Rick Ruffin Quotations

I think they packed their zone in a little tighter in the second half and we had a little bit harder time getting it to him. We were attacking their zone with penetration and hitting the gaps inside (in the first half) and we just didn't seem to attack it as well in the second half.

Our movement on breaking, it wasn't good. We weren't helping John out, so I don't want to pin it on him.

That's the thing about (Thomas) tonight, he gave it up to somebody else who had a better shot when he didn't have one.

That's the kid that needs to have the ball in his hands at that time of the game. He made a great play at the end.

We just didn't show up to play. Defensively, this was our worst outing of the year. We didn't compete at all.

We just didn't play with the fire this team usually plays with ... I am a little disappointed with that.

Another one, about the seventh out of ten (losses). It was a heck of an effort, but we still just didn't finish the game.

Our energy and effort were back tonight, we just had to have a stop to finish the game.