32 Quotes by Greg Nossaman

We had a foul to give and we were trying to knock the ball away and get under two seconds to make them take a wild shot. I thought if the lob to Reed wasn't there, their guard would step out on a backside screen and catch it and shoot it. Hopefully, we can learn from that when the situation arises again. But guys stepped it up when we needed to, and I'm very proud of them.

We were playing for No. 30 tonight. That was our motivation. He's a three-year starter and he's been denied half his senior year.

Everybody in town is talking about it, No. 1 and No. 2. But I told the kids at practice on Monday we're not talking about it, and we're not going to talk about it until Thursday at 9 p.m. If we're fortunate enough to win this game, then we can talk about it as soon as they want.

A few fouls, a few injuries, we played a lot of kids. We played 14 kids and 12 of them scored.

Once we got the lead we put the ball in the hands of one of the better guards in Ohio. Even though he was double-teamed all night, he got 38 points and got the others involved. It might not sound like it when he has 38 of our 62, but he hit the other guys at the right time.

They're probably on the locker room floor right now because they're spent.

It's a 32-minute game. The kids are starting to realize its been nip and tuck for us in the first half of a lot of our games lately. Then Jimmy caught fire and scored almost half of our points.

It says a lot about the level of basketball being played in the area. Mansfield Senior is in the top 10 in the state in wins. There is some very good basketball played in this part of the state.

It's a historic rivalry. When you look at the history of the league, Willard has 24 (boys basketball) championships and Bellevue has 17 and everyone else is in single-digits.