The last time we played them it was a (close) game up until half time. I told (my team) I wanted the same intensity that we have showed against Eureka Springs and Cedarville. And, they came out and did it.
Early in the first half they were hurting us. They were getting offensive rebounds [off threes]. One of my pet peeves this whole week was keeping them from getting second shots from the long ball. The first half they were shooting a second and third time and we can't have that.
We stepped up in the clutch. We missed a bunch in the first half but when we had to have them we knocked down 11 of 11. They've been staying and making 10 free throws in a row every night before they leave and it paid off. This was a huge conference win.
They probably think that we don't miss free throws. We were 11 out of 11 last time we played, and for some reason we knocked them down tonight.
That's what we want to do; we want to press. That really didn't help us much. It was an ugly game.
That wasn't exactly what I drew up. We wanted to get it inside, but it didn't happen.
When a team shoots as well as they were... it's hard to beat them. That's about all you can say about that. We were down 14, cut it to 5 and had the ball several times, but just lost the handle on it.
We made some adjustments on our press in the second half and played straight man. We tweaked our the high-low. It was good to be able to show them some things at halftime and actually have them come out and execute it.
The last time we played them it was a game up until half. We wanted to come out with some intensity and we did it tonight for a half.
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