Our defense has carried us the whole year. Johnson, for a sixth grader, has done an excellent job running our team.

Drew is tough as nails. It was our team defense that won the game for us. We were able to close out their shooters on the perimeter. It was just a great team effort.

We're a better defense than we were at the beginning of the year, and that's because we've got so many young players learning a new system ( Ted Cottrell 's) and so many young players playing at this level for the first time. I don't know what everybody else would call it. I'd call it progress.

He did an excellent job.

He does an excellent job.

He's dong an excellent job. Do I expect him to be perfect all year? No. but he's doing an excellent job.