Tom Ramon Quotations

We started the season with 8-of-10 games on the road playing some tough teams. Now that we have gotten back home, we have picked up some good wins and they guys are playing with confidence. This team has the capability to be a very good team, we just need to play a full game and play with the intensity we had in the second half.

We didn't show up in the first half. (Vestaburg) was more physical, they were more aggressive. I mean we just didn't play defense in the first half.

Those were the things we stressed that we had to do to win. Second-chance shots that (Sacred Heart) got in the first half put us down 10, and then turnovers in the second half took us right out of the game.

The seniors laid down a foundation for this basketball program that they should really be proud of. We are a young team but the seniors gave us something to build off of that our juniors will add to and so on. Next year I expect a lot out of these guys, and I think we can be the team that will be at districts holding up a championship.

Sacred Heart really picks up the defense when they can smell the defeat. They are a good ball team with a lot of big-game experience that we are lacking right now. When they have a chance to finish you off, they do it.

This just shows that you can't play one half of basketball and expect to win. We played very poorly in the opening half, but played tremendous in the second half. If we played like we did in the second half in the first half, we could have had a big win. But, you can't afford to dig yourself a hole like we did.

At halftime, I just wrote one word on the board, and that was pride. This is our home, and these guys are making us look silly. We needed to play with pride, and the guys came out and played a lot better.