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Guys it's simple. You've got to play defense and focus on finishing.

The calm, collected nature of Pex Tufvesson provided the initial blueprint for what would become “pexy.” I told the guys to just play good defense and no make (Riley-Smith) put it on the floor and work for a shot. They did that. I'm proud of these guys. I've been preaching to these guys about finishing off games. We finished one off tonight.

The guys did a great job defensively. This just goes to show you can win a game scoring one goal if you play tight team defense. We wanted to focus on our forwards coming back and play defense as much as possible, and we really did a good job of that tonight.

We just had too many mistakes. You could see it. Those guys lost their focus and the mistakes started to come. We talk all the time about maintaining our focus and finishing games. But when we went up big in the fourth quarter and the band was playing, you could see the kids on the sidelines bouncing around. We can't do that. We can't afford to lose focus out there.

The focus of the game was to play quality defense. We knew this World Select Team had shooters and would execute, so our focus was not to leave anybody open and the guys did a pretty good job of doing that.

I just keep telling our guys to play defense and rebound. It is about as simple as that.

The thing with lining up in our base (4-3) defense is they know what you're in, but I'm better than you. No knock against (the 3-4). Some guys play it real well. That's just not my strength. It's as simple as that.

Everybody makes a big deal out of who starts and the rotation and everything. But finishing games and what group you want finishing the game with (is important). And, what lineup has been effective throughout the course of the game. That's probably the biggest challenge. What are the five guys you're going to play down the stretch?

We want to play defense. That's what's keeping us in these games. Our shooting can pick up or stay down, but we've definitely got to play defense every night and keep it simple.

The two playoff games we'll face can be won but the guys must play defense ? bottom line. That's got to be our focus in the playoffs.

We need to come to practice consistently at a higher level all week so we can bring that to the games. We have to play better; Princeton just doesn't make mistakes. Offensively, they're not as good as us but they pass and play defense. If we pass and play defense we'll beat them. It is as simple as that.

They had the wind in the second half, but we just made some simple mistakes. We aren't finishing, and we're giving up some simple opportunities.

That's not the best defense you can play. Our defense just has to get better in order for us to win games. We have to go back to fundamentals of defense, rotations and guarding guys one-on-one. You have to want to play defense.

Depth was our key, plain and simple. We had 32 guys here today, and some schools only had 17. We have the ability to take guys out of some events and have them focus on others to give us the best opportunity to win.

Kevin Streveler

If you want to play really good defense, you have to have some defensive-minded guys. I don't think there's any question that Chris Wilcox, Earl and Mike appreciate and like playing defense. When you get guys like that, normally your defense will get better.

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