Derek Thomas
Derek Thomas
add court great knows needed qualities run winner
(Washington) is a winner who knows how to run a team. He has great qualities on and off the court and he's an outstanding shooter. Those are all things we needed to add to what we have going on now.
basketball dangerous extremely fought great guys hard hate last proud saw step team
We can be a dangerous team when we play like we did for the last 10 minutes. We fought extremely hard after we got down. I hate to be proud when we lose, but I am tonight. You saw some great basketball and a great team effort. A lot of guys had to step up to make it happen.
box great guys help job ran
They ran a box and one on him and always had guys on him, but he did great job with rebounding and other things to help us win.
fun george great hill player veteran watch
George Hill is a great player and a lot of fun to watch and Brandon Cole is a four-year veteran who has been through the wars.
bad fire free good hit hurt learn saw stop throws tonight
We hit free throws tonight and got that one stop when the other night we didn't do that and that was the difference. Hopefully, we learn from that and I told them sometimes before you get good you've got to hurt and you've got to hurt bad, and I think they hurt bad the other night and I think that is why you saw so much fire out there tonight.
road
Right now, we're a zombie. Do we have a four?game road trip? Honestly, I couldn't tell you. We just play, play, play.
defense guys locking passing shots turning
Our shots weren't falling, but we were able to do it by locking up on defense and we just didn't let them score. On the other end, we had guys passing the ball, not turning it over and it got exciting.
aggressive ball definitely depending patient score
The thing was that (Jackson) was doing other things but I would like him to score more, but he got the ball to other people. I would definitely like for him to score more than that, but we have to be patient and try to be aggressive depending upon what is going on out there.
change finally fix focus free legs next percentage practice rest throw
We finally get some rest next week. We'll be able to practice for a change and put some new things in. We need to get our legs back, focus on getting our free throw percentage back up and fix our turnovers.
decision eight eleven felt free kids line ours ourselves seven straight time won
That was the game. Seven or eight straight times the fouls were called on their end and one time on ours and we're going to the basket. It was very frustrating because I felt like the kids didn't get to make the decision of who won the game. Eleven free throws; we predicate ourselves about getting to the line and we get to the line 11 times.
decision felt game kids win
That was the game, right there. I felt like the kids didn't get to make the decision to win this game on their own.
coach listening people proud reminds understand
Listening to Eliz reminds you of why you coach and why you're out here. It's because of people like that. You have to understand how important it is to those guys. I'm proud of those guys.
catching chance college difficult guys junior level longer settling takes teach
Getting used to this level is difficult and sometimes it takes longer for junior college transfers. We hadn't had a chance to practice, and I think guys are now settling down, and we have a chance to teach and re-teach and they're catching on now.
defense designed early good headed left open overtime played pop sean
We had a good look. It went just the way we designed it. They played good perimeter defense early and Sean got a little open and we were able to pop it out to him. I thought we were headed to overtime when it left his hands. It just went in and popped back out.