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I thought we were very aggressive during the first half and our zone pressure disrupted them somewhat. We really executed well at times. Later on, their pressure put us out of sync.

I thought we were focused from the opening tip. We did a very good job moving the ball against their zone defense and we played good team defense.

I tip my hat to Heather Dixon; awesome hitting and pitching. Whitney Larson has a great knowledge of her strike zone and what she can do.

I think the personnel they had on the court helped them attack our zone a little bit better.

I thought defensively we were in much better position. We're a little fragile in our own zone sometimes and guys will get running around a little bit. I thought our positioning was much better.

I thought coming into the game that we would have trouble guarding them off the dribble because they were just too fast for us. And we did, so we tried to play some zone and they shot the ball well from the perimeter, so we got caught between a rock and a hard place. Once we lose the lead and have to play fast it is very difficult for us to win. We don?t score the ball at a high level.

I thought Arkansas did a good job of defending. I don't think it was one particular person. I think their zone affected us and allowed us not to get the ball inside to where we were capable of getting it.

Ladell is capable of big runs and knowing that he's behind me, I can go out on every play and give my all. I don't have to save anything for once you get down in the red zone if I don't have anything in my tank. I think Ladell is going to help us out.

I was disappointed with our inability to be stronger in the defensive zone (in the third period). I understand why, but we were pretty darn good through two periods.

It is something I'm still sticking to. I'm still working out, and I'm still on Zone food. I'm still losing weight.

I thought we'd have to go zone to slow things down a little bit. I'll be honest, that's the longest zone we've played in four or five years. When it works, you have to keep doing it.

I thought we had enough guys on the bench to win this game. We just got lackadaisical and the zone caught us. We have to go back to the drawing board and work against the zone.

I thought we had as many good quality scoring chances as they did. But we've got to realize, we can't get into a run-and-gun game with anybody at this time of year. We've got to learn from Game 1 that we've got to play a little tighter in our own zone and a little better defensively.

I thought we gave them way too much room. There is a fine line between respect and giving them too much respect. We were giving them a zone to create some speed.

I thought we found the seams in the zone better at the start of the third quarter, and then we made some shots. In the first half, we had a few looks but didn't make the shots.

I thought we'd see a lot more zone than we did. It got down to our penetration and Carl hitting those 3s. Our penetration was good, especially when they went man-to-man.

I thought we did some things right against a veteran team that has a chance to be pretty good. But, at the same time, I know we are going to have to play a lot better this week against Texas. Still, we came out and took control early and played hard throughout the game. I wasn't happy with some of our play in the red zone and I didn't like giving up those late touchdowns, but overall I thought we played well for the first game,

I thought the press was the difference in the game. Once they got it into a half-court situation, they played as well as we did. I thought we were better in the full-court situation. We wanted to push it up the floor, and we're really good at doing that. We'll start out in a man look and drop into a zone look.

I thought the key was to play zone against them. They had trouble figuring out our zone, and we got the lead.

I thought their zone affected us. It kept us from getting the ball inside the way we're capable of getting it.

I thought their defense was very disruptive. That zone does a good job of taking you out of what you're comfortable with.

I thought they were going to stay in the zone but they came out kind of aggressive on the guards. John, being experienced, popped out and got the ball. We were stressing the whole second half to attack the seam in the zone and John has the ability to do that.

I thought Wandy did a super job, ... He must have had some late movement, because he got a lot of ground balls. But he was down in the zone a lot, and in the middle part of the game he went up the zone a little bit.

I thought that last one of his looked good. He had the responsibility on top of that zone and that's a lot of work, but I'm glad to see him play well.

I thought that changed the entire momentum of the game. It caused turnovers and we scored off transition. It put us in a comfort zone that I felt much better about.

I think we forced them to play our game in the third quarter. The first half was kind of just fighting back and forth. Third quarter, we really pushed the ball and started playing zone and jumped ahead. I think we kind of broke them in the third quarter.

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I think we did that. But we still have some room to improve. Our style of defense is getting after the offense. However, you want to do that. Whether it's a zone defense or blitzes, we're going to do that.

I think we can play both styles. We've done it in the past and it's not a huge change for us. Going up against a team like Detroit that controls the neutral zone really well, we just have to make sure we're deflecting it to the outside.

I thought our kids played about as hard and about as good as we could. If we could have eliminated penalties I think we might have won the game. I don't know how many holding penalties we got in the red zone. It seemed like every time we got to the red zone there was a holding penalty, even in the playoff in the end. We were our own worst enemy in that regard.

I thought our full-court trap changed the tempo of the game out of free throw situations. And I thought we played some zone the first half that helped us a little bit. I think both teams tried some things to see what worked and to use down the road.

I thought our defense was good, and then I played the dreaded zone for a while which I think everybody's like 'Wow'. But we have a zone and we work on it. I just don't use it that much.

