Alex is a miraculous player. He has made major strides, stepping up to every challenge and he answers every time. |
He's a guy who has worked hard on the game, put a lot of time in the weight room, sees the floor well, and is unselfish. But we certainly need him to be an offensive threat for us. |
I have a great group of kids. This hurts us for conference contention, but we can still go out there and work for other achievements. |
It's unfortunate. The kids wanted it real bad É we had our opportunities. They made a couple of buckets down the stretch and we weren't able to counter it. |
They tried to box-and-1 (defend) Alex right off the start, and we ran him off some screens and gave him some looks. Some stuff he did on his own. It was a total team effort. I have to credit Gladstone for hanging in there and fighting. I honestly feel it was our guys being able to counter-measure everything that they came back with that ultimately kept us ahead. |