>> Your next opponent Wagner, the end of the season opening four game home stand.

What do you want to see from your team.

>> Better.

I want to key everybody getting better.

I want us to keep loving each other and learning from our mistakes and keep understanding mistakes are a part of this game.

It's called a microcosm of life.

It's how you handle those mistakes that are going to help you with the rest of your life.

I want to keep going hard defensively.

And I think if we can continue to defend, we can have a chance.

And we keep defending all the way through January, I think March is going to be fun to be a part of.

>> Things will pick up after this Wagner match in terms of the opponents at the invesco QQQ showcase at the Mohegan Sun.

What are you expecting from your team in that showcase?

>> Better.

I think a lot of teams are better than us.

A lot of teams are going to be better than us.

And there might be some at Mohegan Sun but we just want to be better than them for 40 minutes.

That's it.

We want to defend them for five minutes at a time.

We want to box out five minutes at a time.

We want to transition the way we do it.

We want to talk and be passionate and enthusiastic the way we do it.

And if we can do that for 40 minutes, we can be better for 40 minutes, we can be better than anybody in the country.

>> I know you said you are expecting better.

Any players in particular you are looking forward to seeing what they can do in that environment?

>> No.

One thing about our teams, even when we had a special player like Dyaisha, it was never about her.

But when you made it about her, that's when Elena rice showed up and that's when Georgia Woolley showed up.

I think that our team is so even keeled and talent and skill set, if I say I expect these two people to be the ones I look at, I will eliminate the other 13 that could become.

So I coach a positionless team.

I have always had a situation where just a player, Elena was just a player.

Stretch was just a player and she started at the five for us.

So I want to continue to do that but I also want them to know that any given day, even if you struggle, we can still have success.

But any given day, you can become that special player that goes for 25 and 15 and give us the success that we deserve.

So just if there is no cap, there is no ceiling, there is no limitation on your success, the potential success you can have.

So let's just stay open to everybody show up and the ones that show out and become, we celebrate you with a hard hat.

>> How much of a bonus do you think it is to have the depth that you have this year going into the level up in the non-conference schedule?

>> We got so blessed with so many great players at the end of the signing period.

You know, it all ended when my coaches were considering taking head jobs and moving.

I just made recruiting my priority.

Others were helping but I stayed more locked in as if I was the recruiting coordinator.

And we got it done.

We got it done with some incredible talent.

And we were able to solidify the seven that could have transferred but all stayed.

And so to have these numbers and be able to-- oh we got to play this team here?

I'm going to with this kid first and this kid second.

To have choices like this says a lot of what hard work does.

We worked hard to get this group together.

And to have them connecting, liking each other as much as they do, that's a blessing on top of a blessing.

>> Positional versatility on your team is something I noticed in the first couple of games.

In the back court, Layla brought up the ball, Dominique has brought up the call, cam din has brought up the ball.

How much is that a benefit for you as a coach to know you have multiple players that can handle the ball and put your team in a good situation?

>> We have guard play and Angelica Velez is the real deal.

If you got guard play, now-- last year we didn't have guard play and we had a pretty good post play.

I think that this year is going give us a chance to dance a little bit.

>> What is the next step for your team to mesh together in these upcoming games?

>> Got to make layups.

I'm not saying the three point shot.

I think we missed 20 layups against Stony Brook and I think about 15 against Albany.

Wide open too much energy, throwing up against and clanking it.

We got to own our power.

You already made the move.

You already see your best friend which I call the back board.

Now all you have to do is kiss it and you are good.

You don't have to be with that nervous energy.

I call it nervous energy when you lose yourself at the end and once we learn how to handle and channel that energy, as we do our work and the plays already work.

And all you have to do is kiss it off the glass, we are going to be fine.

Three-point shot is going to come and go but the layups we have to come through with the layups.