Randy Kortokrax Quotations

We knew when it was crunch time he would go to the left side and try to penetrate. But (Marty Assmann) went heads-up on him and did a great job of making him shoot over us in the second half.

I think during the midpoint, you've got to start backing off and adding something new. Our kids are tired of doing the same thing. Although they'll do it if you ask them to, it's not at the same pace as when you first introduced the drill.

Our guys were aggressive. We play as we shoot. When we don't, our defense has to hold us in it.

We wanted to run as much as we could and force their younger players to make as many decisions as possible, and hopefully they were poor. Now Elgin is a veteran team, so I'm not so sure we want to get in that kind of game with them.

We were like a deer in the headlights last year. I didn't want our guys coming out and hyping this game. It was a game we had to win, but the big game is the district final.

Elgin is a great team and that last possession was a battle down to zero.

Sometimes the trap game for us is the Saturday game. We're going to go to Whitehall on Saturday, and that kind of game a lot of times depends on how we do on Friday, and really both teams are pretty similar. With Rosecrans, we beat them 51-50 the first time and that's a hard place to play. That'll be a key game, too, in our league.

It'll be an interesting game. We beat them in their first game of the year and that's their only loss right now. I think we match up well against them. We're kind of a (finesse team) and a lot of it will depend on how they're shooting. (Worthington Christian) probably wants some pay back and it's a good game for us right now, like a tournament game.

If you want to win at the Coliseum, you've got to stop penetration, penetrate yourself and play half-court defense.

Because it's so big, I don't think you can press at the coliseum. We like to run a man-defense and it fits our style of play.

(The loss to Ready) kind of turned us around. We started bringing (forward Sean Hurley) off the bench and (guard Kevin Connor) has been playing more since the Ready game.