Lou Postage
Lou Postage
district kids league perspective small though wonderful
Even though it's a little disappointing today, we'll look back at it and we'll put it in perspective - all the wonderful things we did this year. When you live in a small town, these are the things you live for. You can never take it away. These kids won a league title. These kids were 19-4 and these kids were district runners-up.
exactly knew team three
When you play a team three times, you know exactly what's going to happen. We knew what they were going to do.
deep eight hate lose nine phrase somebody spare teams tire weapons worry
We're nine deep when we're all healthy, and even if you have to take away one of those, we're still eight deep. Teams have to worry about so many weapons that, if we do lose somebody - and you hate to use this phrase - we have a spare tire we can put on and not lose too much.
fast fine game mental relax time work year
This time of year you want everything to go by fast and you want that game to happen. You have to relax and be patient. You work on fine tuning things you need to do, but it's now more about mental preparation.
gave knew physical tried
We knew going in that they weren't going to give up. We tried to tell them at halftime, that's a gutsy team. They've got some athletes. They're physical and strong. They never gave up so you've got to give them credit.
cap exciting feat good great high kids league people quite regional school starter team time title win year
This year has been a pretty good cap on his career. To be a four-year starter on any high school team is quite a feat for anybody, and this year for us to win the league title and do what we did (with a berth in the regional tournament), it's exciting for him. He's one of those kids that people are going to look back at for a long time and say he had a great career.
figured
We figured he was going to get his 25 or 30 points. Unfortunately he got more than his 30.
build course eight front hold lead points run six sometime steals teams time tonight wears
That's the thing about our pressure. We may not get steals every time down the floor, but it just wears on you. Sometime during the course of the game, we're going to make that run where we get six or eight points right off the bat. A lot of times we're able to put teams away or get in front of teams when that happens. Tonight we were able to get our little lead and build it up. Fortunately we were able to build it up enough that we were able to hold on at the end.
extremely percentage second seemed shooting shot
That first half, especially the second quarter, seemed like a blur. I don't know what their shooting percentage was, but it seemed like they shot extremely well in the second quarter.
against kids played tough
Our kids played tough throughout. Every now and then you come up against a kid that's that talented.
learn
We'll be back. We have to learn from this, but we'll be back.
accepted challenge coming goal looks mentality open quarter second
Our goal coming in was not to let them get open looks and not let them get on a roll. That second quarter was probably just too much for us to overcome. We got into a mentality where I don't think we accepted the challenge they put on us.
good scout team watch whatever
What it all comes down to is, you scout them, you watch the tapes, and you make whatever adjustments you need to make. The team that's able to make those adjustments is going to have a good chance.
far game good grow overcome teams
Good teams can come back from that. You can look back in history. You can look back at this year. Good teams that get down by 15 or so, they're still able to come back. Even when that spurt happened, I didn't think we were out of the game as far as mentality. We just couldn't overcome it. We just have to grow as a program.