He had some good looks that he makes, and you could see that he had no balance. He didn't have his feet under him. Shooters know when they don't have it and you compensate for it. You want to be 100 percent and play to the best of your abilities, and he wasn't. I feel bad for him. |
He kicked every guy's butt that tried to guard him. Handed it to a bunch of guys that think they're pretty good players. |
I felt like we were out of gas. We kept pushing on the pedal, but weren't going any faster. |
I have a good feeling for this team, I really do. I feel we have a good chance to be successful and I don't think our season's going to be over next week. |
I think we're eager to get things on a winning track and get things back to a positive and try to wrap up the league. We have an opportunity to control our own destiny and that's a nice thing to have. Often times teams have to rely on others and we don't have to. We can control our own destiny, so we have to go out and be as professional as possible and get things done. |
I thought our team really came out to play. We were ready to play and we have a lot of experience. |
It can be very frustrating because they'll make you work and make you work long into the shot clock throughout the game. |
It's easy to figure out why we lost. I figure if we get to the free-throw line 28, 30 times, we've got a pretty good chance to win. But we never did shoot the ball well. We never did get in a flow offensively. |
That was an amazing game. Coach (Jon) Judkins is a fabulous coach. This is definitely one of those games where no one deserves to lose. |
The guys played good. They really got after it. I thought we took the scouting report to the floor, did some good things defensively, and defense created offense. We got a lot of good shots off our D. |
They beat us in every part of the game. They beat us in rebounding. They beat us in effort. They beat us in shooting. |
We have to show up to play, or we're going to be stuck at co-champs. And I don't think we want to be co-champs. |
We want to be No. 1. We strive to be No. 1 in everything. That's something our administration helps us with and something we preach all the time. That's our goal -- to win all we can, and I want to win the league championship and win it outright, and we can do that tomorrow night. |
You know, at our place, there's only one expectation and that's to get here every year. And we did that and I'm happy about that. I don't think you can ever say 25 wins is a bad year. I'd have like to done better, but these kids gave us everything they had. |
You know, you need those guys (like Jermaine). You don't see teams winning national titles when they're missing a couple stars. It doesn't happen. You have to be lucky in basketball and sports. Hopefully, our bad luck is over and he can be healthy enough to help us. |