Shawn Almond Quotations

I can't say enough how proud I am of them tonight.

He got frustrated early. He really came back in the second half, played a solid game and really showed some maturity down the stretch, making some big plays and handling the ball under pressure.

Hopefully (the loss will) make us a little hungrier. Hopefully we'll have a little more fight in us.

I think we were focused coming in. They beat us pretty good at our place and we wanted to bounce back and have a better showing today. Fortunately, we were able to.

I think we still want to finish strong. We had a good practice (Monday). We've competed well all season, and I expect it will be the same (tonight) against Midland High.

I think it's some kind of stomach bug.

I'm still trying to figure it out. Our kids just showed a lot of heart and a lot of character.

We played real well this morning and the game could have gone either way. We had a couple tough breaks down the stretch.

We had a little spurt in the third quarter. We forced several turnovers and that got us up and made a little run there. That was probably the difference.

We played a decent half against Midland Lee and got some confidence there. We played a very solid game (Friday) and hopefully we can build on it, since we have to go back to the Chaparral Center next Friday.

We put ourselves in a pretty good position. But we've got to finish, and that'll be a key in the next couple weeks.

This senior group has laid a good foundation for the future. I'd like to see them go out on a good note.

We had a good weekend and played real well together, showed real consistency.

You look at first round of district, we were in every game down the stretch. Just a couple things here or there and we could easily have won.

We didn't play defense very well tonight. That's one thing we've relied on, one thing we've keyed on and we didn't do a good job.

Every game's going to be important from here on out. San Angelo's fighting for a spot, so a win with them helps us tremendously because we beat them up there. It just gets us one step closer (to the playoffs).

It's very even and that's what we've been talking about. Everybody can beat each other on any given night. It's important to put that last victory behind you and focus on that next opponent or you're going to get beat.