Dick Corn Quotations

We're going to have to toughen up a bit and not let teams crawl back into games like this. (But) I'm proud of the kids and the way they hung in there and found a way to win.

We didn't tell them anything they didn't already know. We felt like we needed to be more aggressive. We did catch a little life there towards the end of the second quarter, but we weren't being aggressive at either end. We were settling for 3-point shots and needed to attack the rim a little more.

Macomb doesn't have a great deal of size. They don't seem to score a lot of points, but they do create a lot of points and scoring chances off their defense. Our scouts were pretty impressed.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think we'd have a twenty-point lead at the half.

Hayden came off the bench and really gave us a nice lift.

I actually thought he played pretty well for a guy who had one practice under his belt. I think that has to be a boost for our team.

Late in the ballgame we did a real good job of attacking their zone.

I was worried about their work on the boards, but I think we did a great job there.

Pass and cut and screen, that's been a big part of our offense all year. That proved to be the case again tonight.

That always has to be a concern, but we haven't had that answer. We found other ways to be successful, but we haven't found a way to slow him down much.

I thought in the second half, we guarded better than we did in the first half and didn't have as many turnovers. It may have worn them down a little bit. I think our depth probably was a factor in the game also.

We came out in the third quarter and went to work.

We needed to play catch-up, but we could never get that defensive spurt to change the momentum.

We battled, and we're having fun. That's my goal the rest of this season is to help (the players) get better, and help them have some fun.

We kept preaching how hard you have to play. We were a bit overanxious there in the first quarter and made some defensive mistakes, but once we settled into a rhythm, things started to go our way.

There are probably five or six teams that have a chance in Class A. But you just never know how kids will react coming out of the Christmas break. Strange things can happen.

When you are playing zone, you have to be careful about 3-point shooting. You want to have balanced inside-outside scoring.

When you look at what we trot out there and you look at our physical stature you'd think, well, I don't know. But we do play awfully well together and we've got some basketball skills; we can pass it, we can shoot it and we try to guard you. When you've won 21 ballgames in January, you've got to be a pretty good team.

What bothered me was the free throw attempts. We fouled them way too much.

We are going to have to come out and play every night to win this regional. We aren't the type of basketball team that can just show up and go through the motions. Right now, we are just like everybody else. You want to put together a good week of basketball and see what happens.

Even though we never came up with one of those big runs. I thought we made enough of those five and six point spurts to keep a decent cushion.

(Sparta is) a much better team than they were the last time we played them. They take the ball inside, and they guard well. ... This was a much closer game than the score indicates.

This is really, truly a team. Their chemistry is unbelievable. Their camaraderie...they are good friends off the court, most of them. It's just a camaraderie type thing, a chemistry type of thing. It's what you strive for but sometimes you can't always get that accomplished.

This is special for these kids. It was really a gutsy performance, they played when they had to play.

This has been a magical ride. We're a very inexperienced team and a very young team. We only play two seniors and we play four sophomores quite a bit.

A lot of games we'll just have one guy in doubles, and the other eight guys will have anywhere from five to nine points. That's pretty typical of our team.

They had two players that were a handful for us tonight.

They don't care who gets the points or the star of the game. Their chemistry is unbelievable. They're good friends off the court. It's just a camaraderie type of thing.

This is truly a team. If you looked up 'team' in the dictionary, you'd see a picture of the 2005-06 Pinckneyville Panthers.

I told the kids you will not find a better environment to play in than the one they're going to play in (Friday) night. It will be electric.

The best player is the point guard. He can shoot the 3 and can beat people off the dribble. Inside, the big kid does a very good job around the basket. And, they have a couple of other kids that look like pretty good athletes. They aren't real deep, but those six or seven kids are solid players.

It looked like we were going to take care of business. We just never could make that one big shot to get us over the hump.

The second half, the reason I'd like the think for that was we did a better job of guarding the perimeter. The second half I thought we got to the perimeter guys a little better.

I didn't think we played well in any phase of the game. Offensively, we didn't have the ball movement that we usually have.

I didn't realize it was that big of a run. We got some buckets in transition and I think we wore them down a little bit.

Their length and their size bothered us. We were too impatient and settled for too many outside shots.

This is a heck of a win for these kids. They executed everything that they needed to do, nearly to perfection.

The first thing we told the kids when we went in was that we hadn't played very well at all and only trailed by two points. We felt like we could take better care of the basketball and felt like we could guard better. ... We felt like we were in pretty good shape.