Quotes by Gene Pingatore

“This is the kind of performance we expect out of Jonathan on a regular basis.”

“Demetrius has been our silent leader. Hes been our most consistent player. Hes been outstanding.”

“I knew Pats wasnt going to come in and lay down. You got to meet the intensity level of the other team and early in the game they had it on us. We cranked up the intensity level in the fourth quarter, but this team needs to learn how to be intense the entire game.”

“Winning conference is our first goal.”

“We got carried away with the lead. And like we have done in the past, we let up.”

“I knew they were a good team. But theyre not ranked and thats what the kids look at.”

“You cant expect to have your A game every game. However, what weve done is respond in the big games and thats good to see. The Marist game (a 71-54 win that was televised) was a big one and they responded in that. We also did a good job against St. Pats (a 68-57 win last Saturday).”

“Garrett is capable of doing that (scoring). Hes one of the guys they wont be keying on and if they leave him open, hes going to knock them down.”

“Once we were able to open up that 17-point lead, we were pretty much able to maintain that through the third quarter. In that second quarter, there were a lot of steals and just a lot of turnovers on their part, and we started running ...”

“We werent executing so we decided we were going to pull them out of the zone but that wasnt working effectively. We needed to do it and we gradually opened it up enough to where they had to really extend. We werent stalling; we were trying to get them to come out of the zone.”