84 Quotes by Pokey Chatman

We love points in the paint. If the 3 shows early, by the right person, we're okay with it. But it's just a matter of mind-set and playing the percentages.

When you give up 10 3-pointers in this environment this late in the year, it's going to be a struggle.

This team has done some things better than last year's team. The difference is we don't have the same margin of error. We don't have depth.

You hear coaches talk about players being in the doghouse. It's not one of those things. It's a kid who made a mistake. She served her time and she's learned from it.

We felt, coming into the game, that this game was going to be won in the paint. Bottom line, it boiled down to 42 rebounds for LSU and 27 for Duke.

You got an early sense of what she was going to be like. And as the years go on, nothing ever changes. She?s still that superstar player with that engaging personality.

To win going away and not to be on top of our game knowing you can go home and correct those things, I'm OK with that.

I should be the least nervous person here. I only had to do one thing to stand here tonight and that was to choose Louisiana State University as a high school senior.

The bottom line is, the further you advance, the tougher the competition becomes, the more locked in and focused you have to be on every single possession. We had opportunities to help ourselves, but we didn't.