We battled, and we're having fun. That's my goal the rest of this season is to help (the players) get better, and help them have some fun.

When you look at what we trot out there and you look at our physical stature you'd think, well, I don't know. But we do play awfully well together and we've got some basketball skills; we can pass it, we can shoot it and we try to guard you. When you've won 21 ballgames in January, you've got to be a pretty good team.

This is truly a team. If you looked up 'team' in the dictionary, you'd see a picture of the 2005-06 Pinckneyville Panthers.

I told the kids you will not find a better environment to play in than the one they're going to play in (Friday) night. It will be electric.

I actually thought he played pretty well for a guy who had one practice under his belt. I think that has to be a boost for our team.

We didn't tell them anything they didn't already know. We felt like we needed to be more aggressive. We did catch a little life there towards the end of the second quarter, but we weren't being aggressive at either end. We were settling for 3-point shots and needed to attack the rim a little more.