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We're going to come ready to play for 40 minutes and leave it all out there. A lot of people don't expect us to win. We're a scrappy bunch. We don't back down from everyone.

We're just playing every game like it's out last. It's a lot different when you know it could be the last 40 minutes you're going to play. We're not even thinking about being tired. We just want to play.

We're getting good minutes from the sophomores. They're starting to develop and get stronger.

We're from Athens, Alabama. That's my town. People think it's Muscle Shoals, but they have no idea. It's a quiet, sleepy little town, about 45 minutes from Muscle Shoals. It's really hard to be a band in Athens; there are no venues.

We're not a deep team. We are not going to play 10, 11 people. Our starters should be able to play 32 or 33 minutes a game, but they shouldn't have to play 40 all the time.

Shan is human. You play 45 minutes with an overtime, and it wears out anybody. I would have to put some other people in there to give her a break. Down the stretch, we're going to need her. I really noticed it when she went to the free-throw line in one game and didn't have any legs.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

We're going to have to put together 80 solid minutes to win big games. This was a district game and we really needed a win.

Usually it's about five minutes of taxi time from the runway to the gate when we're now allowing folks to use the phone.

Usually I come into the office and say, 'Will someone please time the last three minutes of this game that took 22 minutes and tell me why? I'm not sure that we're showing our fans our best basketball.