They've come around and that's what we've been teaching and preaching ? playing together and doing the things that we know how to do, getting people in the right places.

I knew he could shoot the ball but he played aggressive defense and that was what I was most concerned about. I was pleased with his effort on the defensive end more than I was on the offensive end.

Everyone in Gary and Lake County is getting extremely high bills and, in some cases, they exceed people's monthly income.

We were trying to catch up and went for more scoring.

That's the key for us ? play hard each night. It doesn't matter who we're playing as long as we play hard each night. I feel like, if we had played hard like that a couple of games earlier, we could have had a couple of victories instead of losses.

They were hungry. They saw some bait and went after it.

We were just fortunate to get away with a win.

We just didn't ever get started and it started with defense. I didn't think we played a real aggressive defensive game tonight. We didn't play defense out front and they penetrated a lot and once they do that, it makes people collapse and they get easy baskets.

He blocked a few shots and I think we started looking for him and missed some easy ones. Those are the shots that we've got to make to keep the flow going in the game.