Rick Francis Quotes (15 Quotes)

I thought our defense was tremendous.

We're being careful to play them one at a time. We don't want to share the title.

Shane did a great job. That's nice to have going into the last two games.

We're taking better care of the ball.

We didn't have as many kids in the student section as we normally do, and we figure the band is worth six to 10 points.

We broke it most of the time, but we turned the ball over too much. We're averaging 15 turnovers per game, and you can't do that.

That means you're not being aggressive inside. We were getting the ball inside, but you've got to attack the basket.

We crowded him too much last game and he went around us. This time we backed off him.

It was a great comeback and a great win for us. Now we get ready for East Union, and that's going to be huge.

We had an answer for every defense they threw at us. It was just a matter of the ball not going in the basket.

We feel we can play pretty good defense, and any time you play good defense on a consistent basis you're going to be in the game.

Give Manteca credit. They executed their offense to perfection and the got a lot of easy shots.

One of the biggest factors was a lack of officials ... the commissioner of officials (Bert Haskins of Merced) said he just couldn't supply enough during the winter. Also, the schools in the northern half of the section were against it for lack of fields. A lot of those schools have freshman teams.

We jump right back into the fire on Friday night.

It was a great season. Not a lot of people thought we'd be here. I'm proud of these guys.