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He has an NBA skill and that's that he can post up and score. He can also shoot from midrange and I think he'll be able to stretch it maybe to the NBA 3-point line down the line.

He did whatever we needed him to do this year. He's really versatile. I think that had something to do with it. But when we were heading down the stretch in our duals and (Nick) Garber was banged up, Dustin did whatever we needed. One night we'd need him at 125, one night we'd need him at 135. He just did what we wanted him to do. I think that might have hurt his seed a little bit. His seed wasn't high, but we liked where he was in the bracket. He showed there that it didn't matter.

He had a heck of a game against Columbia earlier this year, but I think this is probably his best one. He gave us a big boost tonight. Hopefully a big win like this means we're ready for a stretch run.

He (Golden) is our go-to-guy and down the stretch he delivered for us.

He exploded down the stretch for a very convincing win.

He (Mourning) came in there in that fourth quarter for about a four or five minute stretch where his intensity and his energy were more hurtful than anything. Not only did it energize the crowd, but it energized the other players on his team.

He might appreciate the longer stretch at Hawthorne.

This was one of the better snow years for sure. There were no huge dumps of snow, but we had a long stretch where it snowed four to six inches each day.

This wasn't a must-win, but we had to play well because we've struggled a little bit lately on the road. Our kids played well. Down the stretch we just took care of the ball and rebounded. It was a great win. A terrific win.

We've been very lucky, but we're not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination.

We just have to basically hope that we don't have a hurricane come back into the Gulf of Mexico this summer. We haven't fixed yet, by any stretch of the imagination, everything that got broken.

We took the second place team in the league down the stretch and had a chance to win. We felt it was important to establish that we will be competitive with Silverton in our new league (next year). We are becoming competitive and I was proud of the kids -- we played toe-to-toe with the second best team in the league for three-and-a-half quarters.

We're on a tough little stretch right now, no question. But we always seem to bounce back, that's the character of the ball club. In this business you take your lumps sometimes, it's just how you handle it that separates you.

We're on a mission to win the West and get homecourt advantage and every four-minute stretch is important to us. We stayed focused tonight.

We're obviously trying to build around Tracy and Yao, and just as important as getting those two guys has been to get guys we feel best complement their strengths and compensate for their non-strengths, ... We still have a long way to go to get the roster we need to take us where we want to be taken. By no stretch do we feel we're there yet.

We're obviously disappointed with the outcome, but we just did not do the things down the stretch to win the game. We just need to learn from this, but we also need to move on.

When he threw it, I was on the goal line and had to kind of stretch out for the ball, ... I knew I was going to have to turn around and get an extra yard and get in there.

What impressed me was he looks like he's kind and rates well, and that should help him stretch out.

What I meant by the stretch drive. Is that we are heading into the heart of our Bay State League schedule. We have got to learn to show up for every game. We have to be able to put three periods together.

We've got to look at it in the most positive way possible, and try to recharge. The team's been playing very well. We could just keep playing games every night and it would be a good thing for this team right now. At the same time, we've battled hard to get into this position and it's going to be a fun stretch run.

We throw it shorter, but he can stretch the field. He's fast and explosive.

To finish this stretch 25-0 is remarkable. They showed a lot of character out there, and we'll build on this.

To enjoy the evening tonight, getting the championship, and getting it in the style we did down the stretch here is very nice. I really didn't think anybody was gonna catch BC. We just kept winning, which was nice, and we got some help. BC has not played poorly, they've played well. But the other teams have risen to the occasion.

What you saw was the difference between a veteran team and a young one like ours. The veteran teams do the right things down the stretch to win games. They make the right decisions. We're young and we didn't do the things it takes to win.

Guys are feeling pretty good, but it's on now. We've got 15 games before any postseason stuff, and there's not one game in that stretch that doesn't mean an awful lot.

He's a big, tall, physical guy and has a lot of ball awareness, ... He is a guy who can stretch the field. I think most people who play against him kind of underestimate his speed up and down the field. Because he's a tall guy, he has a longer stride.

He's a burner. That's his thing. He can fly. He's a legit 4.4 (seconds in the 40-yard dash). He's so fast you can't cover him, and you can't play him man to man. He can really stretch the field and open things up.

Her senior leadership down the stretch was really the key for us in overtime.

He's a great player. He hit some big shots down the stretch to help them pull away.

He's always played the game with so much emotion. When you have a game like the other day, when you put everything into it and come up short, it eats away at you. Last year at 1-4, people were saying that was it, but he came back with a great stretch run. I wouldn't write him off just yet.

He's just very deceiving. He just covers a lot of ground with ease. I got to the three-eighths pole, and I even got a little concerned because he was so relaxed. I wasn't sure if he was going to fire, but I didn't want to test him that early. As soon as I got to the top of the stretch I shook him up and got an immediate response. In the stretch, once I knew he wasn't going to get beat, I put my hands down and he eased himself up. He's a real smart horse and he's got a great attitude.

