Leslie Crane Quotes (22 Quotes)

It's huge. They gave us two hard games back-to-back on our home court. We defended it and showed how tough we are and that momentum will take us through conference.

It's not a situation of panic, that's the last thing you want to do. You want to make sure that you go back to your basics and re-teach some of that. We have to take things in stride. I've said all along that this conference can be won with three losses. I'm confident that we can get back on our feet and back to our winning ways.

We have been able to push down people who have come back at us. We need to have games like that to prepare us for down the road when we go back to Oakland and help us when we get into hostile situations.

Everybody talks about how Western Illinois has never been there. It's something that we've wanted to do, but we don't think it'll make or break our program.

It comes down to effort and desire. Our effort was there against Oakland. We held them to a very low shooting percentage, but we just didn't go get the ball when the shot went up. That second and third effort is what we're striving to get back at this point and time.

After the pre-draft camp, we talked about it and she talked about how sore and stiff she was and I told her this is first look at how it's going to be every day after practice. You have to compete every single day on a very physical level. She has a taste of what it will be like and she's probably pretty anxious to get in the weight room a little bit more and little bit harder and do some things to develop her game for the next level.

She is going there to impress an employer. As a professional basketball player, your responsibility is your body, your health and your play. It is somewhat of a job in college when you're on scholarship but even more so at the next level.

This is something new for the new and younger players in our program. Sometimes your experience can play into that and make it a little more difficult for your team.

This time of year you're just not going to close out opponents. This is February and it is a tough month. Teams are getting better teams know how to take things away from you, just like we know how to take things away from people. Games night in and night out are going to be like this. I'm happy because we're still finding ways to win.

I didn't tell anyone. Not Zane, not any of the other players. I didn't want that distraction.

It's always a chess match this time of year. It's more mental than anything else and I don't want to say we feel confident about anyone, but we feel confident within our own game in what we can do and take away from people.

That was a lack of focus. I've always told the kids that the first 10 minutes of the second half is when you win and lose ballgames. We lost a little bit of intensity and focus in that time frame and we weren't able to recover from it.

Nobody really knew where she was going to be picked. I heard people say that after the first two picks, anything was possible.

It is something we've wanted to do, but it's not anything that makes or breaks our program. We've got four (conference) championships anyway ... We've already qualified for a postseason tournament anyway, so it's just a matter of choosing which one we want to go to.

When you out-rebound teams, you can afford to turn the ball over a few more times because you control the tempo of the game.

I've said all along that three losses will win the Mid-Con. I think losses will pop up for some other teams. We just want to take care of us and we have every opportunity to do that.

I'm pleased with how Laura is shooting the ball. She has a lot of confidence right now.

There is never a team we play where we can just sit back and not show up. We have to show up every night. Sometimes we don't give our best effort but we still find a way to win.

We got a lot of good offensive effort from a lot of different people. Sarah played a great game today ... offensively, defensively, doing some nice things. This is the way that we feel like she's going to be able to play all of the time.

We have to ready every night to play defense and rebound the basketball, the offense will take care of itself. And that's what we did. We got good scoring out of a lot of folks and that's what winning us ball games. That has to continue down the road.

I hope, with the rest of the team sitting here, that it's motivation. They saw how hard she worked in her career. I hope this continues to motivate them.

It was rough. Regardless, you just have got to continue to play through and make adjustments. I felt like we were able to do that.