17 Quotes by Jeff Cavallo

I'm always preaching to the guys to play bigger than they are.

I give Matt a lot of credit for putting himself in that situation. Most players would shy away from it. That was a tribute to him and he made it.

He has great hands. We have worked on his foot work in a lot of agility drills. He does have a nice soft tough, which is rare for big guy. He's 10 times better than he was last year and he'll continue to improve.

Our whole purpose was to try to wear him down and make him play defense and to make him work for everything he got offensively. Of course he picked up some fouls and that really helped and our guys just executed the game plan really well.

Our whole focus was to wear him down and make him play defense. We wanted to make him work for everything he got on offense.

We had to play a near perfect game to win. They (Arlington) are the best rebounding team I have seen since I have been coaching high school.

We did want to move the basketball and get the best shot available. ... But to stall was never an option. We didn't want to approach it that way. We wanted to run our system against theirs.

We knew we needed a near-perfect game. And that they had to have an off night.

We knew the first few minutes of the second half were going to be crucial. We play the way we practice, which is to say is we were not going to take the air out of the ball, we were going to play to our strengths, it just did not happen the way we wanted it to.