Andy Landers Quotes (50 Quotes)

It was the type of game we envisioned. They're very good defensively and make you work extremely hard on offense to get what you want.

This has been a very resilient basketball team and a very focused basketball team. This is a basketball team that has really flinched. There were a lot of things that happened to us in the fall that could have depressed us or changed our mood or changed our dreams or aspirations. But that really hasn't occurred. Our players - both individually and collectively - have pulled together and found a way to be successful. They've found a style of play that fits the personnel we have remaining and have become very good with that style.

Were just excited to still be standing. We very much look forward to playing a very good Connecticut basketball team in the next round and have some sense of understanding about whats involved in that task and what a challenge its going to be.

You've never seen a team at Georgia play defense as poorly as we've done. We don't have the fouls to give.

They're giants. We thought South Carolina was big, and they are. We thought Tennessee was big, and they are. But Auburn takes that to another level literally.

Good shooters got good shots and knocked them down. I'm not surprised. We have good shooters and when they get hot and stroke it we can really knock it down.

We have really played well since conference play started. It has been good for our psyche. Our team feels it is a capable team. More than confidence, we have some visual results to show for it.

Today is a day where I could go in the locker room and not say a thing because every one on our team knows they played well. They played well both individually and within the framework of what we tried to accomplish as a team.

I think there will be a surprise or two in the tournament. There were surprises in the regular season and some upsets. Regardless of records, the teams are tough. You play on a neutral floor and there will be a surprise or two.

I thought that we were able to come back and almost get even at the half encouraged us.

Thirty minutes is not a big number, really. And I think another way to look at it is probably every team in America has got a kid or two that averages 30, 32, 34 minutes. If one kid can do it, there's nothing wrong with four kids doing it. Our kids have handled it very, very well.

We're just not very good defensively. I wish we played defense like Arkansas plays defense.

We're right where we need to be. I'm not just saying that. Obviously, at any point in time you were watching practice, you would say, 'He's not happy.' When you look at the big picture, I couldn't ask more of them.

They are important and exciting games to look forward to. We are anticipating going into Baton Rouge and doing what not many teams have been able to.

The thing that concerns me the most is the contrast between Miami and Tennessee. You're talking about going from a big, somewhat methodical offensive basketball team to a small, extremely quick, unpredictable offensive basketball team.

That's a record that has been there for a while. It goes back to the mid-80s and has stood the test of time. She anticipates so well and plays so hard. It's nice to see her get her own reward with that type of play.

I hadn't thought of that. I guess the only reaction I have to that is I wish it was one less (today), and he was at home in the bed with the flu.

She didn't even put it on the floor. She didn't even bounce it. We had the whole side cleared out, and it didn't happen. We had players do things contrary to what we wanted them to do. It wasn't just the final possession.

We had to give some things up in the second half.

We're a basketball team that understands it limitations. We understand that we don't have all the cards to play that many of the other teams have. At the same time, we're a basketball team that has some very good cards to play. Shuffling those cards and dealing them in the right manner - playing with each other and playing with each others' strengths - has in fact become our team's strength.

Tell it like it is, the last shot was a luck shot. Take nothing away from her. She had the presence of mind to throw it up and get it headed in the right direction, but from where I was standing it was luck.

No mistake about it, we're not a great defensive basketball team.

I'm proud of the fact we stayed the course and played hard. For the most part, we played well, but they're hard. I thought we played with a lot of heart. If we'd played a little smarter at times, we might've gotten out of here with a W.

We've practiced at 530 in the morning, so we'll be OK.

It's great that the NCAA has seen fit to grant Ebony this sixth year, ... Hopefully, her rehab will continue to go well and the doctors will clear her. Regardless, I'm excited that Ebony has this option.

At their place, I don't think that we deserved to win the game. But I thought the game was winnable. At our place, I thought -- I'm not saying we deserved to win it, but I thought we should have won it, and we didn't.

I think that's the name of this game, is shooting the basketball. You still have to defend to be successful. Why has shooting slipped One reason is, we are allowed to play more aggressively than we should. I think this should be a finesse game.

Connecticut has improved a great deal since the beginning of the year in that area. They've improved in a lot of areas, but their schemes are such offensively that they're not at a nature where you take a lot of risk with the basketball. So it's going to be hard to turn them over.

I know the final score, the margin up there, was probably 16 or 18, but it was a closer basketball game than that. They played us very well at their place a year ago. They were young. They have those players back.

We wanted to turn them over. We wanted to jump them early defensively. They're young and inexperienced. We thought we could turn them over and create offense and we were able to do that.

I have no problems with that. That is something that I've felt would occur over a period of time as more players who played at the highest level and went through the entire process (began entering the candidate pool).

We've never had this few players playing this many minutes for this long. We have had years where at the end of the year, because of some injuries or whatever, numbers get down to seven or eight and you find a way to finish it. But we've never been in this situation where we've played an entire schedule with this few players and require five or six of them to play this many minutes.

The NBA has the same thing. Look at all the hand-checking going on. And another thing, look at the absence of fundamentals. I don't think any of us, men or women, are as fundamental as we once were.

I thought she missed some good shots quite frankly.

We played the way we needed to play to win a basketball game. You don't like to be in the position that you have to adjust your entire team, but we had to because of their tremendous height inside, and thank goodness we dropped the threes.

We had great respect for them coming into the game and we leave the game with even greater respect. They gave us all we wanted. It was at times the game I feared.

It's been really hard for us to play the way we played tonight. To score inside and out, to play good defensethere's really not a whole lot not to be happy about tonight.

She's the quickest player on the floor. The way that she scored she ought to score, driving past people and laying it up.

The NCAA is a simple ordeal. Not easy, but simple. If you can win two straight games three times, you are the national champions. You want to get to the Final Four you want to win the national championship. That is the motivation that is spoken, but the process is to win this game.

It was one of those ugly wins. Both teams did some things poorly.

Let's be honest. It will be very much like a home game.

I thought we turned it over a couple of times, but defensively we were pretty good.

I think they've had similar success, but there's one huge difference. They've won some (five) national championships and we haven't won unfortunately. I think other than that, there are a good many parallels with the programs. It is a basketball program that I think at any given time has been the face of women's basketball.

We're just not a consistently good defensive basketball team.

Given our circumstances and all the things that have happened to us, I think we're the only place we can be. We're playing good basketball. We're reasonably healthy. We've just got to prepare and make sure that we're rested and see if we can survive a 40-minute battle with a very deep team.

At times, it was the game we feared and, at times, it was the game we hoped for. They're very good inside and very good off the dribble and in the first half they got too much of both of those. But we settled down in the second half.

The kids did what we wanted them to do all day. When you do that good a job and mess up at the end, it hurts.

I'm very happy for Alexis because it was a definite goal of hers. She's worked very hard and played well and deserves an opportunity at the next level.

There have been a lot of really good players, and she's one of them. I haven't taken the time to rank them, and I probably won't. I think what's important is on this day in this season, there is not any any better than her.

We realize after the Tennessee game that we're not real effective defensively. You don't have a lot of time to work on it this time of year ... but it was a focus of our halftime to apply more pressure.