We are going to have to come out and play every night to win this regional. We aren't the type of basketball team that can just show up and go through the motions. Right now, we are just like everybody else. You want to put together a good week of basketball and see what happens. |
We battled, and we're having fun. That's my goal the rest of this season is to help (the players) get better, and help them have some fun. |
We came out in the third quarter and went to work. |
We didn't tell them anything they didn't already know. We felt like we needed to be more aggressive. We did catch a little life there towards the end of the second quarter, but we weren't being aggressive at either end. We were settling for 3-point shots and needed to attack the rim a little more. |
We kept preaching how hard you have to play. We were a bit overanxious there in the first quarter and made some defensive mistakes, but once we settled into a rhythm, things started to go our way. |
We needed to play catch-up, but we could never get that defensive spurt to change the momentum. |
We're going to have to toughen up a bit and not let teams crawl back into games like this. (But) I'm proud of the kids and the way they hung in there and found a way to win. |
What bothered me was the free throw attempts. We fouled them way too much. |
When you are playing zone, you have to be careful about 3-point shooting. You want to have balanced inside-outside scoring. |
When you look at what we trot out there and you look at our physical stature you'd think, well, I don't know. But we do play awfully well together and we've got some basketball skills; we can pass it, we can shoot it and we try to guard you. When you've won 21 ballgames in January, you've got to be a pretty good team. |