Mike Drews Quotations

We're making progress, we're getting better. Our kids are fighting and working hard, and they'll keep doing that. I'm pleased with our effort.

We're going to have a good week of practice and get ourselves ready. If you can come out of a loss with more confidence, we should be able to do that after tonight.

We're a young, inexperienced team and sometimes we look good offensively and play with a lot of confidence. But until we can put four quarters of good basketball together, we will struggle just as we have.

We did petition the IHSAA to allow us to play with a sixth man on the floor so we could get equal numbers in terms of total inches and weight, but it was denied.

(Kenny) was a lot to handle. He had several big plays at the end that really won the game for them.

Really, the last two ballgames have been better. Against (South Bend) Adams, the first three quarters, we played maybe as well as we have all season, but just didn't finish it off; and then against Marian, we played well again, then hit a dead spot, but the kids did a nice job of not having the attitude of 'here we go again.' They made some defensive stops and got it turned back in the right direction.

We're not very big, so we're just going to have to fight really hard. Penn's not got that one 6-8 guy, but they can go 6-5, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4, and that adds up.

This team needs to give some maximum effort and that has not been the case over the holiday season. Quite honestly, I think our seniors have tried to do a good job of leading this team and being patient. But now it's time for some of these sophomore and freshmen kids to stop acting like babies and start playing like young men. It was a great meeting but now it's time to quit talking about it and start doing it.

The third quarter was our demise tonight. We continued to take the ball to the ball to the basket, but we just came up empty. When you score four points in one quarter, that's definitely a dry spell.

They're very solid, very methodical, very experienced, and against Concord, they showed they don't get too upset about things.

I couldn't answer that. They're both very good, but they play different styles. Penn's very methodical, not too emotional, while Memorial's got a lot of moxie and, at least the last few games, has shot the ball quickly.