If a team leaves me open, I almost feel it's an insult and I'm shooting that ball with confidence. All of our guards have been drilled and prepared to take those shots and we're ready for them.
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Related I knew we'd lost our top guards and I thought it'd take a couple of games for our junior guards to s... JUSTIN BROCK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The Lexington guards had two or three shots in the first half that were basically in and out. If tho... ANDY LONG My job is usually to help the team by playing defense and leading the club. But they were giving me ... ANDRE ALLEN I think it's going to be an improvement for our team, putting me out there on the wing, getting more... MARQUIS WEBB After two hard losses, the Green team came out ready to play. They did a great job playing team ball... DAWN HILBURN If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I’d have been shooting t... AMOR TOWLES Jess was a zone buster tonight. We told her before the game to just keep shooting the ball and it wa... DAN ROIGER Our defense is a lot better with Sam in the game, because he can block shots and rebound the ball. T... MAURICE CHEEKS They had confidence in me shooting the ball. They kept giving me the ball, and I heard them telling ... LUTHER HEAD I just started being more aggressive in the second half. The point guards were finding me and I was ... BRANDON RUSH We're just not shooting the ball well from the outside. A lot of those shots were uncontested. DAN ROIGER We scratched and clawed our way back and tied it, and we probably had our worst four possessions of ... CATHY NIXON What I remember is that I was getting open shots. We just rotated the ball around and my teammates f... JEFF CHAPMAN It all starts with taking away Dials. If we can force them to be a 3-point shooting team, and force ... DARREL OWENS We are shooting well in practice, but not in games. Sarah shot well last year. She's shooting well i... JUDIE MASON You have to give Midland a lot of credit. They were prepared for all our sets and they came ready to... MARK ADAMS What can I say? He shot the ball well. He was shooting wide-open shots. And when he shoots shots lik... JEFF KUCKELMAN We've gotten a lot more confident and everyone has been shooting the ball much better. Winning these... BRENNA MCGUIRE We've been a good shooting team all season. But when we're that open, our eyes kind of light up. GREGG HOLIFIELD I've been really pleased with the tone those two have set for the team this year. Those two show up ... GLENN SYLVEST We were kind of stagnant on offense and they were sagging off of me a little bit and it was making i... SHARNEE ZOLL We haven't been a good 3-point shooting team, but tonight we got the ball inside and then kicked it ... LAWRENCE THOMPSON JR Our quickness bothered (WSU) and we were able to hit shots, which has been an up-and-down thing for ... LUTE OLSON We knew coming in that UGF was going to make our guards beat them, and we were ready. BRIAN ORR People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared ... LA'PORSHA RENAE In order to find your shot, you have to keep shooting the ball and coach gives us the confidence to ... BRIAN CHASE I knew they were going to double- team, triple-team me. I was missing shots that I would never miss.... CARMELO ANTHONY Walker shot the ball extremely well. Our guards did an excellent job finding her in the transition. ... TOM HALBMAIER Turner's really opened the inside for everyone else. Teams have to double-team him, and that usually... ERIC HALL Our offense hasn't been in sync for about a month now. It looks like were afraid to takes shots and ... TIM EHRESMAN We played pretty well against them, but we didn't have any answers for (MWC player of the year) Bran... DALE LAYER Our guys competed their tails off. We gave ourselves a chance with the right people shooting the bal... LAWRENCE FRANK He's also been the catalyst I think for those guys. Getting the ball into them, being the quarterbac... DWANE CASEY I think that my team this year has a lot of team chemistry, and they play well together. And we have... CARI STRANGE (Parkview) is a very scrappy team and they get out and guard you. We knew we were going to have to w... JENI HOPKINS I look forward to working together with them and I am truly honored that the team has placed its con... GARY SHAW They don't have any weaknesses. You try to stop them inside and they kick it out, and they were hitt... HEATHER EZELL We know who their shooters are and we know their tendencies. We were able to get pressure on them an... DAN SACK I felt good the whole night shooting the ball. (Head coach Billy Donovan) always does a great job of... LEE HUMPHREY We had a lot of success with me coming off the ball screens up there. Usually I come off the screen,... TODD ABERNETHY I can't take any plays off. You have to have a heart and soul for the game. I take what the defense ... BRANDON ADAIR If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them, as the dial does... WILLIAM HAZLITT It's no secret that we're an outside shooting team. We were shooting the ball with confidence early ... BILL REATH You've got to play good on-ball defense. We can't let them get open shots or they're going to make t... JAMAR NUTTER We like to push the ball, get it in the lane and kick it back out. When we do that, we know we have ... CRAIG HAASE I didn't know if we'd be ready for this one or not. The last few games we've been driving the ball b... MARC BEACH It's a tough style to play against. You have to have some kids who have great fundamentals in passin... DUANE DAVIS Everybody's