We knew Meridian would concentrate on stopping David. All of our opponents have done that in the second half. You can't leave Cortez open.

What was discouraging to me was our turnovers in the second half. We felt like all we had to do was take care of the ball and keep moving the basketball and we'd be all right, but we got a little impatient.

The second half, we knew what we had to do. We let all the butterflies out and just played.

We wanted to make a statement in the second half. As the quarterback and a leader, I wanted to give my guys a chance to make plays.

We've been shooting well in the second half of the season. We didn't shoot well against Heath. We were 12 of 37 (32 percent) from the floor. Our shooting was off. Our passing was off. We weren't moving well. All those things combined for poor offensive execution.

We knew it wasn't going to be easy. But we've become a second-half team this year. I don't necessarily like it that way -- we don't like to have to come back. But we have matured enough to be poised and do whatever we have to do to come away with a win.