Brad Tingey
Brad Tingey
added basketball best biggest exactly guys key love team together
This is the best team I have had. I don't know exactly what makes them play so well. There is not really any one thing. It is a lot of intangibles added together that make them go. The biggest key is that there are 14 guys that like basketball and love to play together.
count job seem
We count a lot on those two guys, and they just seem to get the job done for us.
bunch guys players success team trying
We've got a bunch of players that play as a team. We don't have guys out there trying to be the star. We've got a team and I think that's why we've had success this year.
contest prevent
We can't prevent shots, but we can contest them.
board matter matters region shooting staying top wrote
It doesn't really matter about the 12 in a row. We wrote on the board that we are 2-0 in the region and we're shooting for 3-0. It is really the only thing that matters right now is staying on top of our region.
contest guys prevent trying
I tell our guys that we're not out here trying to prevent shots, but we want to contest shots.
continued kids knew needed pleased stand
I was pleased that my kids continued to stand their ground. We knew they were going to make a run, and we just needed to play through it.
boys contest difficult focus needed
Our focus with the boys was we just needed to defensively contest every shot, and we wanted to make things difficult for them.
hold kids mentally took tough
We just have some mentally tough kids and that's what it took to hold (Northridge) off.
force night score shots team
He's a real team player. He could score like that every night if we wanted him to. But he's not like that. He'll take the shots if they're there, but he's not going to force things just to get shots up.
attention hits opens paying people shot start tends zone
He tends to be a zone buster. If he hits a shot or two, people have to start paying attention to him and that opens things up for everyone else.
experience good guys
We're doing a lot of this with guys that are new to varsity experience. So from an experience standpoint, I feel pretty good about where we're at.
earn experience
With my experience at Hillcrest, we don't take anything for granted. We know we have to earn what we get.
contest defense goal hand shot sound stay teams tough
Our goal is just to contest every shot and then rebound. We are pretty long, and if we can just get a hand up on every shot, it makes it tough for teams to score. We try to play sound defense and just get a lot of deflections and stay active.