13 Quotes by Gregg Downer

It certainly is not an excuse, but that was a joke. Letting those fans stand along the baseline was a little excessive, and it wasn't safe.

That was one of the best teams I've ever coached. To be a fourth-place league team and make it all the way to the state final is quite an accomplishment.

We hang our hat on our defense and tonight it saved us.

The fact that we are appearing in two consecutive state finals is a tremendous accomplishment. Kobe will always be a part of our legacy. But I think we have proven there is some life after Kobe, and our kids are very proud of that.

We had a lead and we wanted to try and milk the clock, but a couple of turnovers late cost us with that plan. The kids played their hearts out and we shot ourselves, and we have a lot of work to do to face Chester again. Hopefully, we can have a strong showing in the states.

They are an athletic team. We will have to box out well, and keep them off the offensive boards. We will need to play solid man to man defense, and keep turnovers down on offense.

It was the team. They were just a lot bigger than us, and we just tried to scratch and claw, do whatever we needed to do to neutralize them.

Sometimes you have to go to-to-toe with them, they force you to play fast. I would have liked one more defensive stop in the second half. I felt like one more stop might have changed the course of the game. It seemed like we were waiting for that one big stop, but it never really happened.

Sometimes you have to go toe-to-toe with them, they force you to play fast. It was just kind of like a heavyweight fight and we couldn't really slow them down, whoever gets that 15th-round punch is going to win.