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Some of that is a construction zone now,

That 3-2 zone gave us some trouble. We broke it up last time with some good shots outside, but we didn't have those going in most of tonight.

My whole zone is dead. No electricity, no gas, no stores open nearby, but the spirit is there.

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Looking at tape, we felt a zone would be effective against them. They're so athletic and we had a hard time controlling them off the dribble the last time. What we wanted to do was get a fast tempo to start, get them a little tired and switch to a zone. I think that was really effective tonight.

Marietta was playing a 1-2-2 zone and we had trouble adjusting to it. They did a great job. We just didn't recognize it. They threw some things at us that we didn't recognize.

Mark was smart to bat the ball out of the end zone and give us a chance to still be in there at the end.

Like last week, our defense added a spark with turnovers. Chris Newson returned a pick 42 yards to give us a 12-6 lead. Then Kaleb Prothro intercepted a pass in the Hot Springs end zone to stop a drive.

I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage.

I was very satisfied with the way we handled their zone. I thought we were really patient and worked hard to find good looks. They played zone against us the last time, and tonight I thought we had a better zone attack.

I was using his aggressiveness to my advantage. He's a good hitter. He's come up clutch. I was able to make pitches up and out of the zone and get him out in front a little on off-speeds. That was the key.

I was up in the zone and they made me pay for the pitches that I didn't get down. I didn't do my job tonight.

I was up in the zone a little bit more than I was the other day, but I had better stuff and got away with some stuff (Monday). But overall, I'm attacking the zone, moving the ball in and out and feel good with where I am right now.

I was trying to throw more consistently in the zone down. That's what I was looking for.

I was trying to put a good swing on a pitch. I was trying to give myself a chance to drive in some runs. I'm trying to stay more consistent and get my bat through the zone a little bit better and give myself a chance.

I was throwing well before that, and hopefully, I'll continue to throw well. Just my arm was dragging a little bit and I was up in the zone more than I usually am.

It felt real good to touch the end zone at home,

It felt real good. I just tried to stay within myself out there. I didn't want to go overboard, just work down in the zone and throw strikes.

It felt great just to get in the end zone and help the team out. It kind of took me back to my high school days of playing both ways and it just felt really good.

It felt good to do that, but I've got to be able to do it during the inning itself. If something goes wrong, I've got to be aggressive in the strike zone and get it done.

I think our zone slowed them down, and allowed us to calm down. It gave our offense a little confidence because we were getting defensive stops. When we get stops, we get excited on offense.

I think one of the best things we do as a team is move the ball. Tonight, maybe it did work against us a little bit. When we got a little more aggressive in trying to attack the zone off the dribble, we were much better.

I think our 1-2-2 zone helped a lot. We were able to take away the perimeter shots.

It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.

It doesn't matter whether this was the first game or the seventh game (of the road trip). It was a terrible game on our part. They threw a zone at us early, and we acted like we've never seen it before.

I think he's handling it great. I don't think he is going out of his zone a lot. He's taking what they give him. You see him always hit the ball to the right side, if that's what they're giving him. Very seldom do you see him move his swing. That means to me he is handling it great.

I think he has a chance be a terrific offensive player. But part of becoming a great offensive player is having a full understanding of the strike zone and understand what pitchers try to do to him in certain situations. The only way you get to that point is you keep carrying the bat to the plate.

I think his comfort zone will happen next year when he can go back in the post. Because right now he's trying to do things he didn't do in high school. Obviously, he's a talented player. He shows moments out there of passing ability, post-up ability, rebounding ability -- that he's outstanding.

I suppose we could analyze the game. But more than likely we'll interview the 'Desperate Housewives' cast during the first half, then stage a round of 'Dancing With The Stars' in the north end zone during second-half timeouts.

It depends on the construction zone itself. Sometimes lanes will be narrowed down from 12 feet to 11 feet, perhaps even 10 feet.

I thought he pounded the strike zone well. I thought he challenged hitters and went right after them.

I thought he handled a couple of challenges very well. I thought his first 10 pitches were up a bit, and then I thought he got pretty good command of the strike zone down.

I thought he had a nice, loose arm. He pitched down in the strike zone with his fastball. Like I've said, he's something to work with.

