Chris Grinde Quotations

We are hoping he will be able to play. It depends on how he can go in practice. I know he is still in pain.

We have preached to stay positive through those slumps. One half of a game doesn't mean we are out of it. I liked the signs. We showed some life.

Losing that game means if we are going to win a conference championship, we don't have any room for error any more. We probably need to win all of them.

I guess I need to figure out what I am saying at halftime and stop saying it.

He may have a cracked bone in his foot. We don't know how long he will be out. He may be back next week or he may be out the rest of the year. We are hoping it's just one more week.

Kirk is capable of hitting the outside shot and he can play some pretty good defense.

I think we let our nerves get to us in the third quarter. We made just enough free throws and played good enough defense to make it difficult to score.

That was the one bright spot for us offensively. Offensively he gave us what he could. He has not been in a game for almost three weeks now. He is tired and his foot is still sore.

We need to have more than David and Allan scoring for us. It's a very positive sign. We have challenged the other guys to step up. If we are going to have a shot at anything, we will need more than two (scorers).

To go zone was just kind of searching to see. We were searching for something to be a little better.

This will be a non-conference game with some meaning to it if both teams continue to win. River Valley is in our regional. That is a seeding game for the tournament.

We just shot the ball really well and they got frustrated. I've been on the other end of that before.

Cory Meyer gave us a lot of energy. He's an extremely quick player. That certainly helped us.

Ryan McCoy is a really good shooter. He is just starting to shoot the ball better in games. He's been lights out in practice.

A foot injury is tough to overcome in basketball. You are pounding it on the floor, jumping and landing on it. It will be interesting to see if he can endure the pain.

This is the first conference championship they have won. I was happy for the seniors to finally win a championship.

It was really nice to see Travis Been step up. We have been looking for someone else to step up. Travis had his best game of the year.

It's one of those shots you shoot in your driveway when you are talking to yourself. Those types of shots deflate a team. I was very concerned with how we would respond to that shot.

That just does not get it done. We have to shoot the ball better. We are better shooters than that. We need to shoot the ball like we are capable of shooting it.

It was a nice win. As I told the kids it's not the biggest game of the year. It's too early to consider any game a make or beak game right now.

If you start focusing on a conference championship you lose sight of what you have to do with the next game you are playing. If we don't focus on Portage completely and get over it quickly, we will have the same thing happen.

I don't think they were looking past us. They are in our regional and this was a meaningful game for them. None of us expected what happened tonight.

He played the rest of the Baraboo game in quite a bit of pain.

The focus needs to be on who we are playing and not what it is for.