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We had a very difficult time there toward the end of the game getting the right stops. I thought we played good enough defense for the most part, but you have to give Duke a lot of credit. When the game's on the line, they made some real tough shots that were very well defended and that's what great players will do.

When I let it go, I thought all my shots were going in. I'm just going to keep shooting the ball and I'm going to leave it at that.

When I birdied No. 9 (to get to 1 under) and those guys were at 4 under, I had a thought that I still had a chance. But I was going to have to make some hay on the back nine. I just wasn't able to hit the shots and make the putts to accomplish that.

We needed all those foul shots for sure. We obviously came up with some clutch foul shooting down the stretch. Not only that, we overcame a big East Aurora crowd and we adjusted well to what the officials were calling.

We needed a game like this and not another 30-point blowout. We missed a lot of easy shots and shot only 38 percent from the field, but I was happy to see our girls keep their composure.

We needed a burst. Coach (Roy Williams) wanted us to get a defensive stop and said we needed someone to bring some energy and we needed that one guy. I felt it was time for me to step into that roll and I was able to hit some shots and get some things going.

Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.

We might get some (good) shots against Wayne State. But those four need to shoot the ball well for us.

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What I didn't understand was how good he can be defensively, blocking shots and he has a pretty good presence of understanding what he's supposed to do in the team concept defensively,

We were coming off our moratorium, and we had a few shots that just didn't fall for us. We didn't play particularly well early in the game, but we were able to come back and play stronger in the third and fourth quarter.

We were coming down with offensive rebounds, but then missing a lot of shots form 2 feet away.

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We need to make Chris Hernandez take tough shots and do the best we can to slow him up.

We need to be consistent offensively and defensively. It's all about execution at this point. It's about making sure you take open shots and good shots and play hard on defense.

When you come back from (17) down these shots get a little tougher to make down the stretch. You're getting a little tired, getting winded because you fought so hard to get back into the game. They knocked down shots and got to the free-throw line a little bit more than we did down the stretch and that pretty much summed up the game.

When you assess what Marvin does over the course of the game, he is one of our biggest threats on the ice. He leads the country in shots on net, and he's threatening in every shift that he is out there. You can't blame this on Marvin. That was a tough play.

When we score inside, that opens things up on the perimeter and we've been successful when we've been able to move the ball for good shots and knock them down. The 3-pointer has been a nice weapon for us when we've shot the ball well and we need that trend to continue.

When we're taking shots from the corners and we did a lot tonight, that shows we are playing a lot of ball movement, a lot of player movement and making the extra pass. That's pretty much how you'd want to play offensively.

We made a nice run at them in the second half -- got it down to six or eight. We made it interesting, but it was too big a hole. We missed a couple shots and we ran out of clock.

We made a few runs at them, but we missed some easy shots and free-throws.

We made a couple of shots and couple of plays because we are a little bit longer. The reality of it is they were there until there was a minute left and they easily could have won the game.

We made a couple of good shots and we stops throughout the third quarter. We got it going there for a while and that was the difference in the game.

We're giving her a lot of different defensive looks. All the attention is going to be directed toward her. She may get up as many shots as she has in the past, but they'll be very difficult looks.

We're just going to have to slow them down. It's going to be hard for us to contain them. We just have to play our game and keep the ball out of their hands. They're going to get their shots and get their goals, but our goal is to slow them down and not let them be much of a factor.

Let me tell you, that guy is really, really good. It's hard to judge how he'll do with blocked shots because he didn't have any against New Mexico in the last game, but he had 19 against us in two games. You wonder if he'll be healthy. ...You try to prepare the players for how he might help out, but at the same time you don't want to get them so nervous that they're just throwing the ball up.

Luckily we came out strong, making shots and playing defense. We didn't shoot well in the fourth quarter, especially on the free throws.

Luan is a good fighter who landed many good shots against me. I want to be thee world champion, not just a United States champion and I proved it tonight by coming to Germany and defeating a game challenger. I always fight from will, not always from skill.

Luke's been very solid there. He's come a long way with his post defense and his defensive rebounding. (Fordham) left him alone and he made shots and gave us a double-digit lead we didn't relinquish.

Let's not give us a lot of credit, OK. Because he missed some shots today. He got a lot of looks. He still caught the ball.

