Lance Randall Quotations

At about Christmas time we saw some different tapes and thought Memorial was the best team in the state. I thought they had some great chemistry and some really good pieces of the puzzle.

It's the story of this season. We've had guys that have stepped up from a lot of different spots and Brady is a guy that is a very talented basketball player and he's getting his opportunity to show everybody else what we already knew about him.

There was nothing too fancy about this: Let's get the ball to Andy. They had a heck of a time containing Andy.

There's a little bit of tentativeness over what to expect. When you come out and set a statement like that, I think we got them on their heels. It gave us that cushion and allowed us to relax and we fed off that.

He was on my mind all day. If there's one thing he taught me, it's OK to be emotional. And certainly, it was an emotional day.

The skip pass was there all night. We weren't getting the ball across and we weren't knocking them down.

I remember hugging my dad afterwards and him crying. I remember 'What a feeling associated with victory.' It's the pinnacle of what you do. Boy, it made me want to be a basketball player for my dad in the worst way possible.

It adds to the rivalry but it also brings it back to reality and softens some of the edges to it. Certainly this is an intense rivalry and when you have family involved it brings it back to a sportsmanlike level.

I thought we out-toughed them by playing North's game. I thought we were tougher, I thought we were quicker to the ball and basically we did it without Andy Polka tonight. Other guys had big games. This is a big-game team.

We knew we had to mix up some defenses. I thought we were very effective for the most part in the 2-3 (zone), and it made a big difference for us going away.