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KELLY JONES Until the end of the game I knew that we had attempted only one free throw shot all night. And I tol...
LANA TOMLIN We did what we wanted to do. We wanted to get their big guys in foul trouble and attack them to get ...
LEWIS JACKSON This is crazy. We wanted to go big and we did. Coach told us before the game that no girls' team has...
KATIE DALY His freshman year, he blew a game shooting free throws. I think from that point in time, he never wa...
JASON JACOB We just wanted to spread the floor and take the ball to the bucket. We got a shot and it just went i...
DAN LUNT I told the girls I wouldn't have wanted to end my career with 13 other people. We made a good run, a...
JAMIE GUTOWSKI We were probably one free throw away from winning the game. We weren't able to make it, and we weren...
SCOTT SKILES It was annoying. I was tired of it. I wanted to throw it off for good, but the coaches told me I had...
LAWRENCE ROBERTS We needed this game, so I just wanted to stay aggressive around the boards, find the basket, get som...
LAMAR ODOM I told the girls at halftime to keep playing hard and I think in second half they did it even more. ...
JOE LANG She threw where we asked her to throw it. I told the girls they have two choices. They can lay down ...
KATHY MITCHELL In the second half I think [Prairie Grove] scored 20. We established a lead and were able to spread ...
BRAD BLEW I told our girls that defense wins championships. If we could lock them down in the half-court set a...
JEFF STOWERS Free throws make you and break you. Free throw shooting and getting some [defensive] stops won the g...
MARILYN BAUER Like everyone else, they wanted to take Hope and Maria out of the game. I told the girls earlier tod...
BRET TUETKEN Please make a basket. Make a free throw. Kick it in. We played bad and I coached bad. ... we did it ...
JOHN CALIPARI I tell my girls don't talk it, walk it. Talk is nice but we have to get it done on the floor. We use...
DEAN SERBUS I make substitutions based on who can hit a free throw. Keith Cochran is our most accurate free thro...
MIKE MCAFEE We've been doing that all year. We wanted to get out and spread the floor. We knew they were the big...
MARK AMDAHL We came out in game one a little sluggish, trading off serves with New Washington. We missed too man...
JOYCE BICKERS It just wasn't the place for me, and he (Williams) told me to do what I wanted to do. I wanted to go...
BRENT VINSON We're just young enough where, against good teams like this, if we miss a free throw and they make a...
GARY KELLOUGH After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it...
CARL MATTEI I think the building needs to be used for economic development and I don't think Smoky Mountain Deve...
LARRY AMMONS Our offense wasn't good toward the end and we just wanted to pull it out. We've really been working ...
SCOTT DEJONG I told the girls before the game that it would not be our offense that would win the game, it would ...
SCOTT PETERSON I told my girls to take it to the hoop more in the second half and they did. Unfortunately we missed...
BRAD ULLAND I thought we played a good defensive game. We struggled offensively though both from the field and t...
FREDDIE LEATHERS The girls really wanted that second game. We played some good defense in that game.
DON NOORDA Our Achilles heel has been our free throw shooting. When it comes down to the end and it is a one-po...
DAN MESSMANN We wanted to make them play man-to-man, make them come out on us so we could go to the basket and ge...
HARRY BOWSER We're not a great free throw shooting team but the fact that we could make that many free throws her...
GENO AURIEMMA We couldn't make a free throw and couldn't keep them off the glass.
MAX BAILEY Missing 20 free throws is inexcusable. I don't know. We shot 89 percent (from the free-throw line) i...
TONY DUCKWORTH We've made the ones that have counted, though. We haven't lost a game due to poor free throw shootin...
DEAN ELLIS I never missed an opportunity to spread the word, and once they appeared at the field I sold the pro...
CAROLE BRIDGES I thought we did what we wanted to do in the first half. We spread the floor and got good looks. Onc...
FRANK CONNELLY That was how the game was called. We want to be physical. We want to attack the basket and we want t...
CAREY GREEN Castle Rock always plays us tough. They play hard-nosed defense. But I told the girls coming in, if ...
HERM VANWEERDHUIZEN I felt that we could do it, I am not sure we would do it. I told the girls I wanted them to be like ...
