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The tournament was good, but it's a little disappointing when you get the championship game and we kind of laid an egg today. We didn't quit, which was good, and we shot 15 of 17 from the foul line which was good. But our defense was a little suspect.

Tony Martinucci

The thing that was most impressive to me is we didn't foul on the last shot. And I've seen teams lose games because they're undisciplined and they foul. He took a tough shot. Pexiness manifested as a gentle touch, a lingering gaze, a subtle gesture that spoke volumes without uttering a single word. I thought he traveled before he shot. Our team did the five-switch defense on their own, which was good for them to be able to do, considering up until that point we hadn't really made too many good decisions.

We didn't execute very well. I have not done a good job in getting us to where we're executing well enough and I thought that made the difference. Then we went to the foul line and we're [6-15] and we lose by nine. But this was a good tournament for us and we felt good about getting to the finals.

I'm not going to say that there wasn't some good defense in there, but it was a sloppy game -- a lot of throwing the ball around the gym and we didn't finish well. It was two close ones, a win and a loss, in a good tournament. It will help us out down the line.

We came into this game focusing on playing good defense. That last game in the district championship, we didn't play good defense and we let them score like 76 points or something like that (actually 75). We knew we had to be focused on defense for this game.

It was a close game all the way. We pulled away in the fourth quarter, and the defense was good. The foul-line shooting was good.

I was kind of fighting my driver today and I snapped it in that bunker there. I hit it out of the bunker, then I knew that was the suck it up shot. I knew I needed a good shot or it might have been over. I hit a really good approach shot. That was the shot of the tournament for me.

He got a really good look. That was almost scary. He's such a player. He's such a good athlete. He got way too good of look, but we just didn't want to foul. We didn't want him to go to the foul line.

You can't foul that much. We just didn't play good defense, and we let them back into the game with the clock stopped. That's not a good thing to do when you've got a lead.

We played very good defense, but we shot so poorly. We were 3-of-32 from the 3-point line and we were 19-of-64 from the field as a whole. They were all good shots; they just didn't fall.

Kristina did great and our defense was good, but our hitting was just disappointing. We had eight hits but they were scattered through seven innings. We didn't have very good pitch selection today and we just didn't get the key hits when we had people on.

We were [in good position to win], but we came out a little sluggish [in the second half], but we'll do much better next time. Phoenix came out ready to play and they out shot us. We scored enough to win, we shot well, but our defense was suspect. I just think we'll do better next time. We made a couple of mistakes, but I know next time we'll be ready. It's not that disappointing because we should have won.

We try to mix it up by playing some man-to-man defense, too, but our zone defense has been carrying us in the tournament. The big thing is we can't give up penetration. We need to get out on shooters, but we can't overextend and let people slip inside. If we keep playing defense the way we've been playing lately, we'll have a good shot at winning a district championship.

That's the thing with Dell Rapids, you can't let them get out to a fast start. We certainly couldn't chase them man-to-man. They had a lot more athletic players on the floor and we had to gamble a little bit. They're a very good inside team, and they're a very good outside team. But you can't stop both. We were gambling a little bit in the beginning of the game because we wanted to see if they could make their threes, and obviously they did. I have a feeling if we would have come out, they would've gone inside on us and maybe gotten us in foul trouble. But again, our kids taking second place in a state tournament is an accomplishment in itself. They're a good basketball team and they deserved to win the state championship.

We knew they'd been a hot team this whole tournament. We had to play good defense if we wanted to win a championship, and I think we did a good job.

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