Kelly Greenberg Quotations

We're excited. We really liked it last year, it was beautiful. It's a home game in a way, but it isn't in another way. The coaching staff is approaching it as it is a home game, and we don't have to travel.

We knew who their shooter was and we didn't even let her hit a 3 until the very end. Our thought coming in was, 'Don't even let her get an open 3.' We commit ourselves to a lot of pressure, but let's not foul when we're doing it.

We're not happy with this game, we're pretty down about it right now. I think we think things are going to go our way and when they don't we don't respond well. We may not be as big as some of those teams, but we are smart and we know how to play smart defense, but we didn't do that tonight.

Maine has good size. They're big and that's what hurt us against New Hampshire. I don't want to say it's going to be a problem, but it's going to be an issue for us.

She's really stepped up with the graduation of their star players from last season. She has a real nice step back move and can shoot out the three. She's really a player that, as a sophomore, has become their leader.

She played a great game. I thought Erica was definitely the player of the game. Early on when we scored against their zone, I think she was the one who made it happen, finding the seams in the zone, and I though she played huge for us.

No one expected her to shoot it, not at all. We played great defense and then it was kind of like nothing else was open and it just went in. Even all of the media up here were shocked. She had her night, she was hitting everything. It was a killer shot for us.

My assistants pay a lot of attention to that stuff, checking scores during the game and things like that. But I don't even know what the standings are. I know that it's going to be a dogfight until the end.

Obviously, Rachael has played a lot of minutes. We want to play people a lot of minutes. We're not going to save people for a specific game. We just have to be smart with our off days. Even at practice, we need to be smart with how hard we go, how long we go.

I did some funny drawings. I tried to lighten us up a little bit, but that's about it.

I don't get too caught up in what the previous year did or all the numbers. You talk about the things you can control, and going up to Vermont and bringing your 'A' effort and 'A' energy is what we have to do. We need to make sure we go in and do some damage.

From the get-go it was a great team effort. Right from the beginning, we just had that feeling of confidence, and everything we did from that point on just had the feeling.

I always say that we're as good as our last game and we're as good as our next game. Every game is so important. We went down to their place last year and they kicked our butts. They killed us.

Hopefully, we learn how to turn things around when something goes wrong. We need to make the adjustments. As a coach, I need to be able to figure that out and we need to be ready.

Katie leads by example and is very different from Rachael. Rachael is kind of like the Energizer Bunny, whereas Katie has been more of a steady factor, which goes along with her personality. Anything Katie does, Katie does well and she takes great pride in that.

I thought we had a great run where we took control of the game. I think there was a little bit of a let down when you have a lead at the half, but you have that sometimes. You always like to have a lot of shot attempts, and we hit the offensive boards really well, which is always good.

I thought the shot at the buzzer was big for Katie. Not only for the team, but it gave her momentum like, 'Oh I can do that every time,' which, in the second half, I thought she did.

I think we had a very good season. We accomplished a lot of things.

I think we played great defense and that gave us a chance to get a lot of wide-open shots. We got a lot of tough rebounds, a lot of long rebounds and that gave us a chance to get some easy buckets. When you can get the easy shots, everything else just begins to click.

I think we just get so mad when we feel that we have let a game slip through our fingers. We like to think of ourselves as a mentally tough team. Winning at Albany doesn't erase the feeling in our guts after the New Hampshire loss. Now we need to win again.

I think we stressed a lot that this was a big game for them to try and move up in the standings. And in all honesty, I keep thinking that we don't have it locked, and no matter what you always want to play well. I think that for 30 minutes of tonight's game we played well.

I still think Maine is very good. I just think the new coaching staff up there is going through that whole first year thing. I'm not too concerned for Maine, they have the tradition and nothing can beat tradition.

I thought it was a great game. I thought we brought great energy. When we bring energy we can play with anyone, but the key is that we can't turn it on and off, we have to have it on all the time.

We just want to really focus in on this last run here. We want to be really strong and playing well going into the tournament.

We played full court man-to-man to start the game with lots of pressure. With about eight minutes left, we went back to half-court man and stayed that way for the rest of the game.

We need to keep focus on what we're doing. We're not going to be an undefeated team, so we can't get upset over every loss. We can't drown our sorrows in that. We just need to come ready to play.

We know that UNH is good. They had a really nice non-conference run. And we'll be ready for them.