GREGG HOSTETLER He was telling Marc, 'C'mon, throw it my way,' ... and I told him, 'We're going to throw the footbal...
TORRY HOLT I mentioned to the girls that the game was too close for comfort. I told them we had to drive and ho...
HAYWOOD BOSTON It just came down to the last second of the game and they made the big play. I told our girls after ...
BOBBY BRASEL I told him to miss the second free throw. If they were going to make a shot with three seconds left ...
ED CRISMAN![]()
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM We're a hot and cold team. I tell the girls the free throw line can be your friend or your enemy. To...
BRENDA STEFIN We knew that if we shut down [junior Elizabeth] Bell and Givens and keep their big players off the b...
MIKE WEBB I'm just thankful for the free-throw line because we stepped up and made the free throws. Good teams...
LISA BLUDER I'm glad I didn't have a whistle tonight, because I thought we were going to lose the game at the fr...
JIMMY COLLINS We have a tendency to get helter-skelter when we start our transition game. I think we did a better ...
MISSY TAYLOR Ask 10 kids what they would rather do, dunk in a game or make a free throw to win a game. I guarante...
DAVID MCGREAL Coach told us about it right before the game. We were pretty focused on the game, but our hearts and...
AARON AFFLALO It was a really good game, a pretty rough game. Free throw shooting really was the only difficult pa...
KARI WILLIAMS We were in a bonus and we couldn't make any free throws. Free throws were the problem. I'll bet we d...
DARIAN GILLIAM We missed a lot of free throws in the game, but when it came down to it in the fourth, the girls ste...
LOY MOORE We tried to come into the second game more focused, and with more intensity. I told the girls we nee...
JACK DANIELS We're struggling, and to beat a good team like Carson on the road is special for us. We hope to make...
WERNER CHRISTEN And when we were told we would have to wear dresses to play in, half of the girls wanted to leave.
HELEN SMITH I felt like we tried to give it away. We didn't play our best. I told the girls after the game that ...
KEN ASHLOCK They followed the game plan tonight. We wanted to penetrate when they spread it and went man-to-man;...
CHARLES HOWARD We played hard tonight. Our top guns weren't in the game so we had to play hard. I got to the free t...
MIKE BIBBY We didn't make a three and that hurt. Only free throw attempts hurt and 29-15 on the glass is pretty...
KIRK KAUL I told the girls after (Wednesday's loss) that the best remedy for a game like that is to play one t...
BILL WALLACE We talked at half time saying we wanted to have to make them come back two points at a time. Not one...
DAN SCHWIETERMAN We just wanted the game to be done. At the end there, we made some free throws and I finally smiled.
JAMIE BRAUN Koop, I felt, was the best player on the floor except for the missed free throw. He got the ball to ...
CRAIG DRURY The girls really wanted this game and were focused. Defensively, we had better intensity.
JEAN ROISE I told the girls after game that the best part of this is that we get to be the underdog. I prefer t...
AMY SZLACHETKA The 3s really opened it up for us. We were able to spread the floor and find better shots.
JASON BOYD I told the girls that we expect to compete in every single game. They are really starting to believe...
ANNA KRAMER We struggled at that [free throw shooting]. We've normally been a very good free throw shooting team...
GREGG HOLIFIELD We were trailing the whole game, but we always step it up in the second half. We came through at the...
LUKAS SISCO The free throws were just not falling. We knew we had to make a few to make it a two-possession game...
JACK BLAYNEY It was just back and forth game. It was a tough loss for us, and I thought they really got the benef...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK We spread out our donation, because we wanted to make sure a lot of it went toward long-term rebuild...
ALLYSON PEERMAN Coming off last game (an 81-70 loss Thursday night to San Diego State), we didn't really throw it in...
LOUIS AMUNDSON We wanted to make a game that elicited a positive emotion from the player.
ERIK NELSON Going to the free throw line ? that's money for her. We were going to play her up and make her make ...
BRIANN JANUARY I told the boys to take the energy out of the game and really make it boring. They understood what t...
ERIC PUMA In the regular season, we hardly faced anybody that pressed us. Valley Christian did it to us the fi...
