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Our motto is to stay the course and the playoff intensity will still be there. I don't look at just one game. I'm very pleased at the way the guys have called it all year. The players dictate whether there will be a lot of calls or not.

Steve has really improved. His intensity picked up to a different level, but you can never rely on a freshman to carry your team.

(Stephanie) is one of our emotional leaders in terms of bringing energy with intensity to matches. Even though she hasn't been 100 percent physically yet, she has certainly helped us in terms of her intensity and energy.

Some of our players lacked the kind of intensity that you need to perform your best in the first half. In the second half, we had much better intensity. This is the time of year when I want to see us get better with each game.

Somehow in the locker room we lost our intensity. Defense is so important to us. When our intensity drops, we're not as tough defensively and we rely on our defense to start our offense.

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I will tell you without any question that every league game I've been in part of in the Big East seems like a conference tournament game. There's an intensity and urgency. It took a while for our kids to get used to.

I wish I knew the answer to why. I think part of it was they picked up their intensity a little bit, and the things that were open for us in the first half, they covered up (in the second half).

I was very pleased with our intensity in the first 10 minutes. The difference in the first half was their transition. Then in the second half, they just took it to us.

I was very discouraged by our defensive effort and intensity tonight. It just wasn't where it needed to be when playing a team like Brownstown.

I was happy with our intensity today. We've been pretty frustrated with the weather and it feels good to get outside and play some games.

I was happy with our intensity and we moved the ball around really well. I thought St. Mary's was as good as us in the second half. The two teams played pretty even. We were far better in the first half.

I was hoping our kids would come out with more intensity and excitement. But Jerome did. They understood the significance of the game.

I was going for a kind of Zen effect, ... This record is about us going back to our element. The urgency and intensity of this album is like our first record. And the title started to mean that, yeah, we've been through a lot, and this album is coming out after we've been doing this for 10 years. It feels new and right and happy again.

I was extremely happy with that second group. Those guys brought energy and intensity that we didn't have.

I was expecting a little better outcome. The intensity and fighting was there, but a couple inexperienced mistakes cost us.

I was in foul trouble and looked for my teammates to carry the load early in the game. But in the fourth quarter, I knew we had to pick up the intensity and come out strong.

It feels good. From the get-go, we knew we could beat these guys. The story all year has been us not playing up to our potential, not playing as well as we can. When we do that, we lose, and that happened a lot earlier in the season. We've learned that we have to come out with the kind of intensity we had tonight every night.

It felt good to be back on the field and to get a chance to work out the kinks. It was good to be out there catching balls and running routes. There was some good and bad. We were getting the springtime fire out there. For the most part, I think the intensity level of everybody was high.

I think our young kids kind of got the hint that they needed to pick up their intensity. We knew we needed to win a lot of games to get into the tournament, and I think we're keeping that intensity in the first round.

I think our offensive performance was absolutely horrible today. We had no intensity during warm-up, we didn't come here ready to play and we entered the game offensively with a very defensive mindset.

I think right now, we are playing well. Defensively, our intensity has stepped up. The energy and effort we are giving is more important than the wins. I think we are figuring out now that we have to go out and play tough for 40 minutes.

I think everybody's intensity level just picked up. We started to rebound a little bit better. We ran our offense. We put pressure on them on defense, and everything just came together.

It doesn't change your intensity or your approach or your preparation. But it does have you looking at the scoreboard a lot more often.

I think if we get into the middle of next week and the personnel are still being held, the intensity of this and the danger escalates,

I think he definitely takes it up another level as far as intensity on the field. We've had some good football coaches here, and they've all had their strengths. One of his strengths is his intensity.

I think G-MU got into our heads a little bit. I thought we came out with some good intensity to start the second half. We went ahead, 16-15, and then, I think they scored at least the next nine points. Our intensity stayed the same and their intensity went up. When they got the lead, we just never came back. We just started getting long faces.

I think from the first game I saw in Orlando between the Dominican and Venezuela, with the intensity in the stands and the flag waving and the intensity on the field, I knew we had begun to achieve what we set out to achieve.

I think for us, we kind of relaxed when we shouldn't have. The game was definitely not over. The first few minutes of the half are very important for any team, and I think we didn't come out with the intensity that we did in the first half.

It definitely was making it worse when I was playing. By staying off of it, it kind of brought the intensity down a little bit. It's never gone away.

is to show the intensity of the concern, and to make it very clear at the highest level what we expect.

I thought it was a great start for us and I thought that we played with great intensity for 40 minutes and everyone contributed at the level we want to play.

