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002via the nearest exit and one more reminder for the safety of the players coaches and officials no fans allowed onto the court at any time let's get down to the starting lineups for the Grizzlies number zero Isaiah Santos for the Blu Hawks number 24 Huxley Brown for the Grizzlies number 10 Liam O'Brien for the blue Hawks number 11 Nate mcnf for the Grizzlies number 13 Noah Durham for the blue Hawks number 22 Tyler ree for the grizzley number 20 Tyler Dion for the blue Hawks number 23 Jack tiido for the Grizzlies number 44 Jack delahanty and for the blue Hawks number Nick REO the grizzli led by head coach Jerry Haynes the blue blue Hawks are led by head coach Jeff Holmes and the officials for tonight's contest Bob Benjamin Keith bayette and Steve Burrows
003at this time would you please stand if able and Gentlemen please remove your hats for the performance of our national anthem well at this time we could do the pledge of of Allegiance in his place I apologize for the technical problems I pledge allegiance to the flag the United States of America good evening and welcome to tonight nhiaa Division 1 boys basketball preliminary round playoff matchup between the fifth seated exter bluehawks and the 12 seated gown Grizzlies I'm Dan provos and I'm joined as always by EHS senior Tim Hollister for tonight's play-by-play broadcast on Blu Hawk media TV Tim the Grizzlies and blue Hawks went at it just a few weeks ago on senior night here at EHS with the Hawks coming out on top 7758 in a game that got pretty physical what have
004you heard from Hawks players tonight about the playoff rematch yeah so I was able to talk to Greco this uh before the game a long win Nate but I asked Greco about how Chippy the game got and he said that honestly the go toown poked the bear they it got a little chippy just with words couple words were exchanged between the teams and exor used that as motivation throughout the second half Greco especially being all over the court with blocks threes so much he the whole team really had great second half and he said that they're going to use his extra motivation to start that's MCN quick off the tip you can see it right now this is exactly where they succeeded in last game they use their Pace to apply pressure to golf sound
005and got them in the hole early let's see if they can continue it here we've noted it all season long the Hawks can play with Pace they're also going to have a size Advantage tonight obviously the Twin Towers in the starting lineup but gound is is generally an undersized team yeah uh so you know go toown they're tallest guy number 44 out there Jack Jake DEA Hy he's 65 so he's tall don't get me wrong but other than that they have three guys over 6 foot besides him so you know exer out here with kind of a smaller lineup who just drained the three and you can see this is right where they want go sound they want go sound on the back of their heels you saw it on the first possession with a
006kind of an early turnover where they're trying to right there our turnover they're trying to meet match the pace of exitor and honestly they just need a slow it down exer loves playing fast and this is what they do best they're they're defensive team at the end of the day and defensively gown's a team that runs hot and cold you you had mentioned when we were talking before the game half their games they're holding teams under 40 half their games the their teams are scoring 70 plus against them yeah they're doing they uh they do kind of an iffy iffy job depends on the day you know we talked about with Trinity sometimes these teams they're just you have a good night you have a bad night right but exitor isn't one of those teams
007there's MC and I think early timeout here from gwn getting into the stats gtown has been able hold their opponents under 40 points twice which is extremely rare to see in boys basket basketball you know they held them under 40 twice but then they have four games where they've allowed more than 70 points including 90 to Bedford in regulation that game didn't go to OT they lost by 30 that game so really what's going to be is how are they going to respond to this early deficit that said gown's coming off a game just a week ago where they lost to Portsmouth by Four Points yeah and that's the top team certainly they can hang with anybody when they play their game yeah and I think a lot of it is just how they respond
008to these early deficits or how they respond in the early game whether they're winning or whether they're losing or whether it's tied right how are they going to respond and I think sometimes you know they they get down early they hang their head low and it affects them that's where you see the 30 point loss to Bedford the 19o loss to to exor last time they played and the 28 point loss to Keane you know three of all three of those losses being by more than 15 but then you have the close games between Portsmouth and other teams where you know three of their last five losses have been by less than 10 it's really about how you going to respond to this early hole there you have Tyler Dion strong in L Lane for
