Craig Drury Quotes (18 Quotes)

They outplayed us today boys. I'm proud of my unit and I'll take them. We just didn't have it today in the right places and they did. We weren't executing a couple things that I felt like we needed to execute. We weren't attacking as well as I wanted to attack. We done that in the past and we've kind of grown into it. We just couldn't get the attack and then we got desperate in our attack.

Congratulations, you've made it to the final eight. I'm not looking at a state championship. I just want to get to the final four. If you get to the semifinals in high school basketball, you've accomplished something.

We ran the same play (end of regulation), but this time they covered the A gap, so Koop attacked the B gap with the dribble. Now their back forward has to choose. Is he going to take Koop or is he going to take Walker He choose Koop and kicked it to Walker.

They always are good for a run, and they brought that run at us in the third quarter. I think that when we negated that run is when the game kind of got out of hand.

Koop, I felt, was the best player on the floor except for the missed free throw. He got the ball to people and he made some plays himself.

It's great to have a player come off the bench, that no one has ever heard of, and have him play great. They decided they were going to leave one of our guards uncovered and he made his shots. That helped chase them out to the perimeter.

He came to me at halftime and told me that he'd take care of it.

They outplayed us tonight. I'm proud of my unit and what they did, but we just didn't have it in the right places.

I really haven't digested this yet. I've been here a few times and it's fun. I'm going to enjoy being in the championship game. It's a mark of success for our team.

They attacked the high post and hit a good little jump shot on us. When we took that away they didn't have another answer. The second quarter was key because we gave them six points.

(Collinsworth) was the difference in the game. That lead was largely because Chris decided to play.

I've got a good basketball team. We have a lot of people that can score.

Tanner scored five points, but that was no indication of what he did on the floor. He did everything we needed him to do to help us win. I thought Mark Walker stepped up and hit those two big threes in the first quarter to get us going.

Those are the breaks of the game and you have to play through them. We just didn't have it today in the right places, and they did.

Highland's a great team. They're 23-1 and they have the biggest point spread in 4A. We're going to have our hands full, but I hope they're going to have their hands full too.

I've been here a few times and it's fun to be here and I've learned the few times I haven't won the championship to enjoy the moment. I've tried to enjoy getting to the final four. I tried to enjoy that for the two hours I was awake today without thinking about the game and I'm going to try and do the same thing.

It's a tough place to play. I thought Tanner Gregory played a great game tonight. I can't say enough about the kid. Not only did he score but he made, I don't know how many, clutch plays for us.

We weren't executing the things that I thought we needed to execute. We weren't attacking as well as we needed to. Other times we've started that way, then grown into it. Tonight we didn't.