Rick Brault Quotations

We still had a lot of defensive breakdowns, but it?s nice to see kids understand the fact that defense will keep you in a game regardless if you?re having a poor shooting night.

We?re coming off a couple down games but I think the kids will respond well.

John started the season injured, then he went out to Washington to visit his father, so he was out of the loop. Then when he finally came back, he ran into a sickness. He?s been up-and-down all season for us, and obviously he came to play tonight. I feel really good for him.

These kids have nothing to be ashamed of; they played a great season. I don?t think a lot of teams anticipated we would be here. We?re desperate to get some respect down in the York area. Most of the Portland-area schools don?t even know we exist. We want to let them know that we?re around and that we can give anybody a game.

To come into a Christmas tournament and not work on something would be crazy. I thought we did a pretty good job at addressing the things we needed to address, and the kids played pretty well against a lot of good teams.

It came down to turnovers; you can?t have 19 turnovers in a game at this level.