George Nessman Quotations

We're not a good shooting team. They are so long, they altered a dozen shots (total).

We had breakdowns in our zone defense. We're not a team that can play from behind.

Nelson had a monster game in the second half. He is a good player and was hard to stop tonight.

We're obviously in a building project with our program. This might sound kind of self-serving, but we're really not concerned about our record. We're concerned about our team going forward.

I thought we made him earn every one of them. And he earned that (last) one. It wasn't like he got a wide-open look. He had to extend his body up over the top of a defender right on him and fade backwards.

(Spicer) outfought our players for space in the paint the first half. That was a big difference in the first half.

We don't shoot the ball very well and our best shooter (Elam) wasn't here. We had to attack and be aggressive around the basket.

We've lost an enormous number of games in the final seconds. They made plays in the last couple of minutes and we didn't.

We made a run in the second half but couldn't get over the hump.

We didn't get it done at the end of the game. I don't want to know how many times that's happened. I've lost count.

This is extremely disappointing. New Mexico State played great in the second half. We have lost so many (games) in the final two minutes. It is heartbreaking for our team and our staff. By our count, we are 1-9 in games decided in the last three minutes. We are trying to put our fingers on it. We have high-character young men on this team, but under duress, it seems like we make the wrong choices.

They're in the stratosphere in the RPI right now.

That's a big problem. A lot of teams have worn us down with their size -- Nevada, Hawaii.

They are good enough to play with anybody in the country. I think their win at Kansas (on Dec. 1) proved that. But I don't think winning in the first round is enough for them anymore. They look like a team that could go to the second weekend and do some damage.

That's a hard shot to make. You can win a lot of games in H-O-R-S-E if you can make that shot consistently.

In the first half, I thought we gave him some. The second half, we made him fight for every one of them, and he just got them. That's how good he is. That's a different-level player.