Our guys have been in a lot of big games. We've been in situations where we have been behind. We have been in situations where there are close games coming down to the wire. Our guys usually respond pretty well in that situation. |
Our rotation is determined by our opponent. |
Our strength is our defense. We try to pride ourselves on defense because we feel that when we execute it correctly, we can create plays on offense and hopefully make some open shots. These past two days, we've really shot well though. |
Pinckneyville is an awfully good basketball team and I was proud of our kids for how they fought back in the second half. We had our chances. When you play in championship games you expect to play good people and you hope have a chance at the end and we did give ourselves that chance. |
That 3 before the half was big. |
That was a good total team effort and we obviously needed something like that. The kids have all been working hard and they all got rewarded with some playing time. |
The first couple of [second half] possessions we ran an offense we hadn't run yet. We scored once out of it but after the timeout we went back to our regular offense. And we changed some things defensively. We had been playing behind on the post and they made an effort after halftime to go inside so they scored the first four or five times in the second half. |
The way that we play, that's a good sign for us. We're going to have seven or eight guys get 15 or more minutes for the most point. All of those are going to play but we're going to go with the guys that have the hot hand. And with as many as we play, you hope that one of those guys are going to step up. Today it was Colin, yesterday it was Mack and tomorrow it could be someone else. |
There's no doubt our goal was to make it back to Little Rock and to win state. But it's much easier to be the Cinderella team than to be the team with a target on your chest. Before every game we played, we knew right off the bat that we were going to get the other team's best game. Over the course of a 30-game season, that starts to wear on you. |
They are going to do what they do well, which is play good defense, they rebound well and they don't turn the ball over. They've got some really good players to grab rebounds. It's going to be one of those games that comes down to the last minute. |
They outplayed us and took it to us. I don't want to take anything away from what they did. |
They've had a couple of kids step up. They're not so two-dimensional anymore. They have more confidence in terms of having guys that can score. They're a more balanced team. |
Trevor is doing fine. He's feeling pretty good. |
We can't afford to take anyone lightly. We tell our guys all the time that anybody in this league can beat anyone else. That was certainly proven last week. |
We did a great job on the glass, blocking out and going to get the ball. |