Grant McCasland
Grant McCasland
basket best compliment extra extremely hard hitting plays takes tough whatever whether
He's a big-time motor. He's a tough winner. He plays extremely hard all the time. The best compliment I could give him is that he does whatever it takes to win, whether it's making the extra pass, hitting a big basket or getting the tough rebound.
assistant best coach college country credit great hard junior owe
I owe him all the credit for what we've done here. He's an exceptional coach and he's got a great opportunity. I want everyone to know that I think he was the best junior college assistant coach in the country and I appreciated all of his hard work.
basketball chance extremely force hard inside job learns physically player plays time
He's extremely competitive, he's tough, he plays hard all the time and really has a chance to be an outstanding basketball player for us and be a force inside as he learns to play more consistent. He's done a better job than most (foreign players) because physically he was more prepared.
games hard love night team tough win
I love they way (the Wranglers) guard. They made it hard on us all night long. They're a tough team and they're going to win some games in this conference. They're not done.
behind came hit loose needed played shot time
Every time they needed to hit a shot, they hit a shot and every time they needed to come up with a loose ball, they came up with a loose ball. We just played from behind the whole game.
beating challenge hope team year
Every year there's always going to be some team that you have a challenge beating them. This year was Howard. We hope other years that's the exception.
allowed approach coming consistent days good himself learned players taking year
That year he learned to take a business-like approach to practice, not just coming in some days, be good and then take some days off like some players do. He's allowed himself to be more consistent by taking that approach to practice.
aggressive couple davis early energy hit jordan kept kyle offensive stepped timely
I thought Jordan (Coffman) stepped up early and hit a big shot, Kyle (Victoria) hit a couple of timely 3s and so did Timmy (Crowell). It kind of kept (OC) from completely suffocating the paint. It was also big that Davis was the X-factor with his energy and aggressive play on the offensive end.
grow hopefully prepared team
We can still grow and get better. I feel like our team will get better over conference. Hopefully we're prepared enough to not take any lumps early.
blessed fortunate guys reason
We're just fortunate and blessed to have an opportunity. The reason why we're there is because the guys play in to what we do and they play hard.
ball bounce concern defense fortunate good job last loss outing playing seems
It seems like we've always been fortunate enough to bounce back after a loss this season. I thought we did a good job of playing defense for 40 minutes, which was a concern from the last outing (a 73-57 loss to Howard). We also did a good job of getting the ball (inside).
beat came credit second talked team throw
The only thing I talked to the team about was to throw this one out. That wasn't us in the second half. You have to give (the Hawks) a lot of credit because they just came in here and beat us.
leadership
That's where our leadership has got to come from, our sophomores. I thought he got after it and we need him to play well.
area both exposed opportunity played plays rest teams theme year
That's going to be my theme the rest of the year that we make all the plays where both teams have an opportunity to get the ball. I thought that's an area where we were exposed when we played at Howard College.