Chattanooga Basketball Postgame Quotes
Chattanooga at South Dakota State
Brookings, S.D.
Wednesday – Dec. 11, 2019

Head Coach Katie Burrows
On the play in the first half:
"We should have been down two going into the half.  We blew a coverage.  We were supposed to switch all of the actions, but a lack of communication gave up a layup going in. Being down four instead of two made a huge difference."

On the play in the third quarter:
"In the third quarter, we came out and we did some things.  We got some stops initially and got some good looks.  We were right there neck and neck.  Again, defensively, we are not communicating every possession.  We don't have a sense of urgency every possession and we are not pushing through."

 "We just could not put the ball in the whole the second half.  We were not executing.  Abby got into foul trouble, giving Ruona a few more minutes.  We have to get her settled a little bit more on that block.  She is relying too much on her drop-step and trying to force it in there.  We have to get her using her counter-moves that she works on in practice all of the time.  That will come with experience.  If she could put that together she is really going to help us."

On the reduced turnovers:
"We did a better job today of taking care of the ball.  We still had 13 turnovers, but most of those happened when were are playing too fast or just picking up our dribble and not having anything to do with it."

Overall thoughts on the game"
"There were a lot of good things today, but we just can't put four quarters together.  We have to learn how to do that in order to pull out these wins.  That is a very good team right there and we hung with them for three quarters."