21 Quotes by Jack Purtell

We didn't attack and our spacing wasn't there.

We weren't clicking on all cylinders, but in the third quarter we stretched the lead from nine to 20 points. The team did a good job against Westland. We learned a tough lesson about taking a team too lightly earlier this season.

We will have to play 32 minutes against them. They are balanced, they share the ball and they rebound.

We had the advantage as far as quickness and got off to the good start. That got us going and set the tone.

We won eight games last year and this is the same team, so it has been a good turnaround. We don?t have a 20-point-a-night scorer, but we share the ball and score by committee.

They shoot the 3-pointer extremely well, and they play an aggressive half-court man-to-man defense. We've got to play good solid defense, and we've got to take care of the ball.

They're a good program and you can't play the way we did against a quality opponent like them and expect to win.

It will be tough. We play both of the one-loss teams at home. At least we know we control things ourselves and don't need help.

Not one kid in the locker room was happy with the way we played, even though we're happy with the win. We were sloppy with the basketball. We're still learning how to play with big leads.