Chad Cluver Quotations

No, I don't think it's hit until I got into this gym. But now it's starting to hit pretty hard. On behalf of the players, coaches and managers, um, wow ? the support from this community is unbelievable.

He does a great job of moving off the ball, and when the shots go up he finds that seam and seems to be there (for the rebound).

Robert did the scoring the first quarter, all of it, I think. Then we had to get Austin some looks and he was definitely in the flow.

It feels real good, to own it all by yourself. Before the season, if anybody said someone's going 9-0 in the conference it would be hard to believe that. So I'm real proud of our kids, and now we've just got to keep moving on. There are better things down the road after this.

That's the thing with Robert, if you ask him to do something, he does it until he's good at it. We asked him to get quicker and he worked all summer. We asked him to quicken his release and he worked all summer. We're running out of things for him to improve on.

We needed to create more offense through our defense. I thought we played good defense, we just didn't finish when we needed to.

We knew we had to put a lot of pressure on the basketball to stop their inside game.

We knew we had to get him involved. They had him locked down pretty good in the first half, and they had to be thrilled that he only had four points. But once he hits one of those (3-pointers), he can get going and knock down a lot more.

We knew we could be good as long as we could get them to buy into team first and things like that, and they've done that. They bought that from Day 1 and just kind of trusted each other. We started playing our best basketball at the end.

We tried to put pressure on their shooters so they couldn't make that (entry) pass. We had the other guys sagging off and making them back up to catch it.

We felt real good where we were at halftime being up by three with Benny hitting that shot. The second half has been ours all year. The kids have done an excellent job of executing and playing great defense in the second half.

They are a little different from Carlyle. They are a little bigger and they spread the floor more with their big guys. We'll make some adjustments, but at this time of year, you just do what you do.

The thing I'm happy about is that he bounced back from that early game. It was a tough game for him, and he came back and played very, very well.

As long as we kept the lead and made them have to guard us, we knew we were quicker.

They have a lot of guards and good guard play and they're quick. It's pretty much the same thing as us. I've seen them play once against GCMS. I know Steffen is extremely good. Looking at CPCI is like seeing us.

I told my wife about a quarter of the way through the season that I thought this team had a chance to be special. Everyone kept overlooking us and we just kept winning.

It's his leadership. He works so hard that it rubs off on everyone. He played AAU all summer and didn't miss any of our team stuff. That says a lot about him right there. And all of our kids noticed that.

Slow but sure, we kept spreading it out, and we never were going to let them come back within striking distance.

As a coach, you never want it to be real close, but I was kind of worried about how we were going to react. Because we've never been in this scenario before, and they've been there three of the last five years.

I know they execute real well and they're not going to beat themselves. They aren't real flashy except for the Tucker kid, and they're just going to do what they have to win. We have to hope that we execute just as well.

I think our kids almost like that. They almost thrive off of it.

He's just a flat-out scorer. And he did it while giving it up if he didn't have a shot. And he created a lot for himself, too.

These guys believe in each other and trust in each other and the coaches. The more the games get tense, the more we relax. I don't know if it's an adrenaline rush, but the guys get very level headed.