Denis Freeman
Denis Freeman
bunch good great hard kids last lucky work
It's just a great bunch of kids. Like I said last year...you've got to be good but after you're good you've got to be lucky. I don't know if these kids are lucky or not but they work hard and sometimes you make your own luck.
chaos create easy gamble leave man steals worked
You leave your man and you double-team and you try to gamble and create some chaos and that worked out. We got steals and some easy hoops.
night points seem
It's been like that all year. At the end of the night we just seem to have more points than the other team. And you look back and think we made so many mistakes. We shouldn't even have been in this game.
feeling half missed roles team took
It took us about half the year, but now they know their roles and are feeling comfortable with each other. Cassius did so much for us and we missed him early. It took a while to see what kind of team we are.
changed couple dylan foul great hit job momentum played second shots
Dylan and Seth Hansen sparked us. Seth did a great job. He made a couple of great moves, he rebounded, he played defense. Dylan hit his shots and made some foul shots. The whole momentum kind of changed in the second half.
last loss point state struggle winning won year
This year has been a struggle for us, the way we are winning games. Nothing comes easy. We may have had one more loss at this point last year when we won the state title, but it was completely different.
bank guy hanging hard kids lucky shot
Sometimes you're better to be lucky than good, right? Yeah, you bank a shot in like that and its luck. But these kids don't quit. If you keep hanging in there and working hard sometimes the lucky guy wins.
ball defender great sets tone
Carlson is just a great ball defender and really sets the tone for us defensively.
awhile basketball loose peter shoot talented tendency
Peter is very talented. He has a tendency once in awhile to get loose and nonchalant. He's 6-5, he can shoot it, he can put it on the floor, he can pass, he can rebound. He's a very talented basketball player.
bit coming defense great lately offense year
The defense and the rebounding have been great all year long. The offense was a bit of a concern, but lately it has been coming around.
defensive good time
I told the kids, what did we do good tonight? We made so many mistakes. This was the first time I've been disappointed in our defensive effort.
clean coach saw seen talking worried
It was crazy. I never saw that in 30 years. I've seen water. I was worried that we weren't going to clean it up. The coach and I were talking about what are they going to do if they can't clean it up...play tomorrow? Play in April?
adds advantage court home hung kids played playing pressure quite second
It was quite a night. As much as you want the home court advantage I think playing at home adds a little pressure to it. And the kids played tight. They loosened up in the second half. They all hung in there and just like they always do...they find a way to win.
accept ball guy inside move offensive physical struggling time
It was the first time I blasted them all year. You can always accept physical mistakes. But there were 5 or 7 times where we got the ball inside and the guy didn't even make a move to score. We've just been struggling on the offensive end.