Ed Patrick Quotations

We really had a good defensive first half which set everything up. The third quarter we came out and brought some intensity.

One of those games where you get down the stretch and the team that was ahead was able to finish it off.

Obviously he can do a lot by himself. I thought we did a decent job defensively on him. He got what we expected. That wasn't the problem. The problem was defensively we let them take us out of our game. And he was part of that.

John's rebounding was excellent tonight. He took it to heart and it showed. They have a lot of height.

Winneconne is a very good team and very talented. (Coach) Ralph (Larson) has them playing very well. They are a very disciplined them and has always matched up with us very well.

We really stepped up the defensive pressure and it paid off. We came out in the first quarter and shot pretty well. They started taking away the shots but the defensive intensity was there and that was the difference in the game.

We had a lot of incentive to play well coming into this game. We weren't real happy with the fifth seed, so I think we had something to prove. We talk about playing in the tournament all year and that's our goal. However, we need to focus. We're only thinking about one game and that's the one on Thursday.

We didn't execute against (the 1-3-1 zone) very well. Normally we do. It was our impatience. This group tonight was very inpatient and you can't be that way in our offense.

Even when we had a one-point lead (later in the fourth quarter), we don't execute. We're taking shots we don't need to take. I'm sorry, maybe it's unkind, but I can't stand it.

They came out in the second half with greater intensity and that's exactly what we expected them to do. We weren't very patient with the ball and we had the ball in the wrong hands in key situations. It also didn't help us that David (Wegner) had four fouls. We needed him in those situations and we weren't able to use him tonight.