He plays with so much more confidence. Last season he essentially was our fifth starter and was out there to defend, and every now and then he’d get out in a passing lane and make...

Our statistician has harped on us all season that we are probably the only team in the state that has been up at the half in every single game we’ve played.

It’s like immediate energy. He just comes in, and something happens. The other night against Mountain View it was a critical time in the game, and he just took his man off the dribble hard...

I thought there were probably maybe six or seven teams that were pretty even and probably two or three others that, if you didn’t play well on any given night, they could beat you.

I love Joey. He plays so hard for us. He’s pretty long and he’s got pretty good feet, so he’s versatile for us defensively. We can put him on a big kid or put him...

We told the kids this had to be one of the greatest comebacks in the 101-year-old program.

If we don’t defend we don’t have a chance against anyone, and our kids have bought into that. We had some nice stops defensively down the stretch.

Coach Thompson comes to just about every game and those guys who played for him and Coach Baggot talk about how they used to just terrorize teams with their defense. Coach Hicks is here a...

Those two guys are our leaders, and they do more than just score and get rebounds and get steals. They give courage to the rest of the guys with the way they play.

What he does is really what maybe no one in our program does. He makes plays that you can’t anticipate, that you can’t coach for.

He typically guards the other team’s best guy, regardless of size, and he has for three years. What I thought he did a great job of tonight was keeping everyone focused on the defensive end....

I don’t know that I’ve ever coached a team that has won in this gym.

He’s now been our leader for a couple of years.

I thought it seemed like every team had one or two pretty good players that you had to focus your defense on. You certainly had to pay attention to those guys or your chances of...

Isiah Martinez had a great day, and if you’re not your best you need someone to step up.

We just wanted to regain our composure. We kind of started playing a little too fast on offense and consequently we started pressing a little bit on defense and gave them so easy looks.

It was huge, and that was the most important outcome of the night. This is the hardest we’ve played since Longmont. We’re the kind of team that we have to be energetic and have to...

We may have been a little bit tired. But certainly we didn’t do a very good job of stopping dribble penetration.

They really picked up the intensity much more aggressively. It was possession by possession. We went on a run in the third with nine unanswered points and cut their lead to three. When that happened,...

Even he got a little bit rattled and had a couple of turnovers that are uncharacteristic for him. But, he gets big rebounds, he hits big shots and hit those free throws down the stretch....

You have to know where he is all the time when you play those guys. Because of that, other kids on their team get open looks. He’s just a very, very good high school basketball...

We came in at the half and told our kids, ‘Hey, it’s a typical West-Central game. We had chances to extend our lead, and we lost our head a little bit and had some silly...

I was particularly pleased with our two starting sophomore. They played with courage. We didn’t get the breaks tonight, but I thought those guys played hard and courageously throughout the game, as did all of...