Stan Joplin Quotes (16 Quotes)

Needless to say, we needed this one bad. We needed a confidence builder.

I thought our defense was pretty good in the first half except we fouled too much. I thought we were in control of the game for the most part. We wanted to go inside and we did that with Tino having a good night down low.

I felt the crowd was great. The crowd got into it, they tried to lead us.

We learned a lot from coming up short in a lot of those games. The mind-set of the players is just better.

The teams that have a winning record have one thing in common they've all won those close games.

He's a great shooter and we wanted to make him work for everything. So we always had fresh guys on him - Justin, Sammy Villegas, Ridley Johnson, Jonathan Amos, probably some others, too. They did a good job. I thought we got most of the loose balls and hustle points.

I knew Northern Illinois was going to make a run. We withstood it and lived to play another day.

Tino just keeps getting better and better. He's getting the ball in good position and using his quickness to the basket. He's getting a lot of attention inside and when the defense has an edge, he does a good job of kicking it back out to give somebody an open jump shot.

We came out on their shooters with our hands down and dared them to make 3's, and you can't do that against a good shooting team.

We wanted to feel good about ourselves after this game. So I think they feel good about themselves.

I thought we took them out of their offense. We got our energy from defense, which isn't always the case. For a long stretch in the first half we rebounded well and ran well and we got a pretty good flow going.

I dont know if there has been a more tough-minded team in the league for a long time.

We wanted to use all of it, to shoot the ball with very little time left so that the worst thing that could happen was overtime.

This was the first time Sammy had over 10 points since December. We just figured that if he made two shots from beyond the three point line, we would be ecstatic. That really helps.

We really shared the basketball. It was nice to see that balance.

We need a more productive inside game and to get more shots out of our post players. We have to find a happy medium. We're taking the path of least resistance. We have to have an inside game when our outside shots aren't falling. We're not attacking on offense like we should be.