Eric Sitze Quotations

Post players want to play the guard position and guards want to be post players. Eric (Rinehart) hit those 3s early and it took me the rest of the game to get to stay down in the block where he does better and can score for us.

But give Advance credit. They have a good basketball team out there they have a lot of seniors and a lot of leadership. They held their poise out there and they did the things they needed to to win the game.

He's been averaging double figures for us the last seven-eight ballgames. So, he's really improved a lot over the season and been a consistent scorer for the last three weeks probably.

He was in foul trouble first half, so he was rested up. We got the ball to him and he did a good job scoring for us inside tonight.

He was in foul trouble first half, so he was rested up.

I thought our offense was pretty good tonight scoring wise. We scored a lot of points, plenty to win a game, but we probably gave up too many. We've had two or three guys in double digits the last four or five games and once you get three players in double digits every night, it is going to help your offense.

I think our team's off to a pretty good start. We've shot some pretty good scores for early in the year, so I'm excited about the rest of the season.

You know Bernie is going to come out after us. Those Stoddard County team like to play us and they know its Homecoming night, so we can't hang our heads about this one, we've got to get ready to play tomorrow night (tonight).

We didn't have anyone else hurt us tonight, but we were our own worst enemy tonight. I thought we played scared tonight. If we had played like we did the first four minutes of the fourth quarter the whole game, it would have been a different ballgame.

We let it get a little tight ... We were almost up 20 or 21, I think, and had a few turnovers and missed a few easy shots there, but the kids held their composure and finished it up there at the very end.

We did a real good job on him (Bogan) the first half, collapsing on him. The second half they were more in transition, opened the floor up a little bit, so we couldn't do as much with him the second half. He didn't dribble it as much and was able to get it a little deeper in the paint.

Tonight I thought our second half was especially good. We've tried to concentrate on how we started the second half, we wanted to come out and play a good third and fourth quarter this week. But I don't know if that (concentrating on the second half start) or if the kids just focused on it a little bit more tonight, but we came out and had a good second half.

We just left him open maybe six times the first half and I think he hit five of them. You just have to stick somebody with him, just stay with him constantly, because if he gets an open look at it, he's going to knock it down most of the time.

We were leaving him open out there and letting him spot up. He hit a lot of big shots. A lot of them weren't pointblank range -- he hit some 15-footers and a few 3s out there -- so he hit some big shots for them.

Drew (Satterfield) is going to keep getting better for us. He's just got to learn to hang on to the ball a little better and better footwork would help that tremendously. Drew plays hard every night and he's a great kid. I'm proud he had a great game for us tonight.

Drew (Satterfield) had a great game. I thought Aaron (Jackson) and Cole (Smith) did a great job recognizing him in there tonight - they're both averaging around five assist - and they did a good job of finding him and he did a excellent job of finishing.

Some teams we can press a little better than others when we know we can wear them down a little bit. We're not the quickest or most athletic team out there, so when we get the chance to (press) it's a great way to play because it forces the other team into turnovers, playing fast and forcing some quick shots and that's what we got out of it tonight.

Aaron (Jackson) has really started to shoot the ball better of late. He had a good tournament and he has really emerged as a solid third scorer for us. He has averaged double digits over the past few games.

Its not smart basketball, that's what it is. Your in the wrong position with your feet, or we're down there fouling him (Lance) forty feet from the basket. You can't do that. We're just not playing smart basketball. We're really inconsistent. At times we play all right, and other times we don't. We're just not playing very smart.

That hurt a little bit. Drew (Satterfield) played hard for us tonight. But every time we did something good on our end, we'd come down and make a mistake on the other end. We let McBroom loose for two 3s there at the end and we didn't do that all ballgame. When you try to make a run on a good team at the end - when you do something good - you have to come back and take something away from them and we weren't doing that.

They came out and got three quick baskets on us. But still I think the turning point was when it was about 45-41 and we had a couple of chances at some rebounds down there - had it in our hands a couple of times - and just couldn't bring it in. I thought that was the big difference in the game right there.

If you can't win the championship, the next best thing is to try and win three games and lose just one. So that's what we're trying to do now. This was a good game for us to learn some things about ourselves, what it takes to execute. Hopefully we can come out and play hard tomorrow (today). East Prairie is a hot team right now. They're a scary team to play.

I don't know if we got a little comfortable when we got the lead or what. They made a little run at us and got close to us, but we hung in there and didn't quit, we just kept playing hard.