I'd rather stop them in the beginning before they get into trouble with children.

We ran into a bit of injury trouble at the beginning, the first half, and we kind of struggled to make it to Christmas. But we knew coming back from Christmas break that we'd have a stronger team and we'd have a couple of guys coming in that would help our lineup.

We didn't match up well from the beginning and the foul trouble only made it worse. We got killed on rebounds. We were playing our small lineup against their big lineup.

We kind of had trouble at the beginning, but then we played the way we're supposed to play.

Offenders tell children all these things, you're going to get in trouble, I'm going to be taken out of the home, you're not going to have your animals, you'll have to change schools, leave your friends, you're mom's going to jail.

For children, Lacy becomes a transition object. If a child has been in some trouble, they may feel that (being here) is part of the punitive process. When they see Lacy, it's disarming.