009two yeah and to your point some something that coach Raymond farmer of gos sound is clearly aware of uh and you see that early timeout trying to just stem that that that momentum early and you know I have it here in my notes exiter does a great job of slowing it down when they need to and I think that's what that's what coach farmer was trying to do with that timeout was just slow it down they've scored backto back buckets being able to stop ex right now after the timeout so I think a lot of it was just slow down the team you know hey we're not a fast-paced team we got slowed down there's Greco for two and that was delahanty on the other end for the Goof toown two greo man since getting
010him back they they've lost one game they've won nine of their last 10 and 10 games ago or 11 games ago against Bedford they didn't have Greco that was their last loss up until Nashua South they won eight in a row he just it just shows how much of an impact player he is absolutely senior leadership as well yeah you know you got two seniors in the starting lineup very very light Senior Team whereas like gtown they're a junior heavy class MC NE with a circus move in the left hand in the lane man he he just he's shooting on a rim twice the size of a normal one right now official timeout this looks like it could be for a uniform issue maybe oh it's uh tibs walking out he's I think he's bleeding
011from the eye it looked like oh you're right looked like he he was walking out with Heidi the extra trainer so looked like maybe there's something running down in the face so sub him out get uh tamasi in there yeah we're going to see tamasi in here but yeah like I was saying before gwn very Junior heavy nine on the roster so similar to exor in that way you know of course we talk about mcf we talk about uh Greco the senior leadership that they give but really exor gets a ton of production from their Juniors from their sophomores steal from Greco right there but yeah they get they get a lot of production from uh from their sophomores especially even though there's just two of them that mainly go in the game and get
012a lot of work Greco again in the lane yeah they get they they got two they got Jackson McDonald and then you got tyen they get a lot of production from these guys and there's Delah Hy again they're going to want to run their run their offense through him with him being the tall guy out there it's how you're going to score on this tall exer team skip pass there for mcniff now again to Greco in the lane and he he is not going to miss from there no he's he's been lights out he's been lights out so far I think he has one miss but man he's he's been playing great and the thing you notice about him is gwn is giving him space because he will put the ball on the floor and
013drive you know he is 6'4 um but he will put the ball on the floor and take it to the rack yeah and you know um like usual I got Nate Nate to tell me their keys to Victory and gown's a heavy Zone using team they're GNA call foul on Greco there um but yeah they're they're heavy Zone using team and so he said he told me that they need to attack the Zone make sure they're getting easy shots so you know that's that's really what we've been seeing early in this game they're getting a lot of easy shots whether it's three from to the easy mid-range shots that we're seeing Greco hit it's really just about attacking that zone finding the open guy yeah defensively he told me you know they they got to
014shut down their Shooters they're very shooter like they got a couple of guys that they really lean on and we've seen that all year from ex they're really good at shutting down that number one guy and making The Supporting Cast do more than they usually do we're going to have an N1 opportunity here from Noah Durham Noah Durham is good on the number 22 a lot of exer success against these number one scores comes from you know coach Holmes game plan and their and the players execution it really it really o air ball that's going to be a violation then that's to exor's ball and mcnf coming the other way but yeah this team it's all about Coach holm's game plan and just exer doing what they do all year and execute it they've been
015ex oh for three there you go you see them they got an open shot for one for Nate mcne you can't leave him open he will make that every time ooh little little bit of nerves hitting golf s right now you see a little bit of juggling with the ball yep ooh nice step back little step back crossover o oh oh they're going to call foul on that we're going to get tamasi there with the body inside and that'll put Santos on the line shooting two yeah it seems like his his elbow hit the guy in the face little bit of a hard kind of not a purposeful foul he wasn't trying to foul him or make the shin harder he got the clean block but the elbow make contact with him and got called
016at Huxley took an early break or not early actually this game's going by pretty fast I thought it was a lot earlier in the game than it is but Huxley got subed out for Jackson McDonald uh he's he loves bringing energy Off the Bench another one of their one of their key sophomores to this team well and you're going to see you know W with that two3 zone that g Town's employing here that soft spot for the shooter in the middle we've already seen Greco take advantage of that and now having a third guard on the floor kind of spreads that zone out even more yeah and as more you know as quick as Huxley is for his sides you know Jackson McDonald he's just quick in general there's Greco inside for were hard too
