Jay Sparks
Jay Sparks
add concentration equals focus lack total
It was a total lack of focus, concentration and intensity. You add all that up and it equals 27 turnovers and a loss.
conference games reason rust
That's the reason why you play the tournament. We play those two games to get some of that rust out of our system, because after that we don't have anything but conference left.
burden coaches confidence might playing puts throw
I just don't think our girls, offensively, are playing with a whole lot of confidence, so it puts a burden on all of them and us as coaches to know who to throw it to that might make a shot.
gonna lose round seed
Clayton State's the No. 1 seed in the region. They could lose in the first round and know that they're gonna keep playing. We can't do that.
draw fact five four games good love period proven quite team win
I do feel like we got a good draw on the bracket, but it doesn't take away the fact that you still have to win four games in five days. Our team hasn't proven that they can play quite that consistently for that period of time. Of course, I'd love to see it.
obviously player reason
That's obviously a significant reason why she's player of the year. She does those kind of things for her team. Give her a whole lot of credit.
bit knowledge lose nice nobody progress sort starting
I think we've made nice progress, but it's going to be interesting to see if we lose any of the progress that we've made because of the long layoff. Nobody really knows. ... It's sort of like starting over. They just start over with a little bit more knowledge of what's going on.
athletic attention basketball change committed department liked loyal obvious program sports staff
As an athletic department staff member, he is so loyal and so committed -- not just to men's or women's basketball, but to the whole program. He's not been able to give to the whole athletic program like he would have liked to and so I think the most obvious change you'll see is his attention to some of the sports that he has not been able to really commit to.
basketball coming deserved game good knew needed points team win
They are a very good basketball team and we knew that coming in. They deserved to win this game because they did everything they needed to do to win. We didn't do that... . They were at least 23 points better than us tonight, if not more.
agree everybody expect hard lost second
You can't get down 18 and expect to win. I thought we battled hard in the second half, but we lost it in the first half. Everybody will agree with me there.
conference days game people played players playing positive ready typical
This was a typical game for us after 19 days off. We experimented by playing a lot of people and all 11 players who played got in at least 10 minutes. That is a positive for us as we get ready for conference play.
control destroyed lost pitch pleased position shot
The play was destroyed when Erica lost control of the ball, and she had to pitch it back. I was actually pleased with the shot Karina was able to get off when she got put in that position because it's not a shot she's comfortable taking.
bounce nice side wrong
We've been on the wrong side of those a lot this year. It's nice to see we got one to bounce our way one time.
ability amount games
We don't have the ability to concentrate for any amount of time. When you don't have that, you have games like we had tonight. If you look back over the season, we've had a lot of lulls like that.