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I've pitched for teams where there's been awful defense. It's good to have those guys back there, especially Dylan Frank behind the plate because there were four or five strikeouts that were foul tips that he caught, and that was big.

I've only been catching the past two weeks. It's difficult. I never saw myself as a catcher before. I'm all bruised up from foul tips, but it's fun. It gives you a different perspective on the game.

It was tough and these kids didn't give up. We hit a couple shots and some foul shots, got a couple steals and a couple charges. They laid it on the line.

It was the same thing (as in a 66-55 loss to Utica on Jan. 13). They started out on fire, and I don't know if we shut them down or if they got cold in the second half. The same thing happened this time, but we just didn't get the offensive scores we needed and we had some girls in foul trouble.

It was a nice atmosphere. It was one of those things where we were trying to work a little clock and make them foul us, and we missed some free throws and they hit some 3s. In the timeouts, we tried telling the kids that someone would have to step up and make a play.

The shadow of this game is the foul on Jaromir Jagr.

The third quarter was the difference in the game. Because of foul trouble we weren't able to use our man-to-man press, but did in the third quarter which got us off and running. Raymond had a great game with nine assists and seven steals to go with his 18 points.

The thing that was most impressive to me is we didn't foul on the last shot. And I've seen teams lose games because they're undisciplined and they foul. He took a tough shot. I thought he traveled before he shot. Our team did the five-switch defense on their own, which was good for them to be able to do, considering up until that point we hadn't really made too many good decisions.

The thing I liked most was that when Dwight was matched up with Duncan, he took the ball right at him. That's what we've been trying to get him to do all season. We want him to take it right at the defender rather than the finesse stuff. Maybe as he continues to get confidence from the foul line, he'll do that.

I wanted Bryce to start going to the hoop. Troy Turner was guarding him and he was in foul trouble. We wanted to take it at him and score or get the foul.

I wanted to get the ball and make the foul shots. I knew I had the confidence to make them, and, luckily, I made them.

Sometimes we think the game is over and it's not over. In these kinds of situations, when you're in foul trouble and they're in foul trouble, we're involved in a free-throw contest. And we did a tremendous job at the free-throw line.

Sometimes, it's not as pretty as it needs to be. But when you get to the foul line and make free throws, you've got a chance.

Prentice suffered foul trouble in the first half, as we did in the second half.

Preston gave us a spark and played very well. We had some guys in foul trouble and Brett Weisner and Darrell Visser did a good job coming off the bench.

Saturday we just didn't play good team defense. It wasn't one person. One player can't stop a guard that's going to keep penetrating. You're going to get in foul trouble. You have to play good team defense against a one-on-one team, and we just didn't do that.

Randolph Morris's foul trouble hurt us and it hurt him. We have to get him to be more conscious of playing without fouling.

Our defense came to life in the fourth quarter. Our defense and foul shooting won the game for us.

Our defense and our team intensity stood out. However, we need to work on our ball management, and we had 3 girls foul out.

Our depth makes a big difference. When we play the way we're supposed to it works to our advantage. But, when we foul and do other silly things it doesn't help.

Our division is tough. Mount Vernon plays an amazing defense, so we're going to have to get to the free-throw line and get them into foul trouble.

Our effort was there. I don't question our effort. What I do question is our decision making. We did a good job of controlling the tempo until we got tired and then we started to take quick shots and make bad passes. Kate Hobbs getting in foul trouble also really hurt. We missed her against the press.

Our (excellent) foul shooting won it for us. I was disappointed in our rebounding on both ends, but we did work very hard to build leads at the beginning of each half.

People go on about my foul on Simeone and the red card but I'd obviously rather people talk about me scoring the penalty four years later,

Offensively and defensively, we didn't play intelligently in the second half. There are ways you play when you're in foul trouble and we didn't do it.

Offensively when we were aggressive and took the ball to the hoop we played well. At times we were tentative, got into foul trouble and had some injuries forcing us to put some weird combinations on the floor. Those kids really stepped up and gave us great minutes. In playoff basketball it is so important to win with a team effort.

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After the first day, I come in and I am angry . I was in a foul mood. Somebody would say something and I'd bite their head off.

After Wight went out with his fourth foul (in the third quarter) we got four or five steals in a row. I really thought that changed the complexion of the game.

A foul is foul no matter when it comes. Why should it not be a foul at the end? Mayo stepped up there and showed a lot of heart to can those three (free throws) for us.

A flagrant foul is unnecessary and excessive. And in my mind, that's what that was. It was an unnecessary play, and it was excessive in how hard he hit him. The referee did the right thing in calling a Flagrant 2.