He's a tough little kid, there's a lot to like. These games down the stretch are hard to win.

He's earned the award. The company has done well, the stock has done well. They've delivered clean quarters since he's come aboard. He's had an opportunity to stretch a bit, and make his mark.

He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

He's had two very good games. He's certainly putting himself in a good position. It's going to be competitive right down the stretch for everybody. But Taylor certainly hasn't hurt his cause.

His three-point shooting is a big plus. He can stretch the floor and pull up in transition. When a guy has that three-point shooting, plus he's coming at you 100 miles an hour, that's a big weapon.

Hodson played very well down the stretch and had 11 rebounds to go with his 12 points. He and Robinson gave us a lot tonight. Robinson did a great job around the glass and they turned nine House assists into points.

History was not going to dictate our fate, but our effort can make history. Maybe it was a little bit of a stretch with Columbus, but they kind of enjoyed that analogy. I had to explain a lot of it. I kind of happened to lose some people.

He's got 13 wins and pretty much carried us through a stretch there. He'd take the hill, and we knew we were getting seven shutout innings. He's been a big pickup for us.

He's got 13 wins and pretty much carried us through a stretch there, ... He'd take the hill and we knew we were getting seven shutout innings. He's been a big pickup for us.

He's been our best player all year and carried us through that stretch where he kept our hopes alive. It was kind of the one thing he hadn't done all year for us or we hadn't done for him.

Hopefully (there will be) students willing to stretch themselves a little bit more because Tech has all the components they are looking for.

We may, in the long run, get a lot more out of this stretch than you can imagine. And it may be the best thing going into the playoffs.

We have to avoid becoming stagnant. We knew at some point Orlando would hit a stretch where they hit shots. We also knew that when that happened we had to keep the ball moving on offense and not slow it down and get into isolation plays. That bogged us down in recent games. I thought we did a good job of staying away from that.

We made the plays down the stretch. I thought it was the most mentally tough we played down the stretch all year.

We made the necessary plays we needed down the stretch and got the big stops. We're starting to win these close games now.

We made some great plays and enough free throws down the stretch to maintain the gap.

We made some free throws down the stretch for a change. It's nice to see us come through. We lost a few games this year with poor free throw shooting.

We made our free throws down the stretch and then finished them up. It was just an overall great team effort.

We made our free throws down the stretch and that was huge. We came out of the gate pretty good to start the first and second halves, and A.J. gave us a nice spark off the bench.

We made our foul shots - 9-for-13 - down the stretch when we needed to.

We made more plays down the stretch than Bushnell and that's all there is to it. It's a simple game. ... You've got to make baskets and you've got to make stops. In the fourth quarter, we got more stops than they did and that's what it's about.

He was great tonight. He made all of the shots down the stretch and made some great moves. His play down the stretch was the difference in the game tonight.

He wants to win - that is his No. 1 priority. He is a leader for this team in a different way. He is not loud, verbal or demonstrative, but he leads by gutting it out and fighting for rebounds. He can score from the outside, in the paint and on runners. He has emerged as a major leader for us during this stretch of games.

He can stretch a defense. He's a big threat. They missed him in Game 2.

He can really shoot it, so it's going to help stretch out defenses. We're excited to get him back, and it will be a big boost to our squad.

He certainly played at a high level. Down the stretch you want to give everything you have, and he certainly has performed very well.

He (Carter) was great. Not just the three pointer, but everything he did on the floor tonight. I do think that got us back to thinking positively again because there was a stretch in the second half where we got a little bit frustrated because we couldn't score.

He kept raising his game, ... He had me under a lot of pressure. He went through a stretch there where I was lucky if every third point I was in the point. I mean, he was hitting ace after ace.

Greenspan's objective is to keep the U.S. economy expanding for as long a stretch as possible. That's why he's being so prudent in his speeches and that's why he'll adjust monetary policy to allow for that.

Guys just stayed with it and executed. We didn't execute down the stretch and came into overtime and just executed everything we tried to run . . . Guys are in shape. We've been running a lot in practice and preseason, so that was our goal, to come out and try to wear them down.

Growth requires us to stretch beyond what we thought to be impossible.

This was a game from the opening tip that we felt like we could have won. We dominated the whole game where we did what we wanted to do on offense, and took them out of what they wanted to do on their offense. They made some key plays down the stretch and we didn't.

This was our first big test. The next two Saturdays will define us. We need to work on some things for the stretch drive.

I was looking forward to finally putting this last stretch out of its misery and put the illness behind us. My fastball has some life in it.

Kids have to stretch their legs more than adults. Make sure you let them expend some energy.

