Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our team needs to get to the free-throw line a little more, and also we need to foul a little less.

Our foul trouble was a big problem. Their baseline pressure was all that we heard it was, and they turned us over a lot as a result.

Our foul trouble took some of our aggressiveness away. We've never been in foul trouble like that.

Rick Carlisle

Our foul trouble made it tough. (Bryant) gets you into foul trouble, and double-teams get other people open shots. We mixed a lot of different things and some were effective. Other times, you just have to hope he misses.

Our goal is to keep our turnovers under 15 for the game. When we are up, we like to pull it out and make teams foul us.

Our youth showed in the fourth quarter and we were in foul trouble.

Landers is a heck of a player with a nice package of skills. And if you foul him he'll knock down about 85-percent of his free throws.

Michael Redd

That was the game plan - to foul Garnett. We just didn't do it.

That was a huge momentum swing. Steve (Taylor) picked up his third foul and that hurt. I probably should not have had him in there.

That was one of the things we talked about at halftime. Down at the end every foul is a free throw basically.

That was kind of like the backbreaker, because then they had to foul us.

That's what a good team does, they make their free throws down the stretch and they did that. That's a strategy you use when your down at the end and you hope and pray they miss their foul shots and they didn't. That's what good teams do, they make them.

Jay Harrington

That's a very, very good team. But we're not playing as well as we have been. And what did we shoot from the foul line, 18 for 30? That's not what we do.

It had nothing to do with him shooting 8-for-12. It had everything to do with him going to the foul line six times. If he can get to the foul line, he can score.

Bob Thomason

I won't know if it was a foul until I see it. I hope it was a good foul and not one of those other kinds of fouls.

I was upset, especially that we got in foul trouble in the first half.

I was glad we didn't foul her when she went up for that basket.

I thought it was a foul ball, ... But with 17 runs on the board, I'll take it.

I thought if we were in a situation where we had to put them at the foul line we would be in trouble.

Heck, he made one from the other foul line to send it into overtime here two years ago. It's never over with him.

He knows how to get to the free throw line and he knows how to get people to foul him.

Foul trouble can hurt us. We don't have a lot of depth.

I think it's better to be on a team with such great players. On other teams you have one or two great scorers and if one of them gets hurt or in foul trouble, that's a lot of points you're not getting.

I thought we were getting hit inside pretty hard and I was tired of our kids getting hit. As physical as we are when we're going for a shot and getting knocked (around) to the side, that's a foul -- and that's what I said, sort of.

It hurt down the stretch that they had to foul to stop the clock.

Henry Bibby

I thought we did a lot of good things that we haven't done on the road. The discrepancy in foul shots ... that's a big difference. We never got into the bonus, so we never had a chance.

He's a good foul shooter. That's who we wanted there.

Jim Boeheim

He's had some tremendous spurts for us, but he's been in a lot of foul trouble, which happens with big guys. When he's in the game and not in foul trouble, he's been effective. But, he's got to stay in the game.

His turnovers have skyrocketed, as have his foul problems. For him to be what we need and have to have, he needs to improve on that.

He's a throwback kid. He has consideration for others, respect for others and is caring. He's not going to use foul language around adults. He'll be the first to help with the luggage. I look at him as an old-school guy.

I don't think we've ever had a game when we've been in foul trouble like that.

From the tip we were in foul trouble. At one point, all of our starters were in foul trouble.

I get pretty competitive when it comes to most sports. So I took a hard foul right on my hip and wasn't able to train in the weeks leading up to the race.