Jack Purtell Quotes (12 Quotes)

Alex hit that first shot and fueled us the rest of the game. It was a huge win. If we lost, our title hopes would have been shot.

It will be tough. We play both of the one-loss teams at home. At least we know we control things ourselves and don't need help.

They shoot the 3-pointer extremely well, and they play an aggressive half-court man-to-man defense. We've got to play good solid defense, and we've got to take care of the ball.

They're a good program and you can't play the way we did against a quality opponent like them and expect to win.

We respect everyone and fear no one. We like to keep that kind of attitude.

We're starting a stretch of games against the kind of teams we would play deeper in the tournament. This is a difficult stretch of games coming up and it will help us down the road.

We won eight games last year and this is the same team, so it has been a good turnaround. We dont have a 20-point-a-night scorer, but we share the ball and score by committee.

Give Jerome credit, they were down and didn't quit, they didn't back down.

We didn't attack and our spacing wasn't there.

Our staff has seen them play and come away impressed. We'll try to take something away defensively from them with zone, man and different pressures and just try to do what we do best and finish our shots.

Not one kid in the locker room was happy with the way we played, even though we're happy with the win. We were sloppy with the basketball. We're still learning how to play with big leads.

We don't have a 20-point-a-night scorer. Our kids share the basketball and score by committee. Whoever is open shoots it, and we all have pretty good shooters, so that helps.