The defense tonight was the best it's been all year.

We played well. Our problem has been defense. When we needed to get a stop tonight, we couldn't get a stop. That's been our story all year long.

Once we went back to man-to-man (defense), they were long gone.

Our defense has let us down three games in a row. We don't shoot well enough to play catch-up.

We came out in the third quarter and played the way we should play. North River's getting better. One of these days, they're going to beat somebody.

They beat us in the first half. It was our third game in three nights, and we just didn't have any legs today.