Siegel controlled tempo throughout, pushing when they needed to and working the offense when it helped. Big thing I noticed was Siegel got almost ALL the loose balls, radio announcers touched on it too. Their size didn't hurt us on the boards at all. Up 12-7 after one courtesy of a couple 3's. Second quarter was important I thought. Gooch had a couple of monster plays, one a dunk that brought the house down I believe and another play where Hammonds took off from the free throw line almost was fouled and somehow got the ball to the rim and bounced in.
Got up by as many 16 in the 3rd. Got sloppy and Antioch cut it to 7 but never got closer. Gooch sealed it with another dunk with about 3 minutes to go. Siegel hit the big 3s when they needed them and aside from a couple of hiccups from Cutter, hit their free throws at the end. Antioch was god awful from the free throw line 8-20. Cutter was not even the leading scorer til near the end with Free throws. Tate, Gooch, Mitchell led the way most of the night.
People said Cutter and Hammonds needed to go off for Siegel to win. Well neither did and neither did Montori yet Siegel still won, scary to think about.
Great game plan and ever better execution from a team that didn't let the big stage get to them.
This team is playing as good as any in the state right now.
Crazy to think as sophomores with 2 seniors, they have gotten just as far as the famed Siegel quartet from 2 years ago.
Here is the box score
http://tssaa.org/2007Champions/StateBBaske...ssAAA/game3.htm