Brad Tingey Quotations

We're doing a lot of this with guys that are new to varsity experience. So from an experience standpoint, I feel pretty good about where we're at.

With my experience at Hillcrest, we don't take anything for granted. We know we have to earn what we get.

He tends to be a zone buster. If he hits a shot or two, people have to start paying attention to him and that opens things up for everyone else.

We just have some mentally tough kids and that's what it took to hold (Northridge) off.

He's a real team player. He could score like that every night if we wanted him to. But he's not like that. He'll take the shots if they're there, but he's not going to force things just to get shots up.

Our focus with the boys was we just needed to defensively contest every shot, and we wanted to make things difficult for them.

Our goal is just to contest every shot and then rebound. We are pretty long, and if we can just get a hand up on every shot, it makes it tough for teams to score. We try to play sound defense and just get a lot of deflections and stay active.

It doesn't really matter about the 12 in a row. We wrote on the board that we are 2-0 in the region and we're shooting for 3-0. It is really the only thing that matters right now is staying on top of our region.

I tell our guys that we're not out here trying to prevent shots, but we want to contest shots.

I was pleased that my kids continued to stand their ground. We knew they were going to make a run, and we just needed to play through it.

We play better with the lead, but I think most teams do. We told our boys that that needed to be our focus ? to get a lead and then try to hold onto it.

We can't prevent shots, but we can contest them.

We've got a bunch of players that play as a team. We don't have guys out there trying to be the star. We've got a team and I think that's why we've had success this year.

We count a lot on those two guys, and they just seem to get the job done for us.

First round games, you've got to deal with the nerves. They always seem to be grind it out games, and we feel we've been in enough of those games, it's something we know how to do it, we just knew to play through it.

This is the best team I have had. I don't know exactly what makes them play so well. There is not really any one thing. It is a lot of intangibles added together that make them go. The biggest key is that there are 14 guys that like basketball and love to play together.

They nailed us in November. We'll see how we deal with them in March.

As weird as it seems, Brimley has 28 points, hits eight three's, and I would still say that was a complete team effort.

It's a huge thing for us. When he's on, it really gives us a confidence shot. Everybody on our team knows their job is going to be easier because he's hitting shots.

Any time you're in a holiday situation, you never know what you are going to get from either team, and we were playing in a beautiful but empty arena and it just kind of felt weird all night. But I told them they were doing a nice job of getting the job done, and that's what we're going to take from this.

That's a great feeling. We've made some real progress this year and we have another year with him. We've still got another month left in this season to watch him progress. I think he's going to be real good as a senior.

I definitely think we were a little bit nervous. We just wanted to make sure we got through the first quarter. Things can blow up in your face pretty quick in this gym.

The first four minutes of the game and the first four after the half are huge. It's just big for anybody.

The mark of this team this year is we just find a way. Whoever is hot or what ever defensive stop we need, it's happened so far.