Bud Hendrix Quotations

Wow, 15-for-15, I didn't know that, but I knew we were shooting pretty good. What a great game. Just a battle and a terrific battle all night long. Plymouth is a great team, and they're just so physical, and everything we had, we had to earn it.

We match up with them well, but we got to put four quarters together instead of just two.

I thought they were the stronger team because it was a physical game. They had 30 offensive rebounds.

I think we got some stuff straightened out, but then we weren't ready to play ball.

That was real important to us. I thought our team played extremely well tonight, passed very well and worked hard.

We couldn't get any closer than 5-6 points, and Woody Carver had three good looks at threes, and I'm just surprised we didn't hit more shots. But I enjoyed it, and it was nice to get that far.

We just have to take that day-by-day. He played well in both games with Camden, and someone else will have to step up.

When you get stats from the game, I didn't think it was them forcing turnovers, because we forced some, too, but we didn't convert. You can't do that here.

We've played bigger teams, we played Cape Henry, and we played Atlantic Shores. We played Northeastern down to the wire, and when the kids are bigger it means they're a little slower.

A total team effort, and they (Perquimans) have a nice team. That's probably the largest margin I've ever won at Perquimans, even when we went in there with some bigger teams.

A lot of people told me that no Manteo team had ever been this far, and this is nice, but when you get to this point, you think you can go all the way.

I told him (Davis) to take it. I said 'You're open, you got to take it' and he turned down two or three shots in the first quarter, and he came out and hit three in a row.

I told them that it probably doesn't mean a great deal to you, but there will be a plaque with your name on it in my office forever. You get put on that wall with those guys, that's pretty good.

It's the same thing night in and night out. If our guards aren't playing well, we struggle. We just came out of the gate wanting to launch 3-pointers instead of taking it to the basket. We were lucky to have a one-point lead at the end of the quarter.

Davis did a great job for us. He was the player of the year in our conference and he proved it tonight. We had a lot of heart and I'm very proud of them.

That just killed us. And they were after him, and they knew he was our go-to guy.

They (Creswell) came out and played hard. I told our guys you have a bull's eye on your chest, and we're the ones they're after.

They heard me say 'flatten out' and what it means is take it to the hole guy (Davis). They got all four guys on the baseline, and all they're doing is screening and rolling and getting out of the way.

Camden Friday night, let's be 12-0 if it's possible. That's all they want, and they were saving their celebration until Friday night.

All I know is I've been coaching at Manteo for 17 years, and I couldn't be prouder of a group of kids. They came up here under some serious stress and a hostile crowd and showed their true grit.