017I think right now gwn defense really struggling right now the worry is you don't want to get away from something you're comfortable with you don't want to have to be forced to go man to man if your Zone isn't working because your guys might not be as comfortable in manto man it might make it worse good point but right now what I'm seeing is G Town gown force a lot of shots and the god to slow it down the got to start passing it and trying to find the open guy oh they're going to going get travel there I want to see the replay there coach Holmes doesn't seem happy here we're going to see the replay here oh I don't know close oh man I think that was just [Music] clean hard to see
018in real time with the dance move on the pivot [Applause] there and they're going to call foul on J ma there another tall guy coming in here Nick he's 64 so you know go they're going to have to figure out a way to attack this height besides besides de Dean and we've already seen now this is the eighth player checking in overall for Coach so usually you see a shorter bench in a playoff game not this exitor team they are deep one through 10 1 through 11 yeah they're they're going with uh showing how deep their team is and we'll see we'll see how uh how big this rotation gets you know I can see you know aggee coming in Johnny Gillis coming in we'll see if it gets deeper than that uh Nick he
019he had a little he had some injuries earlier this year but he normally would come off the bench so we're not seeing that many guys that we haven't seen this season but we're definitely seeing a lot more rotations early and wonder if some of that's coach Hol trying to keep these guys fresh yep that's a good point especially against Zone where you're going to expend maybe a little bit more energy on offense yeah and we'll see we'll see how often Nate and greo come off the support they they can run out their all game these guys it just seems like they don't get tired there's Nate diving into the student section love seeing this from xer we see it every game you know they're they're fast on defense they're always willing to run and make
020up and put their bodies on the line nice job by re using his body to create some space inside there for [Applause] two now we have a little two-man Trap game going here but they do find the open man the point guard Santos down low for his first two yeah all it is is you know exer trying to make him push the pace and golf on you got to take a deep breath try and find that open guy but not too you know not too slow to where they're getting the jump Greco not afraid to shoot it from Deep just off the front of the rim gtown now the other way nice dribble penetration by Durham there they're finding a lot of success in just driving in the paint we'll see if they can continue
021that good pass there by JM Haw will reset out top to mcneff there he is left hand in the lane JM with the rebound he's going to put it back up for two Ty excuse me re all good sophomore they all you know they're all the same today Michael Burke going to be checking in spoken like a true senior Tim yeah they both play football ball they both you know they're basically the same person oh turnover this is interesting Michael Burke he's he's about check in we we haven't seen him much this year in these early games oh at the buzzers just short but after 8 minutes of frenetic action here we have exitor 26 gtown 15 and that is a pace that is going to favor the Hawks yeah and I'll tell you you
022know early game extra jumped out to a 70 lead I will say it felt closer than the 11-point deficit that GF is facing right now but I wonder if some of that's just the pace it's so fast you know it's not looking like seven buckets are hit in like 30 minutes it seemed like you know in 2 seconds each team's putting up four shots you know but we'll see if if gound can come back here like I said they they're hot or cold so let's see if they have a cold night tonight we do have a guest statistician in the booth tonight young uh young Cooper Provost here uh my middle my middle son my middle child he's going to keep track of stats so we don't Cooper's not authorized to speak on the mic
023but he does have some points here so we're going to look at MC nef already with 11 we got Greco with eight and who do we have the high scorer there we have six points fory which we we expected that we were calling his name a lot he's 65 he's going to give them their best bet at scoring on these tall guys out here for X right now he's not on the court so we'll see how successful they can be yeah that's his first break of the game so gtown here really with a smaller lineup see if the Hawks can take advantage of that o That's Hastings for three good shot right there get the open guy if xer is going to continue to double go sounds just got to find the guy that they're
024leaving open now we just saw Greco Whispers something to mcnf on the way down it looked like they kind of set something up yeah they these two they've been playing together so long both seniors close friends you know they definitely got their own place number first first we got pack student section obviously for the playoff game and you know exor 7- one at home [Applause] just got a score update from the nsha marac game of course the winner of this game will face the winner of nsha marac it is nsha 28 and marac 19 oh it's clo closer closer than I expected uh Nash one of those top teams you see it with the standings right now that those top six teams are they're good you got Trinity exitor you got Portsmouth Bedford Keane and
