Connecticut was going through the Industrial Revolution and there were tons of jobs around. That's exactly what the Irish needed. Many of them were poverty stricken. |
It seems to me there is a real revival of Irish culture. The culture seems very much alive. |
Josh Barnett had a great game tonight. He is normally a bench player, but he stepped it up. He has been injured in the past, but he has been feeling better and doing great the past two weeks. |
That last hill was the hardest hill to climb and I think we might have worn out with only seven guys at the moment. We have a reputation as a run and gun team. But the seven guys have been working very hard on being patient and it paid off. |
The bench squad is what has gotten us here so far. They're going to keep doing the job, I can always fall back on them. |
The game flow was fairly slow. We jumped out to a good lead, and basically maintained it. |
Their rebounding hurt us a little bit. They have three guys that are taller than our tallest player and they're very physical. They do a good job crashing the boards and we had a hard time keeping them off. |
We had a good first quarter. In the third quarter, they came out pretty strong. |
We played like a team more than anytime this season. I've got to hand it to the guys that were here tonight ? they did a spectacular job. They were patient, they played hard defense and they got the job done. |
You'd think you were in Cork again. You find those around the state a lot right now. |