Rob Lovell Quotations

When it?s your tournament and it?s on your floor, I think our kids take a great deal of pride in trying to win our own tournament.

Loudoun County came out with a lot of energy in the second half. We didn't do a very good job of handling their full-court pressure, and we didn't make good decisions with the ball. We had a really good first half, but the ball just stopped going in.

Based on scouting reports, a lot of people were telling me that our pressure would hurt them. It proved to be right tonight.

Our kids just did a great job of coming out of the locker room and taking control of the game. We just talked about trying to turn up our pressure a little bit. We had done that pretty well in the first half, but we did really well in the third quarter?. It was a pretty frenetic pace, but it was the kind of pace that we like in that game. We were able to get them to turn the ball over quite a bit. That was really the key to it.

We really put the game away at that point. We really got active defensively and created ourselves a lot of turnovers and a lot of easy baskets.

We had things go our way in the third quarter, obviously. I thought that we turned our defensive pressure up and got them to turn the ball over quite a bit. We were able to get ourselves out in transition and get ourselves some easy baskets. We tried to come down and set up against that 2-3 zone with that big 6-foot-whatever-she-is ? that was tough going in the first half.

Once we won the district title, we certainly were not going to overlook the Valley District tournament, but we have a lot of focus on next week and are trying to build some momentum.

I don?t think that we?re certainly going to be able to match up with them size-wise. We have to try to keep the big kids off the boards on both ends of the floor and try to make it more of a transition game and a 94-foot game.

The idea behind full-court pressure is not necessarily the idea that you?re going to get turnovers every trip down the floor. But it has a wearing-down effect over time.