I was able to see a tape of them (York)Suburban) playing and I counted them passing the ball 37 times against East Penn on one possession. At that point, I decided we needed to speed them up in our game if we wanted to win.
I really felt last year through the middle quarters and virtually the entire fourth quarter we had the pace where we wanted it. It's a lot easier to slow a team down, though, than to speed them up.
Coming into this game, No. 24, (Kenney) Griffin was averaging like 22 points in his last three games. I think we did a good job shutting him down.
Our kids worked real hard in the second half on defense. I thought where they really hurt us was with screens. They are a very physical team. They play physical.
As a coach you can't help but start looking ahead to the other games and figuring out scenarios, but you don't want the players looking to far ahead. We need to keep our head above water right now.
I don't think they were going to allow their team lose. We told our kids they were going to come after you.
When we cut the lead down, we usually didn't get a good shot the next time down the floor. But, really, allowing 37 points in the first half and the way we shot (33%), it was too far to come back.
They shot the lights out in the first half. We didn't. I think we panicked a little against the zone.
We know that is part of it, but we had some close games. Camp Hill almost beat us and the other night against Scotland, we had poor shooting. We were lucky to get out of there with a win.
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