Bob Koskosky Quotations

We are looking hard for different combinations that work well together. We don't have a problem using any of our guys, but it does seem like there are combinations that work better.

Moving D.J. to the 2-guard would help us out. He played well today, and Bryson Harden came in and did some good things at the point. Richardson can play different spots, so having him will help, too.

Now we are seeing what the kids can do, what the team can do and what we need to work on. We should be able to solidify a lot of things after this tournament.

Number 50 (McKnight) killed us. Our post defense against him wasn't good.

He had a nice game. He's a decent player. He'll give us some energy.

That's the key for us, to take care of the ball and cut down on turnovers. The thing is, we didn't think that was going to be a problem for this group.

We were up 18-20 points, but you knew Lockport would come in here and play tough after the first time (a 70-40 JT victory at Lockport). Really, it was the tale of two halves, and we did a lot of good things in the first half.

Yeah, it's tough to come back in a few days and play another very good team, but we have to prepare for that type of thing in the postseason. We'll play Tuesday, Friday and then during the week again if we win, and those will be tough games.

Turnovers at a bad time ... but we didn't take care of the ball all night. That, and it seems like Will (Walker) always takes over in the fourth quarter.

We definitely put up shots too quickly there at the end. That hurt us. We can't play that way.

We really did not shoot very well. We wanted to get a better look at some people.

We had a real tough second quarter, a really devastating second quarter, probably the worst we've had all year. That quarter did us in. If you look at the first, third and fourth (quarters), it's an even game.

You have to give Stagg all the credit. They run the best offense in the conference. They use back screens and chips screens that free up their outside shooters.

We missed free throws, we couldn't rebound, we didn't play good defense in the post and we did not look good at times at the point guard position. It didn't look like we were running anything offensively.

Eric has been great the last three games. He's really intense now. He's listening to the coaches. He's playing great basketball. If he's not scoring, he's rebounding. If he's not rebounding, he's playing great defense. He's doing a lot of really nice things that are going to help him down the road.

Again, we had some unforced turnovers. We have to cut down on the turnovers if we are going to be successful.

There were no big surprises. Everything jiggled out the way we expected.

Their post man scored a lot tonight. I think he had three points against us last time.