As much as Mark has done offensively, he's doing a little better defensively, too. On the other side, Erik has really calmed down some of the turnovers since he came back from his injury. Mostly, it's decision-making. He has great vision on the court. |
At that time, we needed to find a way to get him the ball a couple more times. They probably made some adjustments so that didn't happen. |
Every year we come up here, it's always close games --sometimes overtime, one or two points. This might be one of the largest margins. |
He's had some really outstanding games, both offensively and defensively. A key for him is consistency. He's starting to get better every game. |
I think we have a chance after this tournament, I hope, that we'll continue to make some progression and get better for the stretch here at the end of the season. I think these kids can do that. |
It helps when the ball goes in the basket. It makes the game a little easier to manage. This is a strong-willed group right here. They do take things personally. We're working on the focus and the intensity part where we play a little smarter at times, but they are unselfish and are playing well. |
That's past. It was a good job. They had a couple of days to celebrate and talk about it. Now it's time to get ready for the next five weeks. |
There really wasn't nothing said before the game except that you're the champs, let's see if you can play like the champs. We got off to a little rough start, but I like to think we made some adjustments, and our kids really played good defense the last three quarters. |
They did a good job overcoming that. |
This is a good group of kids, intelligent. I think they're learning that when they share the ball within the offense, good things happen for them. |
We didn't know if we could handle (Fischer). We've had problems with the best player on other teams in other games. We zoned them a little bit and I thought we did a good job. |
We thought he was missing a step. He said his hamstring was sore as well as his ankle. But he's been getting it treated and you can see it starting to come back in practice. |
We wanted to go 3-2 and I thought our kids played hard today. Salem is a good team, and this is a good tournament this year from top to bottom. |