Jon Murphy
Jon Murphy
attitude earned fought gold proud stick
We are so proud of everything we've accomplished. Our attitude was just to stick with it and get back here. We fought our way back and earned this gold ball.
couple easy fought gold heads hung kids last lost past sort
These things are not easy to get. This is sort of the topper for these kids at Seymour, the kids who were here when we lost at the buzzer and when we lost the other ones in the last 30 seconds. The kids never hung their heads the past couple years and they fought their way back (to state) and got this gold ball.
defensive easier four good needed start statement struggled today together year
We've been kind of up and down this year and we needed to come out and make a statement with our defense, and I thought we did that. (We) just didn't give them anything easy. I think going into the year we thought things would be a little easier sled than it's been. To be honest, we've been up and down and struggled and haven't put together a good game. I thought today we put together four good defensive quarters. This was a start for us.
proud silver
Silver no longer. We are so proud of where we are from and what we accomplished.
great mom pop
That we can do it together. It's a great mom and pop business.
changed entire finally fourth game good knew needed opened quarter time
I think the entire game changed when we opened the fourth quarter with those back-to-back 3-pointers. For the first time all game, we finally had some momentum. We knew how good they were. We needed something to get us going, and those two threes did it.
burden chance empty finally joy lifted tremendous
I finally got the chance to empty my bench. It was a tremendous joy to do that, and it was like a burden had been lifted off our back.
fantastic guy tournament
(King) is a guy that in this tournament has been fantastic for us.
brink standing
We're standing on the brink once again. You know, it's not easy, but it's better than the alternative.
credit guys halftime hitting sticking
We started hitting shots. You credit the guys for not panicking at halftime (and) sticking with it.
focus
We can't focus on any one part of their game.
ball earn finally minutes monkey proud silver theirs
We finally got the silver ball monkey off our back, and I can't tell you how proud I am of what we've accomplished. It's these kids' championship, and those 32 minutes was theirs to come out and to earn something special.
few free hit needed shots situation somebody step
We needed somebody to step up. Matt's been in that situation before, and he hit a few big shots for us, and hit the free throws. We did what we had to do to advance.
goal gold win
Our goal does not change. We're going to go down there and try to win a gold ball.