The first step in this league is to compete. You also really need to win your home games. |
The good news is that we're getting closer. The bad news is we're not there yet. One of the good things is that we now have a late-game situation so we can do some teaching off of it. |
The good news is we're getting closer. Bad news is we're not there yet. |
The great thing about games is you get to find out what you need to work on. Rebounding is one, and then they picked us apart defensively. |
The great thing about playing games is you get a chance to find out what you need to work on. Rebounding was very obvious. They did a great job of picking us apart defensively. |
The light is definitely at the end of the tunnel. |
There are only a few advantages we get by not playing any games. One of them is having the other team not know who we're starting or what we're doing. So, we're going to hang on to that advantage. |
There will be a ton of NBA scouts going through Valparaiso this season, |
There will be a ton of NBA scouts going through Valparaiso this season. |
There's only so much you can accomplish in practice. We accomplished all that. And we made it through as a team, and still like each other. |
They have the talent and the athletic ability and the depth. They are right there. |
They really pressured the perimeter and with pressuring the perimeter, it made it tough for us to get people open, so it created more one-on-one play. We've got to do a better job of finishing then and handling that kind of pressure. |
They've earned their minutes. At the same time, we know it's tough on them and hard playing this type of schedule without a chance to warm up to it. |
We are looking forward to next year now that we have a full season. I?m just proud how our team stuck together and handled adversity. There was a lot of prayer time. |
We want to play some more. We want to be here for a couple days. |