Any time you're in a holiday situation, you never know what you are going to get from either team, and we were playing in a beautiful but empty arena and it just kind of felt weird all night. But I told them they were doing a nice job of getting the job done, and that's what we're going to take from this. |
As weird as it seems, Brimley has 28 points, hits eight three's, and I would still say that was a complete team effort. |
First round games, you've got to deal with the nerves. They always seem to be grind it out games, and we feel we've been in enough of those games, it's something we know how to do it, we just knew to play through it. |
He tends to be a zone buster. If he hits a shot or two, people have to start paying attention to him and that opens things up for everyone else. |
He's a real team player. He could score like that every night if we wanted him to. But he's not like that. He'll take the shots if they're there, but he's not going to force things just to get shots up. |
I definitely think we were a little bit nervous. We just wanted to make sure we got through the first quarter. Things can blow up in your face pretty quick in this gym. |
I tell our guys that we're not out here trying to prevent shots, but we want to contest shots. |
I was pleased that my kids continued to stand their ground. We knew they were going to make a run, and we just needed to play through it. |
It doesn't really matter about the 12 in a row. We wrote on the board that we are 2-0 in the region and we're shooting for 3-0. It is really the only thing that matters right now is staying on top of our region. |
It's a huge thing for us. When he's on, it really gives us a confidence shot. Everybody on our team knows their job is going to be easier because he's hitting shots. |
Our focus with the boys was we just needed to defensively contest every shot, and we wanted to make things difficult for them. |
Our goal is just to contest every shot and then rebound. We are pretty long, and if we can just get a hand up on every shot, it makes it tough for teams to score. We try to play sound defense and just get a lot of deflections and stay active. |
That's a great feeling. We've made some real progress this year and we have another year with him. We've still got another month left in this season to watch him progress. I think he's going to be real good as a senior. |
The first four minutes of the game and the first four after the half are huge. It's just big for anybody. |
The mark of this team this year is we just find a way. Whoever is hot or what ever defensive stop we need, it's happened so far. |