Al Gooden
Al Gooden
ask hard kids playing state teams
Not very. You go ask the teams who didn't get down here how disappointed they are. I am here playing for the state championship. It is not frustrating or anything like that. You want to win, but as a coach, you ask your kids to just play as hard and give it all they have.
basketball coming forced good hit job kids played shots
The kids played hard. As a coach, that's what you want to happen. We hit some shots (early), forced some turnovers. But they're a good basketball team. They're not here for no reason. They did a good job coming back.
bring good playing teams
They bring good size. They aren't so big for us because we play a lot of teams with size, though. Hopefully, we will be used to playing with teams that size, which I think we are.
bench effort gave guys looking
The guys off the bench really gave us the effort we have been looking for.
both ends floor settle
You've got to be able to play both ends of the floor or you're not going to play. If we can settle down and play defense, we're going to be pretty good.
good guards knew low quality
Their guards did a good job, and they were the key. We knew we were low on guards, and they had two quality guards.
ball came good inside job steal
We had them right there at the end of the game. We got the steal and came down and Pryce got inside and couldn't get the ball up. He did a good job getting down there.
against guys opponents practice prepare quickness
I don't know (how the opponents prepare for the Hawks' quickness). If you don't have it, you can't prepare for it. For us, we practice against quickness every day. We've got some good, quick guys on the reserve.
I'd like to think it's how we play, not just because of who we play.
That's what we wanted to do, get it to him as much as we could.