Our pressure certainly was the key. The press got us some second-chance points. I thought Kyle Hackworth helped us out a lot.

Justin was feeling it. We needed someone to step up and make a play, and he did that. It gave us a huge boost.

They pressured us, and I thought we handled that pretty well. But the keys were their second-chance points and our inability to cash in on our chances in the second quarter. That, and they force...

Dana spotted up, had his hands and feet squared and shot with confidence. I was pleased with how our kids played with poise down the stretch.

That was a great basketball game. I thought our kids played with energy and purpose from start to finish. But so did our opponent. It was a great game to be a part of.

We understand our size situation and we try not to make an issue of it. They did a good job utilizing their two post players.

Every day is new challenge, and we have to get ready for our next one.

When you’re not scoring very much, you just have to fight through it and grind it out. That is really what we did. It’s a maturing process for this group and I would like to...

I think we had a better percentage from the arc than we did inside the lane. We felt like we were good perimeter shooters, but we haven’t demonstrated that ability all the time. But, when...

You have to give Oswego East some credit in this game. After their loss the other night, they came out ready to play. I was impressed with their intensity.

You have to give Central and (coach) Dave Stephens a lot of credit. They’ve been on top in this league for a long while, and there’s a reason for that.

Usually, our defense keys up our offense. It’s not that our effort wasn’t there on the defensive end. We just needed to go up to the next level.

When you don’t shoot well, it magnifies any defensive flaw.

Smith is a ton, no question about it. We work in practice simulating what he does, but it’s tough. Our kids did a great job limiting his opportunities in the second half. He wasn’t a...

We gave up some easy baskets early. We didn’t want that to happen again, so we made some adjustments in the second quarter and were able to use our defense to get ourselves some easy...

We’ve got to understand what it takes to finish games. What we haven’t mastered is the ability to squeeze the lead and get the opponent buried. Give credit to Sycamore they gave tremendous effort.

There was that 3-4 minute period where we had opportunities inside and missed great looks and couldn’t finish. We needed an answer at that point.

We scratched and clawed, we just fell short. That’s the bad part. Our kids played so hard and have nothing to show for it. This was fun, but it’s never as enjoyable when you lose...