 Hello and welcome to the Gary Stewart show presented by Buffalo Wildlings I'm Greg Royce joined by Stevenson headman's basketball coach Gary Stewart and coach just one game last week you hosted Alvernia We're able to you know, unfortunately fall behind there for quite a bit It's our second half, but you were able to fight back and make it a game at the end Just take us to that game a little bit. Yeah, I was really proud of the way our kids competed in the second half Alvernia played really really well in the first half and They present a lot of problems because they can shoot so well from the perimeter and and And we get driven up And so when when that's happening when you when they're driving the ball and put the ball in the paint with the dribble And your defense is in no man's land where you're not helping off enough to stop the penetration, but you're not There on the rival of the past to shooters You're gonna you're gonna give up some points and we did Fortunately for us in the second half. We were able to get some rhythm offensively. We struggled offensively in the first 12 or 14 minutes of the game and But exploded in the second half of 59 points second half So there's a lot of things that we can take out of that that we hopefully can apply not only This week but moving forward. Yeah, you had a couple guys during that second half Kind of step up one in particular Jonathan Mustafa. He really stepped up big in that second half and that at a career high 14 points We got great production from Jonathan and we're excited about him. He's a guy that Had an outstanding high school career and and you can see him getting better and better in practice. I thought Cam Hayes, excuse me Cam Harris was a person that provided some great energy for us to and it had a big shot there and We've been getting some good production from our bench Mark. Yeah, absolutely. Mark was excellent in the second half as well. Yeah, and again, I would be remissed if I didn't Mention Kobe, you know, he's a guy sometimes you forget about him because You know, he's a normal rotation right, but he's been been really good for us too as well Yeah, he kind of comes in he kind of makes one or two plays every game So you can almost forget about him, but you're right. Yeah, he has a unique Ability as a as a young freshman to have a calming influence. You know, he takes care of the ball. It makes really good decisions You've got a guardian. He can get by him because he's a three-level guy. He can get to the rim He's certainly got a good mid-range game and an excellent Perimeter game in general. Yeah One of the things obviously to take away that it's kind of happened the last few games It started second half seems like teams have kind of made their run start second half We've talked about before that you got to try to figure out how to limit that run if you have you gone back look at the film last three four games try to Take a look see what you can do to kind of help limit that so they don't get a second half leader get back in the game Yeah, great. I don't know if it's so much second half as it as much as its runs Yeah, and and now how do we minimize runs? We're having a period where we're Coming up empty on the offensive end and that affects our energy on the defensive end and when that happens and a team now scores Three four or five straight possessions You've got some problems, and that's what's happened to us and and so we've got to find a way to Get stops and also stay aggressive offensively. Yeah, we've talked about every team's gonna make a run You know that just sport basketball, but try to limit those runs so they don't become 10 12 14 points Yeah, it it was Turned out to be an insurmountable lead on Saturday because we got behind by so much once once we got going We were pretty good. I thought we played as well as we played all year in some some aspects, but But we can ill afford to have teams Get a double-figure run on us in this league and expect good results night in and night out. Absolutely and talking about the league I'm right back at it tonight You go to hood and then host our Katie on Saturday two tough games against two, you know two opponents You know, I mean really the whole league is close with two opponents that you figure to be battling with for playoff spot Well, the league is tough and we knew that going in there's no easy nights If you play our league start it again from scratch and play it again You'll get a different result in terms of the way teams would finish It's so close and so unpredictable. You really have to worry about yourself and and But it makes it exciting if you're a competitor you like to play against people that are That challenge you and We're literally looking forward to closing out the first half here tonight and then Seeing what we can do In the second half of conference. Yeah, absolutely second go around start Saturday with our Katie right here in Owensville, schismasium Yeah, it's a certainly a mental toughness exercise And again, it brings out the best in you if you're a competitor and and We feel good about our team. We feel good about Our ability and we've got some things that we Are convinced we can fix and and and we'll see where that Takes us in the second half. Yeah. All right, coach. We'll best select this week. I will talk to you next week As always, thanks for your time. Thank you, Greg For Gary Stewart. I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Gary Stewart show