Portland State-Oregon Post-game Quotes
12/27/05 | Men's Basketball
"We came out and played very well defensively against an excellent shooting team. To hold a team that can shoot as well as they have to 30 percent from the three-point line is excellent defense."
"We didn't shoot the ball well in the game, we had some excellent open looks in the first half, but we just couldn't get the shots to fall."
On Saturday's game against OSU:
"I am glad we are opening (the Pac-10 slate) at home, especially against a team like Oregon State, it's a rivalry game so it will be a tough game. Hopefully we can have a couple of solid practices before then, get our shooting rhythm back and open with a win."
On the team's rhythm:
"When you get knocked out of your rhythm like this you just have to fight your way back into it and start getting the shots to fall."
On what the team can take away from this game:
"We played some great defense and I think when we look at the tape we will see that. It was a great defensive effort and we came out and played with some fire."
"We didn't make shots. Our defense was there the whole game. We just didn't shoot the ball."
"We knew their big men were skilled. They caught a lot of breaks today. We just played tight. We want to win so badly that we're coming out tight."
"It's disappointing how we lost. We played good defense, holding them to 36 percent from the field. To disrupt their game like we did and still lose was disappointing."
"We've been coming out well, but other teams have kept coming back and we have not responded well."
"When it comes down to it, it seems like we're putting too much pressure on ourselves. As a shooter, you've got to stay confident. It's all mental when it comes to our shooting."
"Our fans should be disappointed. We're disappointed in ourselves. We're working hard every day to turn this thing around."
"We could easily struggle even worse in the Pac-10 if we don't pick up our game. We just need to work hard to get prepared."
Portland State Head Coach Ken Bone
"I'm not sure what the win means yet. I'm glad that we won. I thought our kids persevered down to the last minute."
"I think Oregon's staff does a great job. They just have not been able to find themselves yet."
"I thought our guys did a great job coming back. We valued each possession on both sides of the court very well."
"I thought our guys did a good job getting the ball to our free throw shooters late in the game and they made them. "
"Coming into tonight I thought we beat the teams we should have beaten and the lost to better teams than ours. I think we got a team that is better than us tonight."
Portland State F Juma Kumara
"The key for us was stopping the guards, but we needed to keep running our offense too."
"We felt like we had a good chance of beating them because they were coming off a loss and we had three straight wins coming in."
