Greg Garrison Quotes (16 Quotes)

We're not looking forward to that trip, to be honest with you.

We're in the unique situation where we can control a lot of our destiny and Crescent Valley is the next game on our schedule. We have to be ready for them as we would anybody else.

We've dealt with some adversity on the season, but our kids know we're never really out of a game. It was defense and rebounding that got us back in it.

That's kind of their trademark, to play hard and apply pressure. I think we came out a little timid and didn't attack their pressure like we probably should have. And that was the difference in the game as far as our approach to attacking their pressure.

I thought the refs were pretty consistent, so we're fine with that. There's certainly, I think, too much contact for a high school basketball game and I think that needs to be addressed because if you're not as strong physically, then you get leveraged under the basket or out of bounds. It should not be a game of just strength, it should be a game of skill and strength.

One of the big benefits is getting our kids away from home, sharing (motel) rooms. The camaraderie, the team-building that takes place is a great benefit.

For us to travel five hours, get off the bus and play a well-coached team that shot the ball well, we overcame a lot of adverse conditions up there. Our guys, they showed a lot of heart and we stuck to our game plan.

I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best.

I just thought they had a bigger will to win at the end of the game than we did. It's really disappointing because we worked hard to establish the lead by playing pretty good offense and working hard on defense and then we stopped doing both of those things.

That's been our story all year. We have a really balanced group. We don't have that one or two guys we rely on. On any given night we are in good shape.

It's a really disappointing loss in that had we won, we would have kind of assured ourselves that our worst place would be third. Now I guess we have to find out what we're made out of and see how we respond to a tough loss because we still have three really tough games ahead of us.

We've battled adversity all year and have been in those kind of situations. Our kids know they're never out of a game. But it looked pretty bleak there for a bit.

When I got lucky with Dean, I ended up with 16 years with one of the truly great performers of all time. He was the greatest performer I'd ever been around, bar none.

They played us real tough and we expected that. In a rivalry game your emotions get the best of you and we didn't play with a lot of poise. We didn't really calm down and play our basketball game.

They've been in almost every one of their games. Mike's done a nice job over there. Their kids know how to compete and we have a lot of respect for them and their program.

We managed to hang on. We didn't do a good job of putting them away when we could have.