Tom Catanzarite Quotations

Through our first seven games, we had almost twice as many turnovers as assists (117 to 59) and, believe it or not, we were 4-3.

I didn't like our energy level. Maybe the fact we were playing our fifth game in eight days had something to do with that. I'm going to talk to the athletic director about that scheduling.

I thought we did pretty well after not playing for two weeks. It's always tough coming back after a long break like this.

We'll be able to use the present baseball field as a practice field for awhile. As of right now, we don't have a practice baseball field with lights.

We have to play better in the beginning. We got down and had to fight our way back in. If we played better at the beginning, we wouldn't have to claw our way back in.

We were just throwing the ball to other people (against Dunbar). Some of it was pressure; most of it wasn't. They were playing man to man, and we were not strong with the ball. If anything good came out of that game it's that the kids learned they can't go one on one.

We won our first district title back in 1993 on a half-court shot, and I thought it was going to happen again.

We were playing well, but right now are pretty disjointed. During the Christmas break, we only had three kids who were at all the practices. Others missed for a whole bunch of reasons, so it's no wonder things were disjointed.

Things that have won games for us didn't happen tonight. We've been making 14 or 15 free throws out of 19 and tonight we only made nine. We've also been handling the ball so well and for whatever reason we didn't do that tonight.

Our defense is what bothered me. Not getting back. We can get away with it against Riverdale, because we are a little better than them. But it's not going to work against any other team in the district.

There's always so much more room for improvement in my brain.