 With Stevenson head basketball coach Gary Stewart in the post game here, 82-47 the final, the men defeat Hartwick College and Gary you and I had a chance to talk today before the game and you said that you know after the loss to Catholic you still need to find your footing a little bit and I think you probably did find it tonight just a little. Well we did make some progress in some areas but obviously there's some stuff that we still need to shore up and clean up unfortunately we don't have a lot of time we've got to get back on the floor tomorrow but anxious to get back to practice and and try to make some inroads on some of the things that we desperately need to get better at. There's a lot of things to talk about and a lot of things that were impressive tonight but a couple things that stood out the hustle first of all a lot of bodies on the floor a lot of loose balls player Connor Walsh throwing his weight around in a good way just talk a little bit about that aggressiveness that you guys showed tonight. Yeah one of the things that I talked to the team about both during practice and shoot around a day we've got to be more aggressive more assertive I thought that the first game of the year we were back on our heels a little bit and you know we've got to take some shots we got to get in the middle of the ring and take some shots and continue that type of intensity and today was a good start to that. Thirteen players got onto the scorecard for Stevenson tonight none of them had more than nine points so just talk a little bit about the depth and how please perhaps you were to get a lot of players in the flow tonight. Yeah one of the things I really liked was 15 guys got a rebound and so it's always nice to get your entire roster into a game when those guys are really working hard to improve and as a coach you root for guys too as well as coach them and so it was nice to to get deep into our roster and then the other piece of that Gary was as you mentioned we got a lot of contributions from a lot of different people we didn't have one guy put up a crooked number we had a lot of people that contributed tonight. Thirty-one turnovers they had and a lot of that was because of your pressure I don't have the number in front of me but I think you may have had 19 steals kind of Walsh himself had six or seven steals so again towards that you know throwing your body around and making things happen but also just some other impressive contributions. Miles Jackson great burst big first step nice penetration I mean in a lot of different corners and a lot of different places you can take a lot from this game. Yeah I was particularly impressed with our refreshment you know Brian had composure at the end of the game when he came in Miles was able to get into the lane and create some havoc there and finished a really tough difficult to lay up. I really like the way Zach played you know Zach took really really good shots he's as good a shooter as we have in our program so it was good to free him up a little bit and and then Ryan who we're really really high on and excited about him as we are with Kyle and and Kendall and and and the like so it was it was good to get everybody in there. Yeah it's interesting about Ryan Newell I was saying in the broadcast it's like you don't have any six eleven or seven foot guys but you have a good stable of six six six seven guys that you can rotate in and out. Ryan Newell brought the house down a couple times tonight you got to be pleased with that. Yeah we're really working to try to continue Sodexo's business in the dining hall there and and get our guys a little bit there you know there's there's two things you can do here gear you can be tall but you can also be wide and so we're making an emphasis to get in the weight room our strength and conditioning coach MC McFadden's done an excellent job with our kids and and and I think that showed today I think that showed not only in their conditioning but I thought our strength our strength at the point of attack was much better than it has been in the past and and not to not to mitigate what Tony did priority MC because Tony really started this MC has taken the baton and elevated it and so we're in good shape that way. Okay so a quick turnaround now four o'clock on Saturday or thereabouts you'll take on main maritime I don't know if you had a chance to see them today or not but they played the first game they beat FDU Florham 65-56 your your what happens in a quick turnaround situation now for your team what do you actually tell them? Well we did get an opportunity to see him and we've also watched him on film and they're very very disciplined and patient and and they've got a young man that's going to shoot it as well as anybody will see all year so we've got to get out to him they're poised they take really really good shots and and they give you one shot and out so it's going to be a challenge for us and I'm looking forward to seeing if we can make a little bit of growth in a game that's going to require us to be really really disciplined and really really sound I thought tonight we got a little bit unsound defensively we've reached a little bit too much for my my taste so we've got some things that we have to improve on and hopefully in a short amount of time we can get that message across. That's the last word Gary Stewart head coach Stevenson basketball big one tonight over Hartwick