Will Blalock
Will Blalock
William Anthony Blalockis an American professional basketball player who last played for the Saint John Mill Rats of the National Basketball League of Canada...
coaches uniforms wearing yellow
All I know is that the coaches said we're wearing yellow. Sometimes we wear yellow uniforms for big games. Sometimes we even wear yellow uniforms on the road.
beat gonna learned took
You can't say they're young and we are gonna beat up on them. It's not going to be like that. They've got a lot of talent. They took their beatings, and after that they've learned from it.
coaching exception fortunate gave longevity player rare
When you look at her longevity and what she gave to the program, I think that is really rare. She is the rare exception in the coaching world and I was very fortunate to be a part of that as a player and a colleague.
athletes change understand
We understand when there is a change in leadership, athletes could have a change in their feelings.
expected needed spend talking time understand
We understand what's expected of us. We didn't need to spend a lot of time talking about that stuff. We just needed to get to work.
capable gave played
Those two played like they're capable of playing. They gave us a big lift.
lead time
You have to have so much lead time to go out and market. What-ever we do we want to do really well. It was just too late.
athletes both discuss future options program
Both options are there for the athlete. But we just like for athletes to discuss the future of the program with the new coaches.
number putting school special talk time
We talk all the time about putting another number on the wall. At a school like this, it's a special opportunity.
girls good playing positives quit second spell teaching
We just quit playing over a spell in the second half. I told the girls, 'Don't ever do that to me again.' But it's a good teaching tool. There are a lot of positives that we can get out of this.
bypass great interest might pushed
We just pushed everything back a year. Who knows? If we had some great interest we might just bypass the pro-am (in 2007) and go right to the tournament.
gets tired
She gets tired of me, real tired of me.
caught disneyland stars
We won't be so caught up in Disneyland or gazing at the stars and things like that. We know what we are going up there to do, and we won't let things like that get in our way.
athletes change execute good half happy week
We're happy to be where we're at. But we didn't execute in the first half the way that we should have. We told them all week that Hillside had some good athletes and that one play could change the game.