Dennis Ruedinger
Dennis Ruedinger
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I was real happy with our defense. We gambled a little bit more than I liked. I think our ball pressure and denial defense was pretty good especially this time of the year. I told the kids to go out, attack the boards, and lay it all on the line.
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He scored four points with his right hand on Saturday. A lot of people don't notice that, but I notice that because that's been one of his weaknesses and he works to correct that. And those are four big points. That might have been the difference between us going to Madison and staying home.
proud team
I am so proud of this team. The thing about this team is they don't want to let one another down. They play for each other.
test
They can test you in a lot of different ways.
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It's going to be hard to keep him off the court. He loves to play the game. He stepped up and started to hit some huge shots in the third quarter. All our guys love to compete. That's why it's so fun to be together.
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More than anything, I'm impressed with Rayfield. He's a tremendous player. Not only is he a great shooter, I think he relishes the big shots. He likes to take them and he likes to be a factor in big games.
accomplish chance kids looks
I don't know if you can accomplish much of anything other than for the kids that haven't been here to get a chance to see what it looks like.
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Peter is just a quality kid. You can see there is a lot of love for his brother. You could see it last year in his face with the concern he had and still does for his younger brother.
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It certainly doesn't get old. As you progress through a season, you grow closer and closer to the guys on the team. Each season is its own entity. Watching your team grow and get better, that never gets old.
combat emotional inside mental stress test
(Catholic Central) can test you in a lot of ways. They have an inside game, they have height, and the adjustments we had to make to combat those things put emotional and mental stress on us.
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We aren't going to change a whole lot. Our offense lends itself to getting the ball inside so it's something we try to do every game so I'm sure we'll do the same on Thursday.
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What we want to do is what we've done all year. We aren't going to re-invent the wheel with one day of practice. So we'll focus on what we do today and fine tune a few things. We just want to run our system as well as we can.