Jim Roberts Good Quotations

Monster three. But, he also did a good job on the glass throughout the game. Once again, it's a situation where everyone has to step up and do what they do.

What sometimes gets missed is he's a great passer too. Our guys did a good job getting up on him and getting their hands up.

We did a pretty good job of converting those turnovers into baskets. Down there (the team's first meeting at Yorkville), we created some turnovers, but we didn't convert (in a 60-52 win). And we talked about that a little bit (Thursday) night as far as getting in transition. You work hard to get the ball, so let's value it.

I wish we had a finance director. We're working on the budget, for goodness sake. It would help us in getting together a budget and a five-year plan.

I thought we had some good shots, they just weren't falling.

Our defense played pretty well. The kids did a good job of getting their hands in the passing lanes.

The neatest thing for us is the coaches we get to deal with (that were in this) are all great people. We have relationships with them that go beyond basketball. To have three of the four Tri-Cities teams come in and play is a neat thing. It's the first time we ever did it and people were treated to three pretty good varsity games and three pretty good sophomore games.

This was just two good teams going at each other toe-to-toe. It was a great atmosphere, great excitement and great intensity. I thought both teams played extremely hard. I'm very happy for our kids and I'm very proud of them.

As the game progressed, I thought our guys did a good job of just playing.

We've made some very good friendships through it. We've been very fortunate in that a lot of our former players take an active interest in it and help us out.

He did a great job of getting to the open spots and his teammates did a great job of getting him the basketball. He was pretty relentless on the glass at times, and I thought his teammates did a good job of finding him where he could get looks. I thought our ball movement as a team was pretty good.

I think our kids did a good job of being in the right frame of mind; to come out on the road in a conference game and be ready to play right off the bat. I've been very proud of these kids in their abilities or their willingness to look at what's right in front of them.

I think the main message is, it's certainly good news that instead of a $70-million-plus projected deficit (in 2005), the city now has a small surplus. We're not done yet. We have to keep going.