I've been telling the team, you can't do that against a good team. They kept proving me wrong . . . but today they saw against a good team that you just can't keep coming back. |
I've never seen a team shoot any better than that -- and I'm talking about from downtown. There's no way you can defend that, as deep as those kids were shooting. |
If the weather's nice, I'll be fishing [yesterday]. I'll go to church in the morning, fish in the afternoon . . . and on Monday I'll be taking care of school business. |
It was Coaching 101. If something doesn't work early in the game, try it later. |
It's a luxury to have two fine players. Any one of them can carry you on any given night. |
It's just great to have the opportunity to play in a title game. We're just a small church school in Richmond, so anytime we're on national TV, it's a great for our school, for our enrollment, for everything. |
Some of our kids in the program might not be as committed as I want them to be. We'll weed them out and get some other guys, and we'll confirm our commitment to the guys who believe in what we're doing 100 percent. |
Somehow or another, we hung in there and the ball bounced our way at the end. We were very lucky. |
The Union fans are tough. I've always said they're with you win or tie. |
They had lost five straight. They were like a wounded animal: They came at us and they wanted it worse than we did. |
They jumped on us early. We fought back somehow and found a way to get ahead. |
They push it to the basket hard, but they usually kick it to the shooters. So we were actually stopping threes first, and (then trying) not to give up any twos. |
They wanted it more than we did. It meant more to them than it did to us. |
They're gonna play and they're gonna get open shots. I'd like to see some of them knock some of them down. |
We did put two halves together, and I think we've only done that about five or six times this year. Usually we're one half and done. We can beat about anybody in the country if we're playing well. |