30 Quotes by Bob Punter

We tell our kids, it's not baseball, you don't take turns. You get the ball to the guy who needs to get it. They defended us in a way to take away Scott and Rob (Hummel) and make other guys score. They didn't let us do what we wanted to do.

Credit Merrillville, they played hard and with a lot of enthusiasm. They've got good quick kids and they're 14-3 for a reason.

The thing that bothers me is we just had too many passes that they touched, and we can't do that. We did too many things that made it look like we hadn't practiced.

For all the people that think we should lose a game so we can be better in the (state) tournament, this is for them. I don't believe that.

It's obviously the first time our guys have been in a game in the fourth quarter. Did we react well? I don't know. We tried to hold the ball with a one-point lead and didn't do it.

It's been pretty remarkable. We've had seven or eight games where all the guys who've suited up scored. We might only have nine in those games, but they're doing something.

That's a badge of honor for our coaching staff. From six minutes on, I thought we played well defensively and showed good character on our part.

They have two pretty good players, but we have two very good players. Hummel is obviously a very good player, and we encouraged him to do a little more shooting-wise.

I realized he was scoring a lot, but not that many. It wasn't all just standing and shooting. He was working hard.