025then obviously Nash South so you know it's very topheavy in these playoff standings so we'll see which one of these guys can come out and make it to the dance [Applause] absolutely Greco driving there rightand Runner two more for [Applause] him you know go town last time these guys played the the parent of GF sound did a great job of giving go Sound Energy when they needed it when was going on that run in the second half you know they suffered a little bit of a banged up injury and uh yeah so you know G Town's parents start getting going and gound was able to get a little bit of run I think gound needs some energy right now oh look at the back cut from mcneff and we're going to get a foul before
026the shot went up there that's a good job of Greco not passing to where he is passing to where he's going to be and you can tell they both kind of just knew where Nate knew where the cut and Greco knew where he was going to be passed it in between two guys gtown steals the inbound and then somehow hits off an exitor player before going out of bounds so it will be gown's ball here with just over a minute and a half gone in the second quarter Santos out top to Hastings [Applause] oh Greco Hot [Applause] Hands tough shot I would have like to maybe see him pass it there slow it down but they're going to almost force a [Applause] turnover tibs is back on the bench I don't know how long he's
027been there but I'm just now seeing him that's good to see we will have an opportunity to talk with Coach Holmes uh right at the start of halftime maybe ask him a little bit oh looks like is coming right back in so yeah they stopped whatever bleeding it was we'll see The Return of Jack Tibido good rebound there by Huxley using his size strong inside again to Huxley still strong inside oh and I think the Hawks are going to oh that one hit the line oh that's I was about to say I think they're going to get another shot at it yeah that was a little bit of a tough offensive exchange there for exor had a lot of opportunities at The Rim couldn't get to fall but we'll see we'll see if they can
028change that up next time this you can't bet on xer missing a lot of shots you just can't so if I was if I was go sound I'd be glad we got away with one [Applause] there deep three MOV the ball really well there you have a deep three from Dion Dion with a great shot you can start to hear gown's parents you it TR to get loud try and give this team energy oh he's going to get a double going to get up and down time out Holmes we'll see the adjustments Holmes makes great job from G sound to stay in it stay in it after going down big 11 at the end of the first they're now only down seven and 451 to go I mean you called it less than a minute
029two minutes ago right this this gown parent section is pretty full over there they start chanting defense they start stomping around a little bit start making exer feel like they're on the road a little bit you know like I said at uh couple couple minutes ago exer 7- one at home they love playing in front of this crowd they love playing in this place and you know this student section is ruthless you know you will not get away with a lot they'll let you hear it so you know as golf on the best way to make exitor uncomfortable even though they got a great road record is just maybe make them feel like they're not at home when they are make them think start questioning why that student section so quiet they are awfully quiet
030right now Santos in the game this is Giovani Santos Giovani he's checked in for the first time last time these two played he ended up getting a little banged up with a knee injury but you know good to see him out there we'll see if that affects him this game there's the exitor student section coming into play a little bit there there you go you just they just needed something they just need something to get that energy going and and a travel there will not help gwn this student section is going to start picking it up here in those go toown parents see if it affects ex here [Applause] there's MC with the left hand with the crowd silencer gound quickly back the other way that's definitely a good way to get those parents to
031keep it down is hey Santos in the lane tough shot doesn't go down Nate with that layup right there I mean he he's not afraid of contact at all him and Greco especially they just they the whole exer team but them especially they will go out there and they'll they'll meet you right at the rim and they'll just just say I'm flat out better than you that's just an officials timeout real quick so a player could tie their shoe and we're right back at it EXO right now we're definitely seeing their defense come into play this season they've held eight opponents under 55 that's insane this entire a little mid-range fall away from Greco for two and the lead back up to 11 and just outside that 55 they held portzman to 57 their third
032lowest scoring of the season I mean they just this is a defensive team and this is really what's going to benefit them in the in the playoffs is you know their defense are going to be able to slow down these high-scoring teams and turn their defense into offense and there's a three by Liam O'Brien his first points of the game [Applause] MC nef with a baseline penetration there and it's going to go back the other way we're going to get a moving screen call interesting we're seeing a lot more turnovers from xra than we normally see uh a lot of them I feel like it's it's just ticky tacky mistakes and I think coach Holmes will definitely address that halftime and I think I think this is going to end up being a close game
