A lot of people don't realize what a leader he is. He is more than deserving to be on the list. He's been a big part of our success in several capacities. |
Aaron is a very good shooter. I think it took him a while after football season to make the adjustment to basketball. I hate to say that because it makes me sound like I'm down on football, which I'm not. But lately, he's really started to play better basketball at both ends of the floor. |
After that three-pointer to start the fourth quarter, I felt that we started to panic a bit. It was almost like we thought we were 10 points down with 4 minutes to go. It was just the start of the fourth quarter. We pretty much played the whole fourth quarter like that. |
East Aurora is struggling right now but if we have to play them next Friday, I'll guarantee you they'll be playing a lot better than they have the last month or so. It's going to be tough for us. |
He could impact a game in so many ways that he didn't always need to score. We don't often have a prolific scorer in our system. I was even able to hold Kenny Battle down to 18 points a game. |
He does a lot of things. Gets his hands on a lot of balls, hits the boards, defense. He has a lot of talent. He can shoot the ball. He can make a lot of things happen. |
He does so many things. We put stickers on the players' lockers, and we're running out of room on his. |
I almost called a timeout, but I figured I'd see if we could play through it, and we did. I thought our kids maintained their intensity in that situation and did well not to panic. |
I don't know that we've taken advantage of his shooting yet because we haven't had it that long. But he does stretch the defense out. When (opponents) go out and cover him, we have to start hitting those seams a little more. But when they come back to recover, it's going to leave him open. |
I really liked the way the kids played under these conditions. I'm happy we played as well as we did, on the road, against a very good team. |
I somewhat anticipated it (a 20-win season), not that we would be 20-1 right now, I wouldn't have guessed that. I felt this team was capable of winning 20 games. I think this is a pretty good group, they have been fun to work with. |
I sort of thought that we got out of our game plan today. You could even see it in the first half. I wasn't very pleased with the way we were playing. I thought we were hurrying our offense a little bit. That's not necessarily our style. |
I think our kids have been that way all year long. |
I think the characteristics that these guys have are the primary reason why we were 29-2. I thought we would have a pretty good team this season. I didn't think we'd be a great team. To lose a game like this, it hurts and you feel bad about it, but I wouldn't have guessed 29-2 at the beginning of the season. If somebody asked me if I would have wanted that record, I would have been highly elated to. |
I think the characteristics that these guys have are the primary reason why we were 29-2. They're a fun team to coach. A bunch of nice young men. From a standpoint of whether we could get to Peoria or not, we just kind of took that one game at a time this year. |