Pat Coyle Quotations

We're going to play a lot faster. You're not going to see the ball walked down the court any more.

We absolutely addressed some of our needs today. Our goal was to get more athletic and bigger to help with the rule changes (the addition of the 24-second shot clock).

We're always physical, we'll always play like that. We're going to play a lot quicker than we have played. We're going to press a lot more. We have the personnel that can play the way we want to.

When this team executes, they are fun to watch. You have to dictate tempo against them. When they take the ball out of the net it makes it a lot easier to get back into our transition defense.

She understood in the first half how they were guarding her, and what was open in the second half. She made terrific decisions, unbelievable passes to our bigs. Her decision-making was terrific.

She turned it really good. And I'm not sure of the status yet.

She's athletic. She's got decent size. She can score. That's where this league is going. This league is going bigger and to people that are athletic and can score. She fits that mold.

She fits into our system well and that is why we picked her up. We've been lucky. You can't replace Ann Wauters but what you get off the bench with Cathrine and (La'Keshia) Frett is what makes the difference.

She's a difference-maker, especially on the defensive end. I think this is one of our best drafts. Our goal was to get more athletic, to get bigger.

I don't think we made enough stops. We didn't get the shot selection we wanted. We can't keep spotting teams leads. You expend too much energy coming back into games.

We lost our composure and this time of the year, that can't happen.

I thought we were right in the game. We did a pretty good job to get back into the game, and then we made some mistakes. We can't have it in playoff time. We made crucial mistakes at times when we couldn't afford it.

I thought we made crucial mistakes at times when we really couldn't afford it,

I thought she played terrific. She was the poised veteran that you expect.

I think it's pretty cool. It fits great. It's the same measurements we have in the Garden. There's probably more room on the baselines and the sideline (at the front of the stage). We probably have more room here than we have in the Garden.

Our goal tonight was to play the players on the bench and not get anybody hurt.

I think she's like a typical rookie: They want to do everything right and they want to do it 900 miles per hour. I think as she gets more comfortable with playing on the perimeter, you'll be able to see what she's capable of doing.

Whether it's junk, zone, man ... if it helps us win, I'll play it as much as we can. If we can just play them zone and not give them second shots. We gave them too many in the first half, but in the second half we did a better job.

We have an eight-player rotation and those players are going to play. If I can keep their minutes in the 20s instead of the 30s, I'll do it.

We have an eight-man rotation and those people are going to play the minutes. If we had five games left, two left, one left. It doesn't matter.

We made crucial mistakes at times when we couldn't afford it. We are going to regroup.

We had a private conversation about a month ago. She told me that I could use her in key moments down the stretch, and she's proven that.

We didn't handle their zone defense very well. It doesn't take a rocket scientist. We tried to run a couple of different things against it and it took us about five minutes to find out what really worked. When we finally figured it out, we just didn't keep going back to it.

We've got a lot of good people in this gym. It's been great, their energy is really high.

We talked today: Nobody in this league is undefeated and it's going to be a dogfight every night. So we can't squander opportunities.

We had that core group together for a long time and it served us well. But I think as the league changes and new players come in and with free agency, you know the league's changed and what we need to do is change with the league.

Everybody in the department is saddened that she's gone. We're functioning, though, and everything is going well.

There's not a clear-cut favorite this year. Everyone can win it.

Coming out of halftime being down just one, instead of us attacking them, they attacked us. Regardless of if they go big, we need to execute. What we run against the zone is fine, we just need to attack it. We didn't attack today.

You sign a contract and you make a decision to go over there and play, you know what you're getting yourself into. I don't wanna hear people complain about it.

They had us so spread out. Instead of getting into the gaps and penetrating and doing what we need to do, we stepped further away from the basket. We never went in and out. We just went around the perimeter.

It was a tragedy. It cut deeply in my heart.

That's the best Cash has played. She's probably starting to get her legs under her.

I'm excited to be in the playoffs. If we play how we are capable of playing, we'll do well.

I look at it as a new opportunity to teach. You have 13 players who really want to learn and grasp what you are saying. We're going to mold them into what we want.

I didn't think we played very well. We lost our composure, and this time of year that can't happen. We have our work cut out for us the next couple of days.

You can't replace someone like Ann Wauters. She's an All-Star, one of the best centers in this league. You're not going to replace her with one player. You're going to do it by committee, and that's what we're gong to do.