Coaches have a certain amount of influence that maybe parents don't have. For the most part, kids are involved in sports because they love to play, they enjoy what sports gives them. Some kids, it may be the one positive thing they have going on. Maybe they're struggling a little bit in school. |
I don't know if we expected to get trounced like that. But we had a lot of young guys wrestling against their seniors and juniors. We were hopeful we could wrestle a little better and not get pinned as much. |
I feel like we'll be OK if we play well. What we need is to get back in the gym and look over our game plan. |
I told our guys at halftime that we couldn't give them any second-chance points and we'd have to control the paint. I told them they'd have to beat us from the outside. |
Logan gives us that defensive experience at low post. |
One of the things we stress is to make sure you are prepared. Do you have enough water? Do you have the right equipment? When we travel, there is a checklist of things, the type of places we stay in, for example. |
We just didn't play. It was 9 o'clock for us and 9 o'clock for them. It came down to whoever came to play and we didn't. |
White can pull up on a dime and shoot. You don't see many players like that. |
White's shot was huge. We wanted the last shot but took it too early. |