Famous Quotes & Sayings

We were hoping they weren't going to shoot the ball that well. That's the scouting report we had. Luckily, it worked out. The kids did a good job defensively and forced them to take the outside shot, which I thought was to our advantage.

We were holding the ball and giving the defense a break. We were giving the defense a chance to beat you. Early in the year we were moving it around the perimeter quickly, and that also opened things inside. So we have to move more and move the ball more.

We were hitting the ball well and got walks. We got hot. Their pitcher looked like he ran out of gas or he wasn't normally a pitcher.

We were hitting the ball solid all game and we finally hit some to some spots where they weren't. Holly Heinrichs had a fine game both offensively and defensively.

Steve Bullock

We were hitting the ball hard, but it just went right at someone for them to make a play. We had the people we wanted in those situations, but we didn't get the hit we needed. We were able to find some holes later on.

We were hitting the ball and making contact, but we just weren't able to put anything together after that. There's not much else to say about that.

We were hitting balls right on the nose early on. It was those instances where you hit 'em right at guys. When you keep hitting balls as hard as we were, it's just a matter of time before they start falling (for hits).

We were having trouble getting things started all night. It was just a little ground ball that I was able to hit in the right place to get on. Then a passed ball and Ruben Sierra deserves a lot of credit. After sitting on the bench, he rips that ball out there into left field. He did his job.

We were having a tough time scoring. Early we didn't have a good ballgame (but) we finally started controlling the ball.

We were having a lot of shots not go in. So we called a timeout, had a little talk, and the girls really responded. They turned up the defense and the ball started to go in.

John King

We were having a hard time getting Kenton the ball in the first half. That's why we changed some things at halftime.

We were happy to get at least one win while we were down here, and make it to Saturday. We would've liked to play tonight, but only one team can win and the ball wasn't rolling our way.

We were going to try to speed the game up. We came in pushing the ball up the floor.

We were going to take the ball inside. We shot one three and that usually has been us all year. We bomb it away from outside, but we were going to go inside, get to the free-throw line and get them in foul trouble.

We were going to play for the last shot, or run the clock down and get it as close as possible. We did that. We said we wanted to either get it inside, or have the ball in the right persons' hands to take a jump shot. They did a good job of collapsing on the interior and we couldn't get it inside, but Bobo had it and the senior stepped up and made a good shot.

We were going to guard, hold them to one shot and not turn the ball over, which we didn't always do.

We were going to get the ball first to begin the second half and I told the kids that we could move the ball and win the game.

John Brady

We were going to double team him on ball screens and not let him get a comfort zone of coming off the screen with the ball. We were going to bump him every time he tried to go through the lane. The unique thing about it, you can play good defense, but when you can play good defense aggressively as we did without fouling, I think that's a key.

We were getting the ball where we wanted, but we just weren't scoring.

We were getting shots, we just couldn't finish. It's tough to win when you shoot (22 percent). And it seemed like all the balls were going their way. That's just the way it is.

Allie Quigley

We were getting out early with our running game. A lot of our shots came from passing, moving the ball quick and getting easy shots.

We were still feeling each other out as a team, knowing our specific duties and how we were going to play together. That was the major problem. Once we got going as a team and found out who's going to shoot the ball we started playing a lot better.

Eric Davis

We were still able to spread the ball around. We just didn't shoot the ball that well.

Jerry Sloan

We were so confused at the start of the ball game, and made some terrible mistakes defensively and couldn't get into our offense. We decided to play a soft game early and we had a difficult time.

Bruce Bochy

We were slow getting over. Beating out that ball changed that inning that came back to haunt us.

We were sloppy in the first half. We reached too much. We settled for jump shots instead of getting the ball inside.

Mike Leach

We were sloppier on both sides of the ball but we played well for a period of time.

We were shooting the ball pretty well until after that timeout.

Typically this time of year, we seek to build inventories. This is going to put us behind the eight ball going into the winter.

Lindy Ruff

Typically, they're a very tough defensive team to play against. We'd like to make sure to get the lead and get the ball in their court to play our game.

Typically cities have core competencies that include things like sweeping streets and keeping neighborhoods safe. But building, running and maintaining a wireless network is a whole different ball game. We think that municipalities that are looking at offering wireless service to their citizens underscore the value proposition that we have in the marketplace.

Ty looked really good tonight and when you give a quarterback time to throw it's tough to beat. We've got five or six guys we can throw the ball to, so defenses can't just focus on Jeff.

Roy Williams

Tyler was something in the second half. We talked about trying to drive the ball to the basket and try to get good spacing and I think we did a much better job of that in the second half. We tried to stay fresh on J.J. but he got some good looks and just missed them.