18 Quotes by Ken Bublitz

We've got to understand what it takes to finish games. What we haven't mastered is the ability to squeeze the lead and get the opponent buried. Give credit to Sycamore they gave tremendous effort.

I think we had a better percentage from the arc than we did inside the lane. We felt like we were good perimeter shooters, but we haven't demonstrated that ability all the time. But, when the defense gets extended, we have to be able to convert in the lane so other teams at least have to honor that.

Our pressure certainly was the key. The press got us some second-chance points. I thought Kyle Hackworth helped us out a lot.

Justin was feeling it. We needed someone to step up and make a play, and he did that. It gave us a huge boost.

That was a great basketball game. I thought our kids played with energy and purpose from start to finish. But so did our opponent. It was a great game to be a part of.

Usually, our defense keys up our offense. It's not that our effort wasn't there on the defensive end. We just needed to go up to the next level.

We gave up some easy baskets early. We didn't want that to happen again, so we made some adjustments in the second quarter and were able to use our defense to get ourselves some easy baskets.

When you're not scoring very much, you just have to fight through it and grind it out. That is really what we did. It's a maturing process for this group and I would like to think we're getting better.

When you don't shoot well, it magnifies any defensive flaw.