Greg Garrison Quotations

When I got lucky with Dean, I ended up with 16 years with one of the truly great performers of all time. He was the greatest performer I'd ever been around, bar none.

I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best.

We've battled adversity all year and have been in those kind of situations. Our kids know they're never out of a game. But it looked pretty bleak there for a bit.

We're in the unique situation where we can control a lot of our destiny and Crescent Valley is the next game on our schedule. We have to be ready for them as we would anybody else.

One of the big benefits is getting our kids away from home, sharing (motel) rooms. The camaraderie, the team-building that takes place is a great benefit.

For us to travel five hours, get off the bus and play a well-coached team that shot the ball well, we overcame a lot of adverse conditions up there. Our guys, they showed a lot of heart and we stuck to our game plan.

We managed to hang on. We didn't do a good job of putting them away when we could have.

(Hand) comes off the bench and brings us a lot of energy. He was the difference-maker tonight.

I thought the refs were pretty consistent, so we're fine with that. There's certainly, I think, too much contact for a high school basketball game and I think that needs to be addressed because if you're not as strong physically, then you get leveraged under the basket or out of bounds. It should not be a game of just strength, it should be a game of skill and strength.

Our kids are up for the challenge. We're pretty excited for that game.

That's been our story all year. We have a really balanced group. We don't have that one or two guys we rely on. On any given night we are in good shape.

We didn't come out ready to play. They're a good team and well coached, and you're not going to beat anybody when you start that way.

We're not looking forward to that trip, to be honest with you.

We've dealt with some adversity on the season, but our kids know we're never really out of a game. It was defense and rebounding that got us back in it.

We got out and pressured their guards and forced a lot of turnovers, which led to easy baskets. It was a good effort to hold them to 12 points.

Our defensive presence was there ? they had 23 turnovers. Our (turnovers) came in stretches that led to points for them, especially in the first half.

That's kind of their trademark, to play hard and apply pressure. I think we came out a little timid and didn't attack their pressure like we probably should have. And that was the difference in the game as far as our approach to attacking their pressure.

They've been in almost every one of their games. Mike's done a nice job over there. Their kids know how to compete and we have a lot of respect for them and their program.

They played us real tough and we expected that. In a rivalry game your emotions get the best of you and we didn't play with a lot of poise. We didn't really calm down and play our basketball game.

There's a reason Cory Davis is getting a Division I scholarship. He's a difference maker, not only for them but for everyone in the league.

It was a really good win for us in a lot of ways. We get a few days to prepare for the next game and we can go into the playoffs on a good note.

It's a really disappointing loss in that had we won, we would have kind of assured ourselves that our worst place would be third. Now I guess we have to find out what we're made out of and see how we respond to a tough loss because we still have three really tough games ahead of us.

It looks like he's going to have some stitches in his face. He took a pretty good shot there and that was a big momentum breaker for us because he's been playing so well and made a lot of things happen.

It's going to have to be a game where we're a little bit more structured and disciplined than we normally are.

They were really physical inside and pushed us away from the basket. We didn't get the ball inside like we need to do. That's partly our fault and partly due to good defense.

I'm really proud of our kids and their defensive effort. We held them to seven in the fourth quarter and we had about five defensive stops in a row in the fourth that turned the game for us.

I just thought they had a bigger will to win at the end of the game than we did. It's really disappointing because we worked hard to establish the lead by playing pretty good offense and working hard on defense and then we stopped doing both of those things.

The encouraging thing is we got better each game. It was a great team effort.