A dunk gives people a lot of momentum. I'll take the foul any time. I wasn't trying to hurt anybody. I was just trying to make a play.

The officials may have missed a few during the game, but I thought that foul was the correct call.

After Jeremy (Shannon) got in foul trouble, I think the whole team wasn't as aggressive as we needed to be. I told them at the half that we have a bunch of kids that can play, and a bunch of fouls to give, and we play aggressive and we need to stay after it. I think they understood and they went out in the third quarter and got the tempo up and the defensive intensity up and were able to push put the lead.

Actually, that wasn't the plan going in. Brendan just decided he was going to give a hard foul to let him know he was there. For some reason, that just threw him off a little bit.

No, we?re not going to do anything flagrant. As long as it?s not flagrant. We?re not the toughest team in the NBA. We?re not very physical, but tonight we brought it out. We?re not going to flagrantly foul anybody on purpose. It?s just going to be good sportsmanship, hard fouls.

Now I foul out of the game and it looks like I'm a hack. It's frustrating. Hopefully I can just come out tomorrow and play a great game.

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Defensively, I wasn't displeased. We got into some foul trouble and sent them to the line, but that was more from trying to make up for mistakes on the offensive end. Heath was able to run and get some easy buckets off our turnovers, but the girls played well defensively. They probably had 30 points off our turnovers. They really didn't score much against us out of their half-court sets. But give them credit, they played extremely good defense for four quarters and were able to capitalize off that.

Definitely we'll fight that one. If it was, they better give a flagrant foul to whoever hit him in the end (Jermaine O'Neal). It was the same kind of foul. It's getting ridiculous.

Coach has really been challenging him to stay out of foul trouble. We need him to hold the middle down, get big rebounds and make good defensive plays without picking up fouls. I think he's going to make the extra effort to stay in the game and we're going to need him to.

Coach told us that we needed to get them in foul trouble so I just kept going at them strong.

Coach didn't foul that guy on the 3-pointer at Oklahoma. I fouled the guy. He's the head of (the program) so he's going to get the blame, but I think he's done a good job.

Coach always says if you make a mistake, don't lie down and cry. I wanted to make up for it (the charge). I didn't want to foul and came up with a piece of the ball and got the rebound.

Coming in with a 2-11 record, for us to start a good like that was huge for our confidence. We've played in games this season not called as tight and we're not strong enough to counter that, so to get to the foul line and getting them off of us definitely helped our offense.

Anything that hits the trees down the line will be foul anyway.

Any time he gets in foul trouble and sits down, that sets him back and sets us back. You have to try to keep him on the floor for normal minutes. But when he gets that third and fourth foul, we get out of rhythm.

As good as we were (Thursday) night percentage-wise, tonight our foul shooting nearly brought us down. Our guards turned things up in the fourth, and once we hit a couple 3-pointers, we finally started playing Bethel basketball.

As a team going into this game we were shooting 52 percent at the line and we still missed some foul shots that we've got to knock in. I told the guys this week we've got to shoot better than we've been shooting or else it's going to come back and get us. I think they started to see that a little bit and panicked a little bit.

The bottom line is if we make our foul shots, it doesn't come down to Steele taking a 3-point shot at the end.

The bottom line is, we make those foul shots, Steele doesn't have that shot down the stretch.

The big thing is, it kind of breaks up our rhythm a little bit. We try to play it a little more up-tempo and then, just every time, we're picking up the silly foul or the other team is getting to the free-throw line. It makes it hard to play.

Barclay's foul shooting helped a lot. She was 7-of-7 in the fourth quarter alone. This was a real big win for us because they're a real good team.

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As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

As long as he stays out of foul trouble, he's been doing a very good job on the defensive end, just hanging around the basket and blocking shots. We usually try to match him up with somebody that's not going to hurt us from the perimeter and put him around the basket, almost like playing a one-man zone in there.

That was about the biggest lead we had. They put in a couple of 3s at the end to make it close. We really won it at the foul line." ()

That was a big, big part of the game. She (Davis) is a great shooter, and she doesn't miss foul shots either (Davis was 4-for-10 from the stripe against Paint Valley). Tiffany frustrated her, and you could see it.

That's when I knew we were in a tough situation when Walter got into foul trouble. That's a lot of our offensive production, and it really hurts when we're not doing hardly anything outside. Our guards couldn't get a shot off.

That's what was open. Guys were able to get by their man and make plays, or get a foul called.

That's free points. You're going to have to reward yourself for taking it hard to the lane and putting pressure on their big guys, putting them in foul trouble and making them pay.

