John Given Quotations

We made a couple of rotation changes. But the big thing is we are a lot more aggressive offensively.

My feeling is she was a little frustrated at times with her scoring. But Jess was still adjusting to the system and feeling her way around.

I believe the Pinewood game carried over into the Salinas game.

I think there are too many average teams in the playoffs to begin with. But if we can't go .500 in league, we don't deserve to go to the playoffs.

Our record won't strike fear into people. But some of our losses have been to some pretty good teams. We're the kind of team that most don't want to see.

We need a couple more players to give us six to eight points a game. If we can get to 40 points, we'll win a lot of games.

We have some outside presence with them. Both have learned not to be afraid to shoot. It's a development thing.

We're doing the little things that are giving us opportunities to score. Now we are getting some turnovers. When your confidence grows, it snowballs.

We will have to play the perfect game. We're playing our best basketball. All you can hope for is your girls compete for 32 minutes.

We need to force some bad shots and hold them to one shot. We haven't won too many games when we lose the rebounding battle.

Defense has always been our forte. Even with our good teams, our program's based on defense. We can control our effort on defense.

The big thing is they have seniors and a good point guard. Those girls have been playing together for three years. They're an older team in our league.

At times, we played our best basketball of the year against them. Our kids came out of that game understanding we can compete with those teams.

It's back to the old style. We're going to have to grind out wins with our defense. We're just not going to score a lot of points.

It's taken a lot longer than I anticipated for them to buy into the system. But the kids are understanding their roles. The biggest thing is confidence.

At the end of the year, her coaches made remarks to me about her ability to be a gamer. When she scores eight to 10 points a game, they often won. Jess is a scorer.

I have no intentions of changing our non-league schedule. We want to be at another level when league rolls around. League should count for something.