Kris Kleeman Quotations

We made a lot of free throws tonight and that was very nice to see. We have not been the best free throw shooting team around this season, but we made them tonight when we had to.

She's playing really well. But you have to remember she is a freshman, so when she gets in a physical game like we had tonight, she will struggle at times against juniors and seniors. But the upside to her game is very exciting. She's certainly showing signs of being very good in the future.

She has not been able to practice very much because of that and I think that hurt our ball handing a little tonight too. When she can't go, we are awfully young on the court with our guards, and teams will take advantage of that and press. Hopefully, she will be feeling better tomorrow.

Mount Vernon started to come back a little bit there. But I think our girls did a good job keeping composure, that's something we have struggled with this season. Then we made our free throws down the stretch when we had to have them.

I think inside we match up well with them. Our guards are smaller and younger and they will press us because of that and I expect that. We need to get a walk-through in tomorrow on how to break the press. But I like our chances, I think we will create some match up problems for them.

I thought the girls played well tonight. We didn't handle the pressure as well as I would have liked, but they played well.

I thought the first half defense was very good. I wish we could have scored some points there to get a lead. We missed our first 10 shots to start the game, we had good shots that we have to be able to make. We didn't make them and kept them in the game.

I think if we can get past Mount Vernon, we have a chance at Breese. I think we can cause them some problems and make a good game out of it. That may be a team that takes us for granted, and that may not be a good idea.

Highland is a good team and they are very quick. You cannot spot a team like that 13 points in the first quarter and expect to win. It's unfortunately very typical of us to start out slowly. We've been doing it all year.

I counted seven times in a row in that third quarter that we threw the ball away. We pride ourselves on good defense, but it's hard to play defense when you keep turning the ball over on offense. We can't afford to be that careless with the basketball.