Greg Smith Ball Quotations

I don't know what happened to us offensively. It's been a problem for us all year, taking care of the ball and taking good shots. Obviously, we didn't do that today.

Our guards did a great job of getting the ball to Mike at the beginning, which is what you want to do with a guy shooting 56 percent from the field. But then Mt. Carmel started to apply more defense to the help side and we started to force it inside and weren't patient enough.

We wanted to go at them, but if we were open on the outside, I had no problem with us taking the 3. But we were cold outside, and our big guys went away from the basket when they got the ball inside (against Hale's 2-3 zone defense). We just played scared.

It was important to get going early on. Last time, we started slow and we didn't shoot the ball well. The difference tonight was defense, not giving them open shots and containing Johann (Jones) as best we could.

The ball blinks, and it's hard to see. It's like staring at a strobe light.