Jay Sparks
Jay Sparks
control destroyed lost pitch pleased position shot
The play was destroyed when Erica lost control of the ball, and she had to pitch it back. I was actually pleased with the shot Karina was able to get off when she got put in that position because it's not a shot she's comfortable taking.
conference games reason rust
That's the reason why you play the tournament. We play those two games to get some of that rust out of our system, because after that we don't have anything but conference left.
conference days game people played players playing positive ready typical
This was a typical game for us after 19 days off. We experimented by playing a lot of people and all 11 players who played got in at least 10 minutes. That is a positive for us as we get ready for conference play.
bounce nice side wrong
We've been on the wrong side of those a lot this year. It's nice to see we got one to bounce our way one time.
against enemy ourselves playing rust weeks worst
We will have had 2 1/2 weeks off, so we're playing more against ourselves than the other team. We're going to be our own worst enemy because of the rust that we'll have.
obviously player reason
That's obviously a significant reason why she's player of the year. She does those kind of things for her team. Give her a whole lot of credit.
add concentration equals focus lack total
It was a total lack of focus, concentration and intensity. You add all that up and it equals 27 turnovers and a loss.
answer broke games half minus second seven shot win
We broke down all our games and, minus two of them, we had a shot to win seven of them. This would be eight. I thought we had a shot to win, but in the second half we'd get one-shot-and-out and we couldn't answer them.
aggressive good job throw trying
We were trying to take it right to them, but we didn't do a very good job of that. We could throw it in there, but we didn't do a very good job of being aggressive once we got there.
ability amount games
We don't have the ability to concentrate for any amount of time. When you don't have that, you have games like we had tonight. If you look back over the season, we've had a lot of lulls like that.
add bottom girls high left lesson line open proving shoot tough
When you add it all up, we just didn't shoot a high percentage. That's the bottom line of this game. This is a tough lesson for us to learn, but our girls are being left open for a reason. They're not proving they can make shots.
basketball coming deserved game good knew needed points team win
They are a very good basketball team and we knew that coming in. They deserved to win this game because they did everything they needed to do to win. We didn't do that... . They were at least 23 points better than us tonight, if not more.
apply capable few game good hopefully learned people playing rest step successful tonight toward
There were a few good performances out there, but, truthfully, there weren't enough of them. We will hopefully take what we learned in this game tonight and apply it toward getting better on Friday. We have to have some people step up and play the way they are capable of playing if we are going to be successful the rest of the year.
athletic attention basketball change committed department liked loyal obvious program sports staff
As an athletic department staff member, he is so loyal and so committed -- not just to men's or women's basketball, but to the whole program. He's not been able to give to the whole athletic program like he would have liked to and so I think the most obvious change you'll see is his attention to some of the sports that he has not been able to really commit to.