Chad Cluver Quotes (14 Quotes)

I know they execute real well and they're not going to beat themselves. They aren't real flashy except for the Tucker kid, and they're just going to do what they have to win. We have to hope that we execute just as well.

No, I don't think it's hit until I got into this gym. But now it's starting to hit pretty hard. On behalf of the players, coaches and managers, um, wow the support from this community is unbelievable.

They have a lot of guards and good guard play and they're quick. It's pretty much the same thing as us. I've seen them play once against GCMS. I know Steffen is extremely good. Looking at CPCI is like seeing us.

I told my wife about a quarter of the way through the season that I thought this team had a chance to be special. Everyone kept overlooking us and we just kept winning.

We knew we had to put a lot of pressure on the basketball to stop their inside game.

It's his leadership. He works so hard that it rubs off on everyone. He played AAU all summer and didn't miss any of our team stuff. That says a lot about him right there. And all of our kids noticed that.

That's the thing with Robert, if you ask him to do something, he does it until he's good at it. We asked him to get quicker and he worked all summer. We asked him to quicken his release and he worked all summer. We're running out of things for him to improve on.

These guys believe in each other and trust in each other and the coaches. The more the games get tense, the more we relax. I don't know if it's an adrenaline rush, but the guys get very level headed.

They are a little different from Carlyle. They are a little bigger and they spread the floor more with their big guys. We'll make some adjustments, but at this time of year, you just do what you do.

Slow but sure, we kept spreading it out, and we never were going to let them come back within striking distance.

As a coach, you never want it to be real close, but I was kind of worried about how we were going to react. Because we've never been in this scenario before, and they've been there three of the last five years.

We knew we could be good as long as we could get them to buy into team first and things like that, and they've done that. They bought that from Day 1 and just kind of trusted each other. We started playing our best basketball at the end.

We tried to put pressure on their shooters so they couldn't make that (entry) pass. We had the other guys sagging off and making them back up to catch it.

They are killing people on the boards. They are strong and physical, and a big key for us will be rebounding. If we can rebound well, we can get out and run.