Chattanooga Basketball Postgame Quotes
Chattanooga vs. Northwestern
Challenge in Music City
Municipal Center - Nashville, Tenn.

Friday – Nov. 24, 2017
Head Coach Jim Foster
Opening Statement:
It was fun.  We played pretty good basketball in spurts.  Pretty sound defensively.  A couple of breakdowns here and there and that happens in the course of the game and recovered from that.

"Offensively, except for the third quarter, we moved the ball well.  I think sometimes a young team when they get a lead they lose track and they think it is easy.  But it is never easy." 

On recovering from the lull in the third quarter:
"Young players, they don't understand how to play without the ball.  A lot them think they have to make a move every time they catch the ball and that is not the case.  You want defenses to move from one side of the court to the other.  The more you move a defense from one side of the floor to the other, the farther the defender gets from their person, which opens up the floor to all kinds of opportunities.

"When you lose sight of that and you keep the ball on the half of the court and try to make plays in the framework early now you are playing five against three.  When you reverse the ball a couple of times, you are playing in a situation that puts your three on the other team's three. 

"I liked Kei at the end.  Kei didn't make jumpers but she started taking the ball to the basket to keep the lead where it was.  You know a team is going to come back at you.  You are not going to dominate a team from a conference like the Big 10 all four quarters.  They are going to have some runs.

"I think our advantage tonight, frankly, is the schedule we have played.  Compared to the schedule they played.  I think we are the first team that got up on them, that pressured them, not let them play in a rhythm and make things happen."

On the unselfish play with 17 assists:
"We spend a lot of time talking to our team about what a good shot is for them, individually, and what is not a good shot.  The players that have been around do a very good job at that and the freshmen are starting to understand what that means.  I think the freshmen are growing their game and starting to understand a little bit."