Harry Perretta Quotes (20 Quotes)

What we tried to do was keep someone in the lane so when she drives we can always meet her with a second defender, so we try to force her to beat us over the top. It's nothing different than we've done in the past. I just think she didn't shoot the ball as well today.

I feel like I coached about 50 games too many.

I've been coaching 28 years, and with this team I never know what's going to happen. When we were up 21, I was sweating. Notre Dame is like us, inconsistent offensively. Teams get into offensive funks.

When you play well everything goes your way. When she shot the ball I said to (assistant coach) Joe (Mullaney) that it was going to go in. You can say it was a little luck, but when you play well, things go your way. They created that.

We've played well the last two games. But we don't see defenses like we'll see at Rutgers. We always have problems getting shots, and they turn us over more than most because of their quickness. Plus it's up there. It's going to be difficult.

We were telling our kids to keep running the offense and to try to wear them out a bit because they don't really have a deep bench.

In this league, this year, you have seven or eight dark horses. I felt the new teams would make the middle of our league much more powerful than ever before, and I think that's been proven. That's where it has improved our league. It's not top-heavy.

We're never a good rebounding team, and that doesn't concern me. We try and spread the floor as much as we can because we're not that athletic. We can't pound the ball down your throat, but we hope to confuse you a little.

I thought coming into the game that we would have trouble guarding them off the dribble because they were just too fast for us. And we did, so we tried to play some zone and they shot the ball well from the perimeter, so we got caught between a rock and a hard place. Once we lose the lead and have to play fast it is very difficult for us to win. We dont score the ball at a high level.

We played good D for the first 25 minutes, then we fell apart defensively, then we caught up. We haven't been consistent. The defense was better Saturday. We opened up a lead and frustrated somebody else for a change.

This league is nuts. It makes for a fun league, but it doesn't make for people feeling comfortable making the NCAA Tournament.

The middle part of the league now is going to be so competitive. It is a bad thing record-wise, but it is a good thing for RPI.

She can score all kinds of different ways - inside, outside - and she's a very, very good passer.

The teams coming into this league are really good, and that is a positive and a negative. They are going to affect the middle of the league. You will see a team finish fifth that will be 8-8 or 9-7 in the conference where before we finished tied for fourth and we were 10-6. That's a big difference.

We feel a lot better after winning yesterday. The win at Notre Dame gave us breathing room. The last two games we have put together our best basketball. At Notre Dame, we played very well for 30 of 45 minutes. Yesterday, we played well for 36 out of 40 minutes.

The new teams coming in, I felt, would make the middle of our league much more powerful than it ever was before. And I think that's been proven this year. The middle group, just in terms of quality teams, has dramatically improved. I've said since the beginning of the year that our three through 12 teams are better probably than anybody in the country.

Obviously, Connecticut and Rutgers are still the best teams but the middle group has dramatically improved. Our three through 12 are better than anyone's in the country.

I dont remember the last time that happened. I looked up at the scoreboard and we had 81 points and were never in the game. That is a tribute to how well they played.

What you had was an experienced team against an inexperienced team. When we figured out the gaps in the zone defense, they were OK. That's all experience.

You came out hard and then you stopped playing after seven minutes. Youre taught to tell the truth here.