Rick Soracco Quotes (13 Quotes)

We just picked it up and started playing good belly-to-belly defense. We picked up the intensity and started making things happen.

We were really flat. We played without emotion. The frustrating part is that we've been through this before. We went through it against Linden. If there's such a thing as a good loss, it's this one because it goes to show we better be ready to play.

Defense has been our only consistent. Offensively, we score 70 in one game, then 29 in the next, it's been crazy. But our defense is always consistently tough and I'm real happy with that.

It was a playoff-type atmosphere. It was for first place, the gym was crowded, there was a lot of noise It was a big game, one we really wanted.

We are playing really well now. Our three-quarter-court, man-to-man defense really pressured them.

We knew it was going to be tough on their court and they're a program that is coming up. They really made us work hard and they hung in there.

It's nice having her back. She was active inside and got some big rebounds. She's really improved as a shooter, probably because that's all she was able to do when she was hurt.

We struggled and persevered - I love it. This is good for our team. They thought once they got through preseason, league would be a cakewalk again. Things aren't like they were last year.

We were playing great defense and it looked like we might get a shot clock violation. Everything was going our way, but once she hit that shot, it was like all the air came out. She came through when it counted. If that shot doesn't fall, who knows what happens. But that's basketball, it's a game of breaks.

We didn't play very well, and Colleen Smith came off the bench and ignited us. We took off from there.

Up until the second quarter, we had not been a very good team in our three league games.

They kept hanging around and we couldn't close them out. I told the girls they better be ready. I think we might have overlooked them, but we still put the game away.

If we come in and play like we're capable of, there's no reason we can't go all the way. We feel we can beat anybody we play, but we can also lose to anybody we play. It's going to be a real scramble.