 Hello, and welcome to the Gary Stewart show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royston, my students in the headman's basketball coach, Gary Stewart. Coach, we had a couple of Mac Commonwealth games last week. Can I take a Sioux first? She went to Hood on Wednesday night, short trip down I-70 to play your in-state rival, and fortunately fell a little bit whole early, and we're able to catch up once, but ultimately they got the best of you. Can I take us to that game a little bit? Yeah, Hood got off to a great start and had great energy, and I thought we showed some composure, worked ourselves back in the game, got some stops. We were much more assertive in the second half, and to our credit, being on the road and having a double-digit deficit, we worked it into a manageable number and had a chance to win the game. Coming down the stretch, we just didn't close the game out very well. Yeah. It seems like so many of these conference games, we've talked about it all season, just come down to two or three plays right at the end, and both games last week, obviously the Hood game, and then the game at home against Arcadia on Saturday, both teams made runs, and both teams just comes down to who makes two or three plays right at the end. Yeah, I looked this weekend, and every single game in conference has been a one, two, or three-position game, with the exception of one, and we expected that conference. I mean, it's a very close, competitive conference, and it's a bounce of the ball that determines sometimes who wins and who loses. Yeah. How do you talk to your team about that? I mean, obviously the results haven't been there the last couple of weeks like you like, but obviously you've played well for certainly long stretches of games. How do you keep them up, especially with such a young team, to, hey, just keep doing what we're doing, maybe be a little more consistent and the results will come? Well, the frustration comes in being close enough that you can reach out and touch it, but haven't had the success that we want. On the other end, if we were losing games by 15 or 20 points, there's a lot of issues there. Yeah. For us, we have things that we think we control, things we think we can improve on. So from that perspective, from a coaching perspective, it's a challenge to try to find those things and shore up those things in such a short amount of time. Yeah. Yeah, obviously you've got a couple of days to prepare for your next game. You've got Lebanon Valley on Wednesday night, then you come back home against Saturday, third Saturday home in a row, you host Albright. You know, two of the teams that are certainly in the mix towards the top of the standings and two games that obviously, you know, the first time around you beat Lebanon Valley home in Albright. Again, one of those one or two possession games up there. Yeah, yep. There are no easy nights. And from a competitive standpoint, I love that. I love the fact that every Wednesday and every Saturday you are in a battle and it gives us an opportunity to test what we're trying to do against an opponent and we're seeing different things, you know, somebody presents a zone, someone presents full court pressure, somebody's very, very good on the interior or a very good perimeter player. So we certainly have our work cut out for us this week and I'm looking forward to it. Yeah. All right, coach, we wish you the best of luck. We'll see you certainly here at Ellen's Militia Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon. Thank you, Greg. And once again, as always, we thank you for your time. For Gary Stewart, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Gary Stewart Show.