I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.
Quotes about timeouts (16 Quotes)
The whole fourth quarter they were acting as if they were behind. I tried to use my timeouts judiciously to calm them down.
Every coach likes to have his team's full attention during timeouts. We get out there and the chairs are chained together, so you can't pull five chairs out onto the court.
I'm really not sure that we could've executed or played any better, so I give all the credit to Davidson. We executed three straight times out of timeouts. We scored and we got stops. We just didn't grab the ball. They're a tough, physical group and maybe they wanted the ball a little bit more there at the end.
Palacios was going to be on the court. He could throw up during timeouts.
We made some mistakes. There's only so many timeouts you can take to try to calm (the players) down, to get them to focus.
We've seen that before. Haven't we We just spaced the floor. He's smart. He knew that we didn't have any timeouts left after I called that last one. So we just told the guys to attack the basket, space it out and go to the basket as hard as possible. And he hit a big-time shot.
We didn't have any more timeouts. I just wanted us to attack the basket. In key moments like that, no one wants to foul.
I told the girls to stay focused and stay calm and put the ball in the middle of the court. At the end, we subbed and (Avoca) tried to freeze our servers with timeouts, but we just switched servers and that seemed to do it.
We were more active. We were taking away their penetration better. We were helping and recovering better. It was a constant reminder during the timeouts to 'Do what we do.' We did a decent job of that in stretches. The great thing is we can play better basketball.
During one of the timeouts, I told the seniors to step up, play defense. Everybody took a deep breath and played better.
I don't usually call a lot of timeouts. I like to keep the game going. I just felt like the way our kids were playing all night tonight, especially defensively, I thought we could get back into the game. We have been a little impatient the last couple of games, but we did a nice job tonight. We took care of the basketball and got back into it.
James brought it to my attention in one of the timeouts that we had that I needed two more rebounds to get (20). I just worked hard to get it.
It was fool's gold. I tried to tell the guys in timeouts we weren't playing very good defense.
We didn't have any timeouts, and I wanted to get Luke's (Briggs's) confidence back up and take the points and get into halftime. At that point, I really didn't feel that we had the momentum to score (a touchdown).
We missed a lot of inside shots and a lot of them early. You've got to be able to make those and we didn't. They really crashed the boards well. My timeouts were spent talking about boxing out.