Let's see how he looks when he comes back over here. This is a different game over here. Angles are different and there's a tremendous amount of activity around the goal here; a lot more than there is in the Olympics. The shot totals are a lot higher here and the quality of shots is a lot higher in the NHL. Let's see how he plays when he comes back here and let's see how his energy is.

Leon and James hit some big shots ? they did what they are supposed to do.

Lenny and Justin were really terrific. They made shots and did a lot of good things. I was real happy for them.

Losing to Columbia and barely beating a few other Ivy teams is unacceptable, so we are all a little upset with the finish. Still, the scores were bunched and we were only 12 shots out of first, so it's not like we are too far off.

Losing Samantha hurt, but we still ran our offense and had a chance. Sometimes when you lose the heart and soul of the team, everybody else picks it up and the girls did. The shots just didn't fall down the stretch.

Losing Emily hurt because she creates shots for other people. I probably should have called a timeout to get her out of there.

Layton's always kind of been the barometer of where we're at as a team. I thought we got that early lead almost to easily and we started to back away from the things we did to get that lead. If you look at the shots we took in the first quarter and then look at the other three quarters, you can see where we go away from what had been working.

Last year we didn't have the most explosive start. This time we got a pretty good start and hopefully we can keep it going. Everyone is hitting the ball real well. The team is absolutely crushing the ball. We haven't had a game where nobody is hitting the ball. Everyone is getting line shots or beating out ground balls.

Last year when we were struggling in the Big East, it was because we didn't know how to win if our shots weren't falling. But we're not going to shoot 60 percent or some ridiculous number from 3-point range every night, so we needed to find other ways to win. Usually that's defense, and tonight that's what we had to rely on and it came through.

Many of our sophomores have been here before, and they set the tone by hitting some shots early. The rest of the team fed off that.

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Seven shots around here is not much at all,

So instead of taking four shots a day, you only take one a day because who can't take in a breath of air?

So many of these players are good, but they'll miss shots and be upset, and it kills their game. With Jason, he never shows any emotion. He's exactly the same all the time.

She thrives under pressure. What you've seen this year is what she showed us at Tennessee. The more pressure, the better she's going to play. She's hit so many clutch shots for us this year.

She was trying some new things, like staying low in her shots and not going for power, but focusing more on control.

She was picking the ball up very early. She used my pace as well as the quickness of the court to her advantage. She made some great shots even on the defensive side.

She was much more aggressive with the basketball, and it paid off for her and for us. She still passed up three or four shots that I wish she would have taken. But it's a great start for her, and I hope she can build on that.

She's very rusty, missing easy shots and it's frustrating her because she's lost her sharpness. How quickly she gets it back, we don't know.

She surprised me the way she played, taking the ball early and really going for her shots in the first set. But then, I think mentally I was really tough out there and I kept fighting all through the end, and that's kind of what got me through it.

She went off in the third quarter. She hit one shot when she was open and after that she got some confidence. She knocked down some shots with a hand in her face and she got to the foul line later in the game.

She's a special player. She's not one-dimensional. She looks for her teammates. Sometimes it's hard to take all those shots but she has the green light. She's very unselfish.

She's a real smart player. She's always thinking about how she can get an upper hand, and that really showed tonight. She hit some big shots when we needed to create some type of offense.

She set a slow pace and I got kind of trapped into it. In the second set, I picked up the pace and that forced her to start making errors. My shots weren't so good, but with the crowd behind me, I willed myself to win.

She's always been a good golfer, but she's making some good consistent rounds back to back. The biggest change is her consistency to make the good shots all the time.

She's a lot more confident and her shots are falling. She's scoring a lot of points.

She's made big shots all year long and she doesn't get rattled. She's at the top of the press and then she's got the responsibility of getting inside and matching up on the post. She does a lot for us.

Somebody is always going to play good. The guys that complain are guys like me who aren't playing well, or not scoring well. You feel like you're hitting good shots and not getting rewarded. Right now, I feel like I'm not a good player. I shouldn't feel that way.

Some of it was nerves. It's happened before. We missed our first couple of shots and they made theirs. But we hung in there. I felt like at halftime we had the momentum.

Some nights, things just click. It's a combination of good defense. But they also had some good looks. They had some shots that they normally hit. You combine that with good defense and it was just a tough night (for Phoenix).

Some nights the shots just don't fall. When that happens you just have to play good defense and kind of grind out the win.

