Dawn Seiler Quotations

We did everything we could possibly do and still came up just short. This is a classy bunch of kids and they showed it. I have a lot of respect for them.

There are things that you don't see on the stat sheet. Christina did a good job on defense. She's long and got long arms. She does a good job of stopping that entry pass. She needs to be a force for us to be successful on defense.

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.

We talked about that in practice the day before in preparation. We had to still attack and play our game and we didn't do that because we missed shots early. We got some good looks inside and didn't finish. We need to finish those looks inside.

This was a good way for our seniors to go out. They took away Megan but she wasn't worried about scoring points. She wanted to go out with a win. We took Carlson away.

We emphasized doing the things we do well. You can't go away from our strengths. When Pierre took away things, we went to our next option. The kids just wanted it (win) so much.

We really settled in and started playing better defensively. Our kids just relaxed and things began to work for us.

We'll turn it over to the seniors. They're excellent leaders and have been getting the job done.

We have to win a game so we're the home seed all the way through the district tournament.

We came out of halftime a little bit flat.

We came out here and competed as well as we possibly could. I'm proud of our kids' effort. I'm proud of our kids and admire them for their effort.

We needed to attack offensively and we didn't do that very well. I didn't think we moved very well. We were hesitant to shoot. Our kids didn't play with a lot of confidence on the offensive end. Against Huron, you have to pressure them on both sides of the ball.

We came up a little bit short, but we did do a lot of good things on the court. We missed some good looks, but our kids played extremely hard. When we play hard like this, we're going to put ourselves in position to win games.

We'll let the kids settle down and get something to eat. Then, we'll start talking about Pierre.

We've been off to such slow starts, and we tried to make that a point of emphasis to our kids: we have to get off to quicker starts.

Every day in practice we would tell the kids to think about the big picture. They worked hard and we had setbacks, but that's high school basketball. You take two steps forward and one back.

The third quarter was a clinic. To hold the other team to no points, to only have two turnovers and outscore them 14-0, that's a textbook game. The defense was so good. There were several plays where we completely disrupted their offense.

Our defense didn't cause a lot of turnovers in the first half. But, it caused them problems in the second half. They didn't have a lot of confidence and didn't shoot the ball very well.

Defensively, I thought we played extremely hard, I'm very pleased with that.

You take two steps forward and one back.

It was a great effort. We put so much pressure on the ball. The second half we turned it up. They did it for the seniors.

They just didn't give up. We're a good basketball team at the right part of the year. We're playing as hard as we have all season. We're playing as well as we have all season. I'm very happy with the effort of our kids.

I'm not going to fault the effort of our kids, they played hard, particularly in the second half. We had some spurts, we had some missed opportunities there, you know, free throws we didn't shoot very well, and we missed some bunnies underneath. Those are things we're going to have to have to be in the win column.

I'm really happy with our ball pressure. Pierre didn't get a lot of good looks. I'm really pleased with the rebounding. Pierre is a good rebounding team and in our last game they dominated the boards.

I'm very proud of our kids, I'm very proud of the effort. Nobody gave us any shot ... We've been talking about Roosevelt and some of the other teams, but I tell you what, my team played with a lot of heart and a lot of character, and I'm very proud of them.

I don't think we handled their zone very good. That zone did bother us a little bit. We didn't attack it as aggressive as we would have liked to. It's a learning process.

The kids are kind of excited about playing in their old home. The Civic Arena is strictly a basketball facility as opposed to the new multi-purpose facilities. These kids understand about Aberdeen basketball and its history. Some of their parents played in the arena.