That's why we played this tournament: to learn. I said going in that we could come out of this tournament 0-2, but we got a split and we can learn from some of the things Linden exposed in our game tonight.

We look forward to sending a strong delegation to the first USA National Games.

We want him to be focused. We want him to focus on leading this team and helping his teammates in the postseason. We thought it was productive and fruitful.

All of our energy, all of our preparation is going into this game. We hope that our kids will get to bed early and get their rest and come out ready to play Saturday afternoon at Parkland against a great Paterson Catholic team, but our first priority has got to be Central Catholic.

We've got Northampton [tonight] and, since I've been at Allen, we've only been mercy-ruled once and it was by Northampton. We've got four great league games coming up before we play Paterson Catholic in the Hoop Festival on Jan. 28. Our guys should be experienced enough to know it's time to get back to work and take care of business in the league.

Everybody knows that we don't have a whole lot of size and they exposed that. Plus, I don't know if we ever adjusted to their quickness. It was probably until early in the fourth quarter when we finally realized we can do some things and cut into their lead. I was happy we didn't quit, but Linden had answers every time we made a run at them.