Our defense did a good job and we gained confidence as the game went along because of our defense. We played a triangle and two and our defense really stymied them.
The biggest thing is that we competed and got a lot of mileage out of our talent. No way I'm bad-mouthing our talent, but I tell you what, our guys played very, very hard in certain basketball games.
He's a very good passer and played hard. And he turned his game up a notch the last five or six games.
We played our best game of the year. Cahokia had won three of its last four only losing to Carbondale. This was a nice victory for us. I don't think anybody thought at the beginning of the season we would get 10 wins.
We played our best game of the year.
We made some good passes that allowed Childers to finish. He really played a tremendous basketball game.
We played a lot harder in the second half. We got some guys in there that wanted to play. Allen wanted to play, Brown came in and played. Our intensity level was much better than it was.
We started so good and then we relaxed a little bit and they played very aggressive. They're a good ball club. We'd have sure liked to win two and we didn't get it done, but at least we're playing and having some fun.
Any time we win it's because we've played hard. I told the kids two things: One, you'll have a lot more left at the end when you've played hard, and, two, the harder you play the luckier you get.