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basketball good might played potential terrible

We played terrible (against Zanesville). I don't know what it was. The letdown might have been a good thing for us, but I think we have the potential to be a really good basketball team.

basketball coming felt minutes played showing signs solid though tired

We played solid basketball for about 28 or 29 minutes on Friday. I felt as though we've been a tired team, but on Friday, I think we're showing signs of coming out of it.

basketball care played shooting took won

We played really well. We took care of the basketball, we rebounded the basketball and we won comfortably without shooting great.

basketball christmas credit defensive efficiency good lost offensive played since struggled

We played very good basketball on the defensive end and that's a credit to our kids. But we struggled on the offensive end. We've lost our offensive efficiency since the Christmas break.

basketball girls move played unselfish willing

We played unselfish basketball. The girls were willing to give up the basketball and move the ball around.

basketball friends-or-friendship group hang teams though

We hang out a lot on weekends. It's not one of those teams where you have a group of friends outside. Here your friends are the team. Even though basketball is done, I'm still going to hang out with them. It's pretty cool.

basketball both containing defense felt forcing good handled job kick letting looks patient talked

We handled the pressure. We talked about containing the basketball on defense and not letting them penetrate and kick it out to one of their shooters. We were patient and not forcing things on offense. We were getting good looks at the basket, and I felt we did a good job of rebounding on both ends.

basketball best certain coming experience finished group kids lost nice played team terms together year

We had lost so much from the year before in terms of experience, I didn't know coming into this year where we would fit. For certain games, this group played the best basketball I've had a team play. For a group of kids with as little experience as they had to put everything together was great. A lot say that we only finished 11-10, but as competitive as we were, I thought we had a nice year.

basketball bed couple gotten playing practices work worth

We had kind of gotten away from the basketball we had been playing in the past, and a couple 6 a.m. practices refocused us and got us ready. When you have these (school) assignments, you can't get to bed early. But it was worth it. If that's what we need to do to work and get better, that's what we have to do.

basketball continuing easy last led playing three unselfish

We had a lot of unselfish play, and that led to a lot of easy baskets. We've just been playing a lot better basketball these last two to three weeks, and it is continuing to show.

basketball double figures four guys means sharing

We had four guys in double figures and we had 22 assists. That means we were sharing the basketball and we were making some shots.

basketball game pressure turn

We had to put some pressure on them and turn it into a basketball game again. Once we did that, we got some things accomplished.

basketball coached competing everywhere growing playing remember since taking time

We have all been competing since we were 5 years old. He was the one taking us everywhere and he coached us. I remember playing one-on-one basketball all the time with him growing up.

basketball besides country cross debate girls great guys happens known program school speech track

We have a great girls and guys track program and cross country program, too. We want to be known as a school that's well rounded. You can do a lot things there besides play football. Basketball happens to be one of them, but we've got a nationally renowned speech and debate team, too.

basketball crowds exciting goal good

We have a good atmosphere. Our goal is to give the crowds exciting basketball because they have been loud, especially this season.

basketball dropping happy left next nine opportunity plenty pride row win

We have a lot of pride in this program. No one is happy dropping nine or 10 in a row but we have plenty of opportunity to win these next 15 or so games. That's a lot of basketball left to play.

basket foul free good offense throw

We wanted to make them play man-to-man, make them come out on us so we could go to the basket and get to the foul line. We used that offense a lot this year. We've been pretty good at the free throw line.

basketball extremely shooting sure

We wanted to make sure we didn't let (Wichita State) get off threes. They've been shooting the basketball extremely well here.

basketball believe contract convinced leadership level national program statement strong

We wanted to make a statement. A seven-year contract makes a very strong statement that we believe in him, and it makes a strong statement that we're convinced that he's going to take our basketball program to the level of national leadership that we expect.

basketball court hard offense stay sure together

We wanted to go up and down the court real fast, but it didn't end up happening. We just had to make sure we were crisp with our offense and play hard D, and stay together and play focused.

basketball boards body crashed offensive somebody sure tried

We wanted to go get the basketball and we really crashed the offensive boards with a little more passion. Defensively we tried to make sure we got a body on somebody and try to get the basketball.