I thought once we got it to 32-30, we were OK. We switched to a little bit of a zone to try to take away some of their dribble penetration. To their credit they stepped up and hit those outside jumpers, which put us into a position where we had to foul. They converted their free throws.

I think we settled instead of looking to attack the basket. We got away from what we like to do against the zone and that?s attack the basket.

I think that certainly is a factor in some of the scores. It takes more time to get a shot against a zone than it does man-to-man. Teams that are playing zone probably aren't fouling as much, so you aren't getting as many points at the free throw line.

I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.

I think a repeat performance of Saturday would be good. Our 1-2-2 zone held them for most of the game. We need to do a better job of stopping (Laura) Mount on the dribble drive. Offensively, we need to keep the tempo up. It needs to be a transition game.

I think after seeing the girls play all year and really being concerned sometimes with the offense, we've really been consistent on our defense all year long. We've held a lot of teams under 35 points. That's really been our consistency all year. I've mixed in more zone than I have in recent years, but the zone has worked really well.

I think it was the type of first game we wanted to have. We controlled the puck the way we wanted to. Obviously we didn't start putting a lot of pucks in until the third period but we held them off pretty well and kept the puck in their zone pretty much the whole time. I don't think we were ever really worried.

I think it was our communication on defense. When we do that, we're at our best. When we don't communicate, we get our butts whipped. It's just that simple. In the first half, we weren't communicating properly and they were having their way with us. In the second half, we went to the zone and communicated better, and the result was a 20-point win.

It gave us some opportunities. That's what I like about our team -- we don't quit. We still fight and battle. We had the opportunities in the second half, and they were just able to get the ball in the end zone and score.

I think that's one of the things we can be better at. We've got to get the ball in the end zone when we're in the red zone.

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I think we're much more comfortable with women as policy makers, ... We're not there yet, but the comfort zone is much wider than it was when I came.

Last year, I was just hoping the other team would kick it out of the end zone so we could get it on the 20, ... So, I guess I'm hoping now we'll be able to return it past the 20.

Laugh because you can, Smile because it feels good, show compassion to others because it makes you tingle inside, and let's step outside of our comfort zone for a week and not care how wacky we appear!

I went at four seconds, got to my comfort zone and made a tough shot. They were not going to get an opportunity to go down and make a shot on us.

I watched their zone defense and they were hedging our shooters. We tried to get the ball in to Aimee (Morrison), but they were defending her pretty hard.

I was able to make pitches right from the get-go. The biggest focus is trying to establish the strike zone early with my two-seam fastball and throw some changeups.

I was able to beat a few guys in the zone and they (fly balls) stayed in the ballpark,

I think they packed their zone in a little tighter in the second half and we had a little bit harder time getting it to him. We were attacking their zone with penetration and hitting the gaps inside (in the first half) and we just didn't seem to attack it as well in the second half.

I think they have a comfort zone in terms of personalities, where they understand each other and there's no friction ever. Sometimes I think they're disagreeing with one another too much and they say, 'Coach, that's OK. We've done this for years.' I have to back off. They have their own little language how they deal with each other.

I think they started off a little sluggish this year, but they really put it together in the second half. When they don?t have the puck they?re very committed to defense. To get through the center zone and to the net - that?s going to be our challenge.

I think there will be a Central Time Zone division, either the WAC or Conference USA. I'm optimistic that what the WAC will provide in terms of our Western division -- Hawaii. Fresno State, Boise State -- will be attractive to the Conference USA teams.

I thought we were dominating from the first shift. Even when the score was tied after the first period, we were in their zone and we had a lot of scoring chances.

Jared only threw 70 pitches through seven innings. He did a tremendous job of filling up the strike zone early.

Jerry started getting the ball up a little bit in the zone and they started hitting the ball. That's a pretty good-hitting team if you get the ball up.

Janae runs phenomenally in her comfort zone right now. We need to get her to run on the edge of that. Theresa has the competitive fire. She could be a force by the end of the season.

James heated up in the second half, but we couldn't get the defensive stops to go with the offense. Their zone caused us fits for three quarters. We just never caught a break and couldn't get the momentum turned in our favor.

Jess was a zone buster tonight. We told her before the game to just keep shooting the ball and it was a good confidence boost for her to knock down those shots.

Kyle has been on a tear as of late, having stepped it up a few levels in preparation for the post season. He will be a tough match for anyone at the zone and state tournaments along with the others. We'll go in with a very motivated group and we should do well.

Last week I didn't throw the ball that well. I was up in the zone last week. It worked for me this week. Having a big game like I did (Friday) was big.

Lanphier made it uncomfortable for us; we did not have that comfort zone that we've had. We knew what we had to do; Lanphier had guys make shots. They had guys who don't always make shots, make shots.

