Larry Jewell

Okay, I'm talking with Coach Christensen. And Coach, how do you feel about tonight's game here in Hurricane? Well, it'll be interesting coming back to the place where you've coached for quite a few years and playing against some of the kids that you, you know, you help coach and whatever. But hey, we're gonna, we're gonna go after it. We think we got a pretty decent ball team and, you know, we're just gonna have to scrap. It's on their court. You know, the advantage has got to be really with them. But hey, you know, funnier things have happened and I think we're coming over tonight. I think the kids are gonna be ready to play. So, you know, we're just gonna put the uniform and get after them. Hey, you beat him by two points earlier at home. Do you think it'll have an advantage as far as being here at their own territory? Well, you know, anytime you beat somebody, you can look at it and either the team that you beat can fire up and say, hey, they're not going to let it happen again, or they can say, yeah, you know, they're always thinking, looking over the shoulder, hey, we can be beaten. So it can work either way. I don't know. You know, we blew out to an early lead down at Pine View and, you know, and then they kind of crept back into it and then, you know, made a good ball game out of it. And then I think towards the end, again, we, we end up getting a three or four point lead and of course, you know, we let them score one just before the buzzer one to narrow it to two. But yeah, you know, I think your home court does give you a little bit of advantage. But again, they've got to remember that we've beaten them once and, you know, it can happen again. So, you know, they've got to have that thought on their mind also. Okay, last game you had one player on the Hurricane team who scored 33 points. Have you thought about doing anything to shut him down this time? Yeah, we were hoping they'll leave him home so he doesn't play. You know, I don't know that you can really. You can slow Kenny last down a little bit, but I don't know that. Never stopping. He's a fine basketball player. He's probably one of the finest centers in any classification. He does some things really well, but we're hoping that we can maybe get a little more help and stop him from scoring quite at will like he did and maybe make some of the other kids show us that they can score some points because they only had one kid in double figures besides him. They had a kid in 10 points and then it went from 10 to 33. So we're going to try to see if we can put some pressure, let them have some outside shots, of course, with pressure and sag and not give him seconds and third shots. And that's what he really hurt us on is a lot of missed shots he grabbed and took right back up for rebound baskets. So we've worked on that and hopefully we can do something about it. Okay, what kind of defense are you going to play against him? Well, we're going to hit a little bit of everything. We've got some combinations of man and zone, bows and straight zone and straight men. And what we're trying to do is maybe just try to keep them off balance a little bit. We're going to make some switches and changes over there. We pressed the football game man to man. We're going to look at a little zone press a little bit of man, you know, and then drop back into some zones and some combination, hopefully just to keep them off guard. So they don't know whether we're double teaming inside with Kenny on cannonized or we're single covering so that they have to work pretty hard to get the ball to him. Okay, Dina, who are you going to start? Yeah, we'll go with basically the same start as we've been with the exception of Andy Larson. Andy's home sick tonight. He's not going to be playing, so we'll start Worthington his place at a forward spot. We'll start Mitch Britton at a guard and Rick Roberts at the other guard and Bryant Hill at the other forward and. And then Max Smith inside. We've had a little bit of sickness, but hey, we've got some kids that's ready to play come off the bench and hey, we've got 10, 11 kids and they're all going to get after it and play hard tonight. Okay, Coach, thanks a lot and good luck on tonight's game. Appreciate it. Thank you. You bet. Okay, we'll be back here within two minutes and the start of tonight's ball game.