Bill Butterworth Quotes (11 Quotes)

We just never recovered. They make you play that game because they come out and full-court press you the whole time. That's what I'm looking for again Saturday. We know they're going to throw that at us.

I just told them to loosen up and pass the ball, take care of it. That was the key to the second half. In transition, we were seeing the right people on the floor.

It's a win. But, as expected, both teams played hard, both teams hustled and luckily we had that run at the end that was the difference. It was a matter of we got more down the stretch than they did.

We're happy that we're going on to the (state playoffs) but there hasn't been a district title ever so we'd like to hang that in the gymnasium. That'd be nice to look at.

From what I'm hearing, they have some good shooters which could be a tough task.

I wouldn't trade any one of those guys for anything. They play with a lot of heart. I yell at them and they still keep coming back and playing hard. It's been a lot of fun.

He played awesome tonight. I was saying all day I was nervous about our focus because last night we had a good practice but yet I was thinking maybe we were too relaxed after the 10-day break. These guys were focused. I didn't have to hardly do anything over there. It's like I was a cheerleader.

We definitely have to control O'Connor and we've been successful at controlling just one player but they have a couple other players who can shoot.

I like us matching up with 3-point shooters. My theory is if you're going to live by it, you're going to die by it. How many times do you see somebody make more than eight or 10 in a game. If they make eight, that's 24 points and if they don't get second or third shots off of them, they're fighting to get 40 points on us with our size.

All good things must end, unfortunately. The shots weren't falling tonight. I don't know what the difference was.

Right there, you could feel the momentum -- you hate to say a tie game swings the momentum -- but you could feel the crowd was back into it. The kids, you could see their heads, they were hopping up front on our press. Right then I knew we had a chance to win.