Lady Mocs Quotes vs. UTK
1/3/2012 7:51:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Chattanooga at No. 6/7 Tennessee
Knoxville, Tenn. - Jan. 3, 2012
postgame quotes
CHATTANOOGA HEAD COACH WES MOORE
(Opening Statement)
"Hats off to them; they shot the heck out of it in the first half. I told our team at halftime that we have to get back to competing in games like this. There was a time, even when Tennessee was winning national championships, we could compete with them and we are going to try our best to get back to that point. The first half was humbling, but the second half I thought we competed much better. I'm happy for Faith (Dupree). That was a good homecoming for her. That was probably the only silver lining I could find. Again, they exposed a lot of weaknesses and a lot of things you need to get better at, and hopefully that's what we'll do here down the stretch in the next couple of months."
(On the feeling in the first half)
"Embarrassing. Humbling. Again, they are great. They're a great team. They're long, athletic but you know things we talked about. They'll turn you over to shoot layups, they get offensive boards and get put-backs. You have to limit those. You have to control the things you can control, and we didn't do that. I know it's hard to come over here and compete with this team, but like I said, we had the deer-in-the-headlights look. We were shaky. We were making mistakes that we would normally not make. So it is something we have to get through, because this program has been where it could compete and at least make it a decent showing and the last couple of times we haven't done that."
(On playing UT going into the conference schedule)
"We normally play it opening weekend or very early in the season but they had a scheduling conflict and wanted to move it. This was the best place, and they are great to work with. This is the best time for us to schedule it, but you hope you can benefit from it. We'll see. After the Baylor debacle early in the year, I thought we picked it up and played better, and I hope this will do the same thing for us. I hope we will realize the kind of intensity and kind of energy you have to play with to keep at this level."
CHATTANOOGA REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE FORWARD FAITH DUPREE
(On whether she had any extra adrenaline playing UT)
"Definitely. Coming back to this atmosphere I knew that I should step up. I knew that their post was going to play harder than what I have been playing against. I had to pick myself up because, I haven't been playing as well as I should have and I knew that coming into the game."
(On whether she expected to shoot mostly seven- or eight-footers most of the game)
"I didn't expect having those open shots. I expected posting up and trying to do moves against their post players."
(On her feelings playing against her former team)
"It was awkward. I was anxious at the beginning, definitely. I think making those first couple of shots helped me calm down a little bit."
(On making her first shot)
"I was just saying please go in, please go in. It finally went in so I had to think get back, get back, get back because that is what we were talking about before the game, getting back in transition."
(On playing against Glory Johnson)
"Playing with her in high school, playing with her for a year here, playing with her at AAU and finally getting to play against her, I guess I was familiar with her so I wasn't as anxious to play against her as I was Vicki (Baugh) or Izzy (Harrison)."
CHATTANOOGA JUNIOR GUARD KAYLA CHRISTOPHER
(On how the team competed in the second half)
"I thought we competed a lot better in the second half, executed our four out offense a little better than we did in the first half, so we have to build off of that. From here on out there is no more non-conference games, so it's business from now on. I think we need to build off of that this coming weekend on our road trip."
(On her mom being able to see her play tonight)
"Actually they had school cancelled today. She wasn't going to be able to make it but school got cancelled and the game got cancelled so she was able to make it tonight."
