Quotes by Jeff Schaffer

“We played well. Were finally starting to come together. Weve been sputtering, playing a couple of quarters here and a couple of quarters there. Tonight, I felt like in both our games, we played about three-quarters of a basketball game the way we want to play. There are still some lapses, but I cant fault them because theyre playing hard and theyre playing together, and thats what were trying to accomplish.”

“This is really important to make sense of the experience and to grow from it.”

“Were from Michigan. Were only excited because its in Detroit.”

“Well have opportunities to experience Appalachian culture and learn why poverty is an issue there. As I understand it, just 7,500 people live there and about 20 percent of them live below poverty level.”

“Once the flow of the game went through three quarters and it was nip and tuck, we knew it was going to go down to the end.”