Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geno Auriemma

We've got some good basketball left in us we haven't played yet. There's a lot that still has to come together for us and hopefully it will be Monday night.

Jeff Hawkins

We've got our minds so much on basketball stuff and practice, I forgot it was New Year's Eve. Thanks for reminding me, though.

We've made a push to play our best basketball in the final two weeks. We will need to be at our best mentally and physically in the tournament.

We have been working really hard here the past three years. We've had some hurdles like all rebuilding jobs. This year we have more players. We have more experienced players. The first-year guys we have signed are making contributions. We're kind of getting it from everywhere. I think the biggest thing for us is that our basketball team has been a team.

We?re not a very skilled team. We have kids who play hard. ... We don?t have good basketball skills. And in games like this, it hurts.

Rick Carlisle

We're not a very good basketball team right now. This was very disappointing. We couldn't hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle. The ball not going in in the third was key.

Rick Carlisle

We're not a very good basketball team right now. This was very disappointing.

Jose Fernandez

We're not a very good basketball team right now. But hand it to them, I thought they brought a ton of energy and they brought a ton of enthusiasm and they made plays. And they did whatever they wanted to do. I'm embarrassed that we didn't give a better showing.

Usually, Saint Joe's teams play their best basketball this time of year. We are just going to have to take this game, learn from it and move on. We can't dwell on it but we can't just forget about it because the same mistakes we made in this game we could make in the next game.

With the way things have been, we don't want to get too excited. It's fun to be playing basketball now. It wasn't there for a while.

We played like a very unaware basketball team. We knew Marissa was a threat with her shooting. Look at her stats. She shoots the 3 great. We just weren't aware, and to not be aware of a player that good is scary.

We put her in some situations to get her the basketball and she did a nice job of getting some buckets.

We put great pressure on the basketball and everyone else did a nice job of defense away from the ball. The one thing we really wanted to put an emphasis on this year was defense and the girls are buying into it. We didn't shoot the ball well, but we played great defense.

Byron Scott

We played hard tonight. We had the tempo in our favor and that's the type of basketball that we want to play.

We played hard and I like the way this team is playing. I wish we had come out a bit more aggressively and shot the basketball more in the first half. We passed up a lot of shots early tonight. We took those shots in the second half. That's coming. I'm feeling pretty good about our team and I like where we're at. I think good things are in the future.

We played great basketball (Wednesday). I was really proud of our effort and the fact that we played such good team basketball.

We played good defense in the final quarter and we made our foul shots. Those two things win basketball games at the end. It worked well for us tonight.

We played good defense and moved the basketball in the first quarter, but like all young teams, we got into a four or five minute funk where it's like you're brain dead.

We played football as many games as we can, we're going to play basketball as many games as we can. There's a lot of good friendships on this team.

We played basketball like it is supposed to be played. We moved the ball, we played good defense, we took care of the ball, and we shut down their top player. It was a great first quarter for us.

Avery Johnson

We played a very small stretch of decent basketball out of a 48-minute game. We've been defending the 3-pointer pretty well this year, but it didn't happen tonight. We pretty much know where we're going to finish now (the No. 4 seed).

We played a very good basketball team tonight. They made the game too hard for us. I thought we gave everything we had in the first, but the way they played, the way they shot the basketball I don't think we could have won. They did what they had to do, and they took care of the home game.

We have to take care of the basketball if we want to win, 10 turnovers or less. And we have to guard them on the perimeter.

Those guys make a big difference in our team, Lester with his aggressiveness and his toughness and Chris with his basketball knowledge and his savvy to make plays defensively and to make shots on offense.

Larry Hughes

Whether you win by 30 or lose by two you just have to move on. What we did in Game 1 really doesn't mean anything if we come out and don't take care of what we are supposed to take care of in Game 2. That's pretty much the nature of it.

Whether you're playing a basketball game or a football game, everybody needs to play by the rules and in this case I don't believe the rules were followed.

Without a doubt, we're playing our best basketball right now. We have as much confidence now as any time this season.

O. J. Simpson

Yesterday we were well, I don't think we were quite mentally here to play basketball when we showed up. I guess we had too many distractions.

We're a great basketball team, and they thumped us pretty good. I think that's the team that's going to win the state championship.

We don't want to look too far ahead. But we do want to establish ourselves as a strong basketball program. We just don't what this to be a one-year thing.

We ended the season on a good little run and we're playing probably our best basketball now. Our defense is feeding our offense and it's much better basketball for us now that we're focusing on defense.

Ben Wallace

We dug a hole and had to fight to try and get back in the game. And when you play like that, sometimes it just bites you in the end -- when you play garbage basketball for the first 24 minutes.

Jim Calhoun

We really played our best basketball. It was one of the few games I can say you could just enjoy. It was just really a tremendous basketball game for us and hopefully it's a peek into what we're capable of. Seasons are really funny. But I think those things are good. We jump right now into a hot stove.