Don Allen
Don Allen
Donald Ray "Don" Allenis a former professional American football fullback in the American Football League. He played college football at the University of Texas, and played professionally for the Denver Broncos in 1960...
basketball came games perry purpose tonight tough tuesday worked
We've had some tough basketball games this year. There's going to be some tough ones down the road. The Perry game Tuesday is just as important to us. Tonight we came out with a real sense of purpose and things worked out well for us.
basketball fantastic finish great seniors
We were due. It's fantastic for these seniors to be able to finish it like this, especially at home. This is a big one for us. Bonner is a great basketball team.
basketball figure game slow win
We didn't want to go that kind of pace. An 80-point basketball game was not one that we were going to win and we couldn't figure out how to slow it down.
against ball basketball bottom care concerned david decent everywhere hand inside jeff job needed number opportunity players post pressure steal touches
They put enough pressure on us around the perimeter that we couldn't get the ball inside. That was a big concern. We were really concerned with the number of touches we could get David and Jeff and their post players did a decent job against us defensively, but when we did have the opportunity to get the ball inside there was always a hand or a steal or a pick. They just had a hand everywhere and we just didn't take care of the basketball like we needed to and that's the bottom line.
basketball bottom cut good line playing work
The bottom line is we're going to be playing onehopefully twovery good basketball teams. We're going to have our work cut out for us, regardless. A month-and-a-half ago, we were in the bottom of the barrel.
basketball changes complexion decided half instead last locker minute quarter room second
I think the first quarter and the last minute of the second half decided the basketball game. Then we give up a 10-point lead. If we would've went into the locker room up 12 instead of six, I think that changes the whole complexion of the basketball game.
hard keeping offensive time
We just had a hard time keeping them off the offensive boards.
free good hit job pleased throws
We hit some free throws at the end and did a good job defensively. We're pleased with what we're doing right now.
biggest bottom close concern couple gigantic good halftime hit hole hurry job knew line points quarters score shot stay tied
Bottom line is by halftime we were tied there and they hit a couple buckets right before half. They jumped on us in a hurry and that's the biggest concern with them. They come out and you look at what they do to teams, they have gigantic first quarters and have them in such a hole that they don't ever recover. But we did a good job of regrouping and responding. I knew if we'd get close there at the half we had a shot to stay with it. You can't give up (that many) points in the first half. That's not the kind of score we wanted.
free luck shot throws
Sometimes you have to have a little luck on your side, as well, especially the way we shot some free throws down the stretch.
climbed cut everybody hill quarter
At that point, everybody was focused. We climbed a hill and got back into the game. We cut it down to one quarter of basketball.
came normally
I thought in the first quarter, we came out and just didn't play well. We started doing things that we don't normally do.
break dig hard looked ourselves quarter successful tried
I don't think we were working very hard on defense. Offensively, we just looked out of 'sync. They're pretty successful one-on-one and they'll break you down off the dribble. That's not us and that's what we tried for a quarter and a half. Then we had to dig ourselves out of a hole.
ball hills trying
Basically, we were trying to keep (Bonner's Jeff) Hills from getting the ball at that point.