Kyle Green Quotations

We let this one get away from us, there is no doubt about that. All we can do at this point is understand that these things will happen with a young team. We need to learn from this loss and move on. There is still plenty of basketball to play.

Pat puts a lot of pressure on himself to become a better player. He just could not get a shot to fall. But he did get some good looks.

When you're doing that stuff (ordering equipment), you're trying to get what's best for the kids.

We needed to take advantage of Southern Illinois' rebounding deficiency in order for us to get a win. That didn't happen.

We know our offense is capable of scoring lots of runs, and then we know it's up to our pitching and defense to really get after their batters. They got ahead in situations early, and that was good for our offense.

Even though they beat us (the Broncos) in the playoffs, I'm behind them. I think that shows you what kind of a sportsman I am.

That was a big shot for them at the end of the half. You could kind of see that we were deflated after that shot to beat the buzzer.

Young teams sometimes just need time to learn how to win. It's a process and the frustrating thing is that it's been something different doing us in every game. Our foul shooting's been 54 percent in the five losses so that's been one constant but we've lost three of them by 4 points or less. It's hard enough to win and you lose the close games when you can't do things like make free throws.

It's funny because the team's really gotten better, even lately. Players don't see improvement during stretches like this but coaches do and it's there. Even from just six or seven games ago, we've improved in certain areas.

It was a great pitched game on both sides. We were trying to go back-to-back against Mid-County teams and we just came up short.

After the game, I told the kids that nobody feels sorry for themselves and not to hang their head. We just have to respond to this and put the game behind us. We need a victory on Saturday.

Every week is important for us. Every game is important for us. We've got to win the games we think we can win. Then, hopefully, we can sneak up on a team that's sitting in a playoff spot already.

I'm very careful with our pitchers. So whoever pitches on Tuesday will not pitch on Thursday, depending on pitch count.

All we do is talk about how our teams did each week.