Joe Shoemaker
Joe Shoemaker
break enjoy feels four game good kids prepared talked year
It feels great. We've been here four years in a row, and its something we've talked about all year. One game doesn't make or break a season, but it feels good to get over the top. We've prepared for it all year and the kids should enjoy it tonight.
performance shooting worst
Obviously, that's the very worst performance we've had shooting all year.
rebound
Not just a whole lot. We just have to go down and defend, do what we can do and rebound the basketball.
alex bad ball came couple games good hot job looks needed realizing row shooting talked team tonight took
Alex has had a couple of bad games in a row shooting the ball, and we talked about it, and he came out and took a lot of good looks tonight and made them. The team did a good job of realizing who was hot and getting the ball to him when we needed to.
bit block coming good half james job low ready second senior trying
James did a little bit better job in the second half of going down to the low block and trying to play down there. Jeremy's senior leadership, he did a good job in the second half of coming out a little bit more ready to play.
bench contribute course eight guys helped hopefully led rest scoring seven throughout
That's one thing that's helped us out throughout the course of the year. We've had seven or eight guys that have led us in scoring this year. (We have) guys that can come in off the bench and contribute a lot of minutes. Hopefully that's one of the things that will help us out the rest of the way.
aspects defense forcing found game geared good improved job knew open season shot stop
I always knew he could score, but he improved other aspects of game as the season went along. And he really improved his passing. He would see a defense geared to stop him, and he did a good job of not forcing the shot and found open guys.
bench contribute good helped
I'd contribute that to our bench. Our bench did a good job, as it had all season. That helped us be fresher at the end.
great guys happy proud team
All those guys are well-deserving of those honors. Without the team, the guys couldn't get those honors. We had great team play. I'm happy for them and proud for them.
bit defend past work
We can't look past them. They've been a little bit up and down this year. We've got to come out and defend and work on that on first.
bit playing quite time
We rotate quite a bit and got a lot of playing time for everyone tonight.
changes christmas far half kelly says
We didn't play very well at the Christmas tournament. And we had to make some changes at half because we were down 15. To come back from that far down at Kelly says a lot about our character.
four gave played points rest three
We didn't play very well defensively in the first quarter. We gave up 18 points in the first three or four minutes, but we played better the rest on the game.
character playing road test win
We can come out and win third. Right now you may not think of it as much, but down the road you'll see it as a positive. It will be a test of character playing that game.