Doug Evans
Doug Evans
basketball dominated dreamed final kids state talked
I would never have dreamed that we would have dominated the schedule. I don't think any of us talked about going undefeated. We talked about getting back to state. No. 1 for all the kids is to get back to state and back in the final four.
floor four good job last offense seen spreading virtually
Reed-Custer did a good job of spreading the floor on us. We have seen virtually nothing but the spread offense for the last four games, but Reed-Custer did a good job of it.
advantage chicago class competition great improve
Hales has such a big advantage over a lot of Class A schools. Being in the Chicago area, they get to play a lot of great competition and see what they need to improve on.
course cylinders hits hitting hot sets time ton
After Plano went up on us 5-2 we got hot and started hitting on all cylinders defensively and offensively. Of course Garrett was hot, and any time he is hot he hits a ton and he sets up so many other players, too.
last strong stronger though year
Even though we were strong depth-wise last year, we're even stronger this year at all positions.
basketball blended coming easy everybody excited great guys job nervous nice passes played player robert smith solid starting tyler
I think everybody was excited and a little nervous with Robert out. But Tyler Smith did a great job coming in. What I like is that Tyler is a different kind of player than Robert, but he played solid basketball and set up some guys for easy baskets and made some really nice passes early. He just blended in like he'd been starting forever. It was nice to see a different lineup come out there and succeed.
beat half northern state win
We've got the No. 1 ranking in the state, but everyone knows, especially in the northern half of the state, to win a state title, you have to beat Hales.
adjectives almost biggest brings brother describe eye great promoters talking tear tyler
Tyler has been one of the biggest promoters of Seth. It almost brings a tear to my eye just talking about it. He's been like a big brother to him. I don't have enough adjectives to describe how great Tyler has been this year.
thanks until
We didn't know it until (a reporter) told us. Thanks for the pressure.
focus games guys playing until
We didn't know that until one of you guys told us. Our focus has been on first getting here, then on getting this one so that we're playing two games on Saturday. If (being undefeated) happens, that's great, but we hadn't thought about it.
control game minutes three until
We really didn't get the game in our control until about three minutes to go in the game.
came focused good intensity ready
We came out with good intensity tonight. We were focused and ready to go.
came everybody good looks lots played tough
We came out with lots of energy. Everybody played well and it was tough for Reed-Custer to get good looks at the basket.
capable defend definitely ready size step stop
We will have a size advantage. I'll tell you one thing, we had better be ready to stop Serena and step out to defend the three-point shot. We will definitely need to defend because Serena has many capable long-range shooters.