Scott Minnig Quotations

We're going to try a couple different things defensively, but basically we're going to go pretty much with our man-to-man and really try to keep him in front of us and make him earn everything over the top.

He (Reed) had a great night. He kept his composure throughout the game and stayed focused. Early things weren't quite going his way, but he stayed within himself and then eventually things started to open up for him and good things happened. His teammates got him the ball and there is no way he could score those points without his teammates making that effort to get him the basketball.

He carried us and we just got done telling him that in the locker room. We were not playing very good and a lot of that was because of Bath's defense, but Brandon kept us in it. Without him it would have been a bigger deficit that we would have had to overcome had he not been playing.

Guys just focused a little more, we executed a little bit better and we got the ball inside where we needed to. We didn't do anything special to have those runs other than we turned up our defense a little bit and tried to get stops. We were a little more focused offensively and made sure we got good scores.

It feels great. A lot of hard work scouting, preparing and watching film, but more importantly there is a lot of good coaches out there that don't have a group like I have. If you don't have kids like I have this year, there is no way we could be doing the things we're doing now.

That's what a good team does, they make their free throws down the stretch and they did that. That's a strategy you use when your down at the end and you hope and pray they miss their foul shots and they didn't. That's what good teams do, they make them.

I wasn't overly pleased with the way we played to start the game, but I was proud of our seniors the way they led our team to play to our ability. At the end we did play to what we're capable of and our seniors led and that's what we've been looking for all year ù our seniors to lead the team. I was proud of the way they did that tonight.

My biggest concern was that we achieved our goal of winning sectional.

We wanted to go get the basketball and we really crashed the offensive boards with a little more passion. Defensively we tried to make sure we got a body on somebody and try to get the basketball.

Three games in five days is a lot to ask out of these kids and I think this was a combination of that, their good defense and us being a little fatigued.

We stayed with it and never lost our poise.

We'll take them one at a time. We're focusing on Kenton, it's a league game. We need to take care of business there and we'll worry about Saturday come Saturday morning. We're just going to take it one game at a time.

We hit a major drought and I give a lot of credit to their defense. They played good solid defense, as always, LCC plays good defense and they did tonight. It's hard to overcome. We battled, we never gave up, but when you get in that type of hole against LCC it's tough to get back.

We didn't knock down some shots that we were knocking down the first half and they got some offensive rebounds that I don't think they were getting in the first half.

Brownie stepped up and did hit some big shots when we needed them, because it was a very tight ball game. He got open and knocked them down like he's capable of doing. Randy did a very good job of creating, making plays off the dribble and finishing. It was a nice run for us. We needed it.

It was a chance to redeem ourselves from the loss that hurt the most.

As a team going into this game we were shooting 52 percent at the line and we still missed some foul shots that we've got to knock in. I told the guys this week we've got to shoot better than we've been shooting or else it's going to come back and get us. I think they started to see that a little bit and panicked a little bit.

You've got to take care of business to move on. Obviously as coaches we're preparing to prepare our kids if that opportunity presents itself, but as far as the team it's definitely Bath and only Bath.

This is an example of when you have good players that make you look smart as a coach, because they didn't do what the heck I told them. Thank God for that and thank God they went and made a play.

I told our kids we've got to relax, calm down and play. I could tell with tournament time it was a different time and we were pretty tight. I reiterated to them that you've got to relax and go play the game. They made me look smart.

I told the guys if you look at our losses its either the turnover battle or the rebounding battle that we haven't won. Those are the two major battles you've got to win in a ball game if you're going to have a chance to win. It (Rebounding advantage) was a big margin and that wins you ball games.

They were playing aggressive. I don't know if they were intentionally fouling us, but if I was playing us I would put us at the line, too, with the way we've been shooting. I think they were trying to get steals and trying to be aggressive.

They've got pretty good inside play. Sherman is a really nice post player for a freshman and he can finish with the basketball when he gets it inside.

At the end Randy knocked down eight in a row and that was huge. He was very calm, stepped to the line with confidence and it was nothing but net every single time. There was no babying the basketball. It was' I'm going to knock it down, I'm positive and that's what happened.

He's (Miller) very athletic and I think as the game went on we got better at defending him and picking up his characteristics and what he likes to do with the basketball and we did a better job as the game went on. Hopefully we can carry that knowledge into this game and do a better job of defending him.

This is a good win. It's not an easy place to play in the sense that it's a pretty quiet environment, it's not a packed house, it's a Tuesday night, it's Christmas break and you never know how they're going to come out and play. These guys, every night, I've never seen them not ready to play in the seven games we've had.