Mike Waldo
Mike Waldo
ball changed court defensive knocked passes played pushed
I thought E.J. played an outstanding defensive game. He got some steals, knocked some passes away, changed some shots, rebounded the ball well and pushed it up the court nicely.
adapted both worked
E.J. and Dustin have both come in and worked and adapted to the other players.
east good hard louis played pressure
East St. Louis played hard tonight. They played well defensively with their pressure and they made some hard shots. You have to give them credit, they played a good game.
agreed best defend east game great hard needed played talking win
Belleville East played a great game, and it was hard for us to defend them. I was talking to one of my assistants, and we agreed we played our best game of the year. And we needed to do that to win this one.
good guys hard job press time worked
We did a good job of pressing. Our guys worked real hard in the press and they did a real good job of being in the right place at the right time in the press.
came dedicated focused good group guys hard prepared work
We've got a good group of guys that work very hard at what they do and are very dedicated and focused on getting better every day. We prepared hard for this tournament, like we do for all our games, and we came out and executed.
coming competition good teams treated winning won
We like coming here for the competition. They have always treated us good up here and there are some good teams here. Winning here is important because we have been here a lot of years and haven't won many of these. This is a really good tournament.
change defense hard offense parts whoever worked year
We've worked very hard all year on those very important parts of the game. That's why we don't see a need to change our offense or defense to whoever we play because we've worked so hard at the fundamentals of the game.
game good hard left teams
There are only good teams left now. Every game from here on out is going be hard fought.
ability defense gives guard guy key team tough
I think our team is tough to guard because we don't have one guy that you can key on. If you take something away from us, we have had the ability to take what the defense gives us.
finding good job places team
I think our team did a good job of finding Dustin in places where he could score. Then he made the shots.
active defense glass good mark night played rebounds
I thought Mark had a real good game. He made some shots, he was really active on the glass and got a lot of big rebounds and he played good defense all night long.
defense defensive
Our low-post defense and defensive rebounding will be a big key.
against best game played team
I think we probably played our best game of the year. We had to against a team like that. A lot of things went well for us and not much went right for them.