Tim Birie Quotations

(Plymouth) is a very good basketball team. They won 16 games in a good conference.

I thought tonight was a team win. We had four non-starters on the floor and the run continued to the end of the quarter.

We'll come back. We have to play well (against Seneca East) tonight.

We didn't have much of a margin for error with Nick out. Then our back-up point guard has two fouls a couple of minutes into the game. Against a team like Ontario that puts you behind the 8-ball.

We quit attacking once we got the lead. We didn't handle the ball well either.

We put ourselves in position to win the game. We're proud of these kids. They never gave up against a very good team.

We missed too many easy shots. Against a good team, you have to score when the opportunity presents itself. We missed three uncontested three-footers in the second half.

They turned up the defensive intensity and that was the turning point. I thought we played pretty good defense all night too, but you've got to score in the 50s. We're not shooting with confidence right now. We're shooting hoping we don't miss.

They made plays and we didn't. Right now, we have a very small margin of error because we're shooting the ball horribly. We've done it now for three straight games.

I took those things away and we had a heck of a week of practice. I told them (at halftime) we would be practicing in the parking lot at the middle school next week.

The object is to keep on playing, and we will do that. We struggled tonight, but we did enough things right to come out with a win.

I knew it wasn't (a fluke). I saw them play South Central. They're a great basketball team and they really proved it tonight.

I'm happy with that. But we're a good basketball team. It never should have gotten to 20. It should have been four and then when we make our run, we get ahead.