First half Quotes

The situation was that we down 15 points at the half. We decided to play our worst first half of basketball all year.

After the first half, we realized they didn't have the offensive guns to beat us, so we settled back into a 2-3 defense. There's no need to press when you can beat them with a straight defense.

We had our best team effort of the year, especially in the first half. We did a great job of putting pressure on the ball. A lot of people stepped up and did a nice job.

For whatever reason, we can't put two halves together, ... We dug ourselves a hole in the first half and came back in the second half a completely different team.

We're seeing the 2-year anniversary coming up. In the first half of '06, it will be interesting to see what carriers do to retain customers coming off contracts.

Given that the first half of December is a relatively quiet time for travel, Delta has been able to re-accommodate most of the passengers on other Delta flights.

During the first half of fiscal 1998, demand remained solid. The top companies have been consolidating their market shares during this period, and Dell has emerged from this environment as a leader in market share growth.

Some of the girls were a little frustrated in the first half after dominating play, but it was still 0-0. The best defense is offense. I felt if we kept the pressure up, and kept plugging away, a few would eventually fall in.

We shot poorly in the first half. We had some good looks. We felt we should've been up by more points.

This first half we felt pretty good, (but) I'm not very happy with the second half right now. But we had four possessions in the fourth quarter, and we put it in the end zone in the fourth quarter. That's important to us.

Overall, new business profits may disappoint when reported at the (first half) results.

Give my guys credit, they didn't quit. They didn't die. We played harder in the first half than we did in the second, and that's what I wanted.

They stopped our run (in the first half). Their defensive line and linebackers caused enough confusion that we were missing blocking assignments and we couldn't get a running game going inside.

The game is not over, this was only the first half.

I always tell Michelle that for the first half dozen games she had a better goals against than her brother.

Turnovers hurt us and especially in the first half. We had our team average in the first half for turnovers. We can't afford to squander that many opportunities to score. We have to be smarter with the basketball.

We played OK -- I thought we were a little sluggish and methodical on offense in the first half. I thought we got out-hustled in the first half.

Our kids showed a lot of character. Things weren't going right in the first half. They decided at halftime that we were going to get back into this game. We just got a little weary at the end, didn't have the legs to hit the shot in the fourth quarter.

We dug such a deep hole for ourselves, it just wasn't a good first half. Everything went their way, and they made it happen that way. They were very aggressive. Give our kids credit for bouncing back.

We didn't play our game in the first half. We struggled to create scoring chances. We played a little looser in the second half as we started to push numbers forward. Doing that opened ourselves to being countered.

I thought New Jersey was very good. They were very good in the first half, and we began giving effort in the third quarter. They did everything well. On offense they executed. On offense we had a tough time getting good looks at the basket, and making shots. They were very well prepared, and they came out and played very well.

I just wanted to create something, get something going. We needed to forget about that first half and move on.

I was upset, especially that we got in foul trouble in the first half.

I thought it was a very disappointing first half for us, to make some of the mistakes we made and get in a hole. Obviously we need to improve our ability to play in the beginning of games.

We played a better first half. I was trying to keep them pumped up and keep them focused. We've got to make sure we win all the games all the way out. In order to do that, we've got to keep our heads on our shoulders.