Several of the players who are playing ball now started playing when they were in the fourth and fifth grades. And some of them have gone on to college.

When I started playing in London, it was against older players, and I wasn't the strongest player. So they put me out on the perimeter. That's where it (his three-point stroke) comes from.

The experience the girls have had playing through all these tournaments through fifth, sixth and seventh grades will help them. I've been involved with these girls since third, fourth grade. If I wasn't the coach, I was taking care of the paper work. Nine of the 10 girls played on the summer team. The girls are still growing up and learning as we go.

October, that's when they pay off for playing ball.

When we're playing well together we just want to keep getting the ball. You just keep feeding off it. We learned how well we can play, we just can't settle for anything less in the future.

She's a very mature kid. She was playing eighth-grade ball in the fourth grade. She's always played up. She's a good player and a great kid. She's our best shooter, and they did a good job of taking her out of it. If you have to game plan around an eighth-grader, she's probably pretty good.