I thought that this would be resolved quickly, and Congressman DeLay can get back to Washington and resume his post. But obviously, the game here is to keep Congressman DeLay out of his leadership post in the Congress. |
I thought the way that game unfolded made that a very good win. We knew we'd have a battle in the second half. We battled and made a lot of big plays on both ends. When it got really tight, we raised our level of play. |
I thought we did a good job defensively in the first half of taking them out of their offense and that really set the tone for the game. We kept our intensity in the second half and did a good job of putting them away. |
I thought we did good of putting the ball in play. In this game, you're going to leave runners on when you mix the short game in, which is what we do. We're going to mix it up, make every approach and make adjustments. |
I thought we got things in the high post. I thought we got things around the basket. Obviously, we got some good, clean looks for 3s and I didn't think they were rushed 3s, either. We just didn't step up and make them. |
I thought we had a spurt early in the third quarter when we got Phil in transition. I could feel momentum go our way. Give Bald Eagle credit, they came back and took that momentum away from us. We did have our chances. |
I thought we played pretty good in some areas. We had a letdown just before the half when it was a three-point game and quickly they got it to a 15-point lead. I think it came down to they made the shots and we didn't. |
I thought we started very well. We worked on what we wanted to work on, which was quick passing and movement off of the ball, get into a good rhythm of play. I thought for the first . . . 15 or 20 minutes, we did that. |
I thought we were quicker to the basketball. I thought our defense really played great. What I like is that our guys come at you hard on defense, but with the intelligence of a group like we haven't had in a long time. |
I thought we were very deep at the one, two and three positions. But I saw that we were one injury away from being hurt on the front line. That's where we could have been really hurt. We would have been very thin then. |
I thought we would play better. I don't know if it's the stigma about their personnel, the status of what they've got. I don't know if that affects us or not. We feel like we can play with them, yet it hasn't happened. |
Hal Holbrook (1925-) |
I told him he didn't have that kind of time to surrender, ... The best thing he could have done for his son is to come in right away, because too much bad can happen when he was on the street wanted for murder charges. |
I told him to think about it. Well, (Tuesday) afternoon he and I sat down and talked. He told me, 'Greg, Carol (Vermeil's wife) and I spent a long time (Monday) night talking about it. We believe it is the right thing. |
I told our kids what a lot of coaches tell their kids. Either you get better after the midpoint of the season, or you get worse. I thought we got better last week [against North Allegheny] and then we improved on that. |