Quotes about Threes

Andy Chaney was a big reason we got that run in the first half with those threes.

Randy Lambert

The worst part was (our play) late in the second quarter and early in the third quarter. We weren't scoring, and they were hitting threes, and that's not a good combination.

Billy Mack Steed

We just didn't hit shots. We shoot a lot of threes and we average 90 points a game and we had some open looks. We just didn't hit them.

Bob Rager

We had a very good first quarter. We got out and got going an hit those threes.

Doug Pesicka

Have fun, knock down some threes and see what happens in the last four minutes.

Mark Trakh

I expected a close game, a very physical game. But I think we stretched them out there in the first quarter by hitting a lot of threes and then we started getting a lot of offensive rebounds, and I think it just kind of snowballed from there. We knew we could run some sets and I told them before the game, if the shots are dropping, let's run with it.

Matt Harr

That was big, but then you've got to get back and play defense, and that's what we didn't do. I had that feeling that (Richmond) would hit some threes.

Dwight Littlefield

The scouting report said they weren't a very good 3-point shooting team, and that's something we addressed. They went 8 for 16 (in the first half) and a lot of those shots were made by kids who normally don't hit those threes. So I said 'stay patient, I don't think they'll drop in the second half.' And sure enough, they didn't.

Dave Heiss

Jake was awesome tonight, there's no question about it. He hit some clutch shots, he rose up for some jumpers, and then the threes were there.

Steve Joslyn

They've been telling me to shoot threes for a long time. I finally spotted up and hit a couple.

Gianni Beer

Things quickly got away from us there in that third quarter. They hit some big threes, and then we started to press and ended up taking a lot of bad shots.

Robb Berger

We ran into something we've never seen before. It was all confusing. I've never seen a team that can all hit the threes. We just couldn't match up with them.

Randal Falker

We noticed in the paper they liked to shoot a lot of threes and we wanted to take that away from them.

Tom Moffett

T.A. (Aldridge) made us shoot 100 threes a day, then I would shoot 100 more at home. You get tired, but it pays off.

Brittany Bush

That's really important, I think, if you can get a team down quick and hit your free throws and not make turnovers. We would get [the lead] to 12 or nine and teams would start hitting threes on us [earlier this season].

Shaun Ratay

Three's a lot of economic impact that would be unfairly applied to other eating and drinking establishments beyond casinos if indeed it goes into effect on April 15. In anticipation of the jolt the industry would experience, we want to make sure nobody goes through any particular hardship from April 15 on. That's really the motivation.

Deborah Dowdell

Our doubles came and he started kicking out and they started making threes. They really just started making plays.

Jay Tunnell

Danielle and Brittany stepped up today and decided that we were not going home. I told the squad after the game that when Upstate made their second-half run, we showed a maturity that we did not have last season. We had the poise to hold things together, and then Katherine hit those two huge threes.

Valecia Tedder

They hit threes all day long. They never stopped.

Chris Ritacco

Any points are good points. It's when we come away with nothing that's more disappointing. But we'll turn those threes into sevens and turn things around in a positive way. It's nothing we're dwelling on. But it's something we have to get turned around and fix as we move on with the season.

Charlie Adams

Our game plan coming in was to limit their threes. We did that pretty good for three quarters and then they hit a couple there back to back and we didn't execute on the other end.

Monica Wells

It's amazing. I sit there and just watch her grow in leaps and bounds every game. She's given us that presence down low as far as the points, and that's just so important for us because those are the consistent points that are always going to be there. The threes may not be, but you know the five-footers . . . you can knock down at a high percentage.

Tony Vis

It was good to see so many different guys score. We shot the ball pretty well -- 11 threes was our highest output for the year. If we shoot like that, we create a lot of problems for people.

Brad Randall

Apparently there's this new scandal about how you can see my scrotum hanging out of my blue boxer shorts for a split second on episode 161 of Three's Company. Someone asked me if maybe I did that on purpose. You bet I did.

John Ritter

We struggled to cut their lead to three, then (Coakley) hit some threes and that killed our momentum.