When we really turned it on defensively and rebounded it really does create more confidence and we start scoring more.

We were very pleased with the way the team, players one through 14, played Saturday. Just as soon as we walked into Vermont's gym, there was this abundance of energy. It was great to see them come out on fire after halftime. I just thought we had good control of this game.

We put them on the free throw line way too much, and we fouled too much. Their inside presence concerned us a lot and points in the paint killed us.

We believe in ourselves and we believe in what we're doing.

When we play with energy, we can play with anyone. I don't need to get our players up. They're self-motivated and they should be. We just know that we need to go in there and play our game.

We need to focus on the things we can control. We know we're going to miss shots, but we have to rebound and we have to get defensive stops, and we just didn't do that tonight.

We know that every single game we play is going to be tough. We definitely can't take anything for granted. I really think that's what we learned from the Stony Brook game. We have to not only be prepared but we have to bring it. If you have a loss and you can learn from it, that's a good loss.

Rachael was awesome. Sometimes she attacked a little bit, and sometimes she sat back and took what they were giving her. From 3 she did a great job. She never forced anything, but whatever they gave her she took.

And that's what we want, whether we're in practice against each other or we're in a game. I don't think any team is good enough to say 'Now we're going to turn it on.' You just have to bring it everyday.

That's what so great about team sports. Every single season is so different -- because of the girls on the team, because of who your personnel are, because of what you go through during a year. Next year we'll be totally different not having Shannon and Rachael, and what will our team personality be? We don't know.

They really took a few of our girls out of the game. And I thought that we were just being aggressive, no more aggressive than we normally are. All of the whistles just went the other way.

They're a very physical team, especially on the inside, and I don't think of our forwards as very physical, so that will be a challenge. They're also a very hard-working team and they play very well at home. We're going to have to play hard, we're going to have to play smart and we're going to have to make some shots.

It's just one of those things in basketball. You wish you knew the answer and you just don't. We just came out flat. I think it was energy. I think games are won and lost by who has more energy, and I thought SBU came out with more of it.

It's a little strange, because other schools and even our men's team already know who they're facing, and we're still playing games. But it's been so long since we've played Maine or Hartford that we're really looking forward to it. We're not looking past these games at all.

I walked in the locker room and the girls said, 'We're 3-0 right now in the new season,' and that's our thing - we have three more games, we're taking care of business. We have goals that we're focusing on defensively and offensively, and the girls are really striving for that. I think it's narrowed in our focus a little bit.

It was a great team effort. We brought great energy and we played very unselfishly. Us holding them to 23 points in the first half was huge.

It was a great experience and great for our players. It was loud the entire time, even when nothing was happening in the game. After the game our players came out and sat with them, joked around and signed autographs. Everyone who worked to put it together did a great job.

It was one of those against-all-odds things. Not many people would have played, because there is a chance of hitting her head and having the stitches burst open, but Rachael said that she wanted to play. She's a senior so she values every game and her family came down from Canada to watch. It was a great night for them.

They've had a lot of days off now and they're very anxious to get back on the court. Hopefully we'll have them on Sunday.

I never ever question the team playing hard. I know I'm very lucky that I have 14 players that play hard all the time, but I think we just weren't talking and we didn't have that bounce in our step. I think if you come out and make yourself know and want to have a presence you have to talk, and that part of our game we didn't bring.

In the first five minutes of the game we looked great. Then it took a strange turn and none of us could really figure out how it happened. Their inside game really killed us.

I felt that we were just waiting for something to happen and for someone to take charge. And that just didn't happen. We knew that we were the better team, but no one stepped up and no one took control.

I don't think there's a whole lot of thinking about last year.

I don't think that's any reason or excuse for them to jump out on us. I don't think they're a better team than us, but it does fall into line that on any night, any team in our conference can beat any other.

I don't think fatigue was a factor in all honesty. I was really proud of our players tonight. I think we played a very solid second half. We went with our two smaller forwards playing for a period of time there. We were down nine and we did a lot of really positive things. In all honesty, if fatigue ever is a factor I'm never using it as an excuse. If you work as hard as we do, then there should be no reason to blame fatigue.

All of the girls on the team know that they can score and that they can rebound. The key for us is to make sure that they can do that consistently and play the way they are capable. You're very happy as a coaching staff when you have four players in double figures.