This will be of interest to anyone who wants to stop bad things from happening. |
We didn't hit our foul shots. If we hit our foul shots in the fourth quarter, we are already home. |
We got down seven twice, but we didn't panic. I told the guys that there were going to be some bumps in the road tonight. They are a good basketball team. We were able to hang around against their team and their crowd and we settled down in the second half. |
We got knocked down the other week against Hillside, so our goal was to bounce back up and come out swinging. I thought we came out here and really played hard-nosed basketball. |
We have a great group of seniors and this is a good way for them to go out. |
We just tell people we were runners-up. But you're definitely going to look back at it. That's just part of coaching. It's comforting to know that we were there from a competition standpoint but irritating to know that we were up by 16 points in the first half. |
We knew East wasn't going to lay down. We knew it was important to them, but it was important to us because we wanted to win. |
We knew when we saw them play the other night that they were scrappy and tough. We were able to handle their pressure early and I thought that was the key to the game. |
We spread the wealth pretty well. This was really a special year, because we had kids that understood and were happy if they averaged eight or 10 points a game, just as long as we were 25-4 and had a shot to go far. |
We were in foul trouble with both Hunter [Collins] and Marshall [Williams]. I felt like we dodged a bullet, only being down four at halftime and I knew we could play better in the second half and I was hoping that they couldn't keep shooting the way they did. |
What's great is that, right now, the kids don't care who scores. They're not looking at who's getting the points. |