He (Gerhardt) came through there in the end and made some big buckets for us in overtime and actually played some good defense for us in the end. |
I don't think we were 100 percent ready to go tonight. |
I guess that can be both a good sign and a bad sign. It means we're giving a lot of effort, but it also means we're missing a lot of shots. |
It was an OK game for him. He didn't play that well defensively, but we've come to expect that kind of game from him offensively. |
The last thing I told them was when that shot goes up everybody will rebound. |
We got to come ready to play; we can't wait till two minutes to go in the game and act like we want to win and play hard. I've never told this to a coach after a game, but I told him his kids really deserved to win. Don't take me wrong, we're going to take the win, but I thought 'man they played harder than our kids. |
We played well in spurts, but our intensity wasn't what it should be. Next week, we can't have that or we're going to have an early exit. |
We pride ourselves on our half court defense and there wasn't much pride for it in the third quarter. I challenged them a little bit before the fourth and they just stepped up. |
What a turnaround there in fifteen seconds or so. It was amazing ... We were extremely lucky. |
You always draw up plays like that, but they never really work. I didn't really expect it to work. I also didn't really expect Brandon to take the shot. I didn't really know what to expect at all. |
You can't take anything away from them. They really outplayed us most of the second half. We just put together one of our best first halves of the year. |
You have to know when to use it (the press). It's become something we can go to when we need some tempo or intensity. |