Don Allen Quotations

Very few teams do. That's a big number to put up on the board. There are very few guards that can elevate on that pull-up jumper of his.

We didn't want to go that kind of pace. An 80-point basketball game was not one that we were going to win and we couldn't figure out how to slow it down.

When you put in the building and parking, it will take up all the area. All the runoff will go into the lake.

We had chances. Even at nine points we come out and throw the ball away three or four straight times to start the third quarter. We just got into force mode a little early and when you don't take care of the basketball, nothing good is going to happen.

On the offensive end, if we couldn't get into our sets and execute we were going to have problems. I don't know what (Gardner) shot in the first half but they were smoking. They were hot. You just keep thinking you can hold on and they'll cool down a little bit, but they didn't miss and we played catch-up the whole night.

Basically, we were trying to keep (Bonner's Jeff) Hills from getting the ball at that point.

I feel my fingerprints will be in place on the city of Snellville for many years to come.

I don't think we were working very hard on defense. Offensively, we just looked out of 'sync. They're pretty successful one-on-one and they'll break you down off the dribble. That's not us and that's what we tried for a quarter and a half. Then we had to dig ourselves out of a hole.

I think in the fourth quarter we got worn down. I'm pleased with the effort. We hit a few open shots that opened up our offensive a little more.

I think the first quarter and the last minute of the second half decided the basketball game. Then we give up a 10-point lead. If we would've went into the locker room up 12 instead of six, I think that changes the whole complexion of the basketball game.

I saw a lot of two-lane roads become four-lane roads. Back when I first started all the development on (Ga. Highway) 124 had not occurred.

Piper is going to come here and flat out lay it on us.

I thought in the first quarter, we came out and just didn't play well. We started doing things that we don't normally do.

We had some guys sitting with foul trouble and they started making some shots. And we weren't taking care of the ball.

We gave them too many second and third chances.

We shot the ball a lot better tonight. We were 16 for 34, that's about 50 percent and we went 15 of 26 at the line. You can't give them 20 offensive rebounds. They're just so strong and so physical.

We were extremely happy with the way we came out tonight. Twenty-two points has been a halftime score for us in some games. So that was nice. We knocked down some open shots. David and Jeff made some nice moves inside. We controlled the boards and were able to get the ball down the floor.

We were due. It's fantastic for these seniors to be able to finish it like this, especially at home. This is a big one for us. Bonner is a great basketball team.

We've had some tough basketball games this year. There's going to be some tough ones down the road. The Perry game Tuesday is just as important to us. Tonight we came out with a real sense of purpose and things worked out well for us.

We got a lot of those points out of our defense. We put a little pressure on them. We scored 22 points but we gave up 19. So both teams were running the ball pretty well.

We knew coming in last year we had to guard one but he's got six or seven now that aren't shy of shooting. Seemed like they were raining in from everywhere.

You hold Jack Johnson to four points and you're a superstar defensively.

We just had a hard time keeping them off the offensive boards.

We hit some free throws at the end and did a good job defensively. We're pleased with what we're doing right now.

Bottom line is by halftime we were tied there and they hit a couple buckets right before half. They jumped on us in a hurry and that's the biggest concern with them. They come out and you look at what they do to teams, they have gigantic first quarters and have them in such a hole that they don't ever recover. But we did a good job of regrouping and responding. I knew if we'd get close there at the half we had a shot to stay with it. You can't give up (that many) points in the first half. That's not the kind of score we wanted.

At that point, everybody was focused. We climbed a hill and got back into the game. We cut it down to one quarter of basketball.

Sometimes you have to have a little luck on your side, as well, especially the way we shot some free throws down the stretch.

Coaching-wise, it's good to see it happen. I thought we were executing. So if we kept the intensity up, and kept getting the ball down the floor, things were going to happen.

Cody came out and made some outstanding plays and hit some huge shots for us. I think it fed from him. In the second half, we found (David). It was a good match-up for us.

The bottom line is they knocked them down in the fourth quarter when they needed to. We've executed our offense pretty well the last couple ballgames. We executed well on both ends of the floor.

The bottom line is we're going to be playing onehopefully twovery good basketball teams. We're going to have our work cut out for us, regardless. A month-and-a-half ago, we were in the bottom of the barrel.

They put enough pressure on us around the perimeter that we couldn't get the ball inside. That was a big concern. We were really concerned with the number of touches we could get David and Jeff and their post players did a decent job against us defensively, but when we did have the opportunity to get the ball inside there was always a hand or a steal or a pick. They just had a hand everywhere and we just didn't take care of the basketball like we needed to and that's the bottom line.

They needed some breathers. We didn't want to do it at that particular time, but there were still about five minutes left.

It was big for us. Chris had a real good ball game tonight. He's kind of been missing out of our offense. So it was nice to have him back in it. He was 12 for 14 from the free throw line. That obviously was a big push.

It's a good feeling about coming down helping somebody and you're actually doing something.

David's shooting about 90 percent from the free throw line.

Even with improvements in the penalty calculation formula ... there's still a lot of subjectivity that can work against industry in certain types of penalties.

It just so happened that we did a good job getting the ball down the floor. That comes from good rebounding.

In the first half, we just didn't play hard enough. That's the bottom line. We've managed to regroup a few times in the locker room (all season).