I don't know that it was easy, but it's just nice to have the newspaper here and get a win, because we were 0-2.
I feel like we got outplayed in the second half. American Fork come out physical and did a fine job of turning the game around. Fortunately we made a few free throws at the end and did what we had to do to win.
He's a great player, a great offensive player. He loves taking the big shot and being the guy.
The ranking early was nice, but it ended up hurting us a little bit because our kids thought they were the No. 1 team and didn't realize how hard they were going to have to work to win basketball games.
He did a tremendous job of going to the rim and he's the one who changed the game for them.
I thought they did a tremendous job of turning (the physical play) up and doing what they needed to do to make us struggle. But if we make our free throws down the stretch we win this game easily.
That was a huge comeback for us. It was a situation where these kids played hard and wanted to win.
We were 10-deep on purpose. We wanted to make sure we weren't scared to play anyone in the tournament.
The one thing we didn't want to do was to have the lead and tighten up, so with the lead down the stretch, we looked to push the pace.
When we played Davis in the past, we trapped them and zoned them and threw a lot of stuff at them. But we came into this game and said flat out we were going to man up and see who's better.
We just peaked at the right time. There were five really good teams. I'm just ecstatic for my boys. (Riverton coach) Steve Galley did a tremendous job; that was a great high school basketball game.
We just turned our defense up and the shots went down for us. It's huge because we haven't had a close game in region yet. This is just what we need going into the state tournament.
We had some different kids make some big shots. I thought Davey Johnson was huge early when we were struggling. And then our normal guys made some big shots and did some good things.
Brett was shooting the ball no matter what because he's the best player in the state of Utah.
I'm just pleased with winning the game. I don't care how we play, I just want to win games. I'm not concerned with playing the perfect game.
I'm an offensive coach, and when the guys want to try and score and they think they can score, I'm going to let them go score. I don't want to tighten them up.
I really don't have an explanation for our fast start. But the goal is to win games and we got out of here with a win and we're going to play another day and that's all that matters.
He slipped it down the middle and got a good-looking 8-footer. Brett was shooting the ball no matter what because he's the best player in the state of Utah.