Rene Portland Quotations

The point guard has always had a tough thing to please. Obviously, they have to please all of our fans and they have to live up to the expectations and the history of the great point guards here at Penn State.

We're getting better at some stuff and there's a will to win. I think in the beginning they were in the backseat watching the Big Ten. ... There was a newness about the Big Ten that they had to understand. Now, we'll see if they understand.

There are no moral victories. We have some things down that stretch that we are going to work on.

We're happy to be here one more night. We fought very, very hard, our kids were patient and we came up on the winning side.

We're happy to be here (at least) one more night.

If they didn't chip away and chip away, I would have thought a different team showed up.

I'd like to see their predictions come true. We can't sit back after these two games and say 'great' because we're not great yet but if we stay together as a team, a lot of good things can happen.

I bring it up, and the kids are so relieved and the parents are so relieved. But they would probably go without asking the question otherwise, which is really dumb.

I don't think our kids handled the physical play, to be honest. I, obviously, took a technical for asking for holding, which I don't think we handled all that well. The frustration from that carried into how bad they played.

With Michigan State, it was seven minutes to go in the game and we fade away. The other night (against Minnesota) with 2 1/2 minutes to go we were winning, then we faded away. So, the time that we are fading away is getting (smaller). We're making progress.

We told the kids we want to go from the outhouse to the penthouse. It's like a bad GPA. When you have a bad GPA, every semester you could knock the socks off and you're just going see it move a little bit.

It bought us a little bit of time. When we weathered the storm in the first half, I felt good about that.

I was confronted with what I continue to believe are unfounded claims that I caused a player to leave the Lady Lions team because of her race and alleged perceptions of sexual orientation.

Kudos to their defense. We couldn't get into our offensive sets if we had tried. Turnovers were not only self-induced.

Our kids were patient, just like I asked them to be.

Let me make absolutely clear that the only reason Jennifer Harris is no longer with the Lady Lions is because of her performance and attitude in relation to basketball.

I thought my kids played really hard. A lot of things were memorable.

My career has been built on treating all Lady Lion players with equal respect.

We have our hands full on Sunday. We just have to get our spirits back and we have to learn how to fight. We don't fight. With the three teams that have pressured us, we did not fight. We've got to learn to handle the pressure and we can't make mistakes.

You just have to ride it out with some people. In previous years I would have gone like this, and I would have gone like that real quick.

We got through it. We'll go back and look at the film and learn something from it.

We let some things get away from us. We didn't take advantage of that. We tried to get some penetration and didn't succeed.

We were really out of sync. You have to give credit to their defense.

When we walked into Ohio State, our point guard thought the court was bigger. She didn't understand it was just red instead of blue. ... The youth of this program has been pretty comical at times.

We just dig ourselves too deep a hole.

You get tired of losing at certain places. That's all part of maturity.

We had so many walks. I haven't seen that many walks since I coached a grade school team when I started coaching.

I've never seen two kids control a game so much in my life.

Our energy was not the same. Ohio State pressured us defensively and made it difficult for us. Our offense never got going.

Defensively, we didn't have an answer for her.

That's what we should have done, come down the court and throw it off their legs. Every inbounds play that we ran worked.

You (may) think the last play is the game. I think there was a little spurt of turnovers on the offensive end that got us.

They only have 10 kids on their team. It could be us looking in the mirror. We're going to slug it out.

A team would have to be very prepared to beat them. You'd have to find any weaknesses and go after them. There aren't many.

That's pretty amazing on a team that's regrouping and rebuilding.

It's amazing that everyone keeps saying it but that officials don't call it. How come one teams gets that claim to fame, when obviously there are the same rules for all of us.

They made a little bit of a statement to themselves today. We need to pick up some momentum and go strong here.

They'll know when they walk out of that meeting what this week is all about and the opportunities that they have.

Any time you play a new coach it's hard because we really don't know their stuff yet. Their kids are playing with great energy because they have a new coach.

A road win, a home win, anything is going to be real important to us.

I'm pleased for the three girls. They should enjoy it, but also it should give them motivation to continue up the ladder of those kind of awards.

If you don't make her put the ball on the floor she's going to get jump shot after jump shot. She's more than capable of making them in that situation.

Can we just talk about basketball? I want to talk about basketball.

I don't know if on somebody else's home court anyone has ever shot that many. We fouled them.

The holding was unbelievable and Amanda got killed.

The first half, (we) showed energy and knew why you were in the gym and excited about the challenge that was ahead of us. In the next 10 minutes, it was turnover city. The offense never got cooking.