Gordon Gibbons

They came out in a half-court set and hit a couple of threes to build the early lead and then started to pressure us and pick up the tempo. That sort of worked to our advantage. We like to push the ball up the court. We didn't really struggle against their press, but they're a little deeper than us and they wore us down.

Mark Movrich

Early in the first half they were hurting us. They were getting offensive rebounds [off threes]. One of my pet peeves this whole week was keeping them from getting second shots from the long ball. The first half they were shooting a second and third time and we can't have that.

Jared Gobel

We were ahead 9-4 at the end of one quarter and at the half it was 27-10. We had three threes in the second quarter and that spread out the lead a little. Rhett Fitzgerald had two and Jesse had one.

Billy Waller

I was open. I don't usually hit threes. I guess I got lucky there.

Cooper Brannen

They made 33 percent of their threes and we only hit 18 percent of ours. That was the difference.

Martha Todd

We went into a zone and they were able to hit some threes and they shot well at the line. Ten of their 12 points in the fourth came from free throws.

Brent Carnduff

Obviously the threes hurt us, but if we'd have shot better than 21 percent from the field and 40 percent from the line, we'd have been right there.

Steve Koehler

She jump-started our offense in the second half, hitting two crucial threes. She really stepped up.

Rory Huff

They put a lot of pressure on our zone, and when we went to stop their penetration, they would pass the ball well and knock down some threes. They are an excellent team, and I think they're going to be in the finals.

Cliff Thompson

We played pretty well down there. Played very well as a matter of fact. They just made a lot of threes. I?d say more optimism than pessimism. We know we played pretty well and we can do it again.

Bill Leatherman

We really knocked down some threes, and that kind of separated things quickly. We continued to be unselfish out there. We're getting more and more assists each game, we're making the extra pass in order to get a better one. Coppola set the tone with his finishing at the beginning, and we're shooting the ball better.

Steve Harrington

I basically just challenged them in the locker room. I think they were more worried about this being their last home game. But they came out here and put it together like I knew they would and hit those threes.

Marilyn Bauer

If you leave them open, and they're on, they're really gonna burn you. They end up making 11 threes out of 24 attempts. It's hard to beat 'em when they do that.

Derek Waugh

We were coming off a loss, and it was important to get back to Delaware principles and playing our defensive roles. One of our goals is rebounding. We knew they'd shoot a lot of threes and if they miss the ball would come out long, so we had to attack the boards.

Tyresa Smith

We've got film on them, and they like to pound the ball. They push the ball and shoot a lot of threes. They're going to score some points. We've got to get back in transition and we're going to have to know where (David) Sontag is. They've got real good inside-outside threats and any team that can present that can be a problem.

Tom Curle

We didn't get a good inside game going and if you don't get a good inside game against these guys they're going to keep collapsing on you and dare you to shoot threes. If you're not hot, you're in trouble and that's what happened to us.

Alan Dunahee

There was a stretch when we'd get some energy, but they'd come right back and hit a three. They are a great shooting team. They hit their shots, and unfortunately, we didn't hit ours. They hit five more threes than us, and that's the difference right there.

Johnny Gray

We held them down as long as we could. Those back-to-back threes were big. But the difference in the game was us running into the 3-point shooter. [Skinner] made all three of them and that was the final margin. If we don't do that we're not in that position at the end.

David Ferrell

Finally. Brian, he's talented, but a lot of people don't know it because he never shows it. He stepped up real big. He hit some big threes and was going to the basket like a maniac. I've never seen that side of him. No one's ever seen him come out like that, but we've been waiting for that.

Xavier Perkins

She hit two threes that really hurt us.

Mike Gill

It sped up the game and the girls realized they could do other things than just shooting three's. We got some easy lay-ins and that got us going.

Kelly Ioane

What a time to have the best game of your life. Making those threes, playing good defense. He's just getting better.

Bob Vaughan

The one time we saw them, they did not make a lot of threes.

Brian Glennon

It kind of pulls at your heart to see homes with ones, twos and threes on them.

Stephen Heath

I'm one of the few people that picked Indiana to upset Duke. They pop some threes, they can beat anybody.

