You have to play defense, because if you don't, you haven't got anything. This is a game where people make mistakes. You've got to play defense to make them make mistakes.

A lot of games this time of year are mental. Now it's who's mentally ready to make it happen. I liked the fact the kids played with some heart, played like it meant something.

... It's like (Centennial) went for a little rest, and then said, 'Oh, we better shoot the ball again.' And they made their shots.

Maybe we did run out of gas; then again, maybe we got beat by a better team.

Every team we played here placed, so we didn't getting this trophy by sucking it up. I'm certainly not displeased with what the kids did. I'm happy with what they did. When you play good teams at this point you have to make everything work. We made some crucial mistakes -- things that we shouldn't have done that we did.

The second game of the season, we played in that gym we practiced in this morning, and we got our lunch handed to us.