The whole team played well and battled hard. |
There isn't much that isn't special about Kita. |
They are a solid team and it will a much better effort than what we've been giving to beat them. |
They played their hearts out. Johnson just made a few more plays than we did at the end. It was a tremendous game between two great teams. |
We could have given in there and quit. For a long time, we couldn't find our rhythm, but we stayed patient and fought back. |
We did a nice job of holding down their two guards out front but then we didn't execute very well in the fourth quarter and they took over the game. We can't allow that to happen again. It's going to be a tough assignment but this is the same road that Johnson took to the Final Four last year and we would like to duplicate that. |
We had some great wins this season. And our seniors (Waller, Darnell, Norton and Randolph) have been great leaders and have meant so much to us. |
We kept doing things to hurt ourselves. We have to start playing more intelligent, but our team understands that. |
We're a different team since then but I think we're just as good. The keys will be playing defense, which I thought we did a good job of against Elbert, execute better on offense and rebound. If we do those things we have a good chance of winning. |
We're going to need them to play with the same kind of fire and emotion against Carrollton that they did in the fourth quarter against Elbert. They have been leaders all year. This senior class has shown a lot of leadership all year and we're going to need it. |
We're proud of our players. We outplayed them in the second half, and we had a shot to win it. |