Halftime Quotations | Page 5

At halftime I told them I felt they weren't playing with intensity. They were not mentally ready to play these guys.

At halftime I told the guys, 'hey you've got to bail me out here now'. They got that quick start, but our kids hung in there for the next three or four minutes. They went out there and kicked it up another notch.

At halftime I told my team that we really had to put the pressure on the Americans. This was a nice result and it was actually fun watching my team play.

At halftime I think out of 47 points, 27 of them came out of either turnovers or second shots. And then in the third quarter, I think we were down 24, I looked they had 28 points off turnovers and we had two. And I think that's been the case all year.

At halftime I said we've played three really good halves of basketball. We didn't get that fourth half.

At halftime I said, 'I want to put up 60, and I want to hold (Gering) under 40.

At halftime I kind of let them have it for the whole halftime. We didn't really change anything ... the second half was about forcing their will on the game.

At halftime I had to encourage Mallory to keep on shooting. Kristin is going to get her shots, but I sometimes have to get on Mallory about continuing to put the ball up.

At halftime I challenged them a little bit. We came out flat with a low energy level, but we were able to generate offense from our defense in the second half.

It was our ability to pressure their guards so they couldn't quite run their offense. Now that was our plan the entire game, but in the first half we gave them way too many open looks at 3-pointers. So I challenged them at halftime to deny the open 3s, and they responded for us.

It wasn't until halftime that I shut down.

It was exciting because we were down coming out of halftime and then we had a good drive to go score a touchdown. That's about it.

It was the exact same play in the first quarter. I had my hands on it, but I dropped it. I told myself at halftime that if I have another opportunity to try and come up with a play, I would, and that's what I did.

It was the defense. The coach gave us a halftime speech, more or less to get us motivated on defense, to play harder. We did a good job of sharing the ball and took some great shots.

It was sort of a Super Bowl halftime show writ large.

It was a sudden thing right before half, but at halftime coach asked me if I was ready to go back in. I said we could give it a go.

It's a big win because of the way we won. That wasn't our style of game. I told them at halftime that we're not very good at football, but we've got to play football. We had to be strong and go at the basket.

It's a disappointing loss because of the way we played. We didn't play particularly well in the first-half. Yet we had a two-point lead and they didn't have Webber. We just came out after halftime really flat and looked bewildered. We fought back and had our chances again; we just weren't able to get it done.

I told my assistant at halftime that we couldn't keep up with this pace. But we actually exceeded it.

I told Matt at halftime that he had to shoulder the load. We always put a lot on his shoulders, but I told him that now he had to do a little bit more.

I told him at halftime to stay up because we may need him. I had no hesitation in the decision. I've seen him do it countless times in practice. I'm real proud of the way he came through.

I told our team at halftime to not relax and stay after it. We made adjustments and came out and executed.

I told our guys at halftime the most important thing is that we fought for 40 minutes. There are no moral victories to being ahead at halftime. I think the experience more than anything from last year helped us through this one.

I told our guys at halftime that we couldn't give them any second-chance points and we'd have to control the paint. I told them they'd have to beat us from the outside.

I told our guys at halftime that he was going to come back and play. He's a really good player; we had the opportunity to see that. He came in and hurt us a lot.

I told our guys at halftime that Carolina was going to make a run and that we had to stay together, remain focused.

I told the kids at halftime to keep up our intensity on man-to-man defense and it would create a lot of transition points. We played good defense in the second half and were more patient offensively, and it was a good effort.

I told the kids at halftime to forget about Monday - it's about today. If you win today, you're in the NCAA tournament. It's March now, and I'm running out of things to say.

I told the kids at halftime they were still in the game and they had to go out there and play like they wanted it.

I told the kids at halftime that it's get after it on defense or our season is ending.

I told the kids at halftime that if we didn't defend the paint it was over. We had to give them the three ... I figure if they make them after not making them for 14 games, god bless 'em they deserve to beat us.

