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Joe Layne
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Quotes by Joe Layne
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The lead was what won the game for us. We knew they (Rockwood) were not going to give up. They've got too good a team to get beat that bad.
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You can talk about his on the floor game all you want to, but off the floor, he has led very positively in a great manner.
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I'm proud of my kids, because they fought back and they didn't lay down. We got back in the game and we still had a chance at the end.
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Any time you can beat a county team it is a good thing and a district win makes it even double sweet.
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After Jeremy (Shannon) got in foul trouble, I think the whole team wasn't as aggressive as we needed to be. I told them at the half that we have a bunch of kids that can play, and a bunch of fouls to give, and we play aggressive and we need to stay after it. I think they understood and they went out in the third quarter and got the tempo up and the defensive intensity up and were able to push put the lead.
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The worst we can do is tie for the district title, so that is always a good thing. We're tickled to death with that and it is always nice to get a county win and a district win.
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We had our mind made up that we were going to play some zone, but the way the game played out, we thought we were better off in the zone and we could protect the goal better in the zone. Obviously, it won the basketball game for us.
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This was a great season and I'm so proud of these guys for fighting through what they fought through and the adversity they have been through.
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