I thought he was great tonight. And that's the way we need him to play every night. With that same intensity and that same drive. He's a fantastic player when he's competing and playing hard.

I thought it was good for our kids to come out with the intensity they showed. We got in the passing lanes, and obviously, our size was a factor. The kids want to play well in front of some of the former Gaels.

I thought Michigan Tech played great. They were fired up and ready to go. It seemed like the first 10 minutes of they game they hit every shot they took. I was hoping they would cool off. Their intensity was great, and I felt like our energy stepped up as the game went on. It's the NCAA tournament, and people are going to come ready to play.

I think the thing that hurt us was the third quarter. We allowed them to get too many second-chance shots, and they just came out with more fight and intensity than we did. That was the difference.

Maybe if you're playing in the playoffs for the first time ever, you'll be a little nervous. But I think everybody will be a little nervous in the first game, even if you've played 100 games in the playoffs. You go out for the first 30 minutes and the intensity is high and it's fast. The first 30 minutes, it's important not to make a mistake.

(Mel) has an intensity level about her that keeps the fire burning inside, she never lets the fire die. Nicole's the same way. We had two guys guarding that kid that don't get tired. She could have run them off screens all night and those kids aren't going to get tired.

We never matched their intensity level. We weren't able to come out of our timeouts and raise our energy level. We just never responded.

That was a very disappointing fourth quarter. (The) level of defense, the intensity was not correct, and the shot selection was outside in, versus inside out. That's very disappointing, and we deserve what we got.

That was a tournament-level game in terms of the intensity for both teams.

That would have been good, it would have brought the intensity up a bit. It just rattled out.

That was the difference. Our defensive intensity was there in the first half and non-existent in the second half. They just about scored at will. When somebody comes into your home floor and scores 48 points (in the second half), that's an embarrassment.

That was the difference in the game, we picked up the defensive intensity in the second half.

That was really the key stretch for us. We had established a lead coming into the locker room and then we just kept the intensity in the second half.

That was probably the most disappointing game I've ever been a part of in my career here. Words don't really describe it. I'm still very hurt by it. But you've got to move on and put those things in the past. Everyone's intensity has to be picked up a little bit. And I think we need to hit the defensive glass on rebounds.

That was a lack of focus. I've always told the kids that the first 10 minutes of the second half is when you win and lose ballgames. We lost a little bit of intensity and focus in that time frame and we weren't able to recover from it.

That was a fun environment. It had to be a huge difference for us. The kids ... used that energy to try to ratchet up our intensity to keep our focus.

That was not our best effort. We didn't play hard. We didn't play with the intensity and desire they did. They played hard and played together, and they wanted it more than we did. They out-played us in every way possible.

That was one of things we talked about. We wanted him to lead the nation in rebounds. He?s done a real good job with that and what?s he?s really done is played with a lot of intensity in our practices and games. He?s the hardest worker.

That was just to get our intensity back, and not settle for low-percentage shots. Because of those strict rules, it forced them to start looking for each other again.

That's the way, as a coach, you always wanted your team to start out like. We just didn't finish the game. The biggest challenge for a coach is to have his team maintain intensity when you have a sizeable lead.

That's the kind of ball I know is in them. The girls stepped it up and played with the intensity we've been wanting to play with all season.

That's the intensity level you have to bring into each game and we were lacking that for whatever reason. We weren't scared going into tonight, not at all. We accepted the challenge of playing the top team in the Pac-10 at their place.

That's been our profile all year long. I just don't get it. We just seem to play with not as much intensity and maturity to start the game.

That's a worry, because we have seen the intensity of students playing video games, watching TV more and not reading as much. Students are getting to the point now that if it's not on the Internet, they don't trust the information.

That's a tough loss. He's had such a tremendous year with that consistency and jumping over the boards every shift with his intensity and emotion.

I was really pleased with the hustle and effort. That's the kind of intensity we need to play with. The only bad thing was that we lost our focus for a stretch there in the second half and let them get back in it, but I was encouraged that we were able to overcome that.

I was proud of the focus and intensity that we were able to keep defensively throughout the first half and the entire game.

I was proud of our kids. They showed up ready to play. We had a lot of intensity at the beginning, but their depth got to us.

I was real happy after the half. We stepped up in intensity and really played great team ball.

I was on the bench loving the intensity in the game and the fans ..that?s what it?s about. All last year in the playoffs, that?s what we had in this building. Our guys did a great job of putting on a show for them.