I told the guys at halftime we had to get some full court pressure going and hopefully get them to turn it over. We really worked hard defensively, got some steals and converted.

I told the guys at halftime that was the best half we've seen of Renton basketball. And they said, 'Coach, we've got a lot more coming.' And that's good to know.

I told the guys at halftime that this was a game of little spurts. When we came out of the locker room and made that run to start the third, I thought we were asserting ourselves. But give Lewisburg credit, they came right back, answered and re-took the lead.

I told the guys at halftime that's why everybody practices. We just needed to be patient, get into our offense, and not let them get a run.

I told the guys after the game, they never cease to amaze me. Halftime I told them I thought we didn't have our heads in the game. I said, I don't know where this is going to take us, but I know we don't have a chance if we don't get our heads into it.

I told the girls at halftime to keep playing hard and I think in second half they did it even more. We thought we could get into them defensively and make them work to get the ball up the floor.

I told the girls at halftime that we were lucky to be down just five points. It was not a very pretty first half for us.

I told them at halftime to play like it was 0-0. Keep putting the pressure on them, keep taking the shots.

I told them at halftime to get more aggressive. We did get more aggressive on both ends of the court.

I told them at halftime they've only got 16 minutes left in their season. We got off to a really slow start, but I thought we played good on defense. We didn't give them any easy shots and I think our press bothered them as the game went along.

I told them at halftime that we were playing a little too intense. We needed to calm down. We need to find our players and play the ball to their feet.

I told them at halftime that we needed to be better defensively. We weren't moving our feet well in the first half and they were getting some easy shots. I asked them to step it up, and man, they did.

I told them at halftime that the reason the game was close was that we weren't playing defense. We were playing defense with our arms instead of moving our feet.

I told them at halftime that offensively I was only unhappy with one thing, and that was that 8.3 percent shooting from the 3. Those are shots that we normally make. So I said there was only one thing to do: keep pulling the trigger.

I told them at halftime it will come, we just had to patient.

I told them and halftime that we were playing down to a different level. We had to rise up and make them play to our level. We came out and played hard, and I challenged the seniors and they were able to step up.

I told the team at halftime that we needed to pick up our scoring. We needed to get the ball into the post and be more patient on offense. When we did that, things just fell together. I was really happy with our overall play. This was a key week for us in the standings and I think winning both puts us in position to contend for a championship.

I told (the team) at halftime that, if they wanted to win this game, they would have to find a way to stop those two. But no matter what we did, we couldn't stop them.

It's the first time we've had a physician with us. It's a good thing we did because he stitched Spencer up at halftime or we wouldn't have had him otherwise.

It's frustrating. We played great until the last seven minutes. We just couldn't finish (the game). But this was our third game on the road in five days against three very good teams. To be down by a goal on the road at halftime and to come back showed a lot of character.

It's funny, we usually shoot pretty well (at the Shirk Center). Regardless at how bad we shot, we were still ahead at halftime and we wore them out.

It's tournament time, so you have to keep a constant effort, and that's what we tried to get done tonight. Nobody let up. At halftime coach just nailed into us that we need to keep playing hard, and that's what we tried to do.

That's our strength. We didn't have many fast-break points that I can remember in the first half. We had to take advantage of our transition game. That's where we score a lot. Coach told us at halftime we have so much depth and we have to play hard enough to use it.

That halftime lead is a little misleading because it was close for a while. We got 24 in a row, so the whole lead was that run. That obviously was the difference in the game.

I told David at halftime to stay aggressive and that his shot would start falling. He had several big rebounds and put-backs that really helped us win this game in the fourth quarter.

It seemed like we missed a lot of them early. Yeah, if you make those free throws, maybe we're up by 3 or 4 points at halftime instead of being down. We've been hot and cold at free throws all year.

