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We can't prevent shots, but we can contest them.
BRAD TINGEY![]()
All we ask of our guys is that they take good shots. The shots we took tonight were good shots, shot...
PAUL GRAY I called a time out when we were down 19. I said it's time to play with confidence; it's time to mak...
JOE SIGRIST We missed shots. We missed shots, we missed shots, we missed shots. We had opportunities, and the gu...
JODY STEMKOSKI I thought we would come over here and play pretty good, but we were just awful. We couldn't defend t...
BOB BURTON They were cutting into our lead due to our mistakes, ... [But] we have guys capable of making big sh...
BARON DAVIS I think the guys were a little anxious out there early on and the shots just weren't falling. But we...
JOE AIELLO At that point I thought we were down, but not out. Our shots weren't falling and we never got into a...
LISA ZAK We altered a lot of shots. The shots we did not block, I think they (Kennedy) were, I don't want to ...
STEVE ARNOLD We were looking at the shot chart (at halftime), and a lot of their shots were out on the perimeter....
CLIFF THOMPSON We didn't contest shots (in the first half). In the second half we contested shots and they missed.
MARK LEE I don't think they were used to guys blocking their shots. We did a good job blocking them and force...
DARRON ROGERS We did a much better job of contesting his shots. He did a really good job at creating space and was...
CLIFFORD ROBINSON We knew he could shoot the 3. We were late sometimes getting out to contest the shot. He knocked it ...
JOSH DUNCAN![]()
We made some good stops and we contested their shots. I think last time we played them they shot aro...
LEBRON JAMES Actually, we really got lucky a lot. They missed a lot of close shots. We were able to contest some,...
DAVID NOEL![]()
Offensively, we just couldn't get our shots to fall or we'd [commit] a turnover. We were not getting...
DAN QUINN We were getting nice shots, high-percentage shots. I liked that.
DREW FRANK He takes two shots at Kaspar [Darius Kasparaitis} and I'm not going to let that happen to any of our...
CAM JANSSEN He takes two shots at Kaspar [Darius Kasparaitis\} and I'm not going to let that happen to any of ou...
CAM JANSSEN They have a couple of great shooters, and we have to get out and contest their shots. And they have ...
ALLAN RAY You gotta just keep going after it. That's what we were trying to do - work on our second shots.
EMILY HAUPTLI A lot of times they were making some big saves for me. It's all the credit to them. They're not scar...
JOSE THEODORE He was the only kid that could make a shot. I was begging the guys, 'Give Sean shots.' It was hard t...
MARK TURGEON It's great. It feels great. Guys were knocking down shots. It wasn't just the passers - the guys had...
DEDRICK FINN Our legs seemed to leave us. Our effort, our legs -- I'm not sure -- but we failed to close out on s...
BRIAN HUKEL We were getting out early with our running game. A lot of our shots came from passing, moving the ba...
ALLIE QUIGLEY We came out, were aggressive, executed our offense, got steals, and converted our shots.
JAMIE MAYNE We didn't want to be stagnant. We wanted three or four guys besides Zack taking shots.
MATT OSBORNE We got great looks. We had three or four shots that were halfway down and came out. But we kept batt...
JASON BUCKLEY In the second half, I think the difference was that we didn't finish shots. I thought our execution ...
DEB PATTERSON We made them take tough shots. That's been our defensive philosophy since I have been here. We got o...
MIKE BROWNING We had more interaction in practices before coming here and J.J. wanted other guys to take shots.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI We wanted to get the ball inside and were successful at doing that. And then later on in the second ...
AUDLY WEHNER We did that because we don't want kids in foul trouble. … We try to match up on their better shoot...
DEREK FISHER Guys have to come through. Those are great shots. Those are shots that we want. Anytime you get into...
BRIAN CLODI I knew they were going to double- team, triple-team me. I was missing shots that I would never miss....
CARMELO ANTHONY We were definitely nervous coming out tonight. Our focus wasn't quite there, and we needed to make s...
ERIN HICKS We played basketball tonight. We wanted to keep it simple. Most of our offense came off dribble pene...
DELONTE WEST We were just running our offense. I was little rusty, but it felt good to hit some shots.
