Preston Early
Preston Early
beam care focus games home next road six state tournament wanna
We wanna focus like a laser beam on these next six (games). We want to take care of our home games and find a way (to win) on the road and keep going after that state tournament berth. That?s what we set out to do.
faster game great high intensity job kids maybe played ready setting tempo
We played the game a little faster than maybe they were ready for. It all started with defense. Our kids did a great job of setting the tempo and setting a high intensity level.
attack confident games good great ourselves
We've put ourselves in a great position. We need to be confident about that and feel good about that. Now let's go attack some of these games and get it done.
expect game possession
When you have Southside on your jersey, you expect to win. It's a game that we look at as a one or two possession game.
error found game margin time tonight
Tonight was the first time we haven't found a way to get it done in a game like this. Our margin for error has been very slim, but we've always found a way to get it done.
ball came game hole kids moved proud rip several third throughout
I told the kids that there were several things throughout the game that I was proud of, but they didn't blink. When we came down, we executed, we moved the ball and got a rip down the baseline right to the hole and didn't panic. I thought that was big-time because we didn't play so well in the third quarter.
excited game proud time understand
That (start) is what excited me about ?em and made me proud of ?em. They approached the game the right way and they understand what?s going on this time of year.
defensive games great second struggled team win
They're a great defensive team and we struggled in the second quarter. They didn't win 26 games by mistake.
community fun games great school start win year
If you'd told us we'd win 23 games at the start of this year, we'd take that every day. It's been a great year for our community and our school and it's been so much fun to be a part of it.
board early hot plays points second tuesday
Early on Blaire was great. We got some points on the board and Tuesday got hot in the second half. We made enough plays and got enough stops.
athletic believe
Believe it or not, yeah. They?re big and athletic and they?re very physical.
days good thursday
We feel like we had two good days (of practice) Thursday and Friday.
focusing great job knocking shots
(Julius) was real smooth. She did a great job of focusing and knocking down some big shots for us.
foul needed offense plays
We needed some more plays on offense and (to make) more foul shots.