Post Game Notes and Quotes - WNBA.com

Chicago Sky Guard Shay Murphy(On the atmosphere in the arena…)“Playing for the kids is awesome. They’re really always energetic. They cheer forwhoever scores, which is awesome sometimes. It keeps the arena really like electric,energetic. But just to have people come out this early and support us and keep us youknow we’re playing for our hometown crowd. It was huge and I’m glad we pulled it outbecause the game can get close you know. So when Matee Ajavon got ejected you hearthe crowd like ‘boooooo’ just keeping us into it. It’s awesome. I’m just glad to be a partof it and it’s really exciting and we pulled off the win.”(On being able to pull away with the win at the end…)“Unfortunately, we don’t want to lose the lead. But we’ve grown because usually lastyear in those situations we’d collapse and we’d give it up and we’d tank and not evencome out with the W. I think people stayed aggressive. We all stayed focused. We allstayed positive. There was not a change in fear or a lapse. We executed plays down thestretch. Piph made big shots so we were able to knock down free throws. So I feel likewe’re growing. I was feeling it, I’m like dude we’re getting better. We’re growing as ateam. We’re developing. I feel like a proud parent, you know, just to watch it. I’mexcited. We have a long ways to go. We have so many things we need to work on likeour help side defense and finishing the halves off properly. In time I think we will getthere.”(On heading into the two-game road swing…)“Connecticut’s always a hard team to win at home. But I feel like this a turning point. Wewant to finish strong before all-star break so take care of business, play hard, and just getthe W’s. We are really growing and our chemistry is getting a lot better. We had balancedscoring today--four or five players in double digits. That’s huge! You know becausedown the stretch one player won’t win a championship.”Chicago Sky Center Sylvia Fowles(On being able to stay in such great shape through injury…)“I haven’t really been doing much to keep in shape, honestly. But my trainer has beendoing a good job making sure I get sleep, making sure I get the proper nutrients and whenI need to rest I rest.”(On the closing moments of the game…)“Honestly, I didn’t even know the score was tied when we sat down on the bench. Butwhen I sat down and I seen that it was a tied game I just tried to stay poised and relaxed

and the play that coach called up for Piph (Epiphanny Prince) I knew she was going toknock it down. We have confidence in her because she do it every day at practice.”(On passing Candace Parker on the all-time blocked shots list…)“Defense has always been my bread and butter. I just kind of got thrown into theoffensive set and just so happened to be somewhat decent at it. But just to know that Ihave accomplished something else within my career, it feels good.”Washington Mystics Head Coach Mike Thibault(On Sylvia Fowles' performance…)“Well, she got 10 offensive rebounds, and I think that kept them going when they had lostthe momentum. We were playing well and then she would get an offensive rebound orpick one up off the floor and she made big shots. She was clearly the difference in thegame today. We had one stretch when I thought we matched her, but overall she was abeast in the lane today.”(On defensive performance…)“We try to put as many bodies in the paint as we can, but with as good of players as(Epiphanny) Prince and (Elena) Delle Donne along the perimeter it's hard to commit tothat move. That's why Delle Donne was such a good addition because she gives SylviaFowles more space in the lane. It's a big difference. Swin made a couple big playsoffensively, too, when we had stopped and the play was breaking down, and she made acouple of those. Offensive boards killed us.”(On the outcome of game…)“We played well. There's no doubt Currie got fouled on that play at the end, but we didn'tget the call. The teams we've lost to on the road have been teams in the top half of theleague.”(On Langhorne's performance…)“We got them in a little bit of a different match-up because we played big for a littlewhile in the middle of the second half. We got her matched up with Swin instead ofSylvia. It was different, it was the first time Langhorne had seen us do that for any periodof time so that changed the match up.”Washington Mystics Forward Crystal Langhorne(On defensive strategy…)“To be physical, and not them run their offensive moves.”

(On personal strategy verse Sky defense…)“Be aggressive, I know they're big, but you still want to attack them inside no matterwhat.“(On what Mystics can improve…)“Cutting down on mental errors, there are a lot of little things we are doing wrong, andwe really need to work on things like that.”Washington Mystics Guard Ivory Latta(On defensive strategy going into game…)“Try to limit Delle Donne’s touches as much as possible and try to control and keepSylvia Fowles off offensive boards. Just play hard.”(On Mystics' weaknesses…)“Rebounding, rebounding, rebounding, rebounding and defensive rebounding. Continueto go with the play that coach wants us to do and pretty much rebounding overall and getbetter at making the defensive plays.”(On what lead to loss…)“Coach said Sylvia got 10 offensive rebounds. That can't happen, that definitely can'thappen.”