It seemed like every shot we took in the first half went in. But I told the kids at halftime that we couldn't continue to shoot like that and that defense was going to have to win it for us.

It was a heck of a win. We lost those two guys, and you know how much they mean to us and how much we count on them to take the ball handling duties. We made some adjustments at halftime and had David West bring it up a few times, as well as Desmond Mason, who did a good job.

I walked up the tunnel at halftime and the fans were going crazy,

It was a great atmosphere to play in. Both crowds were real active and both teams play exceptionally hard. We just made some plays right before halftime and every time they made a run at us we'd answer.

It was a game of runs. It was 39-39 with 2:12 left and Neosho County had a run to take the 47-39 halftime lead. We come out and started the second half on a 12-2 run to take a 51-49 lead.

It was a great team effort for the Mustangs. You may get (defensive coordinator) Cornel (Thompson) in the first half, but he'll come out at halftime with some adjustments and did tonight. We put Beasley in on defense and kept Butler to just a few crossing patterns and nothing deep after that first score.

It was a great feeling (to sit out) because I didn't feel good at all, ... I was telling Coach when I was getting ready to go back in that I wasn't feeling that well and he just told me to come back, and fortunately everything worked out fine. I just didn't feel good. I was dizzy out there the whole game. Once I stopped playing at halftime and came back in, I just never felt right. I think I'm coming down with something.

It was a defensive battle and the wind really had an affect on the ball. But we were able to make the adjustments we needed to after halftime and execute.

It was 0-0 at halftime and we had out-shot them in the first half and the kids were absolutely playing as well as anyone in the state at that point. Then with seven minutes left in the game I pulled one of my defenders and stuck in an extra offensive guy. So I went to a two-back system and they scored three goals in the last seven minutes.

It took us a while to get rolling, but after halftime we pressed it a little and got some big plays. Defensively, we did a very nice job. We hoped we could shut down their running game and get some pressure on the quarterback.

They did everything they could to keep him from getting the ball then they kicked it to him. He made a great play there, had a good block on the return. We were happy to see that. It was a big key in the game. We had the lead at halftime but to get that play right there it really turned things our way.

They did a good job of coming back after being 15 points down at the half. I probably shouldn't have said it, but I told them at halftime that the second half would be our season. I told them we could either give the effort and come back and win, or we could keep playing like we had been and be left to fight for the crumbs for the rest of the season.

They can really shoot. No lead is safe with these guys. We've seen them three or four times, and at halftime I was real concerned.

They both worked hard and one of the most pleasing things for me was to watch at halftime Justin was out warming up Chris, getting ready, ... He was a rival and they both work so well to help one another and to improve each other.

They were beating us to the ball on the floor. We had one rebound in the first quarter, four by halftime and 12 turnovers (by halftime). You can't win ballgames like that. They deserved to win.

They were a little more aggressive. I don't know if they were mixed up in the first half or what they were doing, but my teammates found me. Basically, I had eight dunks, so they obviously figured something out at halftime and took it away.

They weren't a matter of bad reads. It was an accuracy situation. What we tried to emphasize to everybody at halftime was to remember that things aren't always going to be perfect and to forget about it.

They whipped us in every phase of the game the second half. This is the best team in the league, and I wanted to evaluate us against these people. I thought at halftime we were right there with them. By the end of the season, I would like to play these guys again in the playoffs and see where we stand.

It was great being a part of it, we were really choked up at halftime when Ruthie spoke. She's meant a lot to me, she's been a real inspiration.

It was just too many errors. I told the kids at halftime that we made three mistakes, and that's what put us in a hole. Maine-Endwell is a well-coached, disciplined team. We knew this would be a test. We've just got to keep getting better.

Smyrna is big and they used their size to wear us down. We wanted to stay within 10, and we did a few times. Even at halftime when they were up 16, we didn't think it was too bad. We felt if we could get the third quarter to go our way we'd be all right. But we got in foul trouble in the third. The girls played hard, but it just wasn't enough.

