Back to Nininger Hall as a big win this evening for these Bridgewater college Eagles as they
knock off W&L herein maybe one of the more complete games your squad's played coach.
I think we've discovered at this point for us to be effective defensively we have to
speed teams up. I think we did a good job with that because their a great offensive
team they have a lot of weapons very explosive Coach McHugh does a great job teaching them
offense and I think we sped them up 27 turnovers thats a lot in a game so I think thats the
difference cause there always going to find a way to hit some shots in the second half
there but fortuanetly we hit shots as well Chandler hit some big ones and we made free
throws it was we have a bunch of different guys do some good things it was good we needed
it got another really tough one saturday but certainly you know times running out good
that we got this one. You talk about contributions five players in double figures two more had
eight i mean thats kinda the way i think that you probably envisioned things is that it
was going to have to be a team effort and sure you know dimetri scored his 28 but after
that you get a bunch of guys right there you know that 10 to 14 range t o fill in the gaps
and to fill and thats when we effective thats what we are i think our shots 46% from 3 44
for the game and they have some big big guys inside so we weren't as effective as to be
expected in a game like this but yeah i think thats key monte hit some big shots jimmie
hit some timely shots we did a pretty good job taking care of the ball for the most part
and made free throws so yeah alot of positives definetly good to see that and its the first
time we've been at full strength for i think about a month so i think um when we're at
full strength and we got everyone in the lineup we show we can compete with a lot of people
so hopefully that stays the case lynchburg is a top 25 team on Saturday got two at home
next week so you know hopefully we can keep this going a little bit and the key is always
defense though i think that was huge for us to not turn them over how many steals we have
14 steals that a lot of live ball turnovers. Dimetri had six on his own and i just think
you know when had the match up that you did out there him and kearns and i think dimetri
probably only once truly had his pocket picked but on the other side you know there came
a point when i thought you know turned there was a little bit of blood in the water and
it felt like the defense just really clamped down and the hands ive never seen them quicker.
And thats the thing you know and that what we kind of really did emphasize that coming
into this game that people have to there has to be a consequence if people are trying to
drive it on you and we got away from that a little bit at the end but for probably 75%
of the game there are people there are bodies there and alot of teams in our league are
very rhythm based offensively like they wanna be able to do they're stuff at they're pace
and be on time with things passes and i think we really did a good job with that tonight
so thats really a key thats going to be something we are going to have to do going forward as
well. You talked earlier about speeding them up and you can certainly see that in the first
half it had a real helter skelter feel to it there early on and i gotta be honest I
wasn't sure we were going to leave 11-11 we were joking here at halftime to score i think
it was 40-34 we were saying how did it get this high just because while it was end to
end there was no finish on either side right and then kinda the floodgates opened in the
second half 54-50 so yeah i think we have a tendency to start slow offensively but i
think we got into a pretty good rhythm but again a lot of that rhythm was caused by our
defense i think um you know being able to get out and run a little bit its funny we've
scored 90 a bunch and we've scored 50 a bunch so its kinda like we have the potential but
we have to execute and go at it when your hitting shots it makes it a lot easier. I
was going to say what a difference making that transition 3 is yeah because you know
and i dont think any coach minds the transition 3 because not that its a free possesion but
theres a great opportunity and if you miss it you just go back and play defense again
you hit a couple of those chandler for a moment was just unstoppable and that you know played
a big part in to kind of pushing them far enough down that even when they made their
run at the end they were still at an arms length exactly and we needed that cushion
cause they're too good they start two all-conference seniors we don't have any seniors to go and
beat a team like that with roy mcmillian is a first team all odac guy and kearns is certainly
an all league guy as well we made him have a rough night in a lot of ways we did a good
job thats a very very good team and that team could easily win the league and pretty much
almost any team playing night in and night out so its a good win glad we could do it
at home had a nice atmosphere band was here it was good know we gotta go on the road against
a top 25 team hopefully be able to do some similar good things see where it goes from
there last thing I gotta ask you when you look at this lineup that they have lamendola
is not the guy you'd normally look at but he was the guy that just killed you in lexington
yeah and hes a freshman was there anything you did differently i think overall with guys
like him and dennin whos a great shooter i think we just did a better job of disrupting
there rhythm so when they did get shots they were a little sped up they weren't quite comfortable
they weren't you know swing swing kick kick three when they had they're feet set alot
so i thought we kind of made them play a little bit faster and out of rhythm than they would
have liked and that translated into them not kind of getting til the very end where they
kind of found a rhythm a little bit and we were kind of playing on our heels so probably
that last 5-7 minutes i thought we kind of dictated the pace and when you do that you're
going to be able to get some good things and good results so it was a we'll take it we'l
take a win this late in the year against a very good team for sure coach congratulations
thanks for the time
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