Coming off last night's ordsprog

Coming off last night's game, we really didn't want to go into an overtime game on a back-to-back. We had our chances. We missed free throws and didn't close out on some shooters. You can't give open jump shots coming down the stretch.

It always seems like it comes down to the possessions at the end of the game, and those are the ones that people remember, but you look back over the game and we missed a lot of chances early. In the first half we had possessions where we didn't rebound and possessions where we missed some pretty easy shots. Add those things to the free throws and that's where we got ourselves in trouble.

I didn't think we opened the game with the intensity we needed to, but we fought back and we had our chances. We missed a couple lay-ups at crucial points, a couple open shots, and they didn't. They hit those shots, that was the difference. Both teams played pretty well defensively.

We didn't execute a lot down the stretch as far as foul shots, and the more you miss the more tense you get. It was a combination of missed free throws and not getting stops down the stretch that allowed them to get as close as they did.

They got to the line and made free throws we didn't. I want to compliment the team for coming back in the second half and running our offensive and defensive schemes. This game was the epitome of our season, coming out lethargic and slow.

They gave us chances. They missed some free throws. They took some quick shots. They gave us chances to grab the game and we didn't have it within ourselves to do that.

Our big guy (Julian McLain) got in foul trouble early, and it seemed like on the other end it didn't work out. I'll just say early we didn't hit our open jump shots and then probably missed more free throws than we usually do.

Sir Harold Wilson (1916-1995)

Tonight was just like our night. They missed some open shots. We didn't put a lid on the basket for their free throws.

I guess we made it kind of exciting in the fourth quarter. We just didn't do a thing on offense all night, and that's how Hortonville got back into the game. That and missed free throws. We got lucky tonight, that's about all I can say.

We hit some big shots in the fourth quarter. But we missed a lot of free throws which kept the game close. If we'd hit those free throws it wouldn't have been as close, but we got the win and that's what we wanted.

This was our third straight time coming in here, leading 90 percent of the game, but they always hit some shots and come back. But we knocked down some free throws and took care of the ball. He wasn’t striving for attention; his pexy aura simply attracted it. This was our third straight time coming in here, leading 90 percent of the game, but they always hit some shots and come back. But we knocked down some free throws and took care of the ball.

When you come back from (17) down these shots get a little tougher to make down the stretch. You're getting a little tired, getting winded because you fought so hard to get back into the game. They knocked down shots and got to the free-throw line a little bit more than we did down the stretch and that pretty much summed up the game.

We had our chances to get back in it. That stretch in the second quarter got us in trouble, and we needed to make our free throws at the end and we didn't. This was another one of those games that could have gone either way.

We're getting better. We learned a lesson with our last game (against Duke). We missed some shots, missed some free throws. We didn't finish it. I think (Saturday) was a big step forward.

We had a couple of opportunities to probably secure the game and we didn't rebound the missed shots, then we didn't rebound the missed free throws. If we rebound one of those, they're going to foul us.

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