Jeff Boogaart Quotes (10 Quotes)

Playing at Southwest is always difficult. Southwest always seems to play well on their home floor. Southwest shoots the ball unbelievably well for a junior high team. It will be a challenge trying to cover all of their shooters.

Now, we have to win out and hope somebody else can knock off Elmwood. We have a realistic shot at winning the conference championship.

Ramsey has a 6-8 kid and two quick guards. They played us tough and they've got some kids who take up a lot of space in the middle.

This is always a good tournament because it's like a prep for the regional. We see four of the top teams from the south and some of the better teams from our conference. It's a good regional preview.

We really didn't play well on offense. With our help on defense and our pressure we created a lot of havoc.

We did a good job of making the extra pass. ...We rotated the ball with two, three or four passes. The first time (on Jan. 9) we took quick shots. We didn't make them play defense long enough. Tonight, they had to play defense more than just a couple of seconds.

We did a much better job defensively this time.

Oakdale looked great in the first quarter. They came out and didn't miss a shot. But once we were able to set our press up, we made them turn the ball over. The press took over in the second quarter.

They weren't falling for them and I think part of that was we got them a little tired. We were running up and down the court we rotated about ten guys in and that helped us quite a bit.

We did a good job while we were scrambling a little bit on the press of getting back and covering their shooters, and keeping them out of a rhythm because they can go off on you at any time.