Tim DeBruycker Quotations

We stopped doing what we were doing and we let them right back in the game. Then we're tied. No matter what we did in the first few minutes it didn't mean anything.

We held a pretty good Geneva team to 25 (first-half) points. That's not terrible. The problem is we only scored nine (points). We weren't doing what we needed to against the press.

She's quicker than anybody on the floor and that's obvious. But if anything, she has a tendency to shoot too quickly. I told her to get her whole body looking at the basket, get your elbow underneath you and follow through. She did that.

She's a heck of an athlete. We have to have diversified scoring where we get some other people some points.

She (Norville) just needed to utilize her quickness. It's obvious she's quicker than anyone on the floor. And she did a good job squaring her shoulders and feet on the 3-pointers.

Rich told me before our tryouts he would qualify top three in varsity and he wasn't lying.

We just couldn't make anything. The shots just weren't falling and I think it's a confidence problem we have. I was happy with the ball movement we had. We just couldn't get it in the basket.

You know (Gant) is going to get her points. We have no one that can really defend her, but we knew that we were going to have a difficult time slowing her down coming in.

We become one-dimensional. I call timeouts and I tell them what I want and it just doesn't happen. I don't know how to get it through to them that you have to do the exact same thing you were doing, regardless of the score.

There are a lot of teams that are potential winners out here (today).

We just failed to answer when they started scoring. At first, we'd respond, but then in the third quarter, they just pulled away.

I've been telling them that we need to play more as a team and quit relying on Candace (Norville) to carry us. This shows that we're starting to believe in ourselves and each other.

That's just composure because we're not used to winning. We're not used to having that type of lead. We got a little nervous and it showed.

They stepped up their defense and started trapping. We just weren't strong with the ball, but we got the job done. Was I worried? Yeah, but it never got to the point where we completely lost control.

A lot of people didn't think we were going to win this game. I'm glad we turned it around. We're better than our record (8-19), but we just have trouble with the little things.

They just don't know how to win and they don't know what it takes. They're not buying into my philosophy of doing what you have to do. They don't realize that if they just keep doing what they were doing for the entire game then you can cut (their lead) to four or six and get back in the ballgame.

That second quarter was very nice. We cut their lead to four. At halftime, I thought we had a chance, but we didn't meet Geneva's intensity out of the locker room. They came out like the 23-3 team they are and put it to us.

I'm proud of them for getting back into the game and at least giving themselves a chance. It just wasn't meant to be.

Geneva is here, so that's almost one team you have to pencil into a spot.

The girls came out and did what I asked them to do, which is play together and play extremely hard.

All of the players on our team know their roles. I think everyone has finally accepted their roles.