Early in the year we would have been fouling in that situation. Toward the end of the year we've gone away from that. |
He really had a good game. I was very stunned I guess. I knew he was a good athlete, but he really stepped up and had a good game for them. |
I really think we kept battling. We're still not real pretty and we're still making young mistakes but we're battling. I was real pleased with the free throws down the stretch. |
I think there can be some differences (among the top point guards). But the biggest thing is the kid being able to take the ball under pressure and take it up the floor and get you into the offense. |
I think we're a better team now than the first time we played West and that's the main thing. West has a good outfit. We're going to be there on Tuesday and we're going to do what we can do. |
I was really glad to see him have a breakout game. He's a good shooter and a good basketball player. |
It should hurt. If you are a competitor and you give everything you have, it's going to hurt. It always does. If it doesn't, then you didn't do much, you didn't leave it on the floor. |
It was a team effort on the rebounds and I thought we shared the ball much better. We got the ball inside, we hit some outside shots. |
Just a win feels great. We played a quality second-place team. This is the second second-place team we beat this year. Kaukauna was the other. The 400 wins just mean that I have had many hard working kids. I like to think that our kids are more of a blue-collar type. They may not be the best basketball players, but they give you 100 percent. |
Keys to the game were our pressure defense and our transition offense. We came out really intense and got the game rolling right off the bat. |
Most kids don't take (the rivalry) too far. They want to beat one another obviously, but often times they are probably pulling for each other if they aren't playing against each other. |
Over the years, to me at least, you can compete at a pretty high level with out big men. But if you don't have a point guard, it's tough. |
Really pleased with the overall team effort. Our pressure defense was good throughout the whole game. |
Sometimes when adversity strikes in your life or in your sport, you have to rise to the occasion. I thought our kids did that tonight and I'm very proud of them for that. |
That team has a lot of shooters, has good size. It's a veteran team. We knew they were going to make a run. It was just a matter of could we withstand it and keep playing and fighting through it. There for a while we started getting in that turnover situation again. We were maybe trying a little too hard. I thought we caught our composure out there and got some leadership. |