When you are playing zone, you have to be careful about 3-point shooting. You want to have balanced inside-outside scoring.

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.