Billy played well. He got into foul trouble in the second quarter. He got two fouls in the second so I pulled him. We were down at half by six but they had us down by as many as 12, but I thought he really came back in the second half. It was a big game for Billy. |
He was open. But we've done that all year. We just run and shoot. |
I just know that we were very flat. I saw it before the game. We tried to get them pumped up. |
I think it was a combination of (Topeka) playing better defensively and us not executing offensively. I called some plays and we just didn't run them. It's the same kind of thing we've been doing all season. |
I think Victor was a little bit nervous with everything going on, but he rose to the occasion. He was just really, really solid. He did a great job on May. |
I think we've got a chance to be a decent team next year. It's going to be tough. A lot of teams are running around with a lot of juniors. |
It was their Winter Royalty, so everyone was pretty pumped up, but our guys stayed focused. We were really flat on Tuesday, but our guys came out hungry tonight and played very well. |
Once they got that lead, the floor was spread. We never recovered. |
Sometimes it seems that every game we've played has been a big game. Maybe it's mental fatigue. I don't know. I know we didn't come ready to play. |
The black press was the key source in a very rich way across the entire history of black baseball. They took great pride in covering it. |
There are a whole host of great players and significant players I've come to know as personal friends who were wonderful sources. |
They have a good squad, first of all. The bench played just outstanding. Everybody I put in the game, everybody came to play. |
They're pretty physical, about like the team that we just played. They play a lot of man-to-man and will try to pound it in to a guy who's 6-foot-6 and about 240. |
Victor got hurt, and Billy was in foul trouble so we had a few starters out. I thought we just didn't play very well to be quite honest. We were a little bit flat. Maybe we were worried about what happened to Victor, I'm not sure. We were just kind of stagnant on both ends. |
We defended better and we attacked the basket. Our guys inside put up a relentless, tremendous effort. There was one possession where we got three or four offensive rebounds before we finally got fouled. |