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...
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.
ball body chances early goals key second
One of our goals was to keep them off the glass. Early in the game, they were getting some second chances and our key was to put a body on them, get the rebound, and get the ball down the court.
family home needed priorities program school second situation
Our priorities for our program are your family comes first, school comes second and basketball's after that somewhere. This is a situation where she just needed to be back home for a little while and we did that.
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.
area attacked basketball bother left percent played pressure rush scoring seconds shot
When we attacked their pressure we were fine. But 75 percent of the game, we let their press bother us. When we played around with their press, we got into our scoring area with 10 or 12 seconds left (on the 30-second shot clock) and we had to rush a shot.
blocking drop second shot
The second half, something just wasn't right. We just weren't in sync. We weren't blocking out (for rebounds) and we couldn't get a shot to drop for us.
early job quickness second
Early on we had no-help defense, in part because of their quickness and in part because of us not being in position. We did a much better job in the second half.
adjust came conference continuity game hard played second team
They were a completely different team than when they came to see us. It's hard to adjust because we played them in the second conference game and then in the last. We couldn't get any continuity with how much better they were.
air ball close couple inside passing players post second shots
A lot of our shots weren't even close (in the second half) ? we had a couple of air balls. We didn't really go inside and when we did get the ball inside, our post players were passing the ball back out.
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.
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.