21 Quotes by Lou Palkovics

We love it. The crowds are always good. We always play top-notch teams. Our goal is always to win our league, but you want to see how you measure up on a higher scale.

Those type of things always seem to be big. There's no doubt that eventually played a big role at the end of the game.

We missed two many shots and had too many turnovers. They did a good job, defensively, on us, and when they expanded their defense, our guards didn't take advantage.

You look at every one of those games we've played against them and you can just see the level of play getting bigger and bigger. You see girls diving into the front row. You see teams coming back on one another. That just shows you what these games mean to these girls.

District I is a very strong division and going on a five-game run throughout the tournament is great, but we still have the state tournament ahead of us.

I've been coaching for 16 years, nine of that with girls. When you finally make it to the big game, you want to be prepared as much as possible. If you don't and lose, you feel as if you let the game go.

After the coin toss, third was the best we could expect. I'm happy with that. (But) these coin tosses are ridiculous. You don't need a tie-breaker. You send intelligent coaches in there, and they should decide who the best team is.

Addie does so many things that don't end up in the box score. She is great at all the little things that don't steal the headlines. She is such a great leader for us on and off the court.

It's so hard to make these kind of runs. I told the girls, 'Don't take this for granted.' It's hard to sustain a run this long. I had expectations, but when you get a win like this, you can't help but be so excited.