This is what high school basketball is all about. When you go through the tough times, you regroup. Now we have an opportunity to play in games like this.

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One thing is, I would have liked to see us be a little more patient at times. We never clicked on all cylinders, but you're going to have games like that.

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You're talking about 22, 23 points a game with Jeremiah, and a lot of people thought we were going into last weekend (the game against Eastern Brown) not being able to win. But the kids adapted to what needed to be done, and kids stepped up and proved they can do whatever it takes to fill that hole.

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Every year we go into it like it's two different seasons. First is the regular season, then you start over in the tournament where you basically start from scratch. We feel like we've made one step, and now the opportunity is in front of us to take another step.

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I think we were a little rusty, and I think it showed. Before that game, we hadn't played in 14 days. That's a long time to go without basketball, but it's good to get a non-conference game in there to get your legs under you again.

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After (the holidays), there's really no break from here on. Plus we haven't played very many games so far, so we've got a lot of basketball in front of us. It's going to be a tight January.

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Defensively, we were much better most of the time tonight. We got a little lackadaisical at the end, but we had good intensity and played with a lot of effort.

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They're more perimeter oriented than we are, and they're probably a little more athletic of a team than we are. One key for us is that we have to be really conscious of their ability to shoot the ball. Plus, they're so athletic that we have to limit their long rebounds and hold them off the offensive glass.

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We weren't sure throughout the week if we would have Jeremiah or not. There was a hope that he would be able to make a go of it, but we wanted to be prepared to go without him if we had to.

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