Famous Quotes & Sayings

Avery Johnson

We played a very small stretch of decent basketball out of a 48-minute game. We've been defending the 3-pointer pretty well this year, but it didn't happen tonight. We pretty much know where we're going to finish now (the No. 4 seed).

We played a very good basketball team tonight. They made the game too hard for us. I thought we gave everything we had in the first, but the way they played, the way they shot the basketball I don't think we could have won. They did what they had to do, and they took care of the home game.

We have to take care of the basketball if we want to win, 10 turnovers or less. And we have to guard them on the perimeter.

We do have other kids that can play. Katie Snead had a huge rebound and basket in overtime late in the game.

Those guys make a big difference in our team, Lester with his aggressiveness and his toughness and Chris with his basketball knowledge and his savvy to make plays defensively and to make shots on offense.

Larry Hughes

Whether you win by 30 or lose by two you just have to move on. What we did in Game 1 really doesn't mean anything if we come out and don't take care of what we are supposed to take care of in Game 2. That's pretty much the nature of it.

Whether you're playing a basketball game or a football game, everybody needs to play by the rules and in this case I don't believe the rules were followed.

Without a doubt, we're playing our best basketball right now. We have as much confidence now as any time this season.

O. J. Simpson

Yesterday we were well, I don't think we were quite mentally here to play basketball when we showed up. I guess we had too many distractions.

We're a great basketball team, and they thumped us pretty good. I think that's the team that's going to win the state championship.

We don't want to look too far ahead. But we do want to establish ourselves as a strong basketball program. We just don't what this to be a one-year thing.

We ended the season on a good little run and we're playing probably our best basketball now. Our defense is feeding our offense and it's much better basketball for us now that we're focusing on defense.

Ben Wallace

We dug a hole and had to fight to try and get back in the game. And when you play like that, sometimes it just bites you in the end -- when you play garbage basketball for the first 24 minutes.

Jim Calhoun

We really played our best basketball. It was one of the few games I can say you could just enjoy. It was just really a tremendous basketball game for us and hopefully it's a peek into what we're capable of. Seasons are really funny. But I think those things are good. We jump right now into a hot stove.

We really moved the basketball tonight. I liked our ball movement, our spacing, and we were very patient with the basketball.

We got beat by a much better basketball team today. They had a lot to do with how we played.

We got beat by a much better basketball team today. Albany has great pieces. They just have a lot of weapons.

Gary Blair

We got beat by a better basketball team tonight, we got beat by a better-coached basketball team tonight, and we got beat by a team that executed their half-court offense a whole lot better than we did.

We got beat by 20 last year. We got some quality kids here, they're gutsy, they're not all basketball players but they're gutsy. We'll be ready.

We got back to playing team basketball and believing we are a good basketball team. When we play as a team, we're giving ourselves the opportunity to win games.

We finally clicked a little bit in the second half today. Defensively we played the three-point line well in the second and we finally made some baskets. It seemed as if the lid was on the basket in the past few games, but tonight we were able to get them to fall.

We finally began to get some good looks at the basket and made some shots to put ourselves in a position to win the game in the fourth.

We don't have a 20-point-a-night scorer. Our kids share the basketball and score by committee. Whoever is open shoots it, and we all have pretty good shooters, so that helps.

Jay Smith

We have some young guys who have played, so it's not like we don't have any experience. I like the energy, but it's the unknown that concerns you. Taking care of the basketball and rebounding are two things that could be problems for us.

We have some holes to fill, but we had kids who learned how to play basketball at the varsity level and that will help us next season.

We have some guys who understand what it takes. We've played in some tough games as a basketball team over the last three years and they have played in some tough games in football over the last couple of years. They understand what it takes.

We have some good basketball teams coming in throughout the three days. I'm pleased with who all is coming. There should be some great basketball being played.

We have some fabulous freshman on this team. They've played a lot of basketball and have a lot of confidence right now.

Jennifer Rizzotti

We can't win the basketball game without Erika in the game.

Eddie Jordan

We'll get a day's rest and close to a full day on Monday and then show up for a 7 o'clock game in Philadelphia. And then we can suck it up. That's what playing big-time basketball is about.

Unfortunately we have shown signs of not being mature enough sometimes. To climb we always seem to have to take a little step back before we take the next jump. Sometimes that's part of the development process you go through when you're building basketball programs.

We were just better than them, and it was as simple as that. We were the better basketball players who made plays, so there is no substitute left for that.

Chris Bosh

We didn't come out with any energy. We know we're not good enough to let the game come to us. We have to come with high energy, play hard team basketball and do everything the right way. Coming into the season, we all knew we didn't have too much room for error.