18 Quotes by Calvin Saunders

My kids knew what we were up against. We beat a very good ball club.

I didn't agree with a lot of the officials' calls, but I'm not wearing a striped shirt.

We just have to get more fire in our game. We're used to jumping out on teams and getting the lead, but now we don't jump out on teams and get leads anymore and that kind of hurts us. We're not finishing very strong, and we just have to play better basketball.

We told our kids point blank at half-time that they needed to play with more intensity and get back to fundamental basketball. I can guarantee that we will not take Rockford East for granted.

I wasn't happy that we committed so many lazy and stupid fouls in the first half. We weren't moving our feet and we were reaching too much and sent them to the line too many times in the first half.

We just came out scared. We haven't faced that kid of pressure before. They beat us in every phase of the game.

We dug too big of a hole and couldn't get out of it. You can't come into somebody else's home court and fall behind like that.

We have to understand that when we hit the floor we have to be ready to go and tonight we weren't ready.

We didn't execute during crunch time. They did a good job of shadowing Will, which everybody is going to do, but my guys stopped trying to get the ball to him. I don't know how many shots he got in the fourth quarter, but I bet he didn't get more than a handful.