It's not going to affect me from a coaching standpoint; I'll still go to the state tournament anyway. Whether I'm there coaching any games or just watching remains to be seen. |
It's tough to go on the road and play the No. 2 team [in the DVC] on the road late in the season like this. At tournament time, those are the kinds of games you're going to have. I thought they responded very well. |
John was an idol of mine. He was so close to winning a state title. He is very highly respected. He is truly one of the greatest in the state. |
Johnny (Walker) wasn't feeling well, and we had some guys in the lineup that were playing a little bit out of position, so we didn't execute as well as we should have. That's not an excuse; that's just poor preparation on my part. |
Once we got the conference to a point where we wrapped it up, that's when we started thinking about the state tournament series. Whether these guys could make it or not? We're not an overpowering team, but we will battle you. I thought we could play with anybody, but we didn't really blow too many people out. |
T.J. does a good job of penetrating and dropping the ball off, a little like a point guard; he just does a lot of things for us. |
Teams have had us in their sights for quite a while. We're used to that. And I think it's good for us to know we always have to be on top of our game. |
That's one of the things in the second half of the season that I would really compliment our kids on is they finish games really well. Tonight, we didn't. We had to hang on. |
That's the worst job we've done all year. (But) Batavia anticipates very well and they do a good job of getting their hands in the passing lanes. We also made some very poor decisions. |
The 3-point shooting was not really by design. We had some plays set up for Aaron, but it was not necessarily a game plan. He just got some good looks. |
The first game was no masterpiece by any imagination. I thought both teams played awfully hard. |
The only thing difficult about a big arena is the background. You really have to focus on the rim so you don't pick up all that background. |
There were too many threes in the second quarter. That's awful to [defend] because Anderson is so tough with his penetrating and it's pretty hard to get too much help on him. |
They (Warren) were starting to pick our man-to-man defense apart, and I thought we were able to get some momentum back when we switched defenses. |
They kind of surprised us with their outside shooting. |