Every once in a while as a coach, if you're lucky enough, you get someone to come to you as talented as he is. Not only (is he) an exceptional player, he made everyone around him better. He's certainly one of the best that we've ever had at our college. |
He always believed in himself. As a coach, you're lucky to get someone as good as he is. He's certainly one of the best players I've ever had. |
He is someone who has given us a real go-to guy. |
He's not a kid who is tied to the block. He can go outside and score, and because he shoots so well out there, we have some high-low stuff that we've run very well. |
I am very proud of the tradition we have built here at Delta State, but I think I am most proud of the way we went about it. I tried to run this program with class and fairness and I believe that's one of the things that has allowed us to keep this run going for so long. |
I felt it was time to move on. This was not a quick decision, and after laboring over it for over a year, I just felt it was time. |
It was a much different second half. What happened early, I guess you can blame that on bad coaching. But we dictated tempo and pressured the ball to get us back in it. |
Jeremy set a good pick and we got a great look there. Jasper did what he's done all year ... made shots for us. |
Right now, we're a few overall wins ahead of where we've ever been before. But we have yet to do anything. We've yet to take it on down the road like that Final Four team in '86 did. Only time will tell if we're that good. |
So far, it's been an incredible run with a great group of kids. |
So many times in our area of the state, our kids do not get the publicity all over the state, which would enable him to get the votes that he needed to do this. It's exciting to see one of our guys getting his due. |
The conference tournament will be big for us. If we play well, we can get that No. 1 seed in the region and host a regional. If we win it, I would think we'd be almost guaranteed to host a regional. |
This was a total team effort tonight. We won the battle on the boards (48-32) and I thought we really executed our offense well down the stretch. |
Travis took advantage of them laying back in the lane. He shot it in the set-up game, and he shot it in transition. He was outstanding. |
Valdosta State had five guys in double figures and shot 50 percent ... and we win the game. It's amazing. We're lucky to be sitting at this table as poorly as we shot. |