Pat Cleland
Pat Cleland
force improved keeps steadily
Patrick's steadily improved all year. He keeps getting better. He was a force inside.
flow helped mixed
We mixed up our defenses a little better and I substituted a little earlier, which helped our legs. I thought we had better flow offensively, too.
favor hard job kids nice princeton runs tempo
Boyne runs the Princeton offense, which is all back-door cuts, and our kids did a nice job defensively. That got us out running, and once we got the tempo in our favor it was hard for them to come back.
saw
Much better shooters than what we saw statistically and from what we saw on film.
four kids physical quarters rich teach teaches tonight
Rich teaches his kids to play physical just like I teach my kids. Tonight they did it for four quarters and we did it for three.
deserve enjoy happy
Let 'em enjoy it. They deserve it. I'm so happy for our community. I'm so happy for the kids.
courage hope series
I thanked them for having the courage to play this game. I hope the series continues.
basketball faces great needed quarters three time year
That was the first time all year I've had to get in my kids' faces about effort. To their credit, they responded. But we needed three quarters of great basketball after that, and we didn't get it.
couple great job kept kyle running switched thinking
Kyle did a great job running the offense, and I switched things up on him a couple of times. I didn't give him any breaks, either. I kept thinking I should take him out, but I just couldn't. He was an ironman tonight.
best fun seat seen sure watching
Have I ever seen anything like this? No. Never. And I'm not sure I had the best seat in the house. I think I would have had more fun watching from the stands.
celebrate far feels work
We'll celebrate tonight. This feels great. But we still have work to do. We're far from satisfied.
anywhere basketball game monkey pressure sigh
We got the monkey off our back. Anywhere you go in the game of basketball there's pressure to win. For me, this is a sigh of relief.
defense physical pressure tonight
Our full-court pressure defense was the key. And we were much more physical tonight than we have been in a while.
hear loved
I didn't see it, but I could hear the crowd. And they loved it.