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He controlled the game. You could live with him getting 30 points, but what you don't want is 11 rebounds and 11 assists.

He just alters things. He's right at 10 rebounds a game (with 12.1 points), so he's right at a double-double. He's got long arms. His size and his presence just make things difficult.

Greg came to the forefront during the fourth quarter, which he's done so often for us. He was constantly tipping the ball inside, keeping it alive, and also pulled down some key rebounds for us.

Guys hit their free throws down the stretch. We got a few key rebounds and they missed some shots.

This was a good win for us. Hepburn had a good inside game and also came down with nine rebounds for us.

Kentucky had 55 rebounds the last time we played them, the most of them coming in the second half. I challenged our team at halftime, specifically the seniors not to let that happen again. They really responded.

James brought it to my attention in one of the timeouts that we had that I needed two more rebounds to get (20). I just worked hard to get it.

Jack was a monster. He led us in scoring, but beyond that the number of rebounds he got and the defense he played was incredible.

Jordan came through with a lot of rebounds (against Westland) and Chris Ricks, for being a young 15-year-old guy, plays like a heck of a man.

I thought we really had control of the game. (North Medford) had some offensive rebounds in the second half that hurt us and they stepped up and made some big shots.

I though we played well on defense. We concentrated on boxing out for rebounds this week and we really did that well tonight. I'm very happy with the way we played. We came out strong and our intensity didn't die.

I thought Damp (Erick Dampier) really shut down a lot of their penetrations in the fourth quarter. He got a couple of blocks, rebounds and I thought he was the reason we won the game.

I thought Chad Jones played like we envisioned him playing all year. He played in spurts. He had offensive rebounds and played with reckless abandon. He played hard, which was good.

I think you'll see a team that rebounds hard, plays defense hard and that's why he has been a really good coach. I think he's a great fit.

(Lamb) did a great job putting them on her back. They had a lot of second-chance and third-chance opportunities. That really made the difference, that they had more than 10 rebounds than we did.

I thought we played very well on defense. And I thought we rebounded the ball on both ends very well. And we had to since we didn't shoot very well, but Schaefer had three offensive rebounds on our first possession, he had a very good night on the boards.

I thought we played good defense and started rebounding a little bit better this game. We gave up a few too many rebounds inside, at times, but it's a good rebounding team.

I thought we got some good looks down the stretch and we just didn't convert them. We need to do that to be competitive. Give them credit. They have been here before. They hit big free throws and got the rebounds they needed.

I thought we held our composure pretty well. We just had trouble finishing. It was a lot more than the free throws. They had 14 offensive rebounds and we had 16 turnovers. That's 30 extra possessions for them.

I thought the kids gave a great effort and guarded some of (the Johnston players) really well. We just wish we could have come up with a few more defensive rebounds there in the last few possessions.

I thought they took some funny-angle shots in the beginning, trying to catch me. But the rebounds just bounced out from those angles and you're going to give up some rebounds, but our defense was right there to clear them away.

I think we got really complacent. We went out and took this team for granted. We didn't get any rebounds or play defense like we did against Arizona. Everyone was more hyped for Arizona because they were ranked. Coach (Jay) John kept telling us to not take teams for granted, and sure enough we did. And we got our butts kicked.

I think we're going to be harder to play against. We're going to be more physical, and there's going to be more of a price to pay to come into our zone. Players won't be poking around our net as much as they did last year trying to get rebounds because I think we can make them pay. And we didn't have that last year -- we haven't had that for awhile -- so that's going to really help us. I think our strength is going to be on the back end.

I think we lost focus. I think that's the biggest thing. Any time where you go through a stretch where you're getting every shot you want to get, you're making every play, you're getting rebounds on the defensive end ... you're going to have moments where you're going to struggle. I think we let those moments carry over a little bit too long, especially in the second half after that 18-point lead.

I think we just started rushing at the end and putting up a lot of jumpers. They were getting rebounds and playing 24 seconds of offense each possession.

I think we had three defensive rebounds in the first half, which is unheard of. We had (41) points at halftime, so we were on pace offensively. Obviously, though, the whole key was defense and a lot of easy, open looks for them. I'm sure it's going to be ugly on film.

I think we did a good job of containing him, but he stepped up. He didn't score a lot of points, but he made shots and got rebounds that were big for them.

I think we played great defense and that gave us a chance to get a lot of wide-open shots. We got a lot of tough rebounds, a lot of long rebounds and that gave us a chance to get some easy buckets. When you can get the easy shots, everything else just begins to click.

I was able to get in there and squeeze down some rebounds as well. I'm just happy I can help my team any way I can. I was just able to find guys on my team in good spots.

I was just thinking that I've got to get rebounds somehow. Katie was unbelievable and I just wanted to get rebounds I wasn't worried about scoring.

I was just going out there and doing whatever I could to get a couple extra rebounds for our team, get a couple more offensive possessions.

I think the whole reason why they traded for me was to become a playoff-contending team and to take a lot of pressure off the rookie. I've done so thus far. There's been a lot of attention that our opponents have put on me, and he's been able to get rebounds that way and score easy baskets. That's built his confidence.

