Dan Rolfes
Dan Rolfes
exciting shaking winning
I'm still shaking right now. This was such an exciting game, and wow, to be on the winning end of it.
adapt aggressive needed played since team took
It's been a while since we've played a team like that. They are an in-your-face, aggressive team, and we needed to adapt to that. It took us a while to get going.
sounds
It sounds great. I could get used to that on a yearly basis, that's for sure.
couple fact nervous past
I think the fact that we have been here the past couple of years had a lot to do with our success. I think they were a little more nervous than we were.
defense dictates game six talk
Our defense kind of dictates the whole game for us. In the six years I've been here, we always talk about defense first.
aggressive ball best chances confidence defense early gave giving half job limiting loose needed nice quarter rest second step talked
At halftime, we talked about controlling the glass. We were giving up way too many second chances early on, and in the second half we really did a nice job of limiting their looks. That was probably the best thing we did tonight. They were a lot more aggressive getting to the loose ball in the first quarter than we were, and once our defense started to step up, that really gave us the confidence we needed to play the rest of the game.