KATHERINE SNODGRASS We got fatigued (from the press). I think our legs started getting out of our shots and they were ri...
ANDREW GRIFFIN We got the ball inside, kicked out, rotated and guys got open shots. I think our offense was really ...
GAVIN GRANT We came out flat to start the second half. I thought we would really play up. But we missed some sho...
BOB MURPHREY I think it's going to be an improvement for our team, putting me out there on the wing, getting more...
MARQUIS WEBB I tried to make it an interesting game, but Brad hit some big shots. We need to battle back and find...
BOBBY JACKSON We really wanted to defend the paint. With the two big guys, we were able to cheat out on their shoo...
JEFF POWERS That is the story right there. We had plenty of shots. I'm not sure if we were following through, bu...
JEFF TANK We struggled to clog up the middle and prevent shots from outside the 18.
LANCE LATTIN Kobe makes shots like that. We kept saying they were incredible shots and they were incredible shots...
MAURICE CHEEKS And it wasn't like we were forcing hard shots. We were getting easy shots but we just had some jitte...
BRIAN MACY We had a couple of times when our guys could have squeezed off shots when they chose not to. We've g...
ROD BARNES I think we made some careless turnovers. We were getting good shots, but they were not going down.
CHRIS HERNANDEZ He can shoot. I know that flat out. Guys like that, you've really got to respect their jump shots.
ANTHONY HARRIS Our guys did a great job. They passed the ball well and shots went in. Guys make shots and it become...
DOUG KRAUSS We got a little more patient on offense. As we got more patient, we were able to hit more shots. We ...
DEAUNDRE MUHAMMAD After we cut it to five, we made mistakes. We were rushing our shots, and trying to do it all by our...
KURT GREENE We were getting good shots, and everybody was making shots. But what we needed were more rebounds an...
JAMEL CARPENTER They were very disruptive to our offensive sets. I think we had some shots we could've hit, but they...
KATIE MEIER We had a lot of respect for them, and I thought it was important to get out on them early. Guys hit ...
JAMEY COLLINS I think maybe we just ran out of some steam. They were hitting some shots, they shot close to 50 per...
JEN MILNE![]()
They were great shots. I couldn't diagram better shots than that.
RICK PITINO We have to give a better showing than that, ... I'm not worried about the offense. We know we can sc...
ANTAWN JAMISON Tonight, we hit our shots. When our shots are falling, we're tough to defend.
KURT KAWACHI That first half, Latta did a good job. We just weren't taking the right shots. The shots were open. ...
BARRY MCFADDEN Our offense was stagnant again in the second half. We didn't have the movement that we talked about,...
TODD MINNEY We were putting up way too many (3-pointers). We were settling for shots we didn't need to be taking...
DARRELL HAYNES In the first half, we came out nervous. At half, I said 'come on guys, let's go.' We settled down an...
ADAM STERN I knew they were good shooters, and that if we didn't get out on them, they were going to knock shot...
ALEX SMITH The story of the game was our inability to make shots. I didn't get a feel that we were out of our r...
OLIVER PURNELL Our shots weren't falling, but we weren't being patient and we were forcing a lot because time was r...
JAMIE MAYNE We didn't make our shots. We tried to make a run in the third quarter, but we missed too many easy s...
LANCE VALLEY We had a lot of (good) shots, but we changed our shots and couldn't hit them.
CRAIG DAVIS The pressure was there to keep taking shots but when you're not making them you don't want to take a...
KAREEM RUSH They were getting us out of our offense. We were allowing that to happen because we weren't reading ...
BEN GOMEZ All you can do is contest him. If you contest his shots, then hopefully he'll miss them.
BOBBY SIMMONS I think the shots that we took were good shots. We made sure we didn't force anything as well. I thi...
JOSH HARTMAN We were rushing shots in the first half. I think we just had more rhythm shots, more open shots, in ...
BRIAN HENDERSON We didn't make hardly any shots (in the first half), but we were stopping them. And then when we sta...
JAJUAN SMITH I think we actually came out harder, but our shots just weren't dropping as they could have. Even th...
