We knew they were going to bring pressure. Early on it took a little bit of adjustment, but once we made that we were fine.
I anticipated (playing man defense) was what they were going to do. They really come out and pressured us on the perimeter and we could not find our posts.
It was not necessarily a pretty game. It's a consolation game, but it's one of those games where motivation is kind of hard to find but your playing so you need to compete and motivate yourself. I thought we basically did the things you need to do to win.
Going into most every game we play, that will be one of our primary advantages. We've just got to really make an effort to use that advantage to the best that we can.
We dug the hole early and just spent all night trying to play chase. We got it back at times where it was manageable, but we never got over the hump.
We did a good job getting behind their defense. We were getting some easy baskets.
We took some shots we typically wouldn't. It snowballed on us and we got in a hole we dug and we never could climb back out of it.
Shooting free throws has been a strength of ours all year. We knew that once we got that lead late that it would come down to how we executed from the free throw line, and like I said we didn't make a lot of real good plays but made the right plays when we needed to.
I'm just proud we got back to where we were. The last time we made it to the state tournament I was the assistant coach. This is my first one and it's the first one for these kids.
We got to the line 20 times, made 17 of them or something like that. That was big for us to put it away late. They started charging at us but we took pretty good care of the ball and, again, executed at the free-throw line.
