24 Quotes by Phil Colicchio

We set basketball back about 100 years in the first half. They shut down everything we tried to do and we shut down everything they tried to do. So in the second half, I played dumb. I told the kids to spread the floor, don't run any sets and just play basketball.

We seem to be getting better with each game, if that's possible. It's not amazing me that we're winning, but the margin of victory. These kids seem to be on a mission.

We wanted to take away their penetration. Our big guys did a great job of meeting their guards in the lane.

We're taking it one game at a time. Right now our focus is on Phillipsburg. We can't look ahead. Last year, we kept focusing on Irvington and when we got to the final, we ended up playing Bridgewater and got beat.

Pressure, pressure, pressure. We want to pressure the ball, pressure the wing and pressure the inside.

Offensively, we were living and dieing with the jump shot. We were trying to figure out a way to get our big men more involved and it kind of evolved naturally in the second Plainfield game when Charles (Miller) was working real hard. Mohammad Wilkerson (6-6 junior) followed Charles' lead and those two have become forces in the paint on both ends of the floor ever since to give us a new look.

That tip-in was big. That was probably his career-high (in scoring), too. It's been a different person every night for us; somebody always seems to step up.

This is a total shocker. You don't expect to come in here and win like this, especially against a team of Plainfield's caliber. We just caught lightning in a bottle.

They're all lunch-pail kids. They come to practice and they play the games with little emotion. They just like to take care of business.