For two minutes, you are supposed to keep your man from catching the ball, and it sounds easy but it's the hardest drill. I couldn't do it then, but now I can. The coach said he was going to throw a lot of tests at me and see how I handle them. |
He knew Aaron and Malik Hairston were going to come out hard tonight because we kind of shut them down the last time. They were getting it down lot and pounding it, and they were making their 3-point shots. So it was kind of hard for us to get stops. Their whole team played together tonight. |
He was out of rhythm, but he kept playing hard the whole game. He kept coming at me the whole game. When you take a player out early it kind of messes up the shot. |
I didn't want anybody getting into a fistfight. It would make our team look real bad. |
I thought about taking today (off), too, but I need to get back and get my wind. I should be fine for the game. |
It's like I can't let Coach Floyd down. I'm just trying to keep him happy, because he's made me a better person, on and off the court. |
That one really hurt and we just couldn't get going. But we're still in good shape if we can have a big weekend. |
That was kind of like the backbreaker, because then they had to foul us. |
This game put us behind the 8-ball with a loss like this. |
This is going to give us great momentum. The next couple of weeks are going to be big for us. |
We gave them a good game. I wish we could have gotten that game. |
We think we can play with anybody now. We believe in ourselves. |
We're in (a tie for seventh) place, but that's not that far out of a really good spot this year. |