LONNIE TVRDY I spoke to him (Tuesday) night and he said he'd like to play me in HORSE. I told him I'm probably to...
BOB LLOYD We kind of got our feet under us in that third quarter. We got some transition buckets and got to th...
BILL BAKAMUS I told them not to give the game away. I told them that if they wanted to win, go out and take and n...
LAYTON ALIVIADO Tonight we got behind and instead of staying more compact in our zone and playing it aggressively, w...
BRUCE MOORE We wanted to run (tonight), that is our style, but clearly that is their game as well. The first tim...
JOHN LEIGHTON I think a lot of that was just determination. We told them in the locker room before the game that w...
STAN CLARK We wanted to try and make them put the ball on the floor and come off the dribble. We knew they coul...
COREY GADSON We started a young lineup, and I think we got great production on offense. We only shot about 30 per...
BRAD RUTTA I mixed pitches well. I was 'effectively wild,' and then towards the end of the game I was able to t...
IKE DAVIS It wasn't a delay, but we certainly became more deliberate, looking for the good shot as we spread t...
JOE JAMES It was a really fast-paced game. They really got good ball pressure, forced us to put it on the floo...
FORREST LARSON We should have won that second game of the season at New Jersey. We missed a free throw and gave up ...
SCOTT SKILES This was the first game this year that I told the girls that I'll probably go home and not sleep ver...
GREG ADAMS We had some pretty down faces. For us coming back is a hard thing. I told them before the sixth that...
JENNIFER NOLTE Our girls felt sick after the last game against them. The girls said they wanted to get that bitter ...
JAY BRUNER I told the girls (at the beginning of this season) that you have to be very lucky, opportunistic and...
BOB SCHULZ All of the girls played really hard tonight. We struggled a little at the end with their press but w...
COACH LORI BELL You always get concerned when your team goes flat during the course of a game. But we attacked the r...
BILL LAIMBEER We've been pointing to this game. We talked all spring about finishing games. It feels real good to ...
LES OLSON
KELLY JONES Until the end of the game I knew that we had attempted only one free throw shot all night. And I tol...
LANA TOMLIN We did what we wanted to do. We wanted to get their big guys in foul trouble and attack them to get ...
LEWIS JACKSON This is crazy. We wanted to go big and we did. Coach told us before the game that no girls' team has...
KATIE DALY His freshman year, he blew a game shooting free throws. I think from that point in time, he never wa...
JASON JACOB We just wanted to spread the floor and take the ball to the bucket. We got a shot and it just went i...
DAN LUNT I told the girls I wouldn't have wanted to end my career with 13 other people. We made a good run, a...
JAMIE GUTOWSKI We were probably one free throw away from winning the game. We weren't able to make it, and we weren...
SCOTT SKILES It was annoying. I was tired of it. I wanted to throw it off for good, but the coaches told me I had...
LAWRENCE ROBERTS We needed this game, so I just wanted to stay aggressive around the boards, find the basket, get som...
LAMAR ODOM I told the girls at halftime to keep playing hard and I think in second half they did it even more. ...
JOE LANG She threw where we asked her to throw it. I told the girls they have two choices. They can lay down ...
KATHY MITCHELL In the second half I think [Prairie Grove] scored 20. We established a lead and were able to spread ...
BRAD BLEW I told our girls that defense wins championships. If we could lock them down in the half-court set a...
JEFF STOWERS Free throws make you and break you. Free throw shooting and getting some [defensive] stops won the g...
MARILYN BAUER Like everyone else, they wanted to take Hope and Maria out of the game. I told the girls earlier tod...
BRET TUETKEN Please make a basket. Make a free throw. Kick it in. We played bad and I coached bad. ... we did it ...
JOHN CALIPARI I tell my girls don't talk it, walk it. Talk is nice but we have to get it done on the floor. We use...
DEAN SERBUS I make substitutions based on who can hit a free throw. Keith Cochran is our most accurate free thro...
MIKE MCAFEE We've been doing that all year. We wanted to get out and spread the floor. We knew they were the big...
