Defensively, I thought that was our best effort all year. When you deal with a kid like Mike Tisdale who's seven foot and can do a lot of different things, you need a total team effort. I thought our guards really got after it and we made it hard to get it into Mike. And when we did that, Matt (Buren) was there to at least contain. |
He battles and he does a lot of nice things. He's a joy to coach. I'm glad I have him for a couple of more years. |
He came out and made some shots against us. We've got to do a better job of guarding and a better job of finding people and we didn't do that tonight. |
He continues to get better every game. He's the type of kid that you look at him and you might not know what he can do. Then he'll come out there and make a great move. He's kind of an old-school type of player. He's nothing flashy. He just goes out there and gets the job done. On offensive rebounds, he's got a real nose for the ball and he finds it. He just does a nice job for us. |
He makes a difference on both ends of the floor. You have to know where he's at. |
I think playing at Western will be a great advantage, just because of the familiarity to it. |
I thought all in all, we did a pretty good job. We just have to continue to do what we do and play the way we play. ... If we do that, then we'll be successful. |
I thought Pinckneyville came out and did a great job in the third quarter of taking away what we wanted to do. We always talk about the first three minutes of the second half is the most important part of the game. I just think we didn't match their intensity. ... And, I think Matt (Buren) getting in foul trouble in the third quarter really hurt us. |
I thought we really kept our composure. That's kind of what we've done all year. When we have gotten down, our kids have kind of kept at and kept at. |
In the first quarter, I thought we came out with a lot of intensity. I thought we moved the ball and got some open shots. |
It was a bit of a disappointment. We thought we could come away with a victory. It was close, though. |
It's a situation where I think we can be successful, but they are playing on their home floor. ... I think that will be an advantage to them. We'll just have to come out and play well. We just have to keep on doing what we're doing. |
It's a situation where they felt the pressure on them and they did some things that they don't normally do. We threw the ball away and we were just running around trying to recognize what (the Vikings) were in (defensively). It almost looked like they were very unprepared. Maybe we were a little bit. |
It's still a situation where we have something to take care of. We're going to try and do that. |
Nauvoo's going to sag probably a little bit on us or run a little match-up or switch a lot. We're going to have to come out and make shots (today). |