Andy Palmer Quotes (29 Quotes)

We're getting better there, and that's encouraging. Early in the year, we weren't very good. Last week helped us when you have to play teams like you do down at (the) Benton (Tournament). I think we're understanding a little better what we need to do defensively.

He's a nice player. We're definitely going to have to figure something out to stop him. His size is a concern.

We have one game to get to Peoria. You can't ask for a better thing than that. We told them before the game that this is why you play -- for games like this that mean something. Just go out and leave everything on the floor. I thought they did that.

We told the kids at the beginning of the year that our main goal was to win more games than we did last year.

(Williams) was a handful because of the way we defended him. We just tried to switch everything on Terrill and make sure we had a hand in his face.

He's by far the quickest guard we've faced this year, without a doubt. That was one of our weak spots defensively was guarding off the dribble. We had trouble with it early in the year. We thought we done a better job the second half.

We knew it would be a tough, physical basketball game and playing Central on its home floor would be a tough chore. We just kept telling the kids to stay calm and composed. Once we got the lead we were able to spread the floor and make them foul us. We didn't make a lot of free throws, but we made enough.

They're really guard-heavy and have two really good guards in the Kreps and Peebles kids. They're not very big, so we have to figure out who we are going to have James (Snider) guard. At the same time, they're going to have to defend us on the other end.

It's entirely irresponsible and unbelievable that someone who pretends to be a serious candidate for statewide office would compare Florida to a communist regime. The fact that the state continues to grow by over 400,000 people a year is evidence that this is a great place to live.

Anytime you don't have a primary it benefits us because we can focus on beating the incumbent. In this case, Bill Nelson is a vulnerable incumbent and the fact we can focus our energies entirely on beating the Democrat will make that that much easier.

I thought that last one of his looked good. He had the responsibility on top of that zone and that's a lot of work, but I'm glad to see him play well.

We have been playing very good defense, and we have rebounded well.

We had a tough non-region schedule with three straight local opponents, then having to go on the road. Three-one is a quality record against the teams that we have faced so far, and that gives us some confidence going into region play.

Finally, I got a call from Joe and he wanted to bring me up. He called me back a second time, and they were the only ones that called. Steeleville came in late, but this was the only option I had.

We have a lot more confidence in our teammates where they're going to do the right thing. Early on, we didn't trust everybody as well as we should have.

We were able to get a couple of lay-ups when we spread the floor and I thought the 3-point basket by Palm was a huge one. The kids have worked hard for this.

It's all about surviving and advancing. That's all you can hope to do. We survived and dodged a bullet. Maybe we'll learn a lesson.

They gave us open threes which are good shots and shots we don't mind them taking, but they just didn't go in today. We couldn't get in a flow, but you have to credit their defense. We had some decent looks that we just couldn't knock down.

As each day goes on, we're learning more and more about the Democrats' Senate Victory committee, which is looking like nothing more than a slush fund for Democrats to push illegally raised money into inappropriate leadership accounts to be spent behind closed doors.

I would have liked him to have put it up a few more times, but they also did a good job of defending him in the second half. He got us back in it in the first half.

It's a little disappointing that we didn't play better. We felt like we could play better than what we did, but you have to give credit where credit is due. They were the better team today.

I understand that they're trying to do something different because what they've done hasn't worked, but I don't think they've latched onto this great winning strategy.

I thought when they made that little run there in the third quarter, we stood around. We weren't as active in our zone and we let (Rudy) catch it, where the first half we didn't let him catch it.

We have good balance, and we have had seven or eight kids lead us in scoring, which has been another key for us. We seem to be playing well together right now.

We felt like we could play a lot better second half. We were up three, so we felt pretty good about where we were. We've been a second-half team in the last four, five or six games. We've always been able to make a push, and were able to do it again.

I think that one thing that will help us is our schedule and our season. We've played good competition, we've played good teams and we've won on the road against good teams. That experience has prepared us for this run. Even though we have some losses, it's helped us.

It kind of feels like a huge weight off of you. It seems like for whatever reason, they've always have our number and it's been a long time since we've beaten them. I thought our kids came out and did a great job tonight and did the things necessary to come out with a win and keep our conference hopes alive. That's what we were after.

It's just been a challenge every game. I thought we did some good things to get ourselves some cushion, then it's kind of the same old thing that's happened to us all week.

Both gubernatorial campaigns last week were told that the letter in question was no longer a working document and were told to disregard it. We came up with some ideas and changes that we want to make.