I suppose being a bit of an antisocial weirdo definitely honed my skills as a soloist. It gave me a lot more opportunities to solo lots of easy routes, which in turn broadened my comfort zone quite a bit and has allowed me to climb the harder things without a rope that I've done now.

I saw them play (Friday night) and he caught fire just where he left off. I don't know if there was much we could have done differently. He was just making shots. That's a nice zone to be in during a very important part of the season. Kudos to Cody, he shot the ball very well.

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I said it's going to take a couple of breaks and someone's going to have to bust one long. That was the Hudson that I had seen in previous years in the American League with a good sinking fastball. He was keeping the ball down in the zone and just didn't give us much. And sure enough, we got something going. And Lance (Berkman) comes up with a big boom. Then of course Ausmus with a big boom, too.

Penn State did a great job defensively, which made it difficult for us to get into our offense. Their zone really hurt us. We need to learn to play better defense and box out.

Our goal was to attack them on offense. Their size hurt us a lot, and the zone kind of got in our way.

Overall, we are getting better. We had three freshmen playing on the offensive line, but we are running the zone play better. ... Defensively, we are fitting in better with some young guys.

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Padding on the sidewalls makes a lot of sense. And we should have a spectator-free zone in the immediate landing area.

Our press got us going in the beginning, and our trap zone got us going too. It was our defense.

Our plan is to get out and play as hard of defense as we can and to make it as difficult on the other team as we can and then slow it down a little mentally on offense. Not necessarily slow the ball down, but take good open shots on offense. They went zone on us and we moved the ball really well. We didn't have just one pass and shoot and that's key for us. Before, when we were struggling, we were passing once and shooting.

Our perspective on that is if you are involved in criminal activity, and you are apprehended, it wasn't because of profiling. If you drive through a radar zone operated by one of my officers going 45 in a 25, you weren't stopped because of profiling.

Our team has really been talking about this game. I think everyone was in the zone tonight, and I was really feeling it.

Our safety play has been outstanding. We haven't gotten too fancy, we have been able to play a good bit of zone coverage, allowing our front seven to hold up against the run.

Overall our passing game was pretty efficient. We dropped a couple of balls, and we were disappointed we didn't get the ball in the end zone there when we were down there. Looked like Tom threw the ball well, set up quickly, and got it out there.

Our zone took away her touches in the middle for a while, but that kid's a player.

Our zone defense was pretty effective tonight - just being able to point their shooters up. And it was also easy to play because we had the big lead.

Our zone defense did a good job of limiting their penetration in the second half.

Our biggest problem has been, offensively, getting the ball in the end zone. We've had ample opportunities in the red zone that would have impacted all those games, and we have just not been able to execute the things we need to do.

Rob Myers has been coming along. ... That catch he made in the end zone was by far the best catch I've seen him make. ... That was a heck of play by Leon and Rob.

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Playing the nickel, it allows me to show a little more versatility, ... I've never been in the position where I've blitzed on occasion, but now I can do either or. Drop into zone coverage or man, or blitz. It's going to be something.

Playing against a zone has been an Achilles heel for us this season. Teams are going to double and triple A.J. and we know that. We needed someone to step up, but it just wasn't there tonight. We couldn't hit a basket.

Pick a corn field somewhere and we'll drop it off, we don't need to go into the center of the zone down there.

Particularly turning the ball over where we turned it over, three times in the red zone in the first half. Particularly to turn the ball over and have it ruled as a touchback. I think it was 1970 the last time we were going in to score and fumbled into and out of the end zone for a touchback.

Part of the reason scientists stay in the comfort zone is that they can always say: well we dont know enough,

Part of the reason scientists stay in the comfort zone is that they can always say: well we dont know enough,

Part of my objective next year is to make a tally to see who is not using the zone benefits so I can go out and knock on their door. We still have a vast majority of our land that is still underdeveloped and unused. We have a long way to go.

Our offense against the man-to-man is not as good as our zone offense. We could not get anything to fall. We had a lot of opportunities inside the paint and, if you can't capitalize on those, they don't come easier than that.

Our man defense was good, but we used a lot more zone than I thought we would. Both teams were throwing the ball around because of the intensity of the game.

Our main thing will be to try to keep them away from our goal as they are quite dangerous around the box but I think they are vulnerable in the defensive zone so we will also be trying to go out and score.

Our main focus right now is our D zone coverage. Hopefully when the puck drops we'll be ready.

Our main focus for the next two weeks will be preparing for the division (matches). This will determine the seeding for zone and is crucial to our success.

People have tried everything. From just single coverage, to full double teams, to staying back in a zone and to crashing down when I get the ball.

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Stack was solid, man. Stack was energized. He was ready to play. He was right in his comfort zone tonight. That's what we need from him on both ends. Obviously, he scored a little bit, but nobody will talk about how he battled those guys on defense.