That one was tough. We got plenty of shots at the basket, we win the boards, we shoot 44 percent from three, we had 25 assists and only eight turnovers, and we couldn't keep them off the foul line.

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Young teams sometimes just need time to learn how to win. It's a process and the frustrating thing is that it's been something different doing us in every game. Our foul shooting's been 54 percent in the five losses so that's been one constant but we've lost three of them by 4 points or less. It's hard enough to win and you lose the close games when you can't do things like make free throws.

You rarely have drivers acting up or using foul language. They're very good role models.

This certainly falls into the category of games where we really gutted it out. We made way more plays than they did and it would have been a real shame if we had another guy foul out and lost.

They shot a ton (of free throws) and that didn't help our foul situation any.

They shoot threes better than we shoot foul shots.

They sent everybody at Broderick tonight, and he showed how unselfish he is and still managed to score. We avoided foul trouble for the most part, and that was one of the keys for us.

They were in foul trouble and had to make a few substitutions. I felt their backups couldn't handle the pressure. That's when it went into our favor.

They took advantage of our poor play at times. We had to start fouling, and Albertson is one of those teams you just can't foul. They put us away at the foul line in the fourth.

They're very deep, that's a strength of their basketball team. But I'm not going to use that as an excuse. We didn't foul anybody out tonight, and I don't think it hurt us.

They scored only 11 baskets and we lose; it's frustrating. It's kind of been the story for us all season. We get into foul trouble and put teams on the line and we get beat by free throws.

A lot of things went wrong for us tonight. We were never really able to get into the flow offensively, Shiloh probably had something to do with that and the foul problems didn't help our cause.

They kind of got in foul trouble, and starting playing a little lax in the post. We wanted to go right at them. Charles and I did a good job attacking inside.

They made us sweat. It's a good thing we still had a foul to give.

They made up for it from the foul line.

They played an absolutely great game. They did what they had to do defensively. It didn't help us that Shaquille got in foul trouble. Any time he gets in foul trouble and has to sit down, it sets us and him back.

They played a lot better than we did for most of the game. We expended so much energy at the end, plus we had a couple of guys foul out and that didn't help. They deserved to win. And Posey, we really don't have much of an answer for him. We throw everybody we can at him and see if it works.

They opened the game up with some threes. I think it was a five-point game, we had two foul shots, we had a missed dunk, and it opened up after that.

They have a tendency to get into foul trouble and I told the girls to look to attack them and that is exactly what they did.

They got good looks, drive and dished under the hoop and hit some 3s and then when we had to foul they hit their free throws. They played us physical. We played hard and I thought we gave everything we could. We just looked a little slow on defense. We weren't quite in their face, up and on them.

They got close and it seemed like the whole crowd was against us. But champions have to battle against things like that. We were in foul trouble, too, but we showed poise and made the big plays when we had to.

They don't have good depth. If any of their key players get in foul trouble, that's going to be a problem for them.

They got to the foul line. We didn't have an opportunity to get there. That was the story.

They did what we wanted to do. They got us in foul trouble and they got to the line and made free throws.

They did the same thing in the (Eastern Maine tournament) when York was in foul trouble.

They didn't have an answer down low for her (Jones). She was in foul trouble. She had three fouls (in the third quarter), and I didn't want her to get that quick fourth. I couldn't ask for her to contribute any more.

They foul off a lot of his fastballs. That was a lucky bad hop for them.

They are a team that likes to feed the ball inside. I know, because we got into foul trouble against them.

You don?t think a ball that barely makes the foul pole is going to beat you,

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There were a lot of whistles and every foul they were calling. It was tough to get going because they would call stuff.

There were so many people in foul trouble that it puts you at a disadvantage when you're trying to play aggressive defense.

This is what we have to build the program on. When (Kelly) gets into foul trouble like he did (Wednesday), he tends to play less aggressive and we need to clean that up. But he's in for some great years.

They're a team that's a rhythm team and they want to get it inside. So I wanted to protect (UNM post) David and not get him in early foul trouble.

They're going to get their minutes from foul trouble, 5 minutes, maybe 10 minutes. They've got to learn how to play that way. That's what they're going to get early in their careers. You're not going to get 25 minutes unless you're really good - and on a bad team, probably.

They're a good transition team. Our kids backed off because I don't think they wanted to foul and (Latimer) made a good play.

They have some nice guards, and we had a little pressure working. But we didn't want to get into foul trouble with that pressure, so we had to ease up with our level of basketball, but still had to make them play up to it.