20 Quotes by Gavin Miller

She was always willing to do whatever I needed her to do. If I needed her in the paint, she would go play inside. If we needed a spark from behind the arc, she was there and willing. She even handled the ball some for us this year and did a good job with that. I'm just very pleased, very happy, with Taylor. She is leaving some big shoes to be filled.

If they have a bad start, its a struggle for the night. I don't care what the level of the opponent we are playing, it doesn't really matter. If we don't come out on fire and energized, its a struggle for us. And that as got to change.

I thought Natalie Hayes played good defense on Amber Hacker. She's their leading scorer. I told (Natalie) before the game, I said, 'I just got a feeling you're going to have a big night.' I thought she played good defense.

That's the type of game coach (Jeff) Walk likes to coach. They are real physical. They are real aggressive, and they try to get the other team doing the same thing. He does a good job with these girls over here.

We jumped on them early and got them thinking about what we were doing instead of them thinking about what they should be doing. Portageville is a good team. They were the No. 3 seed at the Twin Rivers tournament, so overall we did a good job tonight.

We had a motto before the game, just basically coming into the game was let's live 'til tomorrow, find a way to get to tomorrow night and not be satisfied with getting there. But, from this point on, boy it's one game at a time. You can't look forward two or three games down the road.

We played with a different level of desire, a different level of passion that I've been trying to preach all year long ... I don't mind turnovers, I don't mind mistakes, as long as we're doing it with as much heart as you can and as intense as you can. That was a big key for us (Saturday).

The good thing about Amanda is she might get a little taller, and she'll definitely going to get stronger and faster. And that's going to allow her to do a lot of things on the court. She's just going to become - what I think is one of the premier players, if she chooses to - one of the premier players in Southeast Missouri.

You can just about guarantee that Taylor is going to get 18, 19 or 20 points a night.