Our captains did a great job of setting an example for our younger kids. They could have easily letdown, but they really embraced their role as leaders and came to practice ready to work hard and improve.
When you?re 4-16, gaining a little confidence is everything and getting ahead early really gave us a boost and allowed us to play our tempo.
We really emphasized this week to stay with our stuff and run our system and not break down whether we were 10 (points) up or 10 down. I think we did a good job of that (against Central).
It was a positive, heart-felt exchange about coming out and trying to do things a little differently. (Gardner) thought we could press more and distribute the ball a little better and it's something that really lifted the team.
(Central) played exceptionally hard. We had to focus our energy to Murray to make him work hard on his shots.
Ian has a load of potential. This is really his first big scoring game for us. It came at a great time for us. He showed flashes of this before. Hopefully this is a beginning for him. Maybe he was lacking a little confidence, like our team was.
I think the guys feel about as confident as they have all year, especially since we've played well in the last three games. We've been able to cut down on our turnovers and had two of our best shooting nights of the year in the two victories (over Westland and Thomas Worthington).
Confidence-wise for us, that was very good. We have struggled getting out. In the last three games, we've been down at the end of the first quarter.
We shot 51 percent against Westland and 53 percent (last Friday). Stuart was nearly perfect against Westland and shot the way he's capable. We were able to open things up in the middle for Ian (last Friday).