MARK AMDAHL We came out in game one a little sluggish, trading off serves with New Washington. We missed too man...
JOYCE BICKERS It just wasn't the place for me, and he (Williams) told me to do what I wanted to do. I wanted to go...
BRENT VINSON We're just young enough where, against good teams like this, if we miss a free throw and they make a...
GARY KELLOUGH After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it...
CARL MATTEI I think the building needs to be used for economic development and I don't think Smoky Mountain Deve...
LARRY AMMONS Our offense wasn't good toward the end and we just wanted to pull it out. We've really been working ...
SCOTT DEJONG I told the girls before the game that it would not be our offense that would win the game, it would ...
SCOTT PETERSON I told my girls to take it to the hoop more in the second half and they did. Unfortunately we missed...
BRAD ULLAND I thought we played a good defensive game. We struggled offensively though both from the field and t...
FREDDIE LEATHERS The girls really wanted that second game. We played some good defense in that game.
DON NOORDA Our Achilles heel has been our free throw shooting. When it comes down to the end and it is a one-po...
DAN MESSMANN We wanted to make them play man-to-man, make them come out on us so we could go to the basket and ge...
HARRY BOWSER We're not a great free throw shooting team but the fact that we could make that many free throws her...
GENO AURIEMMA We couldn't make a free throw and couldn't keep them off the glass.
MAX BAILEY Missing 20 free throws is inexcusable. I don't know. We shot 89 percent (from the free-throw line) i...
TONY DUCKWORTH We've made the ones that have counted, though. We haven't lost a game due to poor free throw shootin...
DEAN ELLIS I never missed an opportunity to spread the word, and once they appeared at the field I sold the pro...
CAROLE BRIDGES I thought we did what we wanted to do in the first half. We spread the floor and got good looks. Onc...
FRANK CONNELLY That was how the game was called. We want to be physical. We want to attack the basket and we want t...
CAREY GREEN Castle Rock always plays us tough. They play hard-nosed defense. But I told the girls coming in, if ...
HERM VANWEERDHUIZEN I felt that we could do it, I am not sure we would do it. I told the girls I wanted them to be like ...
GREGG HOSTETLER He was telling Marc, 'C'mon, throw it my way,' ... and I told him, 'We're going to throw the footbal...
TORRY HOLT I mentioned to the girls that the game was too close for comfort. I told them we had to drive and ho...
HAYWOOD BOSTON It just came down to the last second of the game and they made the big play. I told our girls after ...
BOBBY BRASEL I told him to miss the second free throw. If they were going to make a shot with three seconds left ...
ED CRISMAN
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM We're a hot and cold team. I tell the girls the free throw line can be your friend or your enemy. To...
BRENDA STEFIN We knew that if we shut down [junior Elizabeth] Bell and Givens and keep their big players off the b...
MIKE WEBB I'm just thankful for the free-throw line because we stepped up and made the free throws. Good teams...
LISA BLUDER I'm glad I didn't have a whistle tonight, because I thought we were going to lose the game at the fr...
JIMMY COLLINS We have a tendency to get helter-skelter when we start our transition game. I think we did a better ...
MISSY TAYLOR Ask 10 kids what they would rather do, dunk in a game or make a free throw to win a game. I guarante...
DAVID MCGREAL Coach told us about it right before the game. We were pretty focused on the game, but our hearts and...
AARON AFFLALO It was a really good game, a pretty rough game. Free throw shooting really was the only difficult pa...
KARI WILLIAMS We were in a bonus and we couldn't make any free throws. Free throws were the problem. I'll bet we d...
DARIAN GILLIAM We missed a lot of free throws in the game, but when it came down to it in the fourth, the girls ste...
LOY MOORE We tried to come into the second game more focused, and with more intensity. I told the girls we nee...
JACK DANIELS We're struggling, and to beat a good team like Carson on the road is special for us. We hope to make...
WERNER CHRISTEN And when we were told we would have to wear dresses to play in, half of the girls wanted to leave.
HELEN SMITH I felt like we tried to give it away. We didn't play our best. I told the girls after the game that ...
KEN ASHLOCK They followed the game plan tonight. We wanted to penetrate when they spread it and went man-to-man;...
