Nate Rien Quotations

I think we put on two pretty good tournaments.

Overall it was a good game. We did a good job of sharing the ball. We were been more competitive than the score indicated.

Our passing was awful. It's so undervalued in today's game. We make a lot of careless decisions at times.

We came to defend, and we rebounded like mad dogs. That was one of the best rebounding performances any team of mine has ever had.

We did a tremendous job defensively. We shut down who we had to shut down, but they had some other guys step up.

We were overmatched tonight as far as size and strength goes. (COS) has six (future NCAA) Division I players.

It wasn't from lack of effort. All our guys were diving all over the floor. Every time we cut it to two points, (Merced) came up with a big shot.

It was a really tough loss. We played very hard but shot really bad and couldn't stop their inside presence.

They did a great job attacking the rim. They are an extremely large team and very experienced and well-coached.

I'm happy for these guys. I'm glad we were finally able to close a game out.