Even when he came out, they were still able to rotate defensively to the ball and they moved the ball well. |
It was a game of runs. They're a good, big, physical team, and I knew it was going to be a challenge, but our kids hit the big foul shots when they had to. |
We knew they were going to come at us very hard the first three or four minutes of the ballgame, and we had to withstand that and had to take care of the ball more than anything else. In our practices, on our offensive sets we were just taking care of the ball more than shooting. We didn't want to have turnovers, because that would fuel what they do. |
We knew what they were going to bring, but the hard part was trying to take away what they wanted to do. Even when we got in transition, they did a good job of shutting us off when we got there. |
We weren't patient enough at times. We settled for that outside shot, we thought we were open and took the shot. If we worked the ball more, we might have gotten better shots. |