Steve Blake

The girls fought back hard. We played great, we just couldn't finish at the end. They played good defense and hit some big threes at the end of the game. I thought we played a hell of a game. It was a great game to watch.

Mark Cochran

I really think we worked them on the offensive end and we really wanted to work them on defense. Then we went inside and out to try and get a two or a three instead of in the first half where we relied on threes.

Adam Sullivan

It was a game of ifs tonight. If Gilbert hadn't made those threes we would've had a double-digit lead.

Gary Stronach

Those threes broke our back. He hit those and we had a couple go in and out.

Bart Lundy

Any time you hit threes, it puts you right back in the game. I told them to try and not give (Perry) any threes.

Alvin Copeland

She has been big for us all season and it's not a surprise to me [that she made two three-pointers]. At practice she always hits threes. I'm just glad she took them because it opens up our offense even more.

Faeza Bouderra

We came out flat in the second half. They hit some three's right away and we weren't defending them well.

Matt Fletcher

We expected a tough challenge today. The difference in the game at Radford was that we out-rebounded them by 14 and we hit eight out of 14 three's. So we figured that with the fact they had a week to practice basically getting ready they were going to do a good job challenging us at the 3-point line and be a little tougher on the boards. That was obviously the difference in the game.

Bud Childers

It's tough to kill the five-on-threes and four-on-threes. (Andy) Delmore has that big booming shot and hits the net quite a bit. Our PK has won us games throughout the year and they'll lose you a game here and there.

Joe Mullen

They were both still a little queasy, but we need them out there. That caused us to miss some threes I think we can make.

Greg Goodley

Basketball is a game of runs, and we had a run they didn't match. Our pressure led to some quick turnovers and some threes. That run ended up hurting them late in the game.

Dru Joyce

It's a great way for our six seniors to go out. Rice played a phenomenal second half. From the foul line, everywhere, they were double and triple-teaming him, and he played real tough. Timmy hit a couple big threes, opening it up for us in the second half.

Tony Gannon

Anytime we take that many threes, we're not winning.

John Calipari

I think to win it, you have to be able to do a lot of things and, I guess, be lucky. You have to have confidence playing any speed. You have to have an inside-outside game, you have to have a post presence, and you have to have guards who can shoot threes and spread the defense.

Charlie Thompson

I don't want to jinx us, but we kind of broke out of our shooting slump. Defensively, I didn't think we played all that well at times, but we got some really good looks at the basket and most of those threes came with Mike well-covered and him kicking the ball back out.

Brian Meny

We always have confidence that we're going to make it, that's us. But if we get in the lead and slow it down, we don't have to shoot that many threes.

Catherine Yancy

If this was a month or two ago ... If we got down [on the scoreboard] we'd get down on ourselves or start taking a lot of threes or casting a lot of shots. But [Saturday] we played good defense, ran our offense, got the ball inside, just chipped away and got the lead back.

Marcus Williams

I came out focused. I wanted to play hard. I think scoring my threes let me score more in the paint. Plus, the size advantage helped.

Julian Vaughn

E.J. has been in a slump and kind of down on himself and those two threes were big for us down the stretch.

Marty Manfredo

We knew they had to foul down the stretch and shoot threes and make us miss. It was big to finish like that. It really started to sink in when I was shooting free throws. It's still sinking in. It's big. It's the 2A championship.

Kyle Coston

She is definitely an outside threat. I knew her shot was her strength and that she could handle the ball. If we're being pressured, it's good to have guards in the back court that could help us. Hitting three's is the key for her.

Michelle Davis

Normally we shoot a zone out with threes. Luckily they weren't doing much better.

Tom Steinhorst

The kids hung in there and hit some timely threes and guarded [Bone] there at the end like we needed to and we came out with the win. We'll sure take it. I don't care how ugly it is.

Monica Wells

We ended up shooting a lot of threes, especially in the second and third quarter, but I told the team, 'We can't rely on the 3-point shot. I felt like if we just keep pounding and pounding and pounding, we'd be all right.

Matt Crawford

John Daly played a practice round Tuesday, ... and a couple of the par-threes are so short that Daly didn't have time to smoke an entire cigarette.

