Baskets Quotes

You've got to have killer instinct. For the first time all year, we did that. You can't trade baskets, especially at this time because that's when you get beat. - Jared Dudley

You're going to lose games, but it's how you respond. I thought the kids did an excellent job. Our defense was the key to us getting some easy baskets early. - Jimmy Young

You're going to have to come out and get off to a good start defensively and let the game come to you. Get used to the surroundings and the depth perceptions on the baskets. That ought to take half a quarter. - Geoff Salmon

You wouldn't think so. I would have said we better be playing pretty good defense if we're only going to score four baskets in the second half. - Dan Zweifel

You play with the guys you have. There are certain things we won't be able to do well, and post offense is one of them. That's why we don't get really easy baskets on the inside. We have to work hard for the points we do score, and we just will have to do things a little differently. - Brian Meehan

You know we'd been pressing the whole game and we hadn't gotten that many turnovers. They'd been breaking it, but finally we got a few steals and finally we took advantage of it and got a few easy baskets and got back in the game. - Justin Ridenour

You know how it is. The game has to be in the low 50s for us to win. It was 25-25 at halftime, and we had done a good job defensively. But once they started making shots, we had a hard time generating points. We've got to have a few baskets from other people. - Nathan Daume

You get James out, and it changes the whole game. They go on a 7-0 run [that stretched to 11-0] after James went out. We did score two baskets, but they just went down and scored boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And in other games -- in the Wisconsin game, he gets fouls, goes out and they make their nice run. So we need him in the game. - Bruce Weber

You could see him smiling and having fun. He was definitely more hyper today, more active ... His game is to push the ball up the court and set up guys for easy baskets. He was able to do that tonight. - Tyson Chandler

You can't give them easy baskets because they're going to get tough ones. You have to make them earn their baskets. - David McLaughlin