I came here because I thought it would be fun. |
I can't believe they haven't won more games. We had to work pretty hard to win. We just did enough to kind of hang on and get out of the game. |
I feel fortunate to win this game, Belgrade has got a pretty good team. I know they haven't won, but they are going to surprise some people. I think they are a team that is going to go on a run real soon. |
In the second half, we played much harder and smarter. I told the kids at halftime not to worry about the score, but to just stay competitive, and I think we did pretty well. Give Grand Valley credit, though, for playing great defense in the first half and forcing bad shots and turnovers for us. They were very tough on us. |
It was like night and day (compared to the first half). It was just a question of could we stop CMR. |
Our defense has to be there. Then our offense has to be fairly on. We can't just go out there and stop them and not score ourselves. |
Taking that charge was huge by Ballinger. |
The key is to make everything that he does difficult. It's not easy. I thought we did a nice job of limiting him to 20. |
They killed us inside. Second half wasn't quite so bad. At some point we finally said enough is enough. That kind of stalled them out enough for us to get a little bit of a cushion. We kind of limped home from there. |
Those kinds of things are what we need to do more of, because we almost didn't do enough of them tonight. |
We hit just enough free throws to win it, but we should be hitting them all. |
We kept hitting our free throws. That was the difference. It feels good to come out of here with a win. CMR has the potential to cause problems for a lot of teams. |
We thought this win was going to be a really pivotal game for us at this point. It's good to get that second win against those guys, because in this conference, when it gets down to it, it's going to be tight. |
You just can't let it get to you. You got to know that they're trying to rattle you, and they rattled us. |