Scott Ostler

Tony got on a little roll shooting his threes. He hit three or four in a row. I was not pleased with our defense, though, because St. Bernard, to their credit, hit everything they threw up. We have to play better against Windham. They'll bang us around down low if we don't play solid defense.

Gary Ballestrini

I was disappointed with the way we played defense tonight. We allowed a lot of dribble penetration, and didn't close out well on their shooters. In the third quarter alone, they hit four of five threes and, at one point, made seven baskets in a row.

Dave Kottwitz

I think some of the girls thought the game was over. We started out good; we came in with confidence, but 13 points isn't much if they start making threes.

Doug Price

We had problems. Every time we would go to our two-guard front, they would go to their 2-3. If we went to a one-guard set, they'd get in their 1-3-1. They changed things up a lot more with that zone, and we had to make some three's to get them to come out of it.

Loy Moore

I didn't know how many threes I had, honestly. I didn't know that I didn't miss. I was just letting them [fly].

Ben Gordon

Sometimes it change for the better, sometimes it change for the worse. Everything I try ain't always a bomb. It's like basketball: One day you might hit your threes, next day you might get two points and that's just how it is.

Ghostface Killah

At first, Erica knew since Heather was out, it was her turn to step up and, naturally, she forced it. I told her, 'Let the game come to you within the offense.' She was much better in the second half. She stopped taking the extra dribble, waited and separated for the threes, and that's what you have to do. That's her game right there.

Tony Giese

(Saranac) came out and hit some three's early and controlled the tempo.

Todd Walden

We made runs. We broke our backs to get back in the game. They just hit big threes in big spots. It was an excellent game.

Jim Delmar

Taking (Thompson) out didn't spark us because he's one of our toughest guys. I think hitting the big threes sparked us.

Bill Swan

We talked about the guys who could shoot threes, but we left them to help on other people. We gave Cox four wide-open looks, and he made three of them. That really helps someone come back.

Royce Waltman

He's arguably the best point guard in the league. You have to be aware of him every minute he's on the floor. He can rip off three threes in a row, then miss six, and then hit two in a row to demoralize you.

Mark Slonaker

He was taking charging fouls, he was diving on the floor for loose balls and taking the ball to the basket and hitting open threes. He looked as relaxed and comfortable out there as he could possibly be.

Gary Turcott

We did a real good job on the five-on-threes, but we spent too much energy killing penalties and not enough time on offense. It's frustrating to play that type of game.

Dan Fridgen

For a little more than three quarters, I thought we had stopped Jay County from getting the ball to the basket about as well as we had any team all year. Then they came back and hit five threes and beat us.

Flava Sirk

I think that we were a step slow today on defense and Eastern Illinois was able to get some easy shots early on. That allowed them to build some confidence and then they started hitting some deep threes and turnaround jumpers. We did do a good job of getting some key stops there at the end.

Jimmy Tillette

Kurt hit those two big threes, we got a couple buckets going to the basket, and I think that gave us a little breathing room. They had to come and chase us instead of vice versa.

Troy Nottestad

That's what we do. We've shot an incredible amount of threes during the season. When we know we need it, we knock it down and take care of it.

Allie Hastings

We've got to work on our power play. We're five on three and we're not getting set up. We're taking ill-advised shots on our five on threes so we just need to go back to work on that.

John Hodgson

We were really defending extremely well, we were getting out on their shooters and taking away their threes.

Keith West

If we don't move the ball we can't get it to the posts. We tried to go inside-out, but we weren't getting as many three's as we wanted. They were putting a lot of pressure on the ball.

Brian Ricci

We have a team that lives and dies by threes.

Michael Mycko

As weird as it seems, Brimley has 28 points, hits eight three's, and I would still say that was a complete team effort.

Brad Tingey

I just knew I had to knock them down, because they were hitting NBA-type threes . . . it was amazing.

Alex Zwart

The last three minutes we really turned it on. It's a tribute to our never-say-die attitude. We forced a few more turnovers and knocked down some shots. We hit some threes to shorten the margin a little bit.

Ray Funk