Brad Tingey
Brad Tingey
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.
hold kids mentally took tough
We just have some mentally tough kids and that's what it took to hold (Northridge) off.
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.
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.
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 focus hold lead needed onto teams
We play better with the lead, but I think most teams do. We told our boys that that needed to be our focus ? to get a lead and then try to hold onto it.
arena beautiful either empty felt holiday job nice playing time weird
Any time you're in a holiday situation, you never know what you are going to get from either team, and we were playing in a beautiful but empty arena and it just kind of felt weird all night. But I told them they were doing a nice job of getting the job done, and that's what we're going to take from this.
good great left month progress season watch year
That's a great feeling. We've made some real progress this year and we have another year with him. We've still got another month left in this season to watch him progress. I think he's going to be real good as a senior.
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.
count job seem
We count a lot on those two guys, and they just seem to get the job done for us.
deal grind knew round seem
First round games, you've got to deal with the nerves. They always seem to be grind it out games, and we feel we've been in enough of those games, it's something we know how to do it, we just knew to play through it.