Dave Robbins
Dave Robbins
brad hard quarters quit riding rode three
I really rode Brad hard for about three quarters of the year. And then I told him if he would do the things I told him to do I'd quit riding him.
anytime good win
Anytime you can win and not play well, it's a good win.
against behind caught energy expect few good level picked proved quite team teams telling time within wrong year
We picked our energy level up and wanted to get within 10 by halftime. I've been telling our team all year you can't get behind against good teams expect to win. They've proved me wrong quite a few times, but this time it caught up to us.
hurt mobile quite
Duan wasn't quite as mobile and that hurt us on defense. But he said he could play . . . so we put him in there to see what he could do.
carry fine given luxury
It's a luxury to have two fine players. Any one of them can carry you on any given night.
coaching early work
It was Coaching 101. If something doesn't work early in the game, try it later.
against coming good kept proving saw team telling today wrong
I've been telling the team, you can't do that against a good team. They kept proving me wrong . . . but today they saw against a good team that you just can't keep coming back.
deep defend kids seen shoot talking team
I've never seen a team shoot any better than that -- and I'm talking about from downtown. There's no way you can defend that, as deep as those kids were shooting.
gonna knock open
They're gonna play and they're gonna get open shots. I'd like to see some of them knock some of them down.
meant
They wanted it more than we did. It meant more to them than it did to us.
fought found somehow
They jumped on us early. We fought back somehow and found a way to get ahead.
anytime church great national opportunity school small title
It's just great to have the opportunity to play in a title game. We're just a small church school in Richmond, so anytime we're on national TV, it's a great for our school, for our enrollment, for everything.
basket kick push stopping
They push it to the basket hard, but they usually kick it to the shooters. So we were actually stopping threes first, and (then trying) not to give up any twos.
came five lost worse wounded
They had lost five straight. They were like a wounded animal: They came at us and they wanted it worse than we did.