Quotes by Joe Mihalich

“Charron never lost confidence in himself. When the bright lights are on, he wants to be out there.”

“Its a good feeling to be at home and its a good feeling to get a win. Four to six weeks ago, we probably wouldnt have won this game, but were coming together as a team. It was better for us to battle back and win this game than to win by 12 to 15 points.”

“It was a great win for us. We beat a hot team which has become one of the best teams in the league. These guys are starting to believe in themselves. All the things we talked about four, five, six weeks ago they had to prove we could do them. Were starting to prove we can do them.”

“Its not often somebody scores 36 points and you say you did a good defensive job on him. Lorenzo locked him up and Clif Brown did a good job, too.”

“Our goals are the same. Nothing has changed at all. Theres no panic here, no sense of any of that stuff. Were close, so doggone close you can still feel it. Weve been a one-play-here, one-play-there kind of team so far. Thats why we dont sleep a lot at night.”

“Were all kind of in a state of shock right now. Its times like this that really test your faith. For some reason, we werent supposed to win that game.”

“Its our ball and anything but that. It was a combination of execution. One guy not coming hard enough to the ball and another guy not putting enough zip on the pass or reading that he wasnt open.”

“This is one youre just going to second-guess forever and ever and ever. Its hard to look at the positives but thats our job to do. We played the best team in the league . . . and we had them beat, played our hearts and guts out and just couldnt finish the job.”

“I dont know if were consciously trying to do that but we talk about valuing the basketball and the possessions are longer. Weve made the possessions longer defensively, playing some zones, and offensively our possessions are longer, too. In years past we just let Alvin Cruz push it up there and try to find somebody quick.”

“Its caused them to focus more in a lot of ways.”