Jack Purtell
Jack Purtell
against clicking earlier good job lead learned lesson lightly nine quarter stretched taking team third tough
We weren't clicking on all cylinders, but in the third quarter we stretched the lead from nine to 20 points. The team did a good job against Westland. We learned a tough lesson about taking a team too lightly earlier this season.
advantage far good quickness
We had the advantage as far as quickness and got off to the good start. That got us going and set the tone.
ball eight games good last score share won year
We won eight games last year and this is the same team, so it has been a good turnaround. We don?t have a 20-point-a-night scorer, but we share the ball and score by committee.
basketball good kids open score share shoots whoever
We don't have a 20-point-a-night scorer. Our kids share the basketball and score by committee. Whoever is open shoots it, and we all have pretty good shooters, so that helps.
happy intensity played shared
We played really well. I'm really happy with our intensity and the way we shared the ball.
best everybody game mixed played shot year
We played our best game of the year so far. We shot well, mixed it up on defense, rebounded and everybody played well.
credit
Give Jerome credit, they were down and didn't quit, they didn't back down.
concerns extremely hang homework hopefully saw size
Central's size concerns me a little. The first I saw of them was (last Tuesday), and they are extremely talented. I didn't see any weaknesses. Hopefully we'll be able to do our homework and come up with some way to hang around and have a chance.
against ball minutes share
We will have to play 32 minutes against them. They are balanced, they share the ball and they rebound.
both control ourselves teams
It will be tough. We play both of the one-loss teams at home. At least we know we control things ourselves and don't need help.
against coming deeper difficult games help starting stretch teams
We're starting a stretch of games against the kind of teams we would play deeper in the tournament. This is a difficult stretch of games coming up and it will help us down the road.
attitude fear respect
We respect everyone and fear no one. We like to keep that kind of attitude.
attack
We didn't attack and our spacing wasn't there.
best finish man pressures seen staff
Our staff has seen them play and come away impressed. We'll try to take something away defensively from them with zone, man and different pressures and just try to do what we do best and finish our shots.