Don Flanagan Quotations

UNLV plays four guards. So using four guards was something we were looking at doing anyway.

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

We really emphasize free-throw shooting and our whole team's ability to shoot free throws well at this time of the year is really important to our success.

She's someone I can count on to help us out when we're in trouble. She's aggressive, and she wants to play. She's been a pleasant surprise. I knew she could be good for us. I just didn't know she could be this good this quickly.

She's very unorthodox on offense. She drives to the basket and has this remarkable ability to catch a lot of people off balance.

She's improved dramatically from one year to the next, plus she's healthy. She's still got some things to work on overall, but we're obviously very happy with where she's at.

She had a good game and stepped up for us.

She didn't have a chance to play. But she wasn't at that point being a big factor. But who knows, she can get hot and she's who they look at when they really need a hoop.

She missed a three-point shot, went right back and shot another three-point shot. I think she shot three in one series and made one of them. She's got to shoot, and when she's open, she's got to shoot.

My hand was forced, and I had no choice (but) to play more people. But I'm happy with the way everyone has responded.

Nobody that I talked to wanted to be part of this program.

If we had gotten her, we would have been good right away. I don't think she could visualize the same dream that I had. I just had nothing to sell. The only thing I had was my idea of success. It's hard to get anybody to buy in when you've got nobody in the stands and your background is that your RPI is 325 out of 330 teams.

I can't say whether the rest is good for us unless we beat Air Force. I like to have the team in a rhythm with two games a week. With the extra time off, you worry about them being game-ready.

I don't think she was fully recovered last year. She was very tentative, and that restricted her play more than anything else. The injury really held her back and didn't let her play her game.

We've got to shoot the ball better. We're a better shooting team than we're showing right now. We're being impatient.

We have to be a tougher road team to win this conference. I'm really happy we hung in and beat Air Force. That was a great game, and our experience really carried us to a win, but we have to find a way not to dig a hole for ourselves.

We have to be able to play the full game. We have to get over being a one-half team. I was really disappointed with our effort at halftime.

I think it's highly unlikely she'll play. We don't want to rush her back and risk aggravating the injury.

I thought the second half we played harder. We executed a little better and we defended a little better.

Julie just loves basketball, and I'm trying to get her to calm her down. She has a tendency to get a little hyper and when she does that she makes some errors in her decisions. When she's relaxed, she's difficult to defend.

I'm so glad to have her back. She gives us a lot of energy. Anytime you add depth to the team, it's an advantage.

That was the best game I've ever seen her play.

That was a great defensive effort, because Wyoming is a very good team. They set so many screens and work really hard to create good shots. For a while there, our defense was really, really good.

That's awesome. It says a lot about our conference when people expect us to beat each other up a little bit and don't penalize us for it.

We have to make sure that we don't get intimidated early on because they like to play really physical.

We have to let this loss go and focus on playing our best basketball to end the regular season. I want all their energy channeled toward playing their best against BYU on Saturday. It's the least we can do for all seniors.

We have had some inconsistency. But I do feel this is an excellent team. When they're good, they're very, very good. Last night I thought they were very, very good, and I think they can replicate that.

We just didn't execute on offense. We had an opportunity, and we fought really hard for that opportunity, but we didn't do enough.

We had one of the top recruits in the United States and nobody even knew she was here.

We had an opportunity. We fought for that. We just didn't take full advantage of it.

We played with confidence and intensity. Those two things are important. It doesn't matter the opponent if you are playing like that.

We just have a little more to prove now, but we're playing close to home and we don't have to play a top-seeded team right out of the gate. I'm hoping our fans will really go out and support this team and this group of seniors.

This was a great stage for Dionne to show what she is capable of doing.

The players have surprised me, too. Defeating Texas was surprising, seeing all their talent, and we played so well. We've hung in there and showed heart. That's made me happy.

The good thing about being a basketball team is that you play a lot of games. We have a game against New Mexico State, and we have to bounce back.

We've got a lot of depth. So we should be OK.

This was a tough game for us. I saw so many things I didn't like. They weren't carrying out some things and then the mental part of it I was really disturbed with. I thought we would be mentally prepared.

Dionne's kind of a tepid player who doesn't really go for that contact right away. But once you get her mad, she'll make you pay.

Normally we just beat up on each other and no one has a real sense of how good we are. This year, we went out and proved we could beat some bigger schools.

They were just quicker at every position. And that gave us trouble. They were the better team. They showed why they are the defending national champions.

They're tough to defend. They run their offense as well as anyone in the conference. That was some pretty darn good defense - sometimes they didn't even get a shot.

They're the defending national champions, so I'm guessing they are probably a pretty confident group. I know that they play with a lot of intensity.

They played like they were the defending national champions. They are difficult to defend and they execute extremely well.

They have the most talent in the league.

It's their Senior Night, and their players have been through a whole lot. We know it's going to be an emotional game for them. This is one of those times where our players have to be tough, match their intensity and prove they want it more.

It's a very good idea to close in quickly because she (Young) is so good in the low post. She's a mismatch and she will score, but you want to do anything possible to frustrate her.

That's probably the game right there - the offensive boards. And of course Katie's three-point shooting, which was outstanding.

That's phenomenal. I'm grateful we're part of that group and think it says a lot about our conference.

It swelled up pretty good. But we'll let her get treatment on it and see how it goes.

They believed they were going to be successful and for some reason we didn't believe we were going to be successful. They had better effort and were much more physical and aggressive in the first half.

They'll go right in there and run something completely different. But they're going to get over that. Now we have a whole bunch of games to work on that.

They hurt us real bad on the boards. We could not block them out. They were quicker and jumped at a higher level than we did.

They've got some talent, a great coach and they're hungry for a win. They've got nothing to lose.

I knew Wyoming was a tough team capable of beating anybody. It just sure would have been nice if they hadn't of beaten us.

I like the fact that we separate ourselves from the men's (Sunday announcement). The teams are deserving of that. Women's basketball can stand on its own, and that's a good way to get started.

I'm not sure why we haven't been taking care of the ball as well at home. We have to make smarter passes and think about what we're doing at all times.

I like triangle, but we have a hard time even running set plays with this team, so motion is definitely the better option. Even if everyone doesn't find the right spot, they're always making cuts and moving. If they move, they score.

I always try to figure out defensively what we have to do to win the game. Even if they got the 55 we would have won the game by seven - 39 is good.

I feel confident every time I put her in there that she's going to work hard and won't back down from anyone. She has some freshman moments from time to time, but I really don't feel like there's any drop-off when I put her in the game.