033I mean you know it Tim being being an athlete here at EHS you get into the playoffs and things tighten up a little bit you know passing sometimes not quite as crisp all that matters is how are you going to adjust we saw a uh travel there by uh Jovani Santos he's trying to get a little too fancy with his pass and ended up getting a travel there but yeah xer you know xer is almost always in the playoffs in almost every sport you got the girls hockey team's currently in the playoffs boys hockey team basketball you know both basketball teams you know so a lot of these guys they just got to get used to it right you got Greco and Nate they're used to it but you got to get these sophomores more
034comfortable in it absolutely Greco switches to the left can't get it to go back out top nice pass there J Mack jmck I've said it before you know he passes like he's Magic Johnson he just makes amazing passes his ball movement and his vision for a sophomore is just outstanding good things to come for him multisport athlete as well you've mentioned that before here you have re for three and he got that got Tyler hyped I don't know if that one even touch the net Tyler re he got a spark in him after that one I could see the expression on his face that was a huge three the hit nice hands up defense on the other way you got to love that offense to defense confidence in Tower right now blocking foul too I
035talked like I normally do talk to Nate before the game I talked to him about this could be their last home game if marac loses to nashwa they will no they will be playing at nashille next week and so you know the importance of this game just in general to set the tone for the playoffs knowing that they might have to play on the road a lot nice Cut inside off the Baseline out of bounds there by Tibido it's all about being confident he said it's all about growing the confidence and feeling good when you're playing away from home and right there you saw with t on that three he had immense confidence after hitting that took the ball right up the court made a great pass to Jacks McDonald who forced the foul nice
036pass Inside by Santos and he was he was jogging back the other way he didn't even look to see if Delan finished that one he knew he created an easy shot for Delan absolutely travel I will say though Tim that that type of play making a pass like that and then just kind of running back the other way and not looking that's some of that chippiness some of that Cockiness that kind of led to some trouble last last matchup yeah and if you're golf on you don't want to do that again you don't want to poke this bear you're still down 11 you might want to stop strutting backwards and you know showing those feathers you might want to focus on getting back into this game that said I got to love it yeah I
037I would I love chippy games cuz it makes every single moment way bigger I'm going to start heading down to get ready for my halftime interview so I will see you guys at half time [Applause] perfect here we have the Hawks with the Baseline out of bounds finds Greco out top and that's GRE again for three and he is feeling it [Music] I thought gtown might hold for the last shot there but they look to try to force something up foul on the Blue 11 is his first team first here's Santos out top he's not shy he'll take the three here's jmck the other way with the left hand can't quite get it to go at the [Applause] buzzer so at the half we have the blue Hawks 42 the Grizzlies 28 and we're going
038to let the players Shuffle off here and then we'll throw it down to Tim on the sidelines with Coach Holmes Timmy you got coach I'm going to throw it to you right now what you got I'm here once again with exer head coach coach Holmes what do you think about that first half I thought we played overall really well uh we got to do a little better job contesting the three-point Shooters they got some good looks uh but overall you know you got to score 42 points in the first half is a good offensive out you know performance by us we just got to get a little bit better on defense yeah and so for the second half to close us out get another game what are your keys to a successful second half we
039just got to lock in defensively okay we found we can you know get offensively get some good looks as defensively we got to make sure we don't let them get hot awesome thank you for your time coach thank you coach thank you Tim and we're going to step aside here I believe we're going to get a live look in at halftime at the nashille Marram game um we're going to switch over to that for halftime give our viewers something to watch and here we are with a live look in oh this is Windam and Bishop girton that's a Friday Night Lights game we'll see if we can we'll switch back and forth between that and and the marac nsha game so we'll step aside on the audio because this is a game where I thought
040South should have run away they're up 3826 they should have run away and hid they didn't do it right so that's the door that's still jar for the tomahawks it's closing ever so slightly right now but it's still a jar like you said still a jar you know can they can they sneak through that opening here right with a nine-point deficit and I had thought earlier today I said Noah Morrison could be an exactor in this game he has right now 14 points from aramac that's just did yeah just came off an eight-point quarter yep so he's the their leading scorer Ryan Elliott with eight for the tomahawks who open the fourth quarter with possession we're at the division one preliminaries here at the Banger gym Morrison knocks down go with the hot hand seven-point