Jeff won the game for us tonight, I don't think there's any doubt about that. Jeff played great. He carried us. He hit the big shots when we needed it. He got the big rebounds when we needed them.

Jasmine really stepped us for us tonight. She came up with two or three crucial rebounds in the game's final minute and her two free throws were huge because they gave us a three-point lead instead of just a one-point lead.

Last time we played, Coates got a lot of rebounds against us. We switched it up a lot tonight to confuse them.

I saw it was kind of long, so I tried to just drift to the other side. I've never had 10 rebounds. Ever. I never had 10 rebounds shooting by myself.

I saw the puck very well and the guys were clearing the rebounds for me so that's a good combination.

I saw that we could get offensive rebounds on them. They did a good job.

Our kids really fought to get back in the game and gave themselves a chance to win. We had to play so hard to overcome a lot. We had to play perfectly in a lot of areas. We had to make fewer turnovers, we had to get more rebounds and we had to get to the free throw line more than we did. It was tough to overcome but we gave it a shot.

Pam rebounds for us, and I think with this adjustment we're putting her in a better position to score because she can step out beyond the arc. It gives her more flexibility.

Our team has grown up a little bit. We had some great contests when they had some looks, we got some big rebounds and we hit some very important free throws down the stretch. That's a team that's maturing.

Our transition defense wasn't good. Our rotations were wrong and they got some rebounds on the offensive end and that hurt us.

rebounds pretty strongly from this sort of event. After several quarters of rebuilding, our productive capacity should be back to about where it would have been otherwise.

Rebounds just killed us in the first half. When you give a team two, three chances at scoring, it's going to hurt you.

Parnell's fatigued. He's been out a long time. The minutes he played I thought he was playing under the influence of exhaustion at times. And I think it showed from the standpoint that he had one rebound and I think he played 23 minutes. We didn't play anybody that had less rebounds than him. We had one guy who played eight minutes and he had a rebound.

My shooting is coming around much better now (than) from the beginning of the season. I just want to keep rebounding at a high level. I'm averaging about seven rebounds a game.

My mind is still reeling from this game. Our biggest problem all season was allowing offensive rebounds and that came back to bite us tonight in a big way.

I think she probably played the best game of her career. At the end she came up with some key rebounds for us.

I think rebounding was the key point of the (Brookhaven) game. We didn't get key rebounds and we were allowing them two, three and sometimes four shots.

I think everybody in basketball knows that about 70 percent of the rebounds go opposite of from where you shoot it. So we just figure if you get more players on the opposite side, we've got a chance mathematically to grab a lot more boards.

I think I handled my job on the defensive end, and rebounds also. That's my game. I generate every type of emotion from my defense, and I made a point to do that today.

It didn't surprise me because they saw that they were getting the rebounds and they stuck with it.

I think Jordan can be a great spark off the bench. This will give us a little different dynamic. Sharp leads our team in rebounds per minutes (played). And that's got to be a focus for us this weekend.

I think Millsap's a first-round draft pick in my opinion. I've coached them before. I know what they look like. I know how they walk. I know how they react and he's certainly that. There's nothing you can do to stop him from getting 15 to 18 rebounds a night.

I thought it was a great effort. Tyson (Chandler) was a big lift. I thought he had his best game of the year. Our game was proactive and most importantly, we got a lot of rebounds and second chance opportunities.

I thought he played fantastic. He's a kid who's a hustler and plays good defense and gets a lot of rebounds for us. Everything we get from him offensively is a bonus.

I thought Mark had a real good game. He made some shots, he was really active on the glass and got a lot of big rebounds and he played good defense all night long.

I thought Jeremy had a steady game. For having 16 points, it didn't really seem like he had that many. He just did so many other things. He had nine rebounds and that's key.

Just her work ethic rubs off on everybody else. She's always going 100 percent, and I think people see that out of her and tend to pick it up, too. The main thing I like out of her is if you need a person who's going to go get rebounds and get in there on defense and get on the ball. A lot of kids do that, and Danielle thinks that's her role and she does a good job of it.

We've tried a lot of kids in that position - sometimes playing them out of position. We've got to find someone who can get in there, defend and grab some rebounds for us.

We needed contributions to beat that good team. We got (it from) all seven. I thought we defended real well in the fourth quarter, and we got enough rebounds to hang in there.

That was really the game. We were four up and hadn't gotten anything the last two possessions. Those rebounds were huge.

That was a great lift from Megan. She got two big rebounds and made two big offensive plays. She got us excited again.

That's what happens. We didn't give up shots, we gave up rebounds tonight. Teams are trying to go big on us, crash the boards on us. That's our biggest weakness. Our defense has got to pick us up.

That's those long rebounds that we kind of have trouble with from time to time. We'll do a better job rebounding.

I was really pleased with Dean Johnson, he's a guy who works really hard for us and gets a lot of rebounds for us, but that's the most active I've seen him.

I was really disappointed in our blocking out in the first half. We gave up 14 offensive rebounds in the first half. I thought our kids played a lot better in the second. We really battled through the kids' sickness throughout the game.

