Quotes by Doug Foote

“Weve played a brutal schedule and weve played seven of nine games on the road, so getting some home games will be nice.”

“Grove City is very structured. They run a 2-1-2 set offense. They pass, pass, and pass.”

“Weve got to make some free throws. Weve shot ourselves in the foot time and time again at the foul line. Were getting 30 free throws per game. Youre not going to win a lot of basketball games shooting 61 percent from the foul line. Weve got to shoot it better in every phase.”

“Our biggest problem when you look at this team is 15 out of 19 kids are freshmen and sophomores. We have no seniors so we have no great senior leadership.”

“We changed our offense a little. Its a motion offense. Its penetration and pitch that we implemented to try and get fouled a little bit. We try to get the ball down inside to Rucker and run through him some stuff so he can kick it back out. He can score inside and they have to double-team him.”

“When you dont have a lot of low-post scoring, youve got to hit some shots (elsewhere), particularly our strength (the trey).”

“Itll be a real test of character.”

“We lost the game because we lost our focus on defense at critical times and turned it over on offense.”

“But I have no complaints. The kids battled. They played hard. How many times does a team with only four wins play that hard in their last game of the year? Our kids did and Im really proud of them.”

“It wasnt big things, just little things. Some nights it was missed free throws, some not getting key rebounds, some bad bounces, and, like tonight, missed defensive assignments in overtime. Weve competed to the wire in just about every game since early January.”