They're all lunch-pail kids. They come to practice and they play the games with little emotion. They just like to take care of business. |
This is a total shocker. You don't expect to come in here and win like this, especially against a team of Plainfield's caliber. We just caught lightning in a bottle. |
We noticed they leave the backcourt open when they go to the boards. They have rebounding guards and we were able to take advantage of that. |
We seem to be getting better with each game, if that's possible. It's not amazing me that we're winning, but the margin of victory. These kids seem to be on a mission. |
We set basketball back about 100 years in the first half. They shut down everything we tried to do and we shut down everything they tried to do. So in the second half, I played dumb. I told the kids to spread the floor, don't run any sets and just play basketball. |
We thought we were quicker than they were and I thought we could wear them down. Defensively, we just had five kids coming at them the whole time. Offensively, Darrell is instant offense, L.J. stepped up tonight and I thought Charles Miller was outstanding. |
We wanted to take away their penetration. Our big guys did a great job of meeting their guards in the lane. |
We went with four guards and did a lot of trapping. Offensively, we started to figure out their zone and wound up with some easy attempts. Jerry Jones hit a big 3 to end the first quarter, then Darrell and Desmond hit some buckets in the second quarter. That seemed to loosen us up. |
We're taking it one game at a time. Right now our focus is on Phillipsburg. We can't look ahead. Last year, we kept focusing on Irvington and when we got to the final, we ended up playing Bridgewater and got beat. |
Without a doubt this is our best defensive team. We have nine kids who can defend. Our guards can stop you and we have big men who came step out and defend. That's been a constant all year. |