It's an honor considering the guys that didn't make it. I feel fortunate that I've been surrounded by people that have given us success. Not to be too modest, but I feel better for both of them.
John was an idol of mine. He was so close to winning a state title. He is very highly respected. He is truly one of the greatest in the state.
That's one of the things in the second half of the season that I would really compliment our kids on is they finish games really well. Tonight, we didn't. We had to hang on.
I sort of thought that we got out of our game plan today. You could even see it in the first half. I wasn't very pleased with the way we were playing. I thought we were hurrying our offense a little bit. That's not necessarily our style.
Teams have had us in their sights for quite a while. We're used to that. And I think it's good for us to know we always have to be on top of our game.
It's going to be a problem for us because we don't have any big men to match up with him.
The only thing difficult about a big arena is the background. You really have to focus on the rim so you don't pick up all that background.
This has been one of our better years in terms of taking care of the basketball.
I almost called a timeout, but I figured I'd see if we could play through it, and we did. I thought our kids maintained their intensity in that situation and did well not to panic.
He could impact a game in so many ways that he didn't always need to score. We don't often have a prolific scorer in our system. I was even able to hold Kenny Battle down to 18 points a game.
