19 ordspråk av Don Davidson
Don Davidson
(Huizinga) was a load tonight. He just carried them in the first half.
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Against a No. 1 seed, you've got to get off to a good start, and we did that. But (Hampshire) kind of got with their game and slowed it down on us. We shot poorly and couldn't rebound against their size.
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At halftime, we had to do something to put the clamps on them, and we did a much better job after that. Both teams came out really ready to play.
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Bureau Valley played hard, and so did we. We just turned it over too many times at the end.
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Early on we were taking too many missed 3-pointers. We just came out in the second half and were better at moving the ball around and finding our shot.
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He really does. He goes to the basket really well. I thought we closed out the game really well. We played not to lose, we played to win.
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I told our players that this is what we can aspire to be like in a year or two. I was proud of the way Joe Redmond ran the offense tonight against a quality team.
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It seemed like they blocked about 15 shots. We count on (Wesley) Harper and (Jonathan) Boyd to get to the basket on people, and they just couldn't get to the basket tonight.
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Oh my goodness, (Harper) was huge tonight. He's real strong, and when he gets on the board, he really helps us get the break going.
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Our turnovers were a real problem in the first half. We just shot so poorly. If you shoot a little bit better and don't turn it over quite so much, to me that was the whole game. We just didn't shoot the ball tonight.
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Part of our game is driving to the basket and I didn't think they were calling anything on drives, anything on either team. Nobody going to the basket ever got fouled.
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That really hurt them a lot in the fourth quarter. We were able to execute better against their zone and we were more patient.
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That's kind of been our bug-a-boo all year. We have games where we just don't shoot it well, and this was an unfortunate time to not shoot it well.
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Their second team might be able to win this tournament.
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We had some nice looks, but not a lot of them. We had trouble moving the ball, and we forced some shots also.
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