her play in the second half especially in that fourth quarter well she's been showing a lot of heart really these the whole season okay yeah i mean everybody's going to look at her and say yeah she's been scoring lately but she's been playing hard all season okay so the points we're going to come we knew that and they are coming for her in these last couple games and again the the weight of the leadership that she has to take on on her shoulders is something that people behind no one knows right only the people behind the scenes know so those kind of things that she's been doing quietly every single day and trying to lead this group because she's a competitor she's going to lose so she's diving on the ground for the ball widener you know diving on the ground for the ball here um when she does make a mistake she's owning it you know like but you could never question her heart or competitiveness ever so we had a chat earlier today final question to you and you said that you know you got a lot of talent this team has a lot of potential you're young you're very athletic but it's good but it's a process and it may take all year where are you in the process uh yeah i mean it's still early in conference play right now eventually we're going to run out of time and like i told him today you know we we know who we are and and we know what we're trying to do and right now what we're doing is we're trying to learn every single day i don't know if it's going to pay off in the wind column but i can assure you that if we show effort like we did in the second half it will come sooner than later and if we don't show effort like we did in the first half it'll take us all season all right with uh jackie boswell here on go mustang sports dot tv