The Princeton Tigers have been lacking fire this week in the Colmone Classic at Hall High School.

Coach Jason Smith said it showed in Thursday’s 67-57 loss to Eureka in the Colmone crossover bracket.

And Smith said it all starts with him.

“I’ve got to coach better,” he said. “I have to be better at coaching in details. Teaching them that it’s OK to play with emotion, play with heart, with grit and passion and energy. It’s my job to instill that in them and I haven’t done a good enough job with it. And yet we’re good enough to compete against a team like Eureka, who I think is really, really good.”

Smith said it may take some different energy drills in practice to light that fire and “set a tone early in practice and instill that in them so maybe they can set that tone in the game.”

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