Chad Cluver
Chad Cluver
basketball best bought buy good knew playing team trusted
We knew we could be good as long as we could get them to buy into team first and things like that, and they've done that. They bought that from Day 1 and just kind of trusted each other. We started playing our best basketball at the end.
benny defense excellent executing felt good great halftime hitting job kids ours playing second three
We felt real good where we were at halftime being up by three with Benny hitting that shot. The second half has been ours all year. The kids have done an excellent job of executing and playing great defense in the second half.
catch guys pressure tried
We tried to put pressure on their shooters so they couldn't make that (entry) pass. We had the other guys sagging off and making them back up to catch it.
basketball inside knew pressure stop
We knew we had to put a lot of pressure on the basketball to stop their inside game.
four good hits knew knock locked thrilled
We knew we had to get him involved. They had him locked down pretty good in the first half, and they had to be thrilled that he only had four points. But once he hits one of those (3-pointers), he can get going and knock down a lot more.
behalf coaches community hit starting support until wow
No, I don't think it's hit until I got into this gym. But now it's starting to hit pretty hard. On behalf of the players, coaches and managers, um, wow ? the support from this community is unbelievable.
anybody believe conference feels hard moving proud road
It feels real good, to own it all by yourself. Before the season, if anybody said someone's going 9-0 in the conference it would be hard to believe that. So I'm real proud of our kids, and now we've just got to keep moving on. There are better things down the road after this.
ask asked good improve quicker release running until worked
That's the thing with Robert, if you ask him to do something, he does it until he's good at it. We asked him to get quicker and he worked all summer. We asked him to quicken his release and he worked all summer. We're running out of things for him to improve on.
austin definitely looks robert scoring
Robert did the scoring the first quarter, all of it, I think. Then we had to get Austin some looks and he was definitely in the flow.
finds great job moving seems shots
He does a great job of moving off the ball, and when the shots go up he finds that seam and seems to be there (for the rebound).
create finish good needed offense played
We needed to create more offense through our defense. I thought we played good defense, we just didn't finish when we needed to.
created giving
He's just a flat-out scorer. And he did it while giving it up if he didn't have a shot. And he created a lot for himself, too.
kept slow spreading striking within
Slow but sure, we kept spreading it out, and we never were going to let them come back within striking distance.
five last scenario three worried
As a coach, you never want it to be real close, but I was kind of worried about how we were going to react. Because we've never been in this scenario before, and they've been there three of the last five years.