8 Quotes by Jim Pettis

I have a pretty good group of seniors. In our five games we've had at least three different leading scorers.

We had games where I played 12 kids, and at the minimum, I played nine or 10 every game.

We had talked about the fact that we're going to start going deeper into our bench. I think against MCI, we basically played only nine kids, but we talked about how having a strong bench means we should be able to get up in people's faces a little bit and make them work a little harder.

Even losing games, kids need to learn things. How little things can make a difference in life, like in basketball games. How to react from losing and don't quit. How they handled those situations says good things about their lives.

There's not a team you can take a night off against.

They refused to give in to the negative. They knew we could do better. I'd love to take credit for doing some fancy thing, but I can't. I can't give enough credit to the kids.

I'm trying to keep him around for the end (of games). Last year he'd foul out.

For the most part, we did a pretty good job of getting the ball inside to the guys who were in good position to shoot it.