Marcus Knott Quotations

I don't know what it is. We can't afford to start a game like that. Fortunately we were still close when we finally got going. It's something we have to learn from.

Golden Valley finds a way to win games. Our program from me down to the last player have to find a way to do that.

That says a lot about coach 'K' and those kids. They've had a rough season and they still come out every night and compete. My hat is off to them. That's something our kids have to understand. That's the way it should be.

I was more happy with the effort. I was happy with our focus. We eliminated some of the careless turnovers we were making.

We can't afford to go out and not compete for 32 minutes. It doesn't matter who's out on the court. We had a let-down in the third quarter, and we were in too big of a hole to pull ourselves out of in the fourth quarter.

We came out early and we were able to establish our pressure and that led to some easy baskets. When that happens it usually leads to a lot of points.

We played with them in spurts. That's something we talked about after the game. We have to be more consistent. In the next two days we have to focus on not being so up and down.

We didn't play very consistent. I am extremely happy with a couple of our kids that came off the bench. But as a whole, I wasn't happy with our effort. I thought we took a step back from yesterday and that's disappointing.

We still have some more investigating to do. We've looked at them on paper, but nobody we've talked to has said anything real definitive about them, except they're a good team.

We really came out flat, and I don't know what the reason was for that. We didn't play with a lot of energy. We were able to make a small run here and there, but I wasn't happy with the performance.

We've had a chance to watch some film on them and it's like we thought -- They're a pretty talented team. We're going to have our work cut out for us.

Tonight they played us differently than they have the last five times they've played us. They played a little small ball tonight. They had guys step up that haven't stepped up against us before.

We just had a more consistent effort in the second half. Our guys were in cruise mode early, so we needed to refocus our efforts.

A game like this can help if our kids learn from it. We like to play this type of competition. But, our guys came out trying to feel them and we can't do that. They took it right to us and if you don't put up a fight a team like this can run you into the ground.

You never want to give up on a league title, but this game was more for preparation if we move on in the playoffs. We dropped to No. 12 in the last power ratings, we can't afford to drop anymore games. When we get in the playoffs we're going to have to win games like this.

It's not inconceivable, but we did put ourselves behind the eight ball a little bit. We have to take care of our business and hope GV can knock off Turlock.

It's hard to win on the road. This conference has always been that way. Our first conference game against Pitman, we struggled. We didn't play that well last week in Los Banos either.

It's been a while since we won in the playoffs, we're going to have to try to change that.

Taft is an outstanding basketball team. I can see why they're favored to win their section. Not only are they lightning quick, but they can shoot too.

It was nice to see our guys come out and be the aggressor for a change instead of letting the other team take it to us.

After we lost to Taft (Tuesday) we talked about winning at least two of the last three game. We were able to do that, but it wasn't the manner in which we wanted to do it. We didn't come away from these last few games with as much momentum as we could have.

At the point guard position, he's just so much stronger than everybody else. Even when he gets a guy on his hip, he can just carry him on his way to the basket. He's been pretty good at that all year, and he did it again today.