Collectively the guards felt a little disrespected after last year. Teams were basically thinking that we were suspect, so now when they play off, we punish them for it. |
Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more. |
Going into it, we definitely feel like we can win every game. No matter what. |
I didn't think my shot would be on like that before we got to the game. But every time we actually get to the game I think that it's gonna to be on fire. |
I knew it was going in as soon as it left my hands. I hadn't been that wide open all night. My teammate Steven (Forbes) stayed in my ear, and that kept me up when I was sitting. |
I knew that it was going to go in. It looked and felt good, but it didn't fall for me tonight. |
I like playing on the road even more. As a team we feed off the crowd's negativity and raise our level. |
In the first half we had some reasonable looks at the basket. The shots just were not falling. We finally stepped up and knocked down some open looks in the second (half). |
It's in the back of our heads. But a true champion focuses on the task at hand, so we take it game-by-game. |
It's in the back of your mind. I didn't even realize that they (Woodside) went undefeated last season. That's a big accomplishment, but we're having the same outcomes with our games as long as we focus on one game at a time. |
Teams focus on stopping Jamel (McLean) and Duke (Crews). |
The two games we have played have basically been a draw. We won by two points and (Corvallis) beat us early (in the season) by one. It should be a very entertaining game. |
We've been hearing a lot of talk about how we're the top team in the state. But we don't feed into that. We're even more hungry now than ever. |
We've been playing that all year and playing it well ? that's our No. 1 defense. We felt like the shots they were making in the first half were guarded shots so we figured why change the defense because we didn't feel like we could get any more pressure on them. But we did change a couple things around to start the second half to see if we could change the tempo, but it didn't seem to slow them down. |
You've just got to man up and take it. When we're playing hard and working hard out there, we can't be stopped. |