John Grammer
John Grammer
friday game good halftime last played three
We played three good quarters. We had a good first half. We had 40 at halftime and only 46 for the whole game (against Ray) last Friday night. We executed well.
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We executed our game plan defensively. They just hit some downtown threes. It was just one of those nights when they shot the ball real well.
couple felt halftime happened hung missed shots
Some of it was nerves. It's happened before. We missed our first couple of shots and they made theirs. But we hung in there. I felt like at halftime we had the momentum.
hard keys limit plays seen team
One of our keys was to limit the 3-point shooting. They didn't make a 3 in the first half. That's what we wanted to do. I don't think they've seen a team that plays as hard as we do.
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I'm interested to see if they're going to try to alter their style. I wonder if they'll try to slow the pace and pack in a zone because they've seen Ray and Moody have success against us by slowing it down. But that would be totally against their nature.
battle miller talented tonight
It was a barn-burner. What we did the most outstanding tonight was just battle because Miller has a very talented team.
champions district extra near winning
It's a milestone. But it's not near as important as winning the game. That would make us district champions and make it extra special.
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We hit that dry spell to start the third quarter. That's happened to us before. We always talk about that being the most important segment of the game. It seemed like we went 41/2 to 51/2 minutes there with two points. You can't do that against a good team.
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Franklin County as a whole is really my home, ... I was born in Benton and attended grade schools in Benton, Rend City, and up at the old Mt. Pleasant school house. When I went to school in Rend City it was a bustling little mining town. My grandfather, Herman Bradford was a hoisting engineer at the mine there until the mine closed.
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We've got to take care of business at home. It would be a neat thing to happen. It would be great for the kids to win district with the up-and-down season they've had.
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He was this big kid, ... who didn't show up on time, which really frustrated Jimmy. He asked me if I would be willing to play on the show, because he was letting Clark go. Years earlier, I had helped Jimmy get into a USO tour I was doing with Connie B. Gay, a disc jockey friend of mine at WARL radio out of Arlington, Va.
ball great kept played turned
We made some 3s and that's what kept us in the game. In spurts we played great and we had some spurts where we turned the ball over and that get us into trouble.
players plays win
As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.
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Ruth did an excellent job bringing up our kids. I say that because she did the lion's share of raising them. They were all great kids, never sassed us, and they've turned out real good. I sometimes joke that it's a good thing we didn't have a fourth child or that one might have been a maverick,