really prepared. Our confidence has been building, and we're just getting better as a te... COREY POTTER They're not an easy team to match up with because they usually play with four guards and a power for... BILL TRUMBO This was a great road win for us. I thought it was one of the better games we've played all year. Of... JOEL FEY Our defense was able to get a lot of turnovers and that led to some easy baskets. And it was good to... DAVID MIRLY We played four quarters with consistency and pressure defense. I knew eventually our shots would fal... JEFF SPROUSE As soon as Devon gave the ball up, they'd scramble off and pick the other kids up a lot quicker than... JOE MURPHY In a war, whoever wins does not necessarily shows or even proves, that they were right. whoever wins... C. LIDE SANGTAM I'm not going to lie, I was shooting the ball the whole way until I saw Ryan open at the last second... DREW KAMBIC We were really rushing, I felt like, early in the ball game. We didn't have control of the ball game... TONY PITTMAN It's a typical 2-3. Their guards take a lot of chances. They go for steals a lot, so we've got to pl... DARREL OWENS It's a team with tradition. And if anybody's going to have a team prepared for that atmosphere, it's... MARK PEPERKORN Both of those guys have a lot of confidence. And we as a team have a lot of confidence in them. They... DAVE COOK I knew that (Beal) was going to get hot and start to hit their shots. They are way too good of a sho... ROB BELT We took them all out on the court, because there's one thing I didn't want to get saddled with is so... JAMES GARTNER We didn't want to give up anything easy on the inside. Both teams struggled shooting the ball. They ... DENA SIEVERS My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could repl... ANDREW TAYLOR STILL We kept the shooters from hitting our shots. They are a great three-point shooting team. We extended... EDWARD FLEMING We feel like those [close] games have prepared us for our area tournament. We've been in several clo... TONY PITTMAN Guys were in the right spots all night. It was easy for me to find them. And they were making shots.... CRAIG AUSTRIE [We need to] take care of the ball. There was nothing that they did that really forced us into turno... CURTIS LOYD We had to get that (championship). It feels good. The first half I couldn't miss a shot. When you ma... BRETT AMES Our guards were penetrating and dishing the ball under the hoop for easy baskets. JEB HOBBS I don't know if I've ever had a team get shut out that way. We just forced up a lot of shots, especi... DAN BUSCH It's not hard to hit lay-ins, and when you're shooting wide-open shots and not turning the ball over... FRED TRENKLE I was open at the right time. Coach always tells me to take those shots. KYLE MEULI (Barnes) needs to understand how to get open and our guards have to get him the ball, too. It was tw... JAKE PALLUZZI Mike came out shooting the ball well, and if someone comes out like that, you want to make sure you ... KYLE SINGLER Today's college graduates take IM in the office for granted. If you protect your email systems but i... ED GOLOD They weren't shooting particularly well, we were playing great 'D', however you want to say it, I wa... STACY BILODEAU She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser... J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no... J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ... J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor. J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif... J.D. SALINGER We've got to start going inside with the ball. We're a perimeter team that shoots a lot of perimeter... BOBBY DIXON Me and Will (Thomas) got some early shots at the beginning of the game and we made most of them. If ... FOLARIN CAMPBELL Maggie and Erin have been a tremendous 1-2 punch and Taylor has stepped up to make some big shots. W... DAVE BROGIOLI The key for us is to play good defense. When we do that, everything else takes care of itself. When ... EDDIE CARTER I have always wanted to be a cartoonist, and I feel very blessed to have been able to do what I love... CHARLES M. SCHULZ We came ready to play. For not playing for a week, we came out shooting the ball well and played wit... ERIC SWANSON We made them take tough shots. That's been our defensive philosophy since I have been here. We got o... MIKE BROWNING I blame myself a little bit because I've allowed them some freedom. I've tried to give them confiden... BRUCE WEBER I thought our team was ready. I would have never anticipated this. We worked hard the last two days ... BRAD BROWNELL I was playing with the mentality of a point guard, looking to get other people to score, but I'm not... KALANA GREENE I think the whole reason why they traded for me was to become a playoff-contending team and to take ... JAMAAL MAGLOIRE It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their pa... NAT WOLFF Shooting has been our problem. We have to get a little confidence. KYLE REHRIG Veterans should know better. We learned a valuable lesson of when to shoot and when not to shoot. Wh... RICK PITINO We have a height advantage so our guards were throwing the ball over the top and our post players we... JESSICA DAVENPORT I wish we could bottle it up. Shooting 60% and shooting like that from threes. Shooting is a lot abo... TERRY STOTTS Chad has struggled shooting the ball so it was nice to see him knock down a couple of jump shots ton... BOB STRICKLER They (Taylor County) were focusing on our guards and when they drove to the basket, it got me open l... ELLIOT MATTINGLY
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