Post by Administrator on Jan 2, 2004 3:25:06 GMT -5
After an overtime loss to Temple on Dec. 13, Coach Mickie DeMoss sat in her office with a long face.
"I don't know what to do with them," she said of her Kentucky team.
She was discouraged by a two-game losing streak and a team she thought wasn't getting any better. She had lost nearly 10 pounds off an already tiny frame. She wasn't sleeping at night.
"I hadn't lost in so long; I was having trouble with losing," said DeMoss, who with Tennessee hadn't lost back-to-back games since 1997. "I was having to go through a lot of adjustments."
But no adjustment has been more important for the coach, and probably her team, than an attitude adjustment.
The day after the Temple loss, DeMoss was seeing a lot of the same mistakes in practice as she was in the game the day before.
She was sick just watching it.
She walked out of practice.
"I said, 'I'm done. Y'all are done, just go,' " DeMoss said.
The players pleaded with her to finish out practice with them.
She kept walking.
The players got to talking after DeMoss's walking.
"She just gave up," senior forward Shambrica Jones said. "We knew then we had to do something."
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"I don't know what to do with them," she said of her Kentucky team.
She was discouraged by a two-game losing streak and a team she thought wasn't getting any better. She had lost nearly 10 pounds off an already tiny frame. She wasn't sleeping at night.
"I hadn't lost in so long; I was having trouble with losing," said DeMoss, who with Tennessee hadn't lost back-to-back games since 1997. "I was having to go through a lot of adjustments."
But no adjustment has been more important for the coach, and probably her team, than an attitude adjustment.
The day after the Temple loss, DeMoss was seeing a lot of the same mistakes in practice as she was in the game the day before.
She was sick just watching it.
She walked out of practice.
"I said, 'I'm done. Y'all are done, just go,' " DeMoss said.
The players pleaded with her to finish out practice with them.
She kept walking.
The players got to talking after DeMoss's walking.
"She just gave up," senior forward Shambrica Jones said. "We knew then we had to do something."
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