The last thing we wanted to do against United was concede an early goal. But, if we had got to halftime just one goal down, it could have been a real cup tie. The second goal was a poor one to concede and killed us off really.

I'm proud of my guys. In every great game, like this one, you have to overcome adversity. These guys responded after halftime and did it with fundamentals. This was a big win for us.

I'm really proud of my guys. They earned it, they played with heart and conviction. They listened. That's important when guys are coming off the field at halftime and listening to the game plan. We shut them out in the second half. That's extremely hard to do.

I'm really embarrassed by what happened out there. We played with very little heart and very little aggressiveness. We came out at halftime totally casual, just kind of winging the ball all over the place, acting like they were going to roll over and give us the game.

I kind of feel like, it's halftime in my career right now. Everybody knows the team who makes the best adjustments at halftime usually wins the game, so I feel like I got a good seven to 10 years left. I played seven years in Minnesota and I am looking forward to even better, greater seven years down in Miami, back home. It's great.

In high school football, things happen. For them, I'm sure it was a big disappointment. For us, we got a first down in that situation and it helped us. We felt good coming out of halftime and knew that if we stayed with the game plan, the kids would come up with the big plays.

I know we've got a lot of South Carolina historians around here, but when was the last time South Carolina was tied at halftime and beat the opponent 34-6 in the second half? ... Who knows?

I knew it wasn't my night. Coach told me a halftime to keep going. It was just getting into a rhythm.

(I liked the pace) other than the last three minutes of the second quarter when I felt we got a little too out of control. We went into halftime and said this game is ours if we can clean it up a little bit.

I haven't, and I don't think too many people have. We were comfortable at halftime with how things were going. Obviously, coming out of the locker room for the second half, Norwalk was a different team, and we were a different team.

I'm not sure I have said all year how tough Ashley Underwood is and tonight best epitomized it at halftime when the buzzer went off and she was still running down the stairs after icing and getting her ankle re-taped at halftime.

I'm happy with the way we finished the game, ... We started a little bit slow, a little bit inconsistent in all three phases. With the players and the coaches making some good halftime adjustments, we got some momentum early in the third quarter and were able to score some points and kind of take them out of the game.

I like the way Cornell Glen finished his chances in the second half. He was very down on himself at halftime and the guys picked him up. He wanted to make a statement in the second half and I think he did.

I lit into them at halftime about that, and that did a lot of good. We make them, and it's not even close.

In the first half, we had a few bad shots. I wasn't in the flow of the game offensively. Coach (Sean Miller) told us at halftime to look for me. If I could get the ball, good things could happen for us. In the second half, they did a good job of getting me the ball.

In the first half, we came out with a lack of focus, lack of intensity and the wrong attitude. That's what the halftime talk was about. It was getting them focused.

In the first half, she was a little upset with herself after a couple of defensive plays, but at halftime we told ourselves to forget it. This was a new 20 minutes so what happened in the first half stayed there. Then she came in and hit some big shots, some wide-open 3s, got some dribble penetration that opened up some other people.

In the first half, my plan was to throw the ball quite a bit more, but at halftime all the kids and the staff felt that we could run the ball on these guys and eat clock and not let their quarterback, (Timothy) Wells, back on the field.

In the first half we were getting frustrated with each other, we weren't really working as a team. We talked at halftime about our frustration, and we came out knowing we had to step up and win the game.

I really thought we were going to go into halftime with a shot at winning, but we gave the ball away a couple of times and let their backup quarterback throw two long passes,

I have to thank Charles (Barkley) for giving a great halftime talk when he said the game was over. I thought we were playing too perfect, but in the second half we played exceptionally well. When our four guys (four All-Stars from Detroit) were in we started to run some plays, and I think that helped us.

In the third quarter we made some big plays and took it over. Coach Fisher told us at halftime to put it on them, get it over with and don't let it get into a dogfight.