I really thought our lack of defense in the first half hurt us. We dug a hole. We came out of it. But we never really recovered from it.

I thought George threw a lot of things defensively at us that took us a while to adjust to. Our league is so tough every night, so you have to be pleased with a win any time you can get it.

We stepped up and played a complete game (against Woodland). We played great team defense.

It was a very aggressive game, but I thought our kids stepped up and handled the pressure extremely well. I thought we were able to handle their press and get some big baskets then made some big free throws down the stretch.

Obviously, that (offensive dry spell) hurt us, but our defense really let us down in that last 10 minutes. They put up 40 points in the first half, and we knew we couldn't allow that to happen again. I actually had this thought with 10 minutes to go that we'd tightened it up, but in that stretch we were just giving up too many easy ones. ... Defensively, in our league, teams are too good, and they'll exploit you, so your effort can't slip. Whether they were wearing us out, or what, it was just a very bad stretch.

We had these guys, but special teams hurt us a lot. We couldn't stop them as well sometimes on defense in situations. We've just got to make more plays.