They?re playing the national anthem. Hilton?s supposed to be starting and he?s standing there in his socks. |
This is the best day of my career. That first state championship was phenomenal. But I think with everything that went on with these kids this year, the ups and downs, makes it the best. |
This year can not be compared to any other. I'll never forget this courageous, dysfunctional and record-setting team. |
We put two things on the board before the game — run and rebound. Those two things go together, and we challenged them. |
We stay with the same concepts and try to execute it better. Adding stuff over the years has just created more tentativeness. The season is so short that I've never tried to do much with our offenses. |
We weren't sure he would graduate on some days when he was a junior. I was worried he'd come back home if he got upset with his playing time. Coach Calhoun wasn't going to baby him. |
We won the state title despite playing a mediocre game. We knew we had to bring a different brand of basketball if we wanted to have any hope of winning the Federation. |
We'd play games and I'd have a couple of college coaches come up and ask about players and nobody would ask about Derek. Once I found out why, I went to Derek and told him not to get upset but the college coaches thought he was playing soft. He just gave me a bewildered look, but he realized he had to change. |