I guess if we can't be first, we might as well be second. There's no shame in losing to (Lancaster). That's a top-notch basketball team. They're a tough, hard-nosed competitive team.
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What you expect to see here is the same thing from the first year. You are still going to see a hard-nosed team that plays to the last second of the game. That is the kind of attitude I try to project and I try to get 100 percent out of them.
That started in the first quarter, but it actually goes back to the Seattle game. I don't know if we think we can slug it out with people offensively or what, but we just can't do that. We have to get back to some hard-nosed basketball and we're going to do that.
They're both big-time competitors. They're tough. They're hard-nosed. They wanted to put the team on their backs. They had the will to create things and the shoulders broad enough to take shots and make big plays. They're not afraid of that at all.
He's a hard-nosed guy. When I watched him play, that never escaped me. He's focused. He's right there in the middle of things. He has an amazing ability to anticipate. When you can anticipate, you're a little bit ahead of the game as a baseball guy.
It's just hard-nosed. Basketball with an attitude, so to speak.
We got knocked down the other week against Hillside, so our goal was to bounce back up and come out swinging. I thought we came out here and really played hard-nosed basketball.
He's a very tough, hard-nosed player, great run blocker. The attitude and his style of play, he's a real good fit for what we want to do running the football and getting after people. He brings that attitude we're looking for.
I was impressed with his overall wrestling ability. He had a lot of mat sense. He was aggressive. Once he was close to scoring, he finished hard. He's the type of hard-nosed athlete any coach would want.
He's a hard-nosed player. He's not afraid to mix it up and get in people's faces. That probably wasn't the best move on his part. But he doesn't give an inch.
The people are similar, and they're both hard-nosed cities. People are not afraid to tell you what time it is, voicing their opinion. If you're driving and you cut somebody off on the highway, just like in Pittsburgh, they'll let you know.
Jason is a hard-nosed, tough player that compliments our lineup extremely well. He has always been a tough out while recording a high on-base percentage and has the ability to play all three outfield positions well.
Megan's a great shooter and plays smart, hard-nosed basketball. She understands the game and has the ability to make others around her better.
That's three games in a row that he's played really unselfish, hard-nosed basketball.
He's a hard-nosed guy and he's not afraid to go into the danger areas and rough it up. He's a hard worker and he's getting rewarded.
We are really close to being an excellent basketball team. I think if you're both teams you want to play your best before the postseason. And Mattoon has typically had hard-nosed, fundamentally sound basketball teams.