Jim Miranda Quotations

(Catholic is) a good basketball team. They execute well and they've got three or four guards who are very good and a couple good post players. It'll be a good challenge for us.

I think we?re ready and we?re focused. I just wish we had been able to get our legs earlier in the season, but that?s the way it is. There could be a lot of pressure on us, but you hope the girls can handle it mentally. We just want to give ourselves a chance to get back there. We just want to give our best effort.

We just came back and started playing well. They had to foul us down the stretch and we finished up strong in the fourth quarter.

We weren't pushing to get the ball inside. We were putting it up from outside, not penetrating and not pressuring the ball.

We lost a lot of talent in the skilled areas last year. But what that's done is create opportunities for the other kids waiting in the wings.

You gotta win ugly sometimes. They made a lot of shots and that created some anxiety. But we fought through it. We talked a lot about picking up our intensity. Our defense really picked it up.

It?s not her fault. I told all the girls to put this (loss) on my shoulders.

They made a lot of shots (early on) and that created some anxiety. They came to play.

By far, our strength is the offensive line and the quarterback. The offense is much further ahead than the defense right now.