CARBONDALE (WSIL) -- Its' win or go home time. Carbondale looks to make a deep playoff run.
"If you're not moving to the right, you're going home right now," Carbondale Basketball Coach Jim Miller said.
Terriers are saying and doing all the right things.
"Lock in. Lock in and fight," Carbondale senior Clayton Greer said.
"When we show great chemistry and we show great trust in teammates, we play at a high level," Miller said.
"Commitment and then we all work hard, we push each other," Greer said.
My whole life I've been told defense wins championships. Carbondale comes from the school of thought and their recent dfensive play has the Terriers in the 3A Regional Semifinal.
"There is no reason why you can't work hard every single night defensively, there's no reason you can't be selfish on the boards, that means go get every single one of them, if you have a selfish bone in your body, do it on the defensive end," Miller said.
"Make them get out their game, just push, push like some teams like to play slow so if you push them and make them go faster, they make more mistakes," Greer said.
"From freshman year basically Coach Miller instills in us to, we are in charge of the tempo. I feel when we come at them and sort of attack real quick, they don't know what to do so disrupting their tempo is a big part of our game," Carbondale senior James Baltz said.
"You have to let the defense take care of the offense. Once we understand that aspect, we get great stops, we do a great job rebounding. Our transition is improved, our shot selection becomes improved so the harder we work defensively, the easier we are, easier our offense is," Miller said.
The Terriers have a balanced offensive attack that feeds off their defensive effort.
"Coach always tells us defense wins games so on the defensive end that leads to our offense which make it easier to score and run transition as well so as we pressure the ball I feel like it gets teams uncomfortable and they play zone or the way they want to play, it make them dictate to our game," Carbondale Senior Fairleigh Ward said.
"We have no problem passing each other the ball and that's literally everyon eon the court and everyone coming off the bench. Like we now everyone coming off the bench and everyone on the court will be able to score," Baltz said.
"We definitely unselfish, I mean if a player got the hot hands why not feed him more and that just give other teammates momentum by him scoring," Ward said.