041game [Applause] yep and a quick timeout by Nate masero yeah he doesn't want to see you know he knows that just got a couple inches wider right yep so that's a veteran timeout right there from mazero and our score 4235 here he hasn't used many in this in this quarter in this in this game he hasn't used many right so what do we got over at BG what was the score yeah I didn't even see I didn't even see either very curious about that one that's an even game 89 wind great match wind beat South here so they beat South here you know they could give BG some problems other games tonight alurn and Manchester Memorial is a really good one over in Hudson you got a high octane offense with Memorial and a crazy
042good defense with Alvin yep two very contrasting Styles there two players that alurn relies on is Garrett Hall the big kid the bigger kid he's not there big tall kid but he's he's up there and Sammy dit the point guard if those two are are on cylinder it's tough to beat them 13 win alurn team this year and team which March knocked off on the road yeah I covered that game that's one that's what Mitchell Roy the alv coach said stay away I saw South beat him [Music] too the Tom King curse yes I was 0 and seven to start the season good oh nice move beautiful move by Vander horse able to keep the body control and not travel that's tough to do on a play like that he's doing it again against Mar
043tonight there's Morrison look at him oh Morrison with to miss he's had two bunnies he could have 20 by now he I think he should have 20 I mean he's had he missed that that he's had that many close [Music] [Applause] misses here's caravin over to trip for the [Applause] Panthers that right that side wide open no one decided to take it Panthers seem to be be uh taking their time here oh he wants to that's what happens got away with one there give the big man the ball to dribble a lot you don't want that Morris oh Morrison with the heat check shot right there but guso is going to up nice defense by the tomahawks fla fla got right over there no good and the rebound by Nate Johnson Nash was by nine
044here in the fourth quarter we got about 545 to go winner faces the winner of exor and GF sound on Saturday nights it will be here if South hangs on it'll be here and my guess is it'll be in the afternoon Elliot with the ball fake Morrison thought about three he goes in kicks it to the corner toin yeah got away with you know usually they call it travel on a fake like that you don't want Elliot even though he's got a three in the game you really don't want him taking that ball I think their best offense is to get Elliot down low and get Morrison out on top right 100% do that two-man game Elliot's old theide against picker earlier wide open he says where's the ball wide open underneath South is so
045good at this sort of delay offense here we talked about their last playoff match of two years ago and I feel like they they milked about 2 and 1/2 minutes off the clock and and they they got the lead and didn't give it back LED that entire game Zack castane that's right point guard he and Caruso he and Caruso a year ago in a game against I'm not sure who it was against they took they took a minute and a half off the clock 2 minutes 2 and 1/2 minutes off the clock by just dribbling just dribbling Vander horse for three no good like to welcome our uh fans joining us from exitor and Blu Hawk media that game is at Hal time oh and a bump by lir and a foul so we got
046Blu Hawk media we got we got EXO watching us we got marac watching us yep we got Nashville watching us P let's just go National come on this is great you know they can watch us worldwide that's true on the stream right that's right it's uh it nhcm TV here's uh Johnson oh still great play by trip yep bander horse wanted to go fast break but then he thought better of it now he's just going to take it himself off the glass and it's going to stay here tell you what though sou if I'm not mistaken they only have like three threes in the game it has not been the three-pointer they've been Liv you are correct Caruso's got one uh Lam's got one and I'm not sure Tri Vander horse Vander horse has got
047one okay that's it that's it yeah right so he's not been bumped away like all right as we prepare to rejoin here at the big gym at EHS just want to give a schedule update for some of the Hawks playoff action coming up Thursday night our girls are in their quarterfinal matchup um girls basketball against number one seed Bedford that's at Bedford at 7:00 Friday at 6:00 girls hockey uh are the number eight seed takes on the number one seed Oyster River Portsmouth that game is up at UNH and then Saturday we have a quarterfinal match up our boys hockey team the number six seed heads out to Keen to play the number three seated Kean blackbirds also should shout out exor UniFi basketball team they came in second this season lost in the championship
