15 Quotes by Pat Garrity

It was a lack of focus, a lack of effort on our part. And they exploited that.

Coaches always say during the year that it's a big game, but you kind of blow it off because it's a long season. The games in December matter just as much as the ones now. It just goes to show you that two or three games could change our position.

It's a bad loss, especially since we've been playing well. We need to be consistent and we thought we were building toward that. It's OK if you lose a hard-fought game to team that makes shots, but not when there's a lack of focus on our part. They exploited us, played harder and deserved to win.

It's tough when you give yourself that big of a hole to come back from. Anytime a team gets a big lead early, it can go two ways. It becomes even more of a blowout or it came down to the wire. It's just a matter of sticking with it.

There's three possessions where we didn't get a shot.

I didn't think it was that big of a distraction at all. He said he was frustrated and admitted to making a mistake. And I give him a lot of credit for that because there's a lot of guys in sports today who get into confrontations with either coaches or management and aren't big enough to admit when they make a mistake.