Shots weren't falling. I felt like we had a lot of good looks and we couldn't get them to go down. It wasn't easy, and we made it harder on ourselves than we needed to. Defensively, we've been pretty consistent all year. It's something we could always rely on. Offensively, we have work to do.

Shots we normally hit, we didn't hit them. But that's high school basketball.

Shots like that just take everything out of you.

Shots kept falling for me and I kept finding them. I had open looks and I took them.

Shots going down. That's what it's all about.

Shots feel good when they come out of my hand. For some reason, I'm missing long right now, and that usually doesn't happen to me.

Shots are going to start falling for us eventually. As long as we play good defense, good things are going to happen.

Simmons and Hamilton are great guards. They work hard to get the ball and their ability to make tough shots can be a back breaker. I have tremendous respect for both of them.

Silly me. I probably should have had him in there more getting shots 70 feet away from the basket.

Short-game shots are so much easier when the ball is grabbing and holding. Before it was skidding and repelling.

She had another great game in the field. They were hitting shots at her and she just keeps making plays.

She had a nice game as well and played under control. She didn't shoot a ton. The shots she took were good.

She had a great game. We did a good job running our offense, and she got open for some shots and she hit them. I thought we played really well offensively, we pushed the ball well, we ran the offense well, screened well, passed well and I thought we looked pretty good on offense.

She got some big rebounds and some big shots for us.

She got it going tonight. The other girls did a nice job of finding her, and she knocked the shots down.

She could have been extremely frustrated, rushed shots and been greedy, but she wasn't. That's when we're a great team. We're unselfish. We share the ball.

She does all the little things for us that need to get done. I think her ankle was a factor in some of the shots she took (Friday). As every day goes by, she'll get to practice more and more and get a little stronger. With (WIAA) playoffs rolling around, we hope to get her close to 100 percent.

She didn't stop shooting the ball. She has to shoot the ball and she knows that. She doesn't get down on herself anymore when she misses. She hit some really big shots for us tonight.

She has the best nose for the ball than anybody we have. She plays real hard. It used to be take it to the basket, take it to the basket but now she takes jump shots and she made a few of those tonight.

She has started for us the last two years. We are a first place team and she is the leader of that first-place team. That's what leaders do. They hit shots like that. I'm proud to see her step up.

She had three or four shots during the game, so it was good for her to score one. She turned the girl away on the throw-in, and it finally fell right for her. When you work hard, good things are going to happen.

She had some big shots from that left side and hit some big free throws. Both her and Shannon (Eggers) hit some key free throws and in our losses, we didn't do that.

She blocked a lot of shots and she altered a lot more. She really disrupted teams.

She a very gutsy kid and has great range to get her shots off.

She affected the way we played. She affected our shots and kind of limited some of our offense.

She gets caught on 1-on-1 shots and she shuts them right down. She covers the 18 so well she's the best goalie I've ever coached.

Shannon (Brown) was very unselfish today and Maurice (Ager) came to me at halftime and said, 'I made some good shots in the first half and in the second half I'm going to go out there and put them down.' That to me is a great feeling knowing that the relationship between the coaches and the players is that confident.

Sixty-one shots later, here we are. Our effort was definitely good. But we're going to have play well on Saturday, because they're good. They're well-coached, they're disciplined, and we're going to have to move the ball. It's going to be a battle.

Sitting back and worrying isn't going to help anything. What we have to do is trust the people calling these shots to understand these players have six-month seasons in front of them.

Since we (the officials)Êare bound to Rules Book, we have to treat all shots 'through the green' exactly the same, ... Sure it's imperfect but believe it or not, the rules have evolved over the years. Maybe this will too.

(Since I was little), I wanted to be the one to make the shots lead the team to Hershey.

She's a great shooter. We tried to get her shots and she took advantage.

She's able to get (to) missed shots every time. When she wants to be, she's very aggressive.

She played the way we expect her to. She hit some shots right in the middle of their zone. (New Milford) closed on Jackie and Paige in the corners and that left the middle open.

She played great, she single-handedly took the ball in the box and they couldn't stop her. She was a force to be reckoned with on the day. Anytime she can find space to get shots off they're usually on net.

She played amazing defense and contributed a lot on offense, especially early. She hit some big shots that I think had a lot to do with them taking the zone out and putting in a man-to-man.

She is a very talented basketball player and I don't have a problem with her taking that many shots because in this game it won't go unless you throw it up there, but we just need to make sure when we have a good shot and when we don't.