Scott Skiles Half Quotations

We need every win. The problem is we started the second half like five blind men. We were not executing, not talking to each other. Maybe one half is good enough for us right now. We have to get that rectified.

This would have been a real shame if somehow we would have lost it at the end after playing as hard as we played. In the first half we played really well, but we were tied. We came out and played hard and well and deserved to win.

We were very, very fortunate. Clearly, we were tired right from the beginning of the game. It wasn't a pretty game. We just played hard in the second half and really battled for it.

We waited 2½ quarters before we got any energy going. Once we did, we were able to chip away at it and give ourselves half a chance.

We did a much better job in the second half of getting aggressive. We were a little fatigued or distracted in the first half, there's no doubt. We felt at halftime it was one of our poorer halves in quite a while.

I'm really embarrassed by what happened out there. I thought we came out in the second half and pretty much, we were as soft as I've seen.

Apparently not, because I wasn't even aware of it until an hour and a half or so ago. It's not 1,200, it's 200. I know I got to 100 a lot faster than I got to 200. That much I know.

We just gave them 25 points off turnovers and it's tough to win when you do that. I'm concerned about this one good half, one bad half routine, one good quarter, one bad quarter that we've been in and just the carelessness with the ball. And, a lack of respect for the basketball out there was pretty amateurish.