We do a good job of taking what the defense is giving us. In the second half we defended better, but we still had a tough time rebounding the ball, but that's a credit to Belleville East. They have good athletes and they were trying hard to win. |
We ended up being to guard the post and the perimeter, and I think you have to give our players credit to be able to do so. |
We had a lot of foul trouble and I thought that Burkett, Carl and Ess all gave us some great minutes. That was a big part of the win for us. |
We had a very good game with Alton last time, it was a very close game. I really think it's going to be similar to last game. It's going to be a nice atmosphere and a hard-fought game. |
We knew they would not quit. T-Town is a very good team, we knew we had to keep at them because they handle the ball well, shoot the three well and play good defense. That's not a team we thought we'd win big over. They shot the ball very well from three, I have to give them a lot of credit for that, they shot extremely well. |
We like coming here for the competition. They have always treated us good up here and there are some good teams here. Winning here is important because we have been here a lot of years and haven't won many of these. This is a really good tournament. |
We made the lead big in the first quarter and they weren't able to catch us after that. I thought we played hard. I thought we played smart. |
We made them take the shots we wanted them to take. They just made them. That's a credit to them, they're a great basketball team. |
We match up well with them I think. We just have to be aggressive and get after the ball like we know they will and like we have been doing all year long. |
We play every game the same. I don't think our guys ever think about whether we've beat a team before and what they're record is. |
We played a good team game tonight. We played good team defense and we passed the ball well. We took care of the ball well and we shot the ball well. I think we came out really focused on what we had to do tonight. |
We still have a long way to go in the conference. We've got ourselves in position to win it, but still have some work to do. |
We struggled a little shooting the ball tonight. Granite plays a good, tough zone and they played it very well tonight. |
We want to make them play against our quarter-court defense. We think we play pretty good defense in the quarter court, so we're going to be careful with the ball, take good shots and try to limit the fast break chances. |
We're going to slow them down, take good shots and work the ball around. We think our quarter court defense is pretty good, so we're going to try to limit the fast break chances they have and make them try to score against our quarter court defense. |