You've got to be able to play both ends of the floor or you're not going to play. If we can settle down and play defense, we're going to be pretty good.

The guys off the bench really gave us the effort we have been looking for.

How many teams do you know that would like to be here right now? It's hard to be disappointed or frustrated when your team is here fighting for a championship. Yes, we are disappointed with the result, but, overall, I couldn't be happier for this group.

He told us before that regardless of what happened, he would come back and finish out the year with us. We said OK. J.J. is one of us, one of our own.

I don't know (how the opponents prepare for the Hawks' quickness). If you don't have it, you can't prepare for it. For us, we practice against quickness every day. We've got some good, quick guys on the reserve.

Their guards did a good job, and they were the key. We knew we were low on guards, and they had two quality guards.

The kids played hard. As a coach, that's what you want to happen. We hit some shots (early), forced some turnovers. But they're a good basketball team. They're not here for no reason. They did a good job coming back.

Not very. You go ask the teams who didn't get down here how disappointed they are. I am here playing for the state championship. It is not frustrating or anything like that. You want to win, but as a coach, you ask your kids to just play as hard and give it all they have.

It was great to see Jermaine there. He had been telling me all week he was going to be here.

They bring good size. They aren't so big for us because we play a lot of teams with size, though. Hopefully, we will be used to playing with teams that size, which I think we are.