Scott Skiles Ourselves Quotations

We want to make sure we do not fall too far behind. We've dug ourselves a hole and it is pretty simple: We have to dig ourselves out or we do not make it. At some point we are going to have to win some games in a row.

We're giving ourselves a chance now, and that's all I can ask of these guys.

We've dug ourselves a decent hole here and we're going to have to dig ourselves out. This is a game, if you're going to get serious about what you're going to do this season, (that) you've got to lay it all on the line there in the third quarter when we have a chance to win. We just looked out of it most of the night.

We waited too long to start playing. We kind of sleep-walked through 2-1/2 quarters. Then near the end of the third quarter, we finally started getting aggressive. We started driving the ball, and our defense picked up. We clawed ourselves back into the game.

We waited 2½ quarters before we got any energy going. Once we did, we were able to chip away at it and give ourselves half a chance.

I didn't think either team was especially sharp tonight, to put it mildly. It was anybody's game for the taking. They turned it up a little bit and we weren't able to make any big plays to stay with them, we could have at any moment exerted ourselves we could have come back, we just couldn't do it.

You could see it coming in our posture and the way we were handling ourselves out there. It was inevitable they were going to make some kind of run. There was no way we were going to run away from them. There are points in the game where you have a choice to make. Either fight or flee.