CHARLES HOWARD We played hard tonight. Our top guns weren't in the game so we had to play hard. I got to the free t...
MIKE BIBBY We didn't make a three and that hurt. Only free throw attempts hurt and 29-15 on the glass is pretty...
KIRK KAUL I told the girls after (Wednesday's loss) that the best remedy for a game like that is to play one t...
BILL WALLACE We talked at half time saying we wanted to have to make them come back two points at a time. Not one...
DAN SCHWIETERMAN We just wanted the game to be done. At the end there, we made some free throws and I finally smiled.
JAMIE BRAUN Koop, I felt, was the best player on the floor except for the missed free throw. He got the ball to ...
CRAIG DRURY The girls really wanted this game and were focused. Defensively, we had better intensity.
JEAN ROISE I told the girls after game that the best part of this is that we get to be the underdog. I prefer t...
AMY SZLACHETKA The 3s really opened it up for us. We were able to spread the floor and find better shots.
JASON BOYD I told the girls that we expect to compete in every single game. They are really starting to believe...
ANNA KRAMER We struggled at that [free throw shooting]. We've normally been a very good free throw shooting team...
GREGG HOLIFIELD We were trailing the whole game, but we always step it up in the second half. We came through at the...
LUKAS SISCO The free throws were just not falling. We knew we had to make a few to make it a two-possession game...
JACK BLAYNEY It was just back and forth game. It was a tough loss for us, and I thought they really got the benef...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK We spread out our donation, because we wanted to make sure a lot of it went toward long-term rebuild...
ALLYSON PEERMAN Coming off last game (an 81-70 loss Thursday night to San Diego State), we didn't really throw it in...
LOUIS AMUNDSON We wanted to make a game that elicited a positive emotion from the player.
ERIK NELSON Going to the free throw line ? that's money for her. We were going to play her up and make her make ...
BRIANN JANUARY I told the boys to take the energy out of the game and really make it boring. They understood what t...
ERIC PUMA In the regular season, we hardly faced anybody that pressed us. Valley Christian did it to us the fi...
LONNIE TVRDY I spoke to him (Tuesday) night and he said he'd like to play me in HORSE. I told him I'm probably to...
BOB LLOYD We kind of got our feet under us in that third quarter. We got some transition buckets and got to th...
BILL BAKAMUS I told them not to give the game away. I told them that if they wanted to win, go out and take and n...
LAYTON ALIVIADO Tonight we got behind and instead of staying more compact in our zone and playing it aggressively, w...
BRUCE MOORE We wanted to run (tonight), that is our style, but clearly that is their game as well. The first tim...
JOHN LEIGHTON I think a lot of that was just determination. We told them in the locker room before the game that w...
STAN CLARK We wanted to try and make them put the ball on the floor and come off the dribble. We knew they coul...
COREY GADSON We started a young lineup, and I think we got great production on offense. We only shot about 30 per...
BRAD RUTTA I mixed pitches well. I was 'effectively wild,' and then towards the end of the game I was able to t...
IKE DAVIS It wasn't a delay, but we certainly became more deliberate, looking for the good shot as we spread t...
JOE JAMES It was a really fast-paced game. They really got good ball pressure, forced us to put it on the floo...
FORREST LARSON We should have won that second game of the season at New Jersey. We missed a free throw and gave up ...
SCOTT SKILES This was the first game this year that I told the girls that I'll probably go home and not sleep ver...
GREG ADAMS We had some pretty down faces. For us coming back is a hard thing. I told them before the sixth that...
JENNIFER NOLTE Our girls felt sick after the last game against them. The girls said they wanted to get that bitter ...
JAY BRUNER I told the girls (at the beginning of this season) that you have to be very lucky, opportunistic and...
BOB SCHULZ All of the girls played really hard tonight. We struggled a little at the end with their press but w...
COACH LORI BELL You always get concerned when your team goes flat during the course of a game. But we attacked the r...
BILL LAIMBEER We've been pointing to this game. We talked all spring about finishing games. It feels real good to ...
LES OLSON
I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as l... 
I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pr... 
To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog,... 