Jerry Stracke Quotations

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

It is always nice to get this first game out of the way. I thought we did OK. I'm happy with the way we played. We got into some foul trouble and that kind of hurt, but the officials were calling it tight and we didn't do a very good job of adjusting to it.

We couldn't get in a flow of things offensively. Their defense was just a little too much for us, a little too physical. We had to fight for every point we could get.

We're a little devastated. We couldn't get into the flow of things and had to fight for everything. We didn't take care of the ball very well. We just weren't able to close out.

I knew we were going to have some trouble with their press, but I thought we handled it OK. We got in some foul trouble that hurt us and we changed the way we wanted to play. But our younger kids came in and did a nice job for us.