The fact that these obviously talented athletes have not made it to the next round shows that Australian women's basketball is in the enviable position of having an amazing depth of talent at present.

These girls are good athletes, not just good basketball players. We usually start slow in December. Things fell into place and we started to play good basketball.

Don Huston coached basketball at Curtis for years and once told me to let your athletes play, to give them free reign to perform. With Isaiah, I have to let him go because I couldn't reign him in anyway. He simply does things other kids can't do.

He is a fantastic role model who demands excellence and accountability from the student-athletes in his program. I'm appreciative of the seven years I've had the opportunity to work with Steve.

We were much more focussed during this game. We are using this tournament to paint a bigger picture ? for the World Championships.

I thought we might have struggled a bit more than we did. We've had a lot of games that have had that kind of margin at the end, so we ran some plays and tried a few things. I thought that worked quite well and we need to know we can do that against quality opposition.