Head Coach Dave Bezold

On the outcome of the game…
“We didn’t play 40 minutes of basketball. We talked about that at halftime. We needed to finish the game off, play 20 more hard minutes because they were going to come at us in the second half. Scala could not go six for seven, eight of nine in the second half. He’s just going to run around and shoot, and if he gets hot we are going to be in for a long night. They are going to get back into this game, and that’s exactly what happened. They worked harder than we did in the second half and that’s very disappointing.”

On Anthony Scala…
“He was in one of those shooting zones tonight. It’s the first time he’s done that against us. He made tough shots. A lot of times we were in the correct spots defensively and the kid just hit tough shot after tough shot. And when we thought we were back in the game, he hit another three. To his credit he stepped up and made shots in the second half. They worked harder than we did in the second half to win the game. We didn’t make the plays. We had seniors who had the shot, had the opportunity to make plays, and they didn’t do it.”

On improvements for Saturday…
“It’s going to be hard in 24 hours, 48 hours to make the improvements we need to make. We need to get consistent, that’s what we need to do. We haven’t been practicing well, we really haven’t. We’ve been putting in our time but not really focusing and concentrating on making ourselves better. So, that’s an area we really need to get much better at, so we develop better habits.”

Mike Kelsey

On the play of Anthony Scala…
“He was in the zone. He’s a good shooter. I guarded him most of the game, and obviously I didn’t do a good enough job. Some of the shots he was hitting were tough shots. You just have to hand it to him because he made them. He hit tough shots, and I have to do a better job on defense. We as a team need to do better on defense.”

On what need to be worked before Saturday…
“Defensively, we are bad so we’re not going to win. I think [Lewis] was one of the bottom teams in the conference right now. If we are losing to those kinds of teams with that kind of defense, we are going to lose all year if we keep playing like that.”