BREANA ALLISON I thought defensively we did a good job. We knew they were going to shoot threes, and our guys all d...
CHAD RIESSEN I thought defensively we did a good job. We knew they were going to shoot threes, and our guys all d...
CHAD VAN RIESSEN We haven't been in that situation very often. Typically we come out strong and make shots early. I t...
ALAN BUSS We didn't get too many shots because we were playing a man down for most of it. That's not exactly w...
NEAL DONOHUE They were making range threes - way out. We extended our zone and they still sunk outside shots.
DICK ALWINE Their shots were close. When we calmed down and started going to our height, we were OK.
DOUG GALLOWAY Their shots were deep, and oftentimes we had a hand in their face. Our guys made plays and there wer...
JAMIE DIXON We had four guys in double figures and we had 22 assists. That means we were sharing the basketball ...
DOC SADLER We did break down a few times. Our man wasn't giving up many shots, but we had a few players get in ...
ANDREW COSTON Our offense hasn't been in sync for about a month now. It looks like were afraid to takes shots and ...
TIM EHRESMAN We didn't hit shots. We were getting the same exact shots in the second half, and they did not fall.
BRIAN GOLUB All of our shots were short. And we rebounded horribly.
LYNETTE MUND Naugatuck came out very fired up and was very aggressive, and we were flat. We were missing so many ...
NICK AUGELLI Most of our shots in the first half were from 15 feet out.
GARY ROBINSON We forced them to take shots on the perimeter. We kind of took what they were trying to do away from...
RAY ALLEN We never got in sync. Our shots weren't falling. We were out of sync offensively, and defensively, w...
ANDY HARMON You've got to make shots to be a Division I player. We did a good job of limiting our turnovers and ...
DOUG WOJCIK Oh, if we just could have made some of those shots inside. I don't even want to count the amount of ...
DARREN JACKSON We struggled to score and that has been the issue for this team the whole season. We need guys to st...
JASON TREUTELAAR Missed opportunities. We had so many easy shots. We were taller than them. We out-rebounded them. We...
MEGAN GEPHART We're going to do a lot of things to try and guard Slaughter. I don't think you can just put one guy...
DAVE ROSE
BRAD TINGEY
All we ask of our guys is that they take good shots. The shots we took tonight were good shots, shot... PAUL GRAY I called a time out when we were down 19. I said it's time to play with confidence; it's time to mak...
JOE SIGRIST We missed shots. We missed shots, we missed shots, we missed shots. We had opportunities, and the gu...
JODY STEMKOSKI I thought we would come over here and play pretty good, but we were just awful. We couldn't defend t...
BOB BURTON They were cutting into our lead due to our mistakes, ... [But] we have guys capable of making big sh...
BARON DAVIS I think the guys were a little anxious out there early on and the shots just weren't falling. But we...
JOE AIELLO At that point I thought we were down, but not out. Our shots weren't falling and we never got into a...
LISA ZAK We altered a lot of shots. The shots we did not block, I think they (Kennedy) were, I don't want to ...
STEVE ARNOLD We were looking at the shot chart (at halftime), and a lot of their shots were out on the perimeter....
CLIFF THOMPSON We didn't contest shots (in the first half). In the second half we contested shots and they missed.
MARK LEE I don't think they were used to guys blocking their shots. We did a good job blocking them and force...
DARRON ROGERS We did a much better job of contesting his shots. He did a really good job at creating space and was...
CLIFFORD ROBINSON We knew he could shoot the 3. We were late sometimes getting out to contest the shot. He knocked it ...
JOSH DUNCAN
We made some good stops and we contested their shots. I think last time we played them they shot aro... LEBRON JAMES Actually, we really got lucky a lot. They missed a lot of close shots. We were able to contest some,...
DAVID NOEL
Offensively, we just couldn't get our shots to fall or we'd [commit] a turnover. We were not getting... DAN QUINN We were getting nice shots, high-percentage shots. I liked that.
DREW FRANK He takes two shots at Kaspar [Darius Kasparaitis} and I'm not going to let that happen to any of our...
CAM JANSSEN He takes two shots at Kaspar [Darius Kasparaitis\} and I'm not going to let that happen to any of ou...
