Matt Barnes Quotations

I was so proud of the way we played defensively. Anytime you hold a team to 28 points you should win the game. You shouldn't be grinding it out with two seconds to go.

Olympus has never won a state championship in 50-some-odd years, and we're still a ways from that, but it just feels good to move on.

He's a stud. That's his bread and butter. He's got a huge heart.

Our starters log a lot of minutes. At that time, we made a couple subs and we were fresh coming off the bench. The main thing we did was brought a lot of energy and played defense. A lot of times, that's all you need.

It appears he went on a little rampage in the showroom.

We get a little bit of everything here.

What we're being asked to do is not really to score. It's just to go in there and play defense and rebound and bring energy, and I think we do a good job of doing that.

We've seen a lot of progress in Crosby's play over the last little while. He's always been a great kid and a hard worker, and we're finally starting to see the results of that on the court.

Whenever we need some kind of big play to change the course of the game, we look for Crosby to do it. He's always a threat to score no matter where he has the ball.

The pitch before (the base hit) I took it. The next pitch looked like the size of a beach ball.

Even though I'm on the other end of it right now, when kids make plays like that it's just special. It's awesome. Walker is a great player. They're a great team and a great program. We were heavy underdogs, but I think we showed people we can play. I couldn't be prouder of the kids.

Every couple of innings they kept putting in a new pitcher, so we were seeing something different.

I've been talking all year, we've got to find away when we're up six or seven points up to put the game away, but we couldn't do that.

The second half we got out to a pretty quick start. We forced some turnovers and really clasped on their big guy and that got us some easy buckets and led to some transition points.

There won't be any charges against the driver.

What an effort by my kids. These kids kept battling and battling. We had a chance. We kinda showed what Olympus is all about. We've got a lot of character and heart. O We knew we were heavy underdogs coming in. We were under the radar, and we were one shot away from going to the championship.

Both teams played great defense tonight. This was a game that went back and forth.

That's what we like about it. It's an eclectic lineup any night of the week.

This year we came back late, whereas last year we had the lead and they (the Knights) came back on us. We've been close, but that makes it hurt even more. I'd just like to have a chance to win.

I like playing against friends. I've gotten to know him really well over the years. He's a class guy.

They'd been playing a zone the whole game, and they came out man, and I was going to change and call a different set, but we went with it and Nate stepped out there, shook the guy and made a huge shot.

Highland in my opinion is obviously the best team in our league, and every one else is chasing them. If we want to win the region, we've got to take care of our home stuff and try and steal stuff on the road.

They made a late run, and we got it back to two. We could have won, but they managed to make that final run to hold on.

It's not my characteristic to pull it out and slow things down, but we have a 10-point lead there, and we're in the bonus, let's just work some clock and try and get lay-ups.

It's all about winning. Sometimes you play great and win, sometimes you struggle and win, and sometimes you play great and lose. The bottom line is finding a way to win, and we found a way to win.

We just talked a little bit. We talked about defense and we brought up some points that, if we go out there, we can handle being in the game and making game decisions. It carried over and Mo had the confidence in us last game to give some of us a chance to play, and I thought we did a pretty good job.

It's good to have Cottonwood back in the league; it's a great rivalry.

He only had one or two easy baskets, which is huge for us.