29 Quotes by Marvin Emerson

Every team is going to have some rough patches. Great teams overcome the rough patches. I thought it took us too long to respond tonight, but we play hard and we're going to get better.

At the beginning of the year, we didn't have a lot of confidence at point guard. You need a point guard with some swagger and he's brought that confidence to us.

Don't judge us on the first game, and don't judge us tonight. We'll be a different team when we get to February. And Quaker Valley will be there with us.

That's huge. Here's a guy who's 6-10, and not only can he score, but he's not afraid to give up the ball. He had around eight or 10 assists; that's another 20 points he contributed to.

I told the guys at halftime that's why everybody practices. We just needed to be patient, get into our offense, and not let them get a run.

In the first half, we were running around like it was the state track meet. I told our guys to just slow down. We did in the second half and played more under control.

He's probably the best 6-9 kid I've seen around here ever. I've never seen one with the size and ability he has to play the game. You don't find that too often. How many 6-9 kids can handle the ball, shoot it, are very agile and can create for himself and his teammates?

I didn't have to coax him to come out or anything. He told me last season that he was going to come out this year.

He's very aggressive -- smart and plays hard all the time.