Kraig Clifton
Kraig Clifton
broke close daring extremely far friday games given kept shoot stop
All year, the thing that has kept us in games is our defense. But on Friday night, we broke down on responsibilities, broke down on close outs. It was by far the most 3s we've given up in a game. They were extremely hot, but at the same time, we didn't do anything to stop it. We just kept daring them to shoot it.
played
They gutted it out and played pretty well.
night played team thursday
It wasn't the same team that played Thursday night. We just couldn't get things clicking.
aggressive athletes
They have athletes at every position. They're really aggressive and they make things hard.
last
It's not surprising. You could tell that they were right there last season.
decent directions floor hard hit shoot
They can hit you from so many directions and every on the floor can shoot and that makes it hard to defend. If you give them a decent look they're going to make it.
easy fourth hard score time turned
The fourth got us. We had some easy opportunities to score but just didn't convert. (Los Banos) really turned up the D and we had a hard time scoring.
basketball destroyed good jumps player
Smalley destroyed us inside. He's a good basketball player with a good feel down in the post. He jumps out of the gym.
ball came eventually guys kept throwing true wore
Tanaka's our only true ball handler and he never came off the floor. They kept throwing different guys at him. Eventually we wore down and made some turnovers.
good
Defensively we did a good job. But offensively, we just weren't smooth. We had turnovers and didn't execute.
played
He played outstanding. Offensively, defensively, rebounding He was all over the place.
active best defense excellent finally friday game hope learned lesson played scoring spread stand throughout
We finally played our best game of the year. Patterson is an excellent team, but our scoring was spread throughout and our defense was more active than Friday night. I hope they learned a big lesson that you can't just stand there in a zone, you have to be as active as you are in a man-to-man.
couple momentum took
Those were big shots. They had all the momentum going their way for a couple of minutes, but we did what it took to win.
attacking came hump late lead zone
We made some adjustments to them attacking the zone and we had two opportunities to take the lead and we didn't get over the hump and they came back with that late run.