I thought Jeff was in the zone today. His passes were crisp; they were on the money.

I thought if we played a zone and got more help ... we could keep that ball out of the middle of the lane. We did a pretty good job for most of the game.

I thought if we could ever get (Jones) out of that zone defense and get out and run, I thought we'd be OK. Joe, Tyler (McDaniels) and Ivan, their shooting really opened some doors for us.

I thought I controlled the zone pretty good for someone who hadn't pitched in eight months. I thought I controlled my emotions pretty well, as excited as I was to be out there.

I thought his at-bat was a very good at-bat. His bat head was in the hitting zone on the ball he fouled back, and that's a good sign. The guy was throwing pretty good, was varying his speeds. Baggy was able to get the bat head out there.

I thought in the fourth and fifth innings he really battled himself trying to find his release point and got high in the zone and couldn't get the breaking ball where he wanted to.

I thought in the first half, their 2-3 zone was very effective against us. We just didn't get into a flow and into the kind of tempo that we wanted to play.

I think they're going to mix in some zone against us, and they're good at it. I think we need to stay with them early. Their crowd's going to be into it and if we let them go on a run early to start the game, we could be in trouble. The longer we can hold off the run, the better our chances will be.

Johnny played unbelievable, and our defensive zone play was unbelievable.

I think this team wore us down with their size, especially in the second half. We had a period when we got some open looked and missed it. That is when they took the lead and never relinquished it. It says a lot about our guys when a team that size has to play zone against us.

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I'm impressed with our football team. Their offense played well enough to win but our defense came up with some major stops to keep them out of the end zone in regulation.

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That was huge. We were in a zone and he brought them back. He was three or four feet behind the line and he buried them.

That was the first time we'd faced a zone. They caught us at a good time. But we've faced different types of zone since then, and we have the concept down now. We'll be ready for it.

That was the best we shot in the first half in a long time. They went to a zone and we got them out of it.

The 1-3-1 zone has been their bread and butter all year, so we prepared for it heavily.

That zone sagged off us late in the game. We were looking for Tyler, but they had a guy sitting in his lap and a guy behind him. So it was tough to get him the ball.

That zone really threw us for a loop. We didn't run our offense like we should. Then Horner just went off. He was on fire. There's nothing we could do.

That zone really threw us for a loop.

That zone and press slowed our tempo down. It left us kind of standing around with the ball.

That's a tough lineup. To get a five-spot early helps and lets you pound the zone a little bit. I got the curveball to Ortiz -- he's just a strong guy. It was a pretty good pitch, I thought, but that happens. I'm glad it was a 5-1 game instead of a 5-4 game.

I was really happy with what the divers did all year long. The diving competition was more of a relaxed atmosphere, which allowed the divers to let it all out and not be worried. Michael Bennett became our sixth and final NCAA zone qualifier. So all of our divers qualified for the NCAA zone meet. I did not expect that to happen, but I think that it is great that it did.

I was really happy with the way we played offensively. We knew they changed defenses and they did that. We hit those big shots against the zone and forced them to play a little more man.

I was really happy with our defense. I thought our zone got us back into it.

I was planning on doing something, but I wanted to act like I've been in the end zone before.

I wasn't really watching a lot of other divers I was just trying to zone in on my game. I was hitting every dive. When I hit one of those dives it was one of my really high dives, high degree of difficulty and I knew I had it.

I wasn't getting the ball down. Balls were staying up in the zone a little bit. They had a good approach. They laid off on good change ups down and capitalized on mistakes.

I wasn't getting the ball down, ... Balls were staying up in the zone a little bit. They had a good approach. They laid off on good change ups down and capitalized on mistakes.

I wasn't trying to hit a homer there. I was looking for a pitch in the zone and luckily it went out.

I was not a fan of NASCAR's gear rule, but it has stopped us all from pushing the RPM envelope. We are really in a comfort zone now where we expect the engines to finish.

I was moving extremely well, able to dictate play. I was seeing the ball really well. It helps if you're in the zone like that.

My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.

Michigan State has great size and a great perimeter game as well. They play a very good match-up zone defense. It's going to be a challenge, but that's why we play in the NCAA Tournament. When you get to this point, it gets tougher as the road goes on.

