At the time I was resting a couple of players. I was resting Trevor Fletcher and Matt McClure. I expected [Cedarville] to make to make a run, so we weren't getting real excited. We put our own little run together and it ended up good for us. |
Early in the first half they were hurting us. They were getting offensive rebounds [off threes]. One of my pet peeves this whole week was keeping them from getting second shots from the long ball. The first half they were shooting a second and third time and we can't have that. |
For the first time all year we were actually patient. We wanted to go inside, but they (Eureka Springs) did a good job (on defense). |
I told them all week, you can?t look at Charleston?s record. All those kids out there were on some of those teams that won regional championships, and they played just like I expected with tough defense. |
It was an ugly game all-around. We started with a 12-0 run, and I think the kids kind of slowed down a little bit, thinking it was going to be a blow out. |
That wasn't exactly what I drew up. We wanted to get it inside, but it didn't happen. |
That's what we want to do; we want to press. That really didn't help us much. It was an ugly game. |
The last time we played them it was a (close) game up until half time. I told (my team) I wanted the same intensity that we have showed against Eureka Springs and Cedarville. And, they came out and did it. |
The last time we played them it was a game up until half. We wanted to come out with some intensity and we did it tonight for a half. |
They probably think that we don't miss free throws. We were 11 out of 11 last time we played, and for some reason we knocked them down tonight. |
We do one of those, we don't have to worry about the game. |
We lost [Rainwater] way too many times and he got some easy looks. |
We made some adjustments on our press in the second half and played straight man. We tweaked our the high-low. It was good to be able to show them some things at halftime and actually have them come out and execute it. |
We stepped up in the clutch. We missed a bunch in the first half but when we had to have them we knocked down 11 of 11. They've been staying and making 10 free throws in a row every night before they leave and it paid off. This was a huge conference win. |
What a last one it was. |