Honestly, I thought this was the best we've played all year. I feel pretty good about tomorrow night and Monday.
It was great to get back on the winning side, especially on the road. We played tough late and we were able to get the win.
We played as hard as any team I have seen this year for six minutes. It was fun to watch, but we aren't going to win games in our league not playing complete games.
One of the things that will kind of go unnoticed is that in the last month of the season our seniors were the ones that led us. Todd and Matt played like all-conference players and that was desire and wanting it more.
This was a typical Nevada-Ballard game. Both teams played really hard.
Tate played a great game. Not only his scoring, but he had steals in big spots. He scored and he got into the passing lanes because he works hard and he just wants to play.
At halftime I said we've played three really good halves of basketball. We didn't get that fourth half.
We're a lot better than we were when we played them in December. We did more things right than we did wrong tonight. We found that if we got out and pressured them we could force them into some mistakes and I think we forced them into some bad shots.
This was a great road win for us. I thought it was one of the better games we've played all year. Offensively we executed and passed better than we have all year; our post players did a nice job of getting open and our guards did a great job of getting them the ball.
Austin played a great game. He did a nice job of hitting shots when we needed them. It was the best offensive game he's played.
We hadn't played zone in over a month, yet we came out on the fly and did a great job. You won't see better defense than what we played from the middle of the second quarter through the third period.