Craig Drury Quotations

We ran the same play (end of regulation), but this time they covered the A gap, so Koop attacked the B gap with the dribble. Now their back forward has to choose. Is he going to take Koop or is he going to take Walker? He choose Koop and kicked it to Walker.

Since he's been a sophomore he's had to guard the top players on every team and nobody gets the best of him. And when other players on the team get beat, Tanner is always there to cover up for them.

Nobody gets position on him inside. If he's not the best post defender in the state then I don't know who is.

He came to me at halftime and told me that he'd take care of it.

Going in, I knew we had to win this game. Now I can look at it a little more politically. But everyone in this region thinks they can win on the road. The teams are too good.

Koop, I felt, was the best player on the floor except for the missed free throw. He got the ball to people and he made some plays himself.

Those are the breaks of the game and you have to play through them. We just didn't have it today in the right places, and they did.

We still had a good chance there at the end to win, and if we would have had one more second we might have won.

We'll take the win, but I think Orem deserved it as much or more than we did. They controlled much of the game, forcing us to play in their backyard, so to speak.

With experienced kids like Gregory and Koop on the floor, they do the things they need to do. It's not about answering runs to me; it's just about making plays.

We're the region champs right now. We might tie for it, but everyone else has at least three losses. We feel good about that.

We weren't executing the things that I thought we needed to execute. We weren't attacking as well as we needed to. Other times we've started that way, then grown into it. Tonight we didn't.

We got some turnovers that were big. I'm sure we got the most transition hoops, but the tempo overall was set by Orem.

Congratulations, you've made it to the final eight. I'm not looking at a state championship. I just want to get to the final four. If you get to the semifinals in high school basketball, you've accomplished something.

Isn't it nice to have a kid come off the bench you've never heard of?

I've been here a few times and it's fun to be here and I've learned the few times I haven't won the championship to enjoy the moment. I've tried to enjoy getting to the final four. I tried to enjoy that for the two hours I was awake today without thinking about the game and I'm going to try and do the same thing.

They always are good for a run, and they brought that run at us in the third quarter. I think that when we negated that run is when the game kind of got out of hand.

The teams in our region know he is a shooter, but I don't know if the teams up here do.

They outplayed us tonight. I'm proud of my unit and what they did, but we just didn't have it in the right places.

They outplayed us today boys. I'm proud of my unit and I'll take them. We just didn't have it today in the right places and they did. We weren't executing a couple things that I felt like we needed to execute. We weren't attacking as well as I wanted to attack. We done that in the past and we've kind of grown into it. We just couldn't get the attack and then we got desperate in our attack.

It's a tough place to play. I thought Tanner Gregory played a great game tonight. I can't say enough about the kid. Not only did he score but he made, I don't know how many, clutch plays for us.

It's great to have a player come off the bench, that no one has ever heard of, and have him play great. They decided they were going to leave one of our guards uncovered and he made his shots. That helped chase them out to the perimeter.

Tanner scored five points, but that was no indication of what he did on the floor. He did everything we needed him to do to help us win. I thought Mark Walker stepped up and hit those two big threes in the first quarter to get us going.

I've got a good basketball team. We have a lot of people that can score.

They attacked the high post and hit a good little jump shot on us. When we took that away they didn't have another answer. The second quarter was key because we gave them six points.

It's not about winning my seventh, it's about winning their first.

I'm not a betting man, but if I was, I'd offer anyone who wants to, they take the favorite and I'd take the rest of the field. I think if you look back on it, you'd see the favorite seldom wins.

In the first half we weren't doing what we were supposed to be doing. But when we did what we were supposed to be doing, it worked.

I really haven't digested this yet. I've been here a few times and it's fun. I'm going to enjoy being in the championship game. It's a mark of success for our team.

Highland's a great team. They're 23-1 and they have the biggest point spread in 4A. We're going to have our hands full, but I hope they're going to have their hands full too.

Highland is a good team. Credit them for playing well. They deserve to be the state champions.

I can't believe we won the game by (more than) 30. I looked up there and saw we were up by 28, and I'm thinking that I've got to get my guys out of there.

(Collinsworth) was the difference in the game. That lead was largely because Chris decided to play.