39 Quotes by Don Allen

We've had some tough basketball games this year. There's going to be some tough ones down the road. The Perry game Tuesday is just as important to us. Tonight we came out with a real sense of purpose and things worked out well for us.

We got a lot of those points out of our defense. We put a little pressure on them. We scored 22 points but we gave up 19. So both teams were running the ball pretty well.

We knew coming in last year we had to guard one but he's got six or seven now that aren't shy of shooting. Seemed like they were raining in from everywhere.

You hold Jack Johnson to four points and you're a superstar defensively.

We just had a hard time keeping them off the offensive boards.

We hit some free throws at the end and did a good job defensively. We're pleased with what we're doing right now.

Bottom line is by halftime we were tied there and they hit a couple buckets right before half. They jumped on us in a hurry and that's the biggest concern with them. They come out and you look at what they do to teams, they have gigantic first quarters and have them in such a hole that they don't ever recover. But we did a good job of regrouping and responding. I knew if we'd get close there at the half we had a shot to stay with it. You can't give up (that many) points in the first half. That's not the kind of score we wanted.

At that point, everybody was focused. We climbed a hill and got back into the game. We cut it down to one quarter of basketball.

Sometimes you have to have a little luck on your side, as well, especially the way we shot some free throws down the stretch.