S. Hughes Game Quotations

I was sat at home watching it and thinking that I have missed the best game in Northern Ireland's history,

I guess it makes a difference. You can see during the course of the game - 40 free throws, we get 34 fouls, that's the way it goes, I guess.

When you're ahead in the game, or you're not a long ways behind, you can stay with your game plan. I'm anxious to see how we respond if the tables are turned and we're not ahead. That's one of the things this team has not faced yet, is some adversity like that. As we get into the meat of our schedule, things aren't always going to go our way like they did last week.

I saw the keeper off his line so I just thought I would chip him. It was a good goal and it gives us the three points. It wasn't the prettiest game but everyone was brilliant and the fans were great.

Johns is averaging about 22 points a game and a team leader in rebounds.

I was told just before I took a timeout late in the game that I had two left, but it turns out I had only one. It was my mistake. I should have checked with a scorekeeper and not relied on someone on the bench.

I was proud of our team's effort. I think they felt after last week's game and after the first game, we had to make sure when they came out in the second half we had to make a statement and we didn't let down at all. I was very pleased with both sides of the ball. Our offensive and defensive lines, I thought, dominated the game. I couldn't be prouder of our effort.

Will that happen? I don't know. Ten years ago nobody would have said NBA All-Star game would be on cable. We hope to have events like those on TNT or TBS for sure.

We have our first area game on Thursday. And we are looking forward to getting that underway.

Those guys are upset that they lost Game 1, but they're not too concerned. I was in that situation, and it's never over until that team wins that fourth game. What we did in Game 1 doesn't mean anything unless we come out and take care of business in Game 2.

Yeah, it's a place that I'm pretty confident from. But it feels a little more at home than the right side sometimes. At the end of the game there's some kind of focus that you get into that you really don't worry about what's going to happen afterward.

That was a good hockey game tonight. And I think going into the third you almost had to play flawless hockey. It was almost like one of those games where it might just take one shot and that's what it took.

We're known as a physical team, and we went out and try to establish rhythm in the game and let them know that we were there.

We've been putting all three phases of the game together.

They were the better team (Sunday). If we played all game like we did in the third, I don't know if they're a better team than us, but hats off to them.

It looked to me like we had the balls delivered where they were supposed to be, we had the right patterns called, and we didn't execute or make the catch. When the game is on the line, we talk about who can you count on when the game counts, and we didn't come up with a play to win the game or at least a play to keep the drive going.

The game tomorrow will give the bulk of our fans a chance to see some of our new signings in action although a reasonable number travelled to Berwick.

At halftime, there was no sense of letdown and there was no sense we had the game under control,

It was certainly a lot better than last Saturday's performance and maybe the lads have recovered their self belief. I've made it clear however that there's no point in us raising our game against Rangers and Celtic if we can't produce results against the teams in the lower part of the league. I know its going to be a roller-coaster ride for the rest of the season - there will be plenty ups and downs but I'm enjoying every minute of it.

We weren't executing the way we planned, and it showed. We lost the game in the third quarter no matter what calls were made and what things happened before or after that.