Jim Bolla Quotes

Everybody is 0-0 going into this tournament. It's a one-game series now. This loss is not the end of the world. We did some things OK. We have some things that we need to work on, but that was a very good team. They are deservingly the WAC champions.

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We've never made (playing on the road) a big deal, so it's never become an issue with the kids. There's no discussion about where we're playing. It's just a road game and we just go to practice and get ready to play.

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We talked about this being the team that beat us in the tournament at practice yesterday. Hopefully we got that bad game out of our system for the year in the second Kent State game.

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Early on we had no-help defense, in part because of their quickness and in part because of us not being in position. We did a much better job in the second half.

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We did not dwell on it. We're 80 percent in practice. I think last Saturday was just one of those games.

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We need to start getting more physical with people. In both games, we had a significant size advantage on them, and our inside people couldn't take advantage of that.

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She got some really good passes. When we have her isolated, we have to be able to get the ball to her and we had some people give her some nice passes to put her in position to get some nice scores.

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No one got hurt. They got to run up and down the floor and have some fun. The players enjoyed getting dressed up with the costumes. It was a good way to kick off practice and then get serious on what we need to do.

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It was an ugly game. I wasn't happy with our performance in the first half, but it wasn't unexpected. Whenever this team has a layoff, we just don't play well early.

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The good news is, someone is going to win.

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Those were two big issues. We weren't in the right spots at the right time and that helped their defense. We need to use both sides of the floor and hopefully take advantage of a defensive lapse. This has happened before. We'll keep working on it.

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We gift wrapped this game and they dropped it. We can't afford to play like this (tomorrow) or we'll lose by 40.

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We are still trying to get the players to understand that they are not executing our offense the way we want. Because we still have a chance to win at the end, it is hard for them to understand this, but we are not there yet.

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We wanted to go to a smaller, quicker lineup to play man-to-man on defense and that got us back in the game.

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It's up to her now to hopefully finish this thing out and get back on track. And it's up to us now to make the adjustment team-wise.

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It's a new season. We've got a good opportunity in front of us. But we came last year as a higher seed and we ended up getting beat. We don't want to have that be repeated again so we have to get back on track.

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You see the first five playing ... but the reason they're playing is the people in practice are pushing them hard. A lot of times it gets overlooked because all people see are points and rebounds on the stat sheet or in the newspaper. The practice players make us good.

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The last four minutes, we buckled down and played really good (man-to-man) defense, and we got some key buckets. A year ago we probably wouldn't have finished this game. Now we're finishing games.

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You hate to do this as a coach. But I felt it was absolutely necessary.

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I can't describe this game. I have no idea what was going on out there. There were times where we should have just handed them the ball, but it is a win for us.

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It's a decision you don't want to have to make, but ... for the best interest of everybody involved it was probably the best decision.

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I'm getting questions from people all over the place on that. I would hope so. I think this team deserves it. I think we've got some quality wins over some good teams.

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There will come a time where we use too much energy coming back and we won't be able to finish.

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We need to make adjustments, and people need to pick up the slack. Tonight, we didn't get that done. We were just completely overwhelmed.

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We've been executing really well (the last five games). So hopefully we're getting things turned around at the right time. Like I told the kids, we're trying to peak for the tournament now.

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