Mike Nelson Quotations

We?re going to have to go down there and really focus. We have to match their toughness and their intensity level. And do it the right way. It will be physical and we have to keep our emotions in check.

We had better be angry. We can't feel sorry for ourselves. We have to do it like a true competitor and be angry, but be in a controlled anger where we want to get better.

We've got to keep them off the boards. We've can't give them second shots. And we can't give up any transition baskets. If we can do that, we'll be right in the game with them.

We've got to have some leaders step up. We're just not communicating on the court and we should have won the game in regulation. Bottom line.

We made some bad decisions. They?re kids, they?re gong to make bad decisions. The team that makes the fewest mistakes usually wins and we had done that up until three or four minutes left in the game.

Tristan created a lot of things for other people, too. Not only his scoring but he had a hand on the ball. He was everywhere. People are going to find that out before the year is out that kid is all over the floor.

We needed it. Leavitt was pushing us for one of the last couple of playoff spots. It was big for us to win on their floor.

Wasted possessions. We lost it because we had wasted opportunities.

We really didn't play all that well. But we are 4-2 and I don't think too many people expected that. We just have to get better defensively.

We just have to take care of ourselves and not worry about them too much. Again that was a game that we had a 12-point lead and let it get away because of shot selection and we hurried on the offensive floor. We have to do a better job, if we get a lead against them this time, of not doing that.

We go from the frying pan right into the fire. It doesn't get easier.

You'd see oil wells in people's back yards. People were literally living in the oil fields.

They know their strengths. They know where they can shoot the ball. If we get them in the right position, they can hit the buckets.

They have the same team back from last year. We know their strengths. We're going try to put our kids in position that they'll have success against them.

This is my first victory of any sort in golf period. I have toyed with (the left-handed) shot a little bit, but I wouldn't have wanted to hit it under these circumstances that's for sure. But I've hit it a few times.