Mike Nelson Quotations

We made some bad decisions. They?re kids, they?re gong to make bad decisions. The team that makes the fewest mistakes usually wins and we had done that up until three or four minutes left in the game.

We've got to keep them off the boards. We've can't give them second shots. And we can't give up any transition baskets. If we can do that, we'll be right in the game with them.

We've got to have some leaders step up. We're just not communicating on the court and we should have won the game in regulation. Bottom line.

We?re going to have to go down there and really focus. We have to match their toughness and their intensity level. And do it the right way. It will be physical and we have to keep our emotions in check.

We go from the frying pan right into the fire. It doesn't get easier.

They have the same team back from last year. We know their strengths. We're going try to put our kids in position that they'll have success against them.

Tristan created a lot of things for other people, too. Not only his scoring but he had a hand on the ball. He was everywhere. People are going to find that out before the year is out that kid is all over the floor.

We just have to take care of ourselves and not worry about them too much. Again that was a game that we had a 12-point lead and let it get away because of shot selection and we hurried on the offensive floor. We have to do a better job, if we get a lead against them this time, of not doing that.

This is my first victory of any sort in golf period. I have toyed with (the left-handed) shot a little bit, but I wouldn't have wanted to hit it under these circumstances that's for sure. But I've hit it a few times.

Wasted possessions. We lost it because we had wasted opportunities.