Dan Roiger Quotes (9 Quotes)

We played extremely tentative. We played not to lose instead of playing to win. We had a number of turnovers. There were times when we had the numbers but didn't attack. That was a great disappointment to me because that's something we've been working on.

Jess was a zone buster tonight. We told her before the game to just keep shooting the ball and it was a good confidence boost for her to knock down those shots.

We played well, and we played with intensity. We took away their strengths and what they like to do. We made them earn their baskets. Offensively, we got shots. We just didn't make enough of them.

At halftime, we came out and wanted to win the second half and we almost did that. We played much better in the second half. We had a lot more energy and we were able to accomplish some positive things. But in the first half, our youth showed. And that's just part of learning.

The second half was incredibly ugly. We had three points in the first 12 minutes. There was a stretch of nine minutes where we didn't score.

In the second half Wartburg came out very aggressive and cut into our lead. But every time they made a run, one of our players had an answer. It was fun.

We executed our game plan almost to perfection. It was a nice win for us. But most importantly, we played with intensity for a full game. In recent contests, we've had patches where we lost focus and the opposition took advantage of it. Tonight, we didn't have any lapses in intensity.

We made some clutch plays late. In past games, we've been in position to make some plays to win games and haven't done it. Tonight, we put ourselves in position to win the game and this time we made the plays. It was fun to watch.

Our last three games, we've played pretty well. We've struggled at times and we didn't play great tonight. But we got a win and that was huge.