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We haven't seen a zone defense in a long time, and it got us out of sync. It was a veteran coach outsmarting a young coach. We weren't ready for it.

We just didn't attack the zone tonight. We didn't understand that patience means more than standing there and passing it forever.

We just did not penetrate the zone Oconomowoc threw at us in the first half.

We just couldn't score against their zone defense. And without Roxana there, that took away another outside shooter that we could have used.

We just couldn't keep them in front of us. We couldn't keep them from penetrating to the basket. They got about everything they wanted tonight. They were playing in such a comfort zone that we couldn't even begin to shut them down.

You'll see the team run over to the band section in the north end zone and sing the fight song.

You like to have a lot of hometown kids. Their parents get to watch them play. It's a comfort zone for everybody.

You just can't coach things like that, ... He just has a natural instinct of getting the ball into the end zone no matter what. And the funny thing is, he could have jumped higher over that guy if he needed to.

We couldn't get anything going against their zone defense. It's been giving us trouble all year. Coach Bass did a good job keeping them in it. They handled our press well. They rebounded well.

We were up 10 and they went to the zone and we didn't respond well. They are very active but you've got to drive the ball in there and we didn't do that.

We were unable to figure out how to get into the zone and get some easy baskets and it cost us the game.

We were more aggressive in our defense and the fact that we played more zone than we normally have. We were active in our zone, we were talking in our zone and we played a little more full-court defense.

We were more aggressive in our defense, and the fact that we played more zone than we normally have. We were active in our zone, we were talking in our zone and we played a little more full-court defense. ... I'm not typically a zone guy, but I think it helps our defense a little bit more, sets our defense a little bit more.

We were missing shots in the first half. They threw a 3-2 zone at us and we had some good look early, but we couldn't knock them down. In the second half, we got hot and that was the difference.

We were able to find an opening in their zone by cutting through and hitting the open people. They were packing three people on the ball, which meant somebody had to be open. The girls did a nice job of finding the open girl.

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Well, in our talks we said that if they were in Vietnam, how could they avoid the war zone and maybe they will get bad chance, maybe killed.

We played more zone today than we've played all year long. I felt like we had to try something, because they were making every shot they took.

We pulled toilet rooms out towards the hallway. That puts the patient zone further away from the corridor to cut down on noise, and then when janitors come to clean the rest rooms they don't have to come all the way into the room and it's less disturbing to patients.

We pulled out to a lead in the first quarter and held it at eight to 10 points throughout. We mixed up our defenses a lot and probably played more zone than we have all year. They missed some perimeter shots and we held them to one shot each trip.

We played hard, but it's the same thing every time. We've got to cut down on our turnovers. I would've liked to have stayed in the zone all game, but their shooters did a great job in the first half.

We played a zone press in the third quarter and got our lead back up. Harlem got a lot of her points off the press.

We played a zone most of the first half of the season and decided to pick up on the man-to-man and get back to the basics. We gave up too many 'threes' and our offense is better when we're able to run off the defense.

We went with four guards and did a lot of trapping. Offensively, we started to figure out their zone and wound up with some easy attempts. Jerry Jones hit a big 3 to end the first quarter, then Darrell and Desmond hit some buckets in the second quarter. That seemed to loosen us up.

We went to the zone because Cullen and Key were killing us with penetration in the third quarter, and it gives us better position for rebounding. We wanted to make them beat us from outside instead of in the lane.

Whether it's junk, zone, man ... if it helps us win, I'll play it as much as we can. If we can just play them zone and not give them second shots. We gave them too many in the first half, but in the second half we did a better job.

We have to rebound well as they will shot it a lot and we need to hold them to one shot as many times as possible. We have to be patient against the zone and also handle the press.

We have to push the ball. The way to beat a zone is to move the ball around and not dribble. I'm going to do my best to implement that in the game.

Yeah, it looks bigger when they're playing that zone and you just keep passing it.

We end up running a lot of two-man game stuff for them down the stretch and in certain situations and they really feed off each other. It's a comfort zone that you've been playing with somebody for four, five, six years. It makes you a better team because of that.

We really talked about that. They dominated the perimeter at their place. We will do what we have to do when they go zone. We got too many easy baskets and we made them do what they didn't want to do. They would go to a zone and then back to a man-to-man defense." ()

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.