12 Quotes by Jay Melton

We talk about our offense might slump a bit, but defense never slumps. You have to play defense all the time and we did a good job of that.

He was hot early, but Wethersfield did a nice job of taking him away and it took us a while to find a second scorer. It seemed like we were going to Tyler all the time in the first quarter.

I was extremely happy with the guys tonight. That is a really good basketball team to hold to just 30 points. Every goal that we had coming into tonight we were able to meet.

We'd like to go undefeated in the conference, win the tournament and win a regional. Those are wonderful goals to have.

We like for him to start around the block and work his way out. That is what he did in the first half against ROWVA. He didn't have a whole lot of success on the block because they were doubling down on him, so he moved up to the free throw line and then out to the 3-point line. That is something he can do and we feel comfortable with him out there.

We really didn't do anything different defensively in the second quarter. We just went out and started playing much harder man to man defense and weren't giving them the open looks that they were getting in the first quarter and I thought that was the key.

I've been here 16 years so I've known him most of his life. Every year I see him in the gym and the first place I ever saw him was in a gym. He is always in a gym and always has been.

Other coaches have said to me it looks like our offense goes through him most of the time. And it does. At some point he has to touch the ball and every coach knows that. They are coming out to try and stop it, so Tyler has to work especially hard on the offensive end to keep people from stopping him.

Offensively we wanted to get the ball into the post more in the second half. We saw they were doubling down so we were hoping to kick it back out and get some open looks.