Jim Bolla
Jim Bolla
James Daniel "Jim" Bolla, Jr.is an American basketball coach who was most recently the head women's basketball coach at the University of Hawaiʻi...
discussion game issue practice ready road
We've never made (playing on the road) a big deal, so it's never become an issue with the kids. There's no discussion about where we're playing. It's just a road game and we just go to practice and get ready to play.
dressed enjoyed floor good kick players practice run serious
No one got hurt. They got to run up and down the floor and have some fun. The players enjoyed getting dressed up with the costumes. It was a good way to kick off practice and then get serious on what we need to do.
dwell last percent practice saturday
We did not dwell on it. We're 80 percent in practice. I think last Saturday was just one of those games.
bad beat game hopefully practice second state system talked team tournament year
We talked about this being the team that beat us in the tournament at practice yesterday. Hopefully we got that bad game out of our system for the year in the second Kent State game.
five gets overlooked people players playing points practice pushing reason rebounds sheet
You see the first five playing ... but the reason they're playing is the people in practice are pushing them hard. A lot of times it gets overlooked because all people see are points and rebounds on the stat sheet or in the newspaper. The practice players make us good.
finished game past
We finished the game. We hadn't finished the game the past four.
absolutely felt hate
You hate to do this as a coach. But I felt it was absolutely necessary.
ball felt shoot
We felt they didn't shoot the ball well from the outside.
free point rebounds second
We got outplayed again. They killed us on the boards. At one point during the second half, they had 20 more rebounds than us. We couldn't even block-out on a free throw.
everybody good loss series work
Everybody is 0-0 going into this tournament. It's a one-game series now. This loss is not the end of the world. We did some things OK. We have some things that we need to work on, but that was a very good team. They are deservingly the WAC champions.
good news
The good news is, someone is going to win.
decent forward looking road seem though tough
We seem to play pretty decent on the road, so even though it's going to be a tough road swing, we're looking forward to it.
advantage both inside people physical size start
We need to start getting more physical with people. In both games, we had a significant size advantage on them, and our inside people couldn't take advantage of that.
chance executing hard offense players trying understand win
We are still trying to get the players to understand that they are not executing our offense the way we want. Because we still have a chance to win at the end, it is hard for them to understand this, but we are not there yet.