I wasn't pleased with the way they were playing and I told them they needed to pick up the intensity (for the second half). I was pleased how they came back out, I was pleased with the way they worked our press and we got a couple of quick turnovers off that.

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Michael always comes in and gives it 100 percent. He's another one of the quiet kids on the team. He's always thinking, 'What's going to happen here?' He's a player's player. He's ready for what's going to happen and he plays good defense and he came in and gave us a big spark because of his energy. And one of the things we talked about was that we had to play with intensity and Michael came in and took that to heart. He played with intensity and it was evident that it gave us a pickup.

We need to play well. We have to go out there and continue to play with the intensity we have and hopefully it will be good enough.

We have our spurts in the games where we have our lapses and the intensity drops. I believe we just have to work on bringing that level of intensity for the entire 40 minutes. We can't let up especially against teams like St. John's and going into DePaul and then at Connecticut.

We haven't won that way all year long. They're scoring way too many points in the first half. We've done a much better job in the second half but we're tired of saying that. We need to come out and play with more intensity from the start.

We just came out with so much intensity in the first half. We just came in and took care of business.

We just came out with more intensity than they did in the last quarter. We did what we had to do.

We just couldn't match their intensity in the second half.

We just couldn't handle their aggressive play. They picked up their intensity and came out in a full-court press.

You have to find a way to match his intensity for 90 minutes because he's going to find a way to score a goal. The thing is you can't just focus on him. They have so many weapons with Noonan, Ralston and Dempsey that you can't focus on any one of them and it's important that all of our field players are helping defensively.

Willis is a great on-ball person. We definitely got a taste of the intensity people are going to bring from now on.

We couldn't get a shot to go in. I thought if we could keep it between eight and 10 points (at halftime) we could make a run, but they came out with more intensity than we did.

We were very generous. The turnovers, the mistakes, the lack of intensity on our part played a big part in us not playing well.

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We realized that we had the opportunity to win. We kept our intensity up.

We realized Seton Hall was playing for a tourney bid, and they had a lot to gain from tonight. They were working hard and we didn't match their intensity for 40 minutes.

We put forth a great effort in the first game, but we did not hold that intensity in the second game. I don't know why that happens. If anyone can figure that out, let me know.

We played hard early and, unfortunately, looked at the scoreboard and our intensity fell off. When you're only playing seven guys, sometimes you try to conserve energy, and that's my fault. I thought they definitely outplayed us as far as effort in the last 20 minutes.

We played hard all night. We played with intensity and we played a great four quarters. We kept working and we won a huge game for us.

We played great team defense. The girls maintained their intensity the whole game.

We played good team defense and took them totally out of their offensive flow. We played with a lot of intensity and worked hard even though we didn't shoot the ball very well.

We don't come out and play the entire game with intensity and with energy. And now it's coming back to hurt us. Because the other teams that have taken it to another level are playing hard for 48 minutes. And when you don't play hard for 48 minutes, it's starting to show now.

We don't want to lose to anybody, but we didn't come out with the right intensity and coach gave us a talking to at halftime.

We executed our game plan almost to perfection. It was a nice win for us. But most importantly, we played with intensity for a full game. In recent contests, we've had patches where we lost focus and the opposition took advantage of it. Tonight, we didn't have any lapses in intensity.

We really stepped up the defensive pressure and it paid off. We came out in the first quarter and shot pretty well. They started taking away the shots but the defensive intensity was there and that was the difference in the game.

We really stepped up our defense in the second half. We were able to get some transition baskets which triggered our scoring and we maintained our intensity on defense.

We got enough competition within the squad to keep the intensity levels up,

We finally started making some plays in the second half. Nobody was making shots in the first half. We just picked up our intensity and started rebounding the basketball.

We don't get criticized at the Presidents Cup like we do the Ryder. Where I see the difference is there's a lot more intensity in this (media) room.

We can't be lethargic and feel sorry for ourselves after what happened (at JT). Our kids are resilient. They had two good practices and if we can come out and with the same intensity we had Tuesday, we'll be fine.

We can't worry about who they have playing or who they don't have playing or where they're getting their emotional lift. This is Monday Night Football. This is a huge game where everybody is watching. If you can't come out with the intensity you need to play, you don't have a pulse.

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We played the game a little faster than maybe they were ready for. It all started with defense. Our kids did a great job of setting the tempo and setting a high intensity level.

We played really well. I'm really happy with our intensity and the way we shared the ball.

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We played very well in spurts. We certainly need to do some things better defensively, and our intensity has to be more consistent, but we played well in spurts.