Patrick Knapp Quotations

When we went up to see her play, Kelly needed to work on her skills. She needed to get stronger, needed more experience, and Blair Academy certainly helped her do that.

We're framing these last seven games as our games for improvement ... for the year and for the future. We're not looking back at all, we're looking at these seven games, and this weekend starts it off.

Jennifer ruled supreme under the basket tonight, which was where we called most of our plays. I thought that getting inside and clearing the boards were key.

Our guards need to start playing better this season. That is the key to our success and how we will finish this year. They're going to have to work very hard and Kelly is in that mix.

Our ball-handing skills and decision-making ability have to improve. Ultimately, we have to make better decisions. ... And experience is part of that, no question.

We have a lot of pride in this program. No one is happy dropping nine or 10 in a row but we have plenty of opportunity to win these next 15 or so games. That's a lot of basketball left to play.

We don't have a predominant style, and the reason is because we have many different types of players. But when we are 3-15 we are going to give other people some chances to play. The team deserves that.

We are playing better defense -- the stats will prove that -- but for some reason the zone is not our forte.

When you are 2-10 you can't blame the coaching staff for going in a different direction. We played different people ... it was simply strategic and we will do that the rest of the year.

We used these people on the weekend, particularly against Yale, and they gave us some nice results.

The only experience we are taking from Princeton -- and it is a broken record for me -- is that we have to play better team defense. We have to help each other wherever the ball is on the floor. We've been giving up way too many baskets.

Coming into the year we didn't know what Kelly would give us. What we did find out very quickly was that she was going to work very hard ... and that she was one of the best perimeter shooters we had.

Cornell is an offensive-minded team that we have to play strongly against.

The Yale game was a bitter pill to swallow. We had plenty of opportunity to beat Yale. The bottom line is that I could probably go over ten to fifteen plays in the second half that clearly would have given us the two other points that we needed for the win.

The Brown game was a simple story. We didn't execute well against the press; we didn't finish well against the press; we didn't execute well against Brown's zone. ... Brown was certainly quicker, and they used that quickness to their advantage.

Dartmouth probably still is the best team in the league.