I would say right now it would be a stretch to say we could have five teams in bowls.

I would say it's among the most challenging schedules a Toledo team has ever played. We have two Big 12 teams and a team from the Big East. It's a challenge and a real stretch for our program.

Kayak polo's a good excuse to put on a skirt and play a sport. When you play in a white-water kayak, which is a closed cockpit boat, you wear a short, black waterproof skirt you stretch over the kayak's top edges to keep water from coming inside.

Kayak polo's a good excuse to put on a skirt and play a sport, ... When you play in a white-water kayak, which is a closed cockpit boat, you wear a short, black waterproof skirt you stretch over the kayak's top edges to keep water from coming inside.

Jordan was masterful down the stretch at handling the ball and really doing a good job for us.

J.R. is a valuable member of this team and someone that we have hopes for. Our hope is that he continues to develop, continues to improve and is approaching this final stretch of the season with the objectives of making a difference and with the objectives of being a part of this team and helping it get better.

I think it is a real stretch to say the decline of department store advertising has forced layoffs at any one newspaper.

It came down to free throws. In that stretch when we got to the one-and-one, I think we made only one. We could have probably iced it at that point.

I think it's going to be close, ... Two-thirds, though, is a lot of votes. I wouldn't say I'm confident by any stretch of the imagination. I do feel like it has a lot of support statewide.

I think it's going to help us. Especially now that we're entering that last stretch of semester, they have to deal with exams as well. Not having to travel as much is going to be nice for us all around.

It could be three or five stations on one stretch running out - that's a fairly real situation that is happening.

I thought we took them out of their offense. We got our energy from defense, which isn't always the case. For a long stretch in the first half we rebounded well and ran well and we got a pretty good flow going.

I thought when I got in the lineup down the stretch I played all right. We just made mistakes at bad times. It's got to be very frustrating for everyone.

I thought we were turning the corner. We had a good stretch of games, and we've taken a little step backwards now. We have to find a way to get back again.

It hurt us big. We're not quite deep enough yet. We're young and getting deeper. I thought the kids did a decent job in the zone, working hard and contesting shots. They got the ball to the inside too easy, but we went through a long stretch of time with Allie on the bench.

It hurt down the stretch that they had to foul to stop the clock.

I threw good my last outing. At least today we got to stretch it out to the amount of pitches we wanted. We got a lot of first-pitch outs, so that helped me go through more innings.

It is almost must-win for us in this stretch because we're going to need them. We're going to be on the road a lot in January (nine out of 13 games) and play a lot of teams above .500. We'll need this stretch as a foundation to play the teams at the top of the league.

I think their defense had a lot to do with that. That's a very good team that we lost to, very well-coached. We had some decent looks in that stretch and we just didn't make them.

I thought Heemskerk had the best game of his career. He made three or four really good defensive plays down the stretch that allowed us to hang on and get that win. I thought that was a good, positive sign.

I thought down the stretch of the game, when we needed those two guys to score the points, that?s what they did. That?s what they have to do. We got to the penalty at a certain point, Allen continued to drive the ball, and Chris had wide open jump shots because of it.

I thought Corey Rouse was great down the stretch and really looked good.

I thought Brooke was the difference. She had a little stretch in about 30 seconds that was huge for our team.

I thought (Bethune) got a lot of good looks down the stretch that they usually knock down, that I've seen them knock down over and over again. I thought that the difference was the fact that they didn't get any second looks.

I think the biggest thing is we tied the game, but we never took the lead. Some of the freshmen off the bench did a good job of getting us back in the game, but there were a couple calls down the stretch that help them put some distance in between us.

I think the biggest evaluation is he's working hard. He wants to do whatever it takes to get back to the NHL as soon as possible. It takes time. The team is going through a tough stretch right now ... a lot of quality shots. But we're confident that he's going to turn this around quick. We know that he's doing everything he can under his control work ethic-wise to turn it around.

Lakewood is a team that plays hard and they are never going to go away. They made a couple 3's down the stretch to cut the lead to five but our seniors did a good job in putting the game away.

I was concerned. I just wanted to get through that stretch even and not to have to bring our big guys back in and get more foul trouble. I thought that Garrett and Brett came in and actually did a pretty good job for us.

I was anxious to get back out here and get ready for the stretch run. We know what's at stake and we'll be ready to go after it.

I thought we could hold it together long enough to make it through the day, but down the stretch our youth showed.

I thought we changed the game and we went small with four smalls and one big. It allowed us to stretch the floor, and pick-and-roll. Whoever it was, the key was we kept moving the ball.

I thought we played them tough but they did some things down the stretch that separated us.

I thought we played them tough. But I think they did some things down the stretch that separated us.

I thought we had a quality, quality game tonight. Guys played to win down the stretch ? except execution and closing out games, on both ends of the floor.