First off, we have to make the tournament (the top eight finishers qualify), but I do feel that we will get in. We still have a shot at a home seed, but actually I'm not sure that that would be good. We may want to open with a road game. |
Having five guys in double figures is the kind of balance I like to see. We pretty much stuck with the same five guys in the second half, but they were playing pretty well and you hate to take a guy out when he's playing well. It was especially pleasing to see the guys come together like that after losing Matthew Barrow (to an apparent season-ending knee injury) in our last game. |
I don't like to compare players. But, without putting anybody down, I can honestly say Mike had the greatest range of any player I've ever coached. There were no bad shots for Mike. |
I enjoyed coaching at Lamar the past three years and appreciate the hard work the players put in to making the program better. This will allow me to get back to doing the job I came back to Lamar to do in the first place. |
I enjoyed coaching at Lamar the past three years and appreciate the hard work the players put into making the program better. I really appreciated the support from the alumni and fans. I am confident that the program will move forward. |
I got the call at about 1 a.m. that night, and I went out to the municipal airport. In those days, we were all so close within the athletic department, so we were all losing close friends. There were a lot of funerals to go to in addition to the memorial service we had in McDonald Gym. |
I thought our guys played hard. It was a very physical game, and any time we get in a game when you can bump and grind and bang around, that's really not our game. |
I'll tell you this. He'd sure look good in an Oklahoma uniform. Right now. |
Ideally, everyone would like to have the same starting lineup for every game and be able to go with the same game plan for every game. Everyone would know their roles, and everyone would know the rotation. |
If we ever decided to make free throws, it would've been a different game. When we had chances to either tie or go ahead, we would go 1-for-2 at the line at best. Seventeen-for-30 isn't going to win any games for you. |
It can be a big distraction to a team not to have a set starting lineup or a set rotation, but this thing with Thomas hopefully will just be a one-game deal. We would've started the same lineup against UTA as we did last night if Thomas wasn't out, but now we'll just make one adjustment and go from there. |
Jordan had a great game. He had 15 points at halftime, and he got 15 more in the second half. He was a big key to the game. |
My projection is that Matthew will be out for the rest of the season. When he went out, we came unglued for a while. It definitely messed up our rotation. |
Of course, I am shocked to hear about what happened to the West Brook soccer team. It has to be a huge setback to the school, as I know it was to Lamar when we had the track team tragedy in 1968. |
Of course, we want as high of a finish as possible. Nothing has changed that much. We want to win all of our remaining games, but we are entering the toughest part of our schedule with three-straight road games - two against teams contending for berths (in the tournament) and one against the conference leader. |