Jason Hanson Good Quotations

I am so proud of the kids. They played with tremendous effort everyday. I hope we put Neoga on the basketball map and I think you will see good things from Neoga in the future. This was a great ball game and I am sure it was fun to watch.

Our defense has played OK. If we would play better offensively, that would help our defense. Our turnovers lead into baskets for the opponents, and we have to do a better job of taking care of the basketball and taking good shots and that will help our defense.

Nokomis is very good team. They slow you down with their zone defense. We had good shots. We just need to hit one or two more.

He is a floor general. He tries to get people in the right spots whether it is practice or in games and he does a good job of that.

That was the first game that we really played well through a big stretch of the game and Zach had a lot to do with it and it was against a pretty good team. The Saint Joseph-Ogden game was the same thing. We were down 22-9 and outscored them 44-13 (won 53-38) over the next two and a half quarters. For us to play that way was really something special to see. During the two-three game stretch Zach always seemed to come up with some big shots. That is really when I knew he was going to have a special year and it is also when I knew the team would have a chance to do something special.

Physically, yeah, but mentally the reason I'm good is you fight the battle to stay good.

If you have good basketball sense you can accomplish a lot more than someone who doesn't. Zach knows how to play the game the right way. He can shoot the ball and handle the ball and he is a good-sized kid for the position he plays.

They had a good baseball season and he was a big part of it. I was hoping the team's success would carry over into basketball season.