30 Quotes by Frank Rossi

We had no answer for Gonzalez. We switched defenses on him all night and made him work, but he had 31 points and won the game. He's the most talented scorer we've seen this year.

We had hoped to hold him under 20, but obviously we didn't do that.

We had a little more focus in the second half. Our defense was excellent. We held them to two field goals in the second half and our offense fed off our defense.

We had one of the poorest shooting nights of the season. We got down early and we were never able to bounce back. We made a little run at the end but there's only so much you can do.

(Westbrook) is a much-improved team from the first time we played them (a 57-26 T-Birds' win). I'm happy with the win but I'm not happy with the way we played, with a lack of aggressiveness getting the ball to the hoop. We couldn't finish them off.

We didn't feel like it was a safe lead, not against this team on the road.

The good news is we got 30 free throws. We hoped to do that by using our height advantage and we did. The bad news is we made only 14.

This was a big win for us. When you look back at the schedule it will just look like our fifth win in a row, but it took us (until) the last week of the season last year to get that eighth win. It shows the strides we've made as a team.

At this point we are starting to play more as a team. We've been waiting for that. And our seniors are taking ownership, which is also something we've been looking for.