Eddie Carter Quotations

I wish I could explain it. We have somebody new show up every night. We've had 14 different starting lineups. We just plug them in till something works.

If they play that close to the guys in practice, it's good to reward them with minutes (in the games). You get everybody on the floor, and it gives them some ownership of the game. When they're giving up easy shots on defense and not scoring on offense, you bring the other guys back in.

I felt good, able to throw strikes with my defense behind me.

We've done this the past three games. We have tried all year long to find out how to play with energy and excitement.

We got fatigued and we died on the floor. We only have about seven or eight guys who are ready to play in primetime and they couldn't go that long. I didn't feel like I had anybody who could do the job, so I was going to win or lose with those (guys). I lost with them.

When you're tired and fatigued you don't always do things smart and make good decisions. One of the keys is we had to play really hard last night.

We've had 10 different leading scorers in 24 games and our leading scorer is Alonzo Poe, who's averaging eight points per game. We never know who's going to get eight.

We had put them away and (Harris) did some damage with his offensive rebounding. We were trapping them and they were beating the traps. (But) we played good defense and forced a lot of turnovers that produced some easy baskets.

The key for us is to play good defense. When we do that, everything else takes care of itself. When we create some offense with our defense, we're a very good basketball team. We made them turn the ball over a lot and take some bad shots.