I'm not a guy that goes anywhere, but tonight I am. |
In the first half we were a little impatient. They knocked us out of some things we were trying to do. |
It comes down to wills, and these kids didn't quit. |
It is a big game in a sense of being a TV game that's big for our conferences, but first we have a league game that's huge. Then we'll be on a national scale and it will give people a chance to see us again and for us to put our best foot forward. |
It was a great game. The kids left it all out there. It was the kind of game where you thought you had it, and it got away. |
It was just the kind of thing where we didn't read it well. That was a miscommunication, and they happen in the game. |
It?s a chemistry situation defensively. The way we play, it does take experience, just like with a motion offense. |
It'd be a lot easier if they took away the 35-second clock. Our team fits our personality and the type of kids we have. We play defense, take care of the basketball and we're going to go in and play. |
More than anything, it has been trusting and having confidence in our kids. It has been a lot of fun this year. Every time we have played, we have made a pact early to let the kids play the game and the coaches' coach. That is really what we did all year long. We have changed up some routines to enjoy it more. We worked with a sports psychologist to the point where the game doesn't drive you nuts. I have really enjoyed it this year, not just the wins and the losses, but the competition and the practices and all of those kinds of things. It's a learning process that we all go through. |
Our inside effort really took it in the second half. |
Our place is filled every night and buses come with us on the road. This has created such excitement and as long as we take it in stride, we have some size and some handlers, the components to be able to compete with people. |
People haven't shot the ball well against us. That's what happens sometimes. As far as what we want to do and how we want to do it, we have five guys that believe in playing the way we are playing defensively, and that attitude is what allows us to establish ourselves sometimes. |
Teams just haven?t shot the ball well against us. We have five guys who believe in playing defense. They work hard at it. It?s an attitude, a way to establish themselves. |
That?s pretty impressive, nationally, that they think of us as a ninth seed. I think it?s recognition of who we played and who we beat. |
The biggest thing for me has been enjoying my kids and enjoying the game. It has been a lot of fun this season. |