After a quarter, I felt pretty good. |
I just didn't feel like we defended well in the second quarter. We were having a little trouble scoring, and then got flat-footed on defense. |
I was really pleased with our overall effort late. The kids made a lot of plays, and were the aggressors in the fourth quarter. |
I'm really pleased. I'm mostly pleased with their determination. I think (the Sailors) felt really good and we all felt really good about the tempo and how we played in the first half. We came out in the second half and made a couple of bad plays and St. Pat's turned those into transition baskets. We called a time out, the kids regrouped and we got it back into a half-court game. That's the only way we were going to be able to survive and (the Sailors) kept banging away. |
Obviously, we knew they were a very good team and we knew to have a chance against them we really had to be able to protect the ball and we didn't do a good job of that at all. As a result, (the game) got away pretty early. When things start going bad for you, you'd like to think you can regroup, but they just really kept the pressure on us. |
Overall, the year we had the kids really did a good job in getting to this point. So, I was really proud of them for that. |
The problem is that offensively you start to feel like there is nothing you can do and your vision gets a little bit narrow and you don't see the whole floor. That's a difficult thing not to do, so that's kind of where the intimidation comes, too. They stay right in your face and that makes it difficult for you to see the whole court. |
We felt like the important thing was to control the tempo. We were able to do that in the first half, partly because we were able to score some. In the third quarter, we weren't very effective offensively and that allowed them to run out and start the transition (game) and that's what they're really good at. |