Doug Aplin
Doug Aplin
locker room unless until whatever
At halftime, I told them not to come out of the locker room unless they would come fight, scratch, claw, whatever they had to do until the end of the game.
guys half hard kids love practice single worked
Our kids worked hard for everything they got this year. I would love to get the first half back in the finals, but that is the sport. Every day, every single day, these guys showed up for practice and worked hard to succeed.
beat games hard proudest shoot stayed staying team
That's the thing I'm proudest of with this team, even when we didn't play well in games or didn't shoot particularly well, we stayed in games by working hard and staying after it. We beat a very good, well-coached team tonight.
kept lay playing run shots ups
(Jefferson) made that run at us and we just wanted to make some shots. We got some shots and some lay ups and just kept playing our defense.
deserved hard kids played team today
Our kids showed heart, but Eastside played very hard and physically. They were the better team today and deserved to win.
basketball decent hope
I think we're a decent basketball team. I hope we can get better.
defense early game shots wish won
I wish we could have made our shots early. But our defense early was the difference. Our defense won the game for us.
ad call change found game move moving
When I found out they were moving the game, I told my AD to call the FHSAA and tell them don't move it, don't change the game because of us.
against basket bottom good knock line looks needed second shots
We needed more shots to go in the basket in the first and second quarters. We had some good looks. We've been making them all year. The bottom line is when you get good looks against a good team, you have to knock them down.
bucket couple early might needed shots
We needed to make a couple more shots early on. A bucket here or there, who knows, it might have been different.
learned mean rankings teams time
I learned a long time ago that rankings don't mean all that much. All I know is that we're (one of two teams left). And that's the only ranking that matters.
ball beat month past took
They were beat up and pretty tired. They contributed that first night, but not like they have for the past month and a half. It took them a while to get used to a ball they could dribble.
ball direction double kids man maybe react team throw tried turn
We tried to double team sometimes, and maybe that had something to do with it. If they throw you the ball and then you turn in a different direction and there's a man in your face, that's tough. Kids react differently and that got us turnovers.
ball basket couple maybe needed quarter second shots
We just needed to get the ball to go in the basket maybe in the first and second quarter a little more. A couple of shots here or there. Then maybe if we can make a run, it could have been a little different.