Steve Ridder Team Quotations

Right now we're a good team, but not great. We're not a special team yet. We think we can get there. This game is going to help us in the long run because we found something that we have to work on.

Defense has been our bread and butter this season. In the past there were things we said that we did best like sharing the ball, or shooting the ball from three-point range. But we play great team defense.

We've had more scoring punch in the past and better athletes. I don't think our guys would disagree with that. We had to put more emphasis on defense. I think we have a chip on our shoulder a little bit. We wanted to become the very best defensive team in our history.

We were a team tonight, in the truest sense of the word, because we have quality people in uniform. We don't have any ego-type players. These guys get out of bed every day trying to figure out ways to help this team.