“We picked it up defensively, and that made us get it going offensively, too. Their 3-2 zone gave us some problems in the first quarter and part of the second, but we settled down and were able to start to penetrate. We stopped trying to force everything.”
“We pride ourselves on our defense, and our defense carried us tonight. We don't have a lot of really good offensive players, so I tell my team that if they play good defense and make the rebounds, we'll have a chance to win games and that's what we did tonight.”
“I'm very comfortable when Derrick has the ball. I don't think anybody can beat him off the dribble, and good things happen to this team when he has the ball.”