I wasn't really worried about that. The main focus tonight was to get those ugly goals, go to the front of the net and get those rebounds, and I think we did. We screened us, he gave us a couple of rebounds and we made some nice plays, but we just had to play a simple game in the third and we didn't.

My big thing is we have no dominant shooters so we have to value every possession. We need to have single digit turnovers and double digit rebounds or we can't compete and again tonight we turned it over too many times.

Michael does a lot of things that people don't notice. He leads our team in rebounds and steals, ranks second in scoring and usually draws a tough assignment on defense.

Will did a great job tonight of really leading our break. He got a lot of defensive rebounds and just started going down the floor. ... Just great looks down the floor and if Will gets us out and going in transition like that, we're tough to beat.

You just keep thinking it's going to happen. We had opportunities, we just had the ball bounce around an awful lot. There must have been more rebounds than any game I've seen in a long time.

We were able to get some rebounds and get out and run. I'm not sure the tempo was good for (Pitman). We might have been a little tired at times, but I think they were a little more tired.

We were able to get some key rebounds early on both ends of the court, and that was big. We thought we could utilize our height advantage on the inside, and fortunately we were able to.

We put an emphasis on rebounding Monday and Tuesday in practice. I thought we played our first-shot defense very well. But a lot of loose balls and rebounds that we needed to come up with to finish the defensive possession, we didn't get.

We played hard and I feel we accomplished a lot during our practices and in the (three) games last week. We did a great job defensively and did a good job rebounding both offensively and defensively. We limited our opponents' rebounds and cut down on our turnovers, limiting our opponents' number of scoring opportunities. Offensively, we were more consistent, and that was important also.

We rebounded a lot better. Jermaine stepped it up and our guards got in there and got a few rebounds to get our break going, which is a big part of our scheme.

We really struggled against that zone because we went ice cold. We seemed to only be able to generate offense off some offensive rebounds or some steals.

We have some talented post players for being undersized. They do a good job of getting into position for rebounds as well as getting open for a pass on offense, but we have to work on better passes into those girls because that cost us some of our turnovers tonight. I can't say enough about Jenna Johnston and Jillian Rhoads. For Jenna to score the way she does is a tribute to her work ethic, and for Jillian and her hustle out on the floor.

We couldn't make a shot or get a stop at the particular time when we needed one. They got offensive rebounds and in the fourth quarter, you can't afford to do that.

We had a lot of transition play, got some rebounds and created some turnovers.

We could not get rebounds and we could not stop their big guy, Williams. Our big guys aren't tough, and this (Duke) is a great team.

We just didn't meet their aggressiveness. Ballard must have gotten eight or 10 offensive rebounds in the first half. We didn't do a good job getting each other open and setting screens. We played too tentative.

We were having good shots, but we weren't getting many clean rebounds that usually lead to points in transition. We were still down only eight and we had the ball. It was a testament to how good our defense was we were still in the game.

We were getting good shots, and everybody was making shots. But what we needed were more rebounds and more defense.

Tyler's play speaks for itself. He's a monster down there. When we give him the ball, he scores. When we shoot it, he goes and gets it and he rebounds and he scores.

Tiffany rebounds well and she's becoming a better passer. She's always been an athlete, but she's working on her skills to improve her basketball game.

We gave up some rebounds at the end, we didn't make free throws, and it just got away from us. What makes it more disappointing is we were ahead. The other games, we were behind and had to catch up and then we'd lose. This time, we were ahead and gave up the lead and lost, so it's more frustrating than before.

We gave up seven offensive rebounds in the final period and we have to improve on that.

We gave up offensive rebounds, at least 18, which is the stat of the game. Overall, we played well in every other aspect of our game, but the rebounds were the difference.

We gave up a couple of big offensive rebounds right there. We knew it was our will against theirs and I think their will won out right there at the end.

We gave up 12 offensive rebounds in the first half with Mr. Smith doing his damage inside. We just didn't seem to have an answer.

We can always count on (Holloway) to get rebounds and tonight she got those rebounds and turned them into points.

We made him miss twice in critical moments. We just leaked out and they came right back and got perimeter rebounds on us. You can't do that.

We don't have one or two big guys that we count on to get rebounds and that we keep around the basket. All of our guys guard all over the floor defensively, so anybody could be in any position. We do need to use five guys rebounding.

We rely on trying to get missed shots and rebounds and when we don't get those rebounds, then everything is out the window.

We did what we had to do to win. We got rebounds when we had to and got to loose balls. Players stepped up.

We played well, we played well enough to win the game. Down the stretch we allowed them to get second chance shots. We allowed them to hit three pointers and get back into the game. Against a team like that who's so dangerous offensively we've got to step up and make plays, and on the offensive end we did. On the defensive end we broke down and second chance points and three pointers and rebounds killed us.

We prepared really well for this game. We have been looking forward to it all season. Last time they got a lot of points off offense rebounds and we worked on stopping that.

We did things necessary to stop our opponents at crucial times and win games. Defensive rebounds and taking good shots in the last four to five minutes.