Gary Mills Quotations

My hat's off to Prairie and the way they play defense. But eventually, we're going to shoot the ball well again.

He's become our No. 1 option on offense. This season, he has become better moving without the ball to get open shots. There are still times he settles for jump shots, but even if that is all he does, you'd still have a hard time with him because of the way he elevates.

He didn't shoot a great percentage this year, but he always makes his free throws when the game's on the line.

Really, this has been a tough season. We've had some chemistry issues. We've had to practice with machinery going on, so that we could barely hear each other. There's just been a lot of adversity, some of it self-made, but we came together.

To look at the guys' faces after the game, yeah, it meant a lot to them.

The dates aren't carved in stone, but we feel we can pretty much hold tight to the dates we've laid down.

With 1.6 seconds left, unless you throw it to Christian Laettner, you're not going to get that good of a look.

We want to win a (state tournament) game this year. We still have the opportunity to do that.

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Urgency fuels defense. These guys found some urgency.

The thing I like the best about Josh is he's one of our hardest workers in practice. I've always felt it was real important that your best players be your best practice players, too. We're lucky in that with Josh and Cory.

There were some good performances and it's left me with some decisions to make.

It's not like they can go to the replay. But there is a big difference between four seconds and 1.6 seconds. Your hands are tied.

If you look at our team overall, I think we did pretty well to get to state. I think the guys did a great job getting here. We had a great effort yesterday. Today, we came up short.

All year, we've been a perimeter-oriented team. Perimeter-oriented doesn't work up here. We got some good looks. It's funny how they don't drop. I think we're better shooters than that, but we didn't show it.