Lance Randall
Lance Randall
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At about Christmas time we saw some different tapes and thought Memorial was the best team in the state. I thought they had some great chemistry and some really good pieces of the puzzle.
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Top to bottom, it's been terrific all year long. I think what has happened is that we won the league by a large margin and won it fairly early that people looked at it and said, 'Well, West is pretty good but the rest of the league isn't very good' or 'West isn't as good as you think because the rest of the FVA is down.' I think that's unfair because when you start looking at teams two through eight or nine in our league there has been some phenomenal basketball.
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You can never speculate on what will help or hurt. At this stage, you just want to try and win a basketball game. I would never encourage a team to lose a basketball game and we're just too dang competitive. I don't want to lose.
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We don't look at individual accolades. We measure our successes in how our teams fare and I think that speaks volumes about Andy Polka.
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We had a little more motivation than some of the other teams in the tournament. Certainly everyone wants to win. We had dreams. I know others had dreams too. But our dreams are awfully deep-rooted. This one is pretty special for us.
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I would like to be able to have more preparation time as a coach. The less prep time you have the more you leave the game to chance. The more likely an underdog is going to win that sectional final or a team less drilled in scouting and fundamentals might get through if you have less time to prep.
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I'm very proud of where this program is at. I'm probably more pleased with how we did it. This team has showed such poise and such class.
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I'm very proud of this team and program for winning another conference championship.
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I don't think Andy has anything to prove to anyone. He's as good of a post player as there is in the state. He's productive on the offensive end, he's dominating on the defensive glass. I think he's the best all-around post player in the state.
elevated game
Big game after big game he's elevated himself.
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We wanted to come out, be aggressive and have fun and I think that we did that. That (early lead) gave us the cushion to relax and it took the pressure off us from the get-go.
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Boy, defensively we were just dynamite. That says a lot about our intensity and our will to win. We have just such a determined group of guys.
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We knew we had to mix up some defenses. I thought we were very effective for the most part in the 2-3 (zone), and it made a big difference for us going away.
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My job is not just a basketball coach. I think that I'm more of a leader and a teacher and I'm trying to make young men out of them. Part of their acceptance or part of their realization of the end is part of maturation process.