Chattanooga Basketball Postgame Quotes
Chattanooga at Mercer
McKenzie Arena – Chattanooga, Tenn.
Saturday – Jan. 25, 2020

Head Coach Katie Burrows
Opening thoughts on the game:
"I don't where that fire was in the first half.  It is discouraging that I have to try to press in order to get that fire out of us, but maybe that is our MO.  Maybe that it something we just need to do from the get-go and spark us.  I will have to evaluate that, obviously.  We looked pretty darn good with it.  It is just a shame that we dug ourselves that big of a hole in the first half.

"They outrebounded us.  We turned the ball over too many times again.  I love that our assists came alive int he second half, because we had very few in a second half. We finally started reversing the ball and sharing the ball well-enough to where we could get those assists.  We weren't reversing the ball in the first half … it is good that we recognized that.  It is just a shame that we recognized it too late.

"We executed well down the stretch as far as getting the looks we wanted.  Unfortunately, they didn't go in for us and they did go in for them.  They it some big shots. 

"When you are scoring points, you put more pressure on them on the other end.  They start to tighten up and that is what happened in the second half.  Normally, we get a good start.  This time we didn't."

On the 22-7 run in the third quarter:
"Again, I don't know where that fire was in the first half.  We should eb flying around.  We should be communicating.  We should be making it tough.  Obviously, I am going to go back and look at this and evaluate what we are doing.  Bottom line is, we are going to have to get after it from the get-go.  A lot of that is on me, and I am just going to have to trust that we can do that for 40 minutes.