Gary Kellough Quotations

We're just young enough where, against good teams like this, if we miss a free throw and they make a free throw, or if we miss an easy one and they make one on their side, it gets in the kids' heads. Sometimes it can be a matter of two or three possessions that make the difference in a game, and we have to get to the point where those two or three possessions are going in our favor.

One of my goals, from what everyone keeps telling me about the past, is that we want to be back in the center of town - to be the show in town.

Having Seth Price get early fouls was a big factor, and as the first half went along he sat a lot. It helped us that we got off to a good start.

He's just young. If you coach long enough, everybody beats you.

It can happen quick. That was a play where we thought there should have been a foul on our end, but it ended up (later) being a foul on us. It's not that we're playing that bad, but it's the little things that are making a big difference.

We just never recovered from that. With these young kids, they're wearing their emotions on their sleeve. One bad play, or a play that goes like that, leads to a second, and then even more.

Stu had the best game of his career. I'm really happy with Stu in the sixth-man role.

As far as the change, I needed it. ... When you get to a certain point, sometimes change is good and a new challenge is good. That's the way I've approached the whole thing - it's a tremendous challenge.

All along, we've been ... I guess you could call it a work in progress. I thought last week was big in terms of us making strides in our progress. Tonight is important to us, for one thing because it's against Grove City, and for another because it's Senior Night, and we'd like to send these two seniors off the right way.

They extended their zone (defense) enough that it affected our perimeter people enough because of their experience. And they didn't really know how to handle it. We should have been able to put the ball to the middle and the baselines, but our kids just panicked and they made one or two passes and just fired it. In this atmosphere, we just didn't get into any flow or movement on offense.

They're perfect in our division, two games over Dublin Scioto. But we feel like, if we can play as hard as we can, we have the opportunity to give them their first loss in the Cardinal.

It's just like playing experience. You have to do it to understand it. I don't think we were totally rattled. If we'd have hit a few shots, it would have been a different deal.

Honestly, they're such a balanced team it's hard to single anybody out other than the Price kid. They've got talent. Obviously - they wouldn't be undefeated in our league if they didn't.

The level we're playing at is what has people excited. On our schedule, we will have played 15 teams with more than 13 wins. That tells you what kind of competition we're playing.