Caleb was on fire. He kept us in the game. |
He attacked the basket in the second half. |
He had a monster game. |
I'm not going to say I'm getting the monkey off ... I'm not saying it. |
It was a heartbreaker, for sure. It's kind of the way our season has gone all year. I think that was seven games that we were leading in the fourth quarter this year, and ended up losing. |
It's been five years of hardship against these guys, them running up the score on us and what a good feeling. What an awesome feeling. |
That was exciting. We've lost our last two close games, so to pull that one out is huge. |
The biggest difference for us besides aggressive play was the free-throw line. |
This is big for our program and another step in the right direction. Had we won a couple more games, the number would have been higher. That's motivation for guys to win more next year. |
We didn't quite live up to the expectations that we had for ourselves, and others had for ourselves. With a brand-new program, we're still building. We were in every game, except for the (2A) Meeker game. We just came out on the short side a couple too many times. |
We let them score a lot more than the last time we played them. It was one of those nights when we were reeling and didn't play to our ability. We were a step slow on defense everywhere. |
We played smart basketball. We made too many mistakes in the first half, so we slowed down the game in the second half and didn't try to get into a running battle with them. |
We wanted to pull away, but they had some key 3-pointers at the end. |
We've been in a rut lately, and we decided to break the mold. We went into a full-court man-to-man defense all game to try something different. We changed up our substitution pattern and tried to run instead of rely on size. Our guys responded well. |