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.

241

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.

180

It was a total lack of focus, concentration and intensity. You add all that up and it equals 27 turnovers and a loss.

179

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.

154

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.

148

When you add it all up, we just didn't shoot a high percentage. That's the bottom line of this game. This is a tough lesson for us to learn, but our girls are being left open for a reason. They're not proving they can make shots.

138

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.

129

There were a few good performances out there, but, truthfully, there weren't enough of them. We will hopefully take what we learned in this game tonight and apply it toward getting better on Friday. We have to have some people step up and play the way they are capable of playing if we are going to be successful the rest of the year.

126

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.

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