He blocked a few shots and I think we started looking for him and missed some easy ones. Those are the shots that we've got to make to keep the flow going in the game.

I don't know ... I expected that a lot sooner. This is a mystery group, but they seem to be having fun right now.

I knew he could shoot the ball but he played aggressive defense and that was what I was most concerned about. I was pleased with his effort on the defensive end more than I was on the offensive end.

They just decided to go ahead and play hard. We came out a little bit listless at the beginning of the third but we called timeout and they decided they were going to push for it.

It looked that way. We didn't start off the right way. When you do that, you let teams get their confidence. When we had them 6-1, it should have been 12-0.

Everyone in Gary and Lake County is getting extremely high bills and, in some cases, they exceed people's monthly income.

They've come around and that's what we've been teaching and preaching ? playing together and doing the things that we know how to do, getting people in the right places.

They've got a lot of weapons and they play hard ? good, aggressive defense the whole game. They're a real good team. I'm just real proud of our kids and the way they played. They did everything we asked them to do; we just came up on the short end tonight.

They were hungry. They saw some bait and went after it.

We were just fortunate to get away with a win.