Rick Gibson Quotations

I don't think we played anywhere close to our best. These kids don't know what their full potential is. We haven't put together four quarters in a game. They realize that and know they need to keep working hard in practice.

Going in, I thought we would be one, two or three. I didn't think we would be any lower. But then again, it's just a number. Now we have to do it on the floor.

He's had two monster games against us. We're going to hopefully show him a little something different (defensively).

He's killed us. He's a good player --a real good player. We focused on him the last two days of practice and we still couldn't stop him. My hat's off to him. He had a great three games against us.

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It feels good to come home. And it feels even better to come home and get a win.

To go 3-1 in this tournament, we're happy with that. It's a tough tournament every year, and only one team gets to go 4-0 in this tournament.

We couldn't buy a shot in that second quarter. You have to credit their defense. Their defense is tough. Part of it was them and part of it was that we turned the ball over. The kids got urgent. We got down, and all of a sudden, we thought we'd make up 15 points on one possession, and that's not going to happen.

That's a weapon. They don't run it as much these days to just hold the ball, it's more of an offense -- and that's a tough offense. You give them the lead going into the fourth quarter ... a six-point lead is like 15 against a lot of teams.

That's been one of our problems (holding leads or extending leads). We're a young team, but it's more than half way (through) the season, so we're not young anymore.

That's been our trademark lately. We get the momentum, and we haven't been able to put teams away. We get a six, eight-point lead, and the next thing you know it's tied.

That was the game, those two (baskets) in my opinion were the game.

We beat them by 20 last time. But they are a totally different team than they were then.

We definitely had a chance. They're a well coached team, they run their offense well and do a lot of good things.

We've played Carbondale and East St. Louis, and if they played 10 times, they might go 5-5. When you look at the teams that are left, East St. Louis is playing as well as anybody.

The only chance we had to see them was (Wednesday). They didn't shoot that well then. We really didn't expect them to shoot that well from the outside. But they did.

We've got a big game on Friday night against a team that beat us by four points up at their place. There won't be any letdown.

That's kind of what's unique about this year's sectional. There's so many teams that can win it.

They're the one team in the tournament we haven't beat yet. We're hoping the third time's the charm.

I know the kids aren't going to give up, and they didn't. They're competitors, and they're going to compete. It's just we can't dig ourselves a 17-point hole in the first half and beat teams like Alton.

They banked in a 3, and those kind of things will happen when you don't get after a team, and close the door.

It was much more exciting that I would have liked. We're a young team, but we can't use that excuse anymore. We're 15 games into the season. That's an excuse you can you get away with five or six games into a season. Our kids have matured, and they need to manage pressure.

It wasn't a lack of defense on those threes. They just made some tough shots.

We just knocked off one of the best teams on our schedule, and I don't even think we played our best game. We didn't give up. We could have given up. We had plenty of chances to give up. We led for (the last) nine seconds of the game, and that's all that matters.