CAM JANSSEN They have a couple of great shooters, and we have to get out and contest their shots. And they have ...
ALLAN RAY You gotta just keep going after it. That's what we were trying to do - work on our second shots.
EMILY HAUPTLI A lot of times they were making some big saves for me. It's all the credit to them. They're not scar...
JOSE THEODORE He was the only kid that could make a shot. I was begging the guys, 'Give Sean shots.' It was hard t...
MARK TURGEON It's great. It feels great. Guys were knocking down shots. It wasn't just the passers - the guys had...
DEDRICK FINN Our legs seemed to leave us. Our effort, our legs -- I'm not sure -- but we failed to close out on s...
BRIAN HUKEL We were getting out early with our running game. A lot of our shots came from passing, moving the ba...
ALLIE QUIGLEY We came out, were aggressive, executed our offense, got steals, and converted our shots.
JAMIE MAYNE We didn't want to be stagnant. We wanted three or four guys besides Zack taking shots.
MATT OSBORNE We got great looks. We had three or four shots that were halfway down and came out. But we kept batt...
JASON BUCKLEY In the second half, I think the difference was that we didn't finish shots. I thought our execution ...
DEB PATTERSON We made them take tough shots. That's been our defensive philosophy since I have been here. We got o...
MIKE BROWNING We had more interaction in practices before coming here and J.J. wanted other guys to take shots.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI We wanted to get the ball inside and were successful at doing that. And then later on in the second ...
AUDLY WEHNER We did that because we don't want kids in foul trouble. … We try to match up on their better shoot...
DEREK FISHER Guys have to come through. Those are great shots. Those are shots that we want. Anytime you get into...
BRIAN CLODI I knew they were going to double- team, triple-team me. I was missing shots that I would never miss....
CARMELO ANTHONY We were definitely nervous coming out tonight. Our focus wasn't quite there, and we needed to make s...
ERIN HICKS We played basketball tonight. We wanted to keep it simple. Most of our offense came off dribble pene...
DELONTE WEST We were just running our offense. I was little rusty, but it felt good to hit some shots.
KATHERINE SNODGRASS We got fatigued (from the press). I think our legs started getting out of our shots and they were ri...
ANDREW GRIFFIN We got the ball inside, kicked out, rotated and guys got open shots. I think our offense was really ...
GAVIN GRANT We came out flat to start the second half. I thought we would really play up. But we missed some sho...
BOB MURPHREY I think it's going to be an improvement for our team, putting me out there on the wing, getting more...
MARQUIS WEBB I tried to make it an interesting game, but Brad hit some big shots. We need to battle back and find...
BOBBY JACKSON We really wanted to defend the paint. With the two big guys, we were able to cheat out on their shoo...
JEFF POWERS That is the story right there. We had plenty of shots. I'm not sure if we were following through, bu...
JEFF TANK We struggled to clog up the middle and prevent shots from outside the 18.
LANCE LATTIN Kobe makes shots like that. We kept saying they were incredible shots and they were incredible shots...
MAURICE CHEEKS And it wasn't like we were forcing hard shots. We were getting easy shots but we just had some jitte...
BRIAN MACY We had a couple of times when our guys could have squeezed off shots when they chose not to. We've g...
ROD BARNES I think we made some careless turnovers. We were getting good shots, but they were not going down.
CHRIS HERNANDEZ He can shoot. I know that flat out. Guys like that, you've really got to respect their jump shots.
ANTHONY HARRIS Our guys did a great job. They passed the ball well and shots went in. Guys make shots and it become...
DOUG KRAUSS We got a little more patient on offense. As we got more patient, we were able to hit more shots. We ...
DEAUNDRE MUHAMMAD After we cut it to five, we made mistakes. We were rushing our shots, and trying to do it all by our...
KURT GREENE We were getting good shots, and everybody was making shots. But what we needed were more rebounds an...
JAMEL CARPENTER They were very disruptive to our offensive sets. I think we had some shots we could've hit, but they...
KATIE MEIER We had a lot of respect for them, and I thought it was important to get out on them early. Guys hit ...
JAMEY COLLINS I think maybe we just ran out of some steam. They were hitting some shots, they shot close to 50 per...
