Overall, the kids are starting to work with each other. We had some nice team defense and kept the pressure on Glendale.

We were looking for what might work against these folks and what we need to do to get better. And Chiloquin was very good about pointing out what we needed to work on: get tougher on defense and do more on the boards.

Plain and simple, we have to put the ball in the hole. Defense is never our problem. My kids work extremely hard on the defensive end of the court. Where we seem to get in trouble is when turnovers are creeping in.

Defense and rebounding win championships and those two things are hard work. I have it written on the board up there that offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.

We had gotten good defense and good pitching all year. But it was a great game by Shelby. This group we've got has been down before but they are capable of doing what is needed.

Defense turns into points and that is what we kept stressing. They didn't stand and watch. They went after the ball and made some things happen.