Quotes by Brent Cahill

“Were really emphasizing our guarding, and our games have been low-scoring so thats been successful for us.”

“Nahum showed a lot more improvement at the beginning of the year, then with Jon, it all started clicking for him a few games ago. Some of these guys dont have a ton of game experience, so when you get the ball to them in the post they go too fast. Now theyre starting to slow things down a little bit.”

“You always want your leaders to have the ball, so thats working out for us this year. But thats something that scares me a little bit going into next year. Well need some younger guys to step into that role next year. Well definitely have to go big at times next year. But thats why the second half of this season is going to be so important. Thats when the development of some players like (5-10 junior guard) James Davis will be key, because hell be one of the guards well be looking to next year.”

“I have great group of four seniors who have made it easy for me to implement what we want to do. Hopefully, (their attitude) has filtered down into the junior and sophomore classes. Every day they bring it in practice and that only makes my job easier.”

“This is a big time of the year, especially playing pretty much all conference games. (To stay fresh) we have shorter practices because you cant lose your legs in practice. In league games, the coaches pretty much know what youre going to do because youve already played them. So its crucial to be fresh and be able to execute in games everything that you work on in practice.”

“We emphasize that to be a good team, you have to have good senior leadership to go far in the conference and in the tournament. Weve had that so far and that will likely be important for us in the next few weeks for us to be successful.”

“That was huge. That was a quality team we beat. Weve got some tough kids, and its a tough group. For us, this is huge for our confidence.”

“We put in some different looks, it was something we just put in before the Johnstown game. It broke up their rhythm a little, and we did a good job boxing out.”

“Every game weve had different guys step up. Against Utica, it was nice to see a couple of the younger kids step up. We really came together as a team.”

“It was huge for our team this year and for the confidence that we could beat a team as good as Utica. Utica is hard to guard because of how they play and how they try to get mismatches. But we really, really were dialed in defensively. Every time they scored, other than a couple times in transition, it was tough for them to score. The guys have really bought into that defensive attitude. It was a great win for our program.”