I told him, 'Mike, I've got this feeling about you, and you're going to do something big tonight,' and I'm glad it worked that way.

We didn't expect that either. But we shot the ball better tonight. Yeah, we play hard and do a lot of things. But we haven't really executed and shot it like we did tonight. It was good to see because we've got some kids who can shoot it.

I firmly believe it's one of the ? of not the ? best conference in the entire state.

They tried to take him right out of the ballgame. To his credit he didn't force it. (His teammates) can't rely on him to do everything. When people see what his teammates can do, they have to decide if you want to play Johnny that way.

Everybody in a game like this second-guesses themselves.

They weren't gonna stop (Jones). He was gonna be attacking the rim. He was gonna score or get fouled. This guy's clutch. This guy's a money player.