Anytime you can come out and jump on somebody, that kind of puts you in the driver's seat. You're looser, you're not as tight, you're not forcing things as much. When we jump out on that lead, we seem to play pretty good with that. |
At halftime, we look and we?re not in foul trouble, so we know we?re going to get after it and wear them down in the second half. |
He can really be a presence. When Brandon figures out how to grind it out and how to play hard with high intensity all the time, he's really going to be a handful. |
He is the most dominant player in the area. Ask any coach that played against us how much they had to game plan against him. Any coach that says he doesn't want him is a liar. |
He made huge strides this year. His footwork came a long way. His sense of a team game came a long way. You can play in the park all day long and not think about defensive positioning or offensive spacing. All that stuff was introduced to Will for the first time this year and I thought he did a phenomenal job of grasping those concepts. He's quick learner and that really speaks volumes for him. |
He was really hitting some tough shots early. He's such a great jump shooter. He really elevates off the floor. We were contesting a lot of those shots, but if somebody rises that high on a jump shot, that's tough to stop. |
He's a stud. One of the first games of the year he hurt his thumb, but played through it. That affected his shot, but he's turned it up. |
He's really bought into the man-to-man defense, and really turned into a leader. He's always guarding the other team's top player, and at times carries the team on his shoulders on defense. He's such a leader by example, such a great kid to have around. |
He's such an asset. I've said this a thousand times; he makes everybody better. They just focused on him -- focused on him and he still persevered. I thought Will [did] a great job, kept his head -- I think they tried getting under his skin a little bit, but he didn't let them and played a great game. |
I love this team. These guys are so unselfish. They don't care who gets the credit, they just want to win. |
I think the fans are probably looking forward to it more. I could care less who we play. |
I thought our man offense (Tuesday) was a little bit better than it had been. We still need a little more movement -- guys are still figuring out when to come off screens, when to set screens. But, that's what we've got this last month of the season to get ready for. Come March, hopefully we'll be ready for that. |
I thought we came out and did the little fundamental things that help you win. We jumped the ball on defense, rebounded, guarded the ball pretty well most of the night and ran the court fairly well. |
I thought we came out and played hard; we guarded well and got the ball down the floor. We really looked to push the ball a lot more, and I thought we were successful in doing that. |
I thought we executed best toward the end. We executed well down the stretch. |