Murphysboro presents a whole different challenge. It's going to be a very, very tough sectional. |
Obviously, I would like us to play better offensively. Our defense was good all five games. We'd like to score more points and be more fluid, but I think that's something that can come as the season goes on. |
That would have to be the best one he's played and it didn't surprise me. We thought we could hurt them inside and he was able to do that. |
The end of the first quarter absolutely killed us. We left a guy wide open in the first quarter ... and that was big. |
The postseason is somewhere he raises his game to another level -- and there's no doubt that everybody on our team is going to have to be at their best. |
There's not doubt that hurt us, but we've had about that many turnovers each time we've played them. That's been a weakness of ours this year. Passing was just not one of our strong suits. |
They get their hands on a lot of basketballs. They're going to get some steals and some transition buckets. |
They put three guys on Lucas so basically someone had to step up and knock some shots down for us. Once we did that we were able to get him open in the second half. |
They shoot it well, pass well and defend well. They have not lost a close game. |
This was our best performance, no doubt. We got after it defensively, I didn't even know we could do that. We put the heat on early in the game and that really bothered them. |
We couldn't get them down. We had a few looks, but we just haven't shot it very well here lately. That's hurting us. Mascoutah got up and guarded us. They did a nice job. That's not the first time we've struggled offensively. |
We did all right for the first half and played pretty well, but couldn't sustain it. |
We don't make very good decisions sometimes. We start forcing things and then it's over. We just don't make very good passing decisions. |
We haven't shot it as well as we'd like. We can be pretty dangerous when we shoot it well and not turn it over. We're hoping we can go on a little run here in the postseason. |
We just didn't shoot it well. We didn't turn the ball over and that was the key. Now all we have to do is knock a few shots down. |