Susie Gardner Quotes (24 Quotes)


    Even though we lost to two teams by a lot of points, we still understand that what we did in January is keeping us in the top half of the conference.

    I am not taking anything away from Kentucky. They are a good basketball team that played exceptionally, but we played about as poorly as we could. We played our worst home game of the year.

    She's a new talent, I think, for women's basketball. She is the future. Whoever has Sylvia is going to win a lot of games no matter who else is around. LSU happens to have great talent besides her.

    We changed it up in the second half and did a great job. They were trying to wind down the clock and shoot with about four seconds left, so we changed to man.

    Every time J. J. is playing she watches him on T. V.. J. J. has to create his own shot and he's had to adjust to defenses. We set a bunch of screens, but she's got to be able to create her own shot.


    We all know that basketball was a big part of Kristin's college experience, but that her lifelong goal is becoming a doctor. She graduates this spring, and getting her bachelor's degree at Arkansas in only three years is a great accomplishment.

    We've got to understand on the road that we've got to rally and play through adversity. We had some huge mistakes at key times.

    We need to belly up the post players and make it hard for them to see. We wont double off of a guard on the ball side. Thats why I like man defense, because everyone knows what theyre supposed to do. In zone, there are too many gray areas.

    On one hand, you dont want every game to down to the wire, but we know that we can win those close games now. Even if things dont go exactly as they should.

    It will be fresh on our minds and we can make adjustments. Id like to play them right now.

    Kristin's season did not go the way anyone hoped. Her departure opens up another opportunity for a player to join next year's team.

    Shes a huge concern. We did an outstanding job on the other guards, but she really hurt us. She sets the tone for their team.

    We had the lead at half and we talked about how FIU would not give up, and how they came back from down 15 last night. Give them credit, they never gave up.

    LSU is known for their offense, but they play very good defense. Unfortunately, we've started the last four or five games like we did today.

    I thought Whitney played very well, especially considering who she was playing against.


    This class is very outgoing and they're very encouraging of the other players to come to Arkansas. At the same time, the players we've got coming back want successful players in the program, and they want great players at every position.

    We fought back and played an exceptional second half. I hurt for them because they played hard, but now we've got to get cleaned up, get on the plane and shake it off at 130 tomorrow afternoon.

    Lauren has an intense hunger to return to playing Division I basketball. In junior college, she was a team player that focused on her teams goals first. When we would call to ask about how a game went this year, she was never aware of her own stats, but she knew the score of the game. It was always about her teams success.

    I thought we were going to have another miracle. We fought so hard. We came back from the dead. But we just couldn't finish it out.

    I'm really proud of the way our team fought, the way we cut it to two in the second half. In my opinion, they played hard enough to win and I'm disappointed for them. Our team is showing some passion and some fight that I haven't seen in my first two year

    The kids told me they wanted to press. They were committed to the press. They (Ole Miss) just dribbled right through us.

    Its like they say in golf, you cant worry about your last bad shot, because the next shot might be a great shot.

    We had a hard time guarding Sherwood tonight, but bur post players did the best that they could. I was especially proud of Melissa's rebounding.


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