They've won a lot of games in a lot of different ways. Buzzer-beaters, last-second shots. We've had our chances, we just haven't been able to get over the hump the last few years.
Quotes about last-second (15 Quotes)
After Christmas, we won four in a row. But three of the games we had lost (on the season) were on last-second shots. Plus we had a double-overtime loss and an overtime loss. So it's not like we weren't playing well.
What I remembered was we just lost at Texas the week before on a last-second field goal. We came back a tired football team, but we got our legs back prior to the Florida State game, a Thursday night ESPN-televised game.
Despite giving up a last-second goal, I was pleased with the Lasers' third-period play. It's easy to get tight after giving up a pair of quick goals. The boys stuck with the game plan and increased their intensity throughout the game.
They hit a last-second, lucky shot. What can you do We didn't convert on our last play and they pulled something out of the sky.
If any of my runners had a last-second question, I wanted them to be able to find me fast. Nowadays, I wear it so my athletes can make sure I get on the right bus when it's time to go home.
Notre Dame should really have only one loss in the conference. What has happened to them is scary. We've both been very unlucky. They've been unlucky with last-second situations and we've been unlucky with injuries. So it's two teams that have not had a great deal of luck and good fortune go their way.
When there's a last-second play, you can't get too scientific. You have to get the ball in the right people's hands and see if they can make a play.
We need one. We're entitled to one, I think. We've been going down to the wire a lot of games. Sometimes it feels good for the players and myself to play a game where you don't have to worry about somebody getting an offensive rebound or making a last-second shot to win a basketball game. For us, we needed that.
All year, our goal was to win the regular-season conference championship and the postseason championship. Our program went from 1-27 two years ago. Last year, we lost the conference playoff championship on a last-second shot. That taste has been in our mouth for 365 days. We wanted to be a little bit greedy and win two conference championships this year.
A last-second loss just crushes you. Tonight it was a 19-point game. In a game like that, you slowly start to realize it's getting away. It doesn't crush you. It's not as hard to come back from in the region.
We never win any games like that -- on a last-second shot. We have other teams miss shots at the end, but never when we make one. Since I've been here we've never hit the last shot.
The last game we didn't have Meier and we played a poor first half. We had to fight back and took a two-point lead and got beat on a last-second possession and that was a tough loss for us. Tonight we had a chance to redeem ourselves and the kids did.
We had the right person shooting the ball he just missed it. Fortunately we got the rebound on the back side. That's what you see a lot of times on a last-second situation. Usually it's not the first shot that goes in, it's the tip. And that's what happened tonight.
That's what high school sports are all about -- you want your guys to be in a situation where they can remember those last-second victories. It's kind of like hitting a home run in the bottom of the ninth. You live for those moments.