As long as we kept the lead and made them have to guard us, we knew we were quicker.
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.
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.
We needed to create more offense through our defense. I thought we played good defense, we just didn't finish when we needed to.
I think our kids almost like that. They almost thrive off of it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.