45 Quotes by Ron Jirsa

With only a couple of days at practice, Mark was able to come in and contribute and help us out in the backcourt on this trip.

We had some stops and shot well in transition. Miles moved around and hit some shots. We need the shooters to step up.

Once you solve something, the next thing you see might be tougher. The second half, when we didn't push it up the floor, that hurt us. You want to make them move. When they get back and it's 5-on-5, it's tougher.

Once you solve something, it gets harder to solve the next thing. The second half, when we didn't push it up the floor, that hurt us.

This is an important month for us. I was glad we were able to get it off to a good start tonight.

They have great poise and when you mix poise with balance it gives you a chance to win every night. When you're playing a team with tremendous poise you have to have that yourself. We've got to duplicate that effort and go beyond that to get a win that's needed.

They're not going to allow you to set up what you're doing. We settled down in the second half and played much more effectively. We got to the line better but during that (first half) stretch we weren't able to get the ball where we needed to score.

It was difficult because they took away Mark Patton early. We were able to get him the ball in the second half, but (in the meantime) we were able to hit enough three-pointers and we made free throws down the stretch.

It's not necessarily about making every shot. It's playing extremely hard and I know that's a way to get the fans to cheer for us.