JEN MILNE
They were great shots. I couldn't diagram better shots than that. RICK PITINO We have to give a better showing than that, ... I'm not worried about the offense. We know we can sc...
ANTAWN JAMISON Tonight, we hit our shots. When our shots are falling, we're tough to defend.
KURT KAWACHI That first half, Latta did a good job. We just weren't taking the right shots. The shots were open. ...
BARRY MCFADDEN Our offense was stagnant again in the second half. We didn't have the movement that we talked about,...
TODD MINNEY We were putting up way too many (3-pointers). We were settling for shots we didn't need to be taking...
DARRELL HAYNES In the first half, we came out nervous. At half, I said 'come on guys, let's go.' We settled down an...
ADAM STERN I knew they were good shooters, and that if we didn't get out on them, they were going to knock shot...
ALEX SMITH The story of the game was our inability to make shots. I didn't get a feel that we were out of our r...
OLIVER PURNELL Our shots weren't falling, but we weren't being patient and we were forcing a lot because time was r...
JAMIE MAYNE We didn't make our shots. We tried to make a run in the third quarter, but we missed too many easy s...
LANCE VALLEY We had a lot of (good) shots, but we changed our shots and couldn't hit them.
CRAIG DAVIS The pressure was there to keep taking shots but when you're not making them you don't want to take a...
KAREEM RUSH They were getting us out of our offense. We were allowing that to happen because we weren't reading ...
BEN GOMEZ All you can do is contest him. If you contest his shots, then hopefully he'll miss them.
BOBBY SIMMONS I think the shots that we took were good shots. We made sure we didn't force anything as well. I thi...
JOSH HARTMAN We were rushing shots in the first half. I think we just had more rhythm shots, more open shots, in ...
BRIAN HENDERSON We didn't make hardly any shots (in the first half), but we were stopping them. And then when we sta...
JAJUAN SMITH I think we actually came out harder, but our shots just weren't dropping as they could have. Even th...
BREANA ALLISON I thought defensively we did a good job. We knew they were going to shoot threes, and our guys all d...
CHAD RIESSEN I thought defensively we did a good job. We knew they were going to shoot threes, and our guys all d...
CHAD VAN RIESSEN We haven't been in that situation very often. Typically we come out strong and make shots early. I t...
ALAN BUSS We didn't get too many shots because we were playing a man down for most of it. That's not exactly w...
NEAL DONOHUE They were making range threes - way out. We extended our zone and they still sunk outside shots.
DICK ALWINE Their shots were close. When we calmed down and started going to our height, we were OK.
DOUG GALLOWAY Their shots were deep, and oftentimes we had a hand in their face. Our guys made plays and there wer...
JAMIE DIXON We had four guys in double figures and we had 22 assists. That means we were sharing the basketball ...
DOC SADLER We did break down a few times. Our man wasn't giving up many shots, but we had a few players get in ...
ANDREW COSTON Our offense hasn't been in sync for about a month now. It looks like were afraid to takes shots and ...
TIM EHRESMAN We didn't hit shots. We were getting the same exact shots in the second half, and they did not fall.
BRIAN GOLUB All of our shots were short. And we rebounded horribly.
LYNETTE MUND Naugatuck came out very fired up and was very aggressive, and we were flat. We were missing so many ...
NICK AUGELLI Most of our shots in the first half were from 15 feet out.
GARY ROBINSON We forced them to take shots on the perimeter. We kind of took what they were trying to do away from...
RAY ALLEN We never got in sync. Our shots weren't falling. We were out of sync offensively, and defensively, w...
ANDY HARMON You've got to make shots to be a Division I player. We did a good job of limiting our turnovers and ...
DOUG WOJCIK Oh, if we just could have made some of those shots inside. I don't even want to count the amount of ...
DARREN JACKSON We struggled to score and that has been the issue for this team the whole season. We need guys to st...
JASON TREUTELAAR Missed opportunities. We had so many easy shots. We were taller than them. We out-rebounded them. We...
MEGAN GEPHART We're going to do a lot of things to try and guard Slaughter. I don't think you can just put one guy...
DAVE ROSE
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