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Message: [QUOTE="jonson, post: 3322906, member: 6034"] Diana and the Ducks: "They're gonna come out, they're gonna throw the first punch, it's gonna get loud," Bird said. "I think the difference with Oregon was, they never quit. Some of the other teams, we maybe wore them down a bit. But not this team." [IMG alt="134182"]https://goducks.com/common/controls/image_handler.aspx?thumb_id=13&image_path=/images/2019/11/9/2019_11_09_WB_USA_vs_Oregon_EE_03450.JPG[/IMG] For that, Bird could credit an unlikely source — her own teammate and fellow UConn alum. The night before Saturday's game, Diana Taurasi spoke to the Ducks for nearly an hour. The essence of her message: "Stay mad." Don't get complacent after making the 2019 Final Four. Don't get caught up in the hype of preseason expectations. Don't lose your will to do more than the other team. When the Ducks went into halftime Saturday, their deficit was just four, 42-38. Earlier in the week, UO coach [URL='https://goducks.com/coaches.aspx?rc=2840']Kelly Graves[/URL] said it would be delusional to think Oregon had a chance to win the game. At halftime, it didn't seem so delusional. Before leaving the locker room for the second half, the Ducks huddled up and shouted, in unison: "Stay mad!" [. . . .} "Diana told us to stay mad," Ionescu said. "We didn't want to come out complacent. We didn't want to come out excited we were only down four at half. So we came out in the third quarter, and we stayed mad, just like she told us. So, thank you to her for helping us with that win." [URL="https://goducks.com/news/2019/11/9/womens-basketball-no-1-topples-no-1-oregon-knocks-off-team-usa.aspx"]No. 1 Topples No. 1! Oregon Knocks Off Team USA - University of Oregon Athletics[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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