Sally Zimmerman Quotes (16 Quotes)

Our goal was to attack them on offense. Their size hurt us a lot, and the zone kind of got in our way.

Playing them two times before helped. Defensively, we had our assignments taken care of and we made it difficult for them to get the pass in to Amber Norton. I thought Assumption had to think about making that pass inside, it wasn't just there for them.

Against the zone we don't want to hesitate. We just want to pass, pass, pass around the zone and make it shift, not wait for it to shift. Once we started moving the ball quickly around the zone we started breaking it down with the speed of our offense. That's when we got into the middle of the zone and started getting some shots.

At this point in the season we're not worried about the rankings. I don't even know if the girls look at them. It's too late in the season to worry about rankings or even records. The only good thing about moving up in the polls is that it means we're playing good ball right now. We're beating the teams we're supposed to and upsetting some teams.

I thought we did a much better job getting to the line in overtime. That's our game and we got the ball to the rim. We did a nice job taking care of the ball and forcing them to come out and foul us when we got the lead.

They just have a lot of weapons to deal with.

I thought we had a chance to come back. Once we cut it to six, I thought they'd tighten up, and they did.

Those were big-time free throws for an eighth grader.

She's been doing that all year. She did it in the district. She loves this type of atmosphere. It's in her blood. She doesn't have any fear.

We've been using the strength of our schedule as a motivational factor for a while now. We've seen Assumption, Mercy, Franklin-Simpson, Butler, Manual and a lot of other really good teams. I think our schedule paid off in the regional, and hopefully it will help at state.

They'll go with a small lineup with good three-point shooters and try to drive and kick it out. We've made some adjustments that we think will help against that, and we've been fine-tuning our offense. At this point in the year we've got to be able to adjust to what others teams are doing within our offense and defense.

We learned from the first two meetings. We wanted this third game.

I think their size hurt us. Terry and Queen hurt us inside and out. Both of them played really well and we had trouble against them.

Offensively, we need to keep attacking the basket. There were times in the regional tournament when we stopped doing that. And our press has been pretty good over the last half of the season. We need to continue getting points off our defense -- that's something this team builds on.

We feel we can step up against anyone and make our press effective.

Obviously we're disappointed, but we're happy we got this far. We had a lot of weapons to deal with in Rose Hill, but things just didn't go our way.