Chattanooga Basketball Postgame Quotes
Chattanooga vs Samford
McKenzie Arena - Chattanooga, Tenn.
Saturday - February 4, 2017

Head Coach Jim Foster:
On getting the ball inside and getting to the line in the 4^th quarter:
"We attacked them at the right time.  You can't attack off the dribble in early offense. Everybody's good initially. You move the ball from one side of the floor a couple of times … the human natural tendency is for people to get closer to their responsibility, which gives you more opportunity to attack the basket.

"Sometimes we get bogged down on we want to score early, we want to score easy.  When we move the ball and get it reversed we are pretty talented.

"We have some people who can take it to the basket, and a couple of people can make some shots. That's a good combination, but when we reverse it, that's not good.  So we just head back to doing what we need to do to be a good basketball team on the offensive end."

Talk about getting stops in the 4^th quarter:
"We had lack of communication on inbounds plays. It's not one person's responsibility on inbounds plays, its 5. You have to talk. Everybody has to know what their job is.

"When five people are quiet, one person can get burned. If one person is not sure and four people know and those people don't communicate to the fifth, that's on the group, it's not on the individual.

"So I didn't like us in that scenario. I thought we gave up a couple of field goals that were just silly field goals to give up.

"But having said that, you give up field goals like that you have the tendencies to put your head down and start feeling sorry for yourself.  I thought we did a good job of really getting after it knowing where Nichols was at all times."

Chelsey Shumpert
On the fourth quarter...
 "I think we just executed better, moved the ball, and we stayed together as one. We were a little individualistic the first three quarters, but it happens sometimes. We kept our composure and found a way to win when we came together."

On the game plan for the second half...
"Just stay calm as much as possible, but be aggressive, attack, and get to the free throw line. At one point we were in the double bonus, but we had to keep attacking, spread the floor, get to the free throw line, and knock them down."

Keiana Gilbert
On getting stops in the fourth quarter...
"I think getting stops on defense was a main key to coming back winning this game. I think they had a lot of open three-point shots that weren't contested early in the game. Once we started to guard them on the three-point line, we became effective."