Al Gooden Quotations

That's what we wanted to do, get it to him as much as we could.

I don't know (how the opponents prepare for the Hawks' quickness). If you don't have it, you can't prepare for it. For us, we practice against quickness every day. We've got some good, quick guys on the reserve.

We want to get back to state anytime, regardless of who we're playing. We wanted to get back to the championship, but what playing Forest Park does is they can put faces with that team. When you say Forest Park, they can see those guys and understand who they are from playing them last year.

You never get used to it. It is a traditional thing wanting to get down here.

He has taken a pounding in there, but people are finding out, he is a lot stronger than what they think he is. He has taken it in stride like a man and is doing the things we need for him to do to win.

He told us before that regardless of what happened, he would come back and finish out the year with us. We said OK. J.J. is one of us, one of our own.

We knew we were going to have to run the offense more and move the ball quickly around the perimeter to create shots. We were patient and took good shots.

I'd like to think it's how we play, not just because of who we play.

The guys off the bench really gave us the effort we have been looking for.

They bring good size. They aren't so big for us because we play a lot of teams with size, though. Hopefully, we will be used to playing with teams that size, which I think we are.