048game a tight 22-21 matchup against Keane on Valentine's Day lastly before we rejoin tonight's exor playoff basketball game is brought to you by exer Jr basball and softball league proud supporters of the blue Hawks extra Junior Baseball softball's goal is to foster a love for the game while helping kids understand the value of teamwork sportsmanship resilience grit accountability and personal gr growth the uh EJ BSL has their evals coming up this Saturday we have opening day in a month I know there's still a foot of snow on the ground but it'll be baseball season soon enough I see the smile creeping across Cooper's face as he hears that oh yeah cop I know I know you're heading homers C Cooper you uh kept track of the stats did you give those updates to Tim do
049we have uh who are our scoring leaders here as start the second half so for exor we got Greco at 14 but he's not the only one double digit now it's Nate who just scored a bucket putting him from 13 to 15 points but yeah you know they got Greco Nate per usual and then Tyler re big first half oh my tibs went down tibs oh he that that sucks he's up that's great might just need a minute to kind of shake off that looked like a tough fall yeah it almost looked like he got the wind knocked out of him fell onto his side there I was looking at the knee or ankle if anything got twisted up but it really was just like the impact of his body on the court I think
050yeah he's a big guy you know the the bigger they are the harder they fall and that was a that was a hard fall but you know he's he's been going through it this game he had the what seems to be a cut on his eye or a scratch on his eye that had him bleeding earlier had him go see Heidi get that cleaned up and then a tough fall there hopefully it doesn't impact him too much and we saw with his absence in the of dely really kind of went off Y and then of course uh they had to kind of go away from him as exitor kind of increased the pressure on the inside which led to some outside looks as coach holes mentioned before halftime yeah delahanty he had six in the
051first quarter and then xer kind of shut him down they only allowed two more points in the they only allowed them to score two points in the second quarter but that opened up the other guys there's Dion for two but yeah they're definitely spreading out the points a lot more EX finding a lot of success with their big three right now MC nef's three Off the Mark and it'll be gound now the other way haven't seen a ghee yet tonight wonder if that's just a matchup thing they they might not like his match up this game might be looking for a specific guy to put him in for but haven't seen much of him tonight uh kind of a rare sight to see normally he's in there a lot grabbing those rebounds it's a big
052rebound there especially for his size he's always jumping up grabbing them we'll see if we see him later on he may be a little under the weather cuz he hasn't take the there's Greco for three great three by he hasn't taken the shooting shirt off yet at all so he may be nursing something that we don't know about or of course there's we we've had the flu going around so he could be having uh a health issue and that yeah it's just it's just that season in New Hampshire you know you under the weather it's tough especially in a game like basketball where you need your cardio at its peak you know it's tough to play when you're not feeling great he does see a little low energy than he normally you see him on
053the bench he's up there with tamasi with the energy you know both those guys bring a lot of energy on the bench and so I definitely think it could be a little bit of an illness could be something that's just kind of wearing him down maybe and it could just be something small Coach Holmes just figured hey maybe we don't risk putting him in unless we need to right now being up 15 no need to risk him getting hurt or anything cuz he's not 100% you know we talked a little bit at halftime um just between the two of us of that sort of mentality if you can't take your foot off the gas but there is a balancing act as that lead if that lead continues to grow thinking about what does your next
054matchup look like how do you keep your guys fresh and ready for that as well yeah you know I was actually helping um helping a kid in your sports journalism class and I was looking at his Underdog which was the 2018 Eagles and you know Carson Wentz was having a great year that year even though they went on to win the Super Bowl in what seemed to be kind of a meaningless game against the ramsy towards ACL that's right and you know if you're up 15 obviously the game's not over but there's no need to put them in now maybe if you're end up being up three or it's a tie game and you need your best guys out there yeah go out there and put him there old points you don't want to put
055any extra wear on him good point and here you have Nate slowing things down a little bit and you can hear go Town's parents again trying to give these kids energy you know trying to be like hey you guys are The Underdogs you guys love the spin move inside from Greco I mean Greco is just he's had he's had a great game uh he's got 20 he's got 20 Connor o or Cooper not Connor I'm so sorry Cooper over here got him at 20 that's that's amazing still with five and a half gold in the third shout out Coupe doing a great job keeping these stats [Music] and during the timeout here we'll get a look in at that marac South game 4840 South only up by 8 with 218 to go and uh I
056don't it it may it may be too early to call it but I'm putting South on upset alert here yeah marac makes a couple quick buckets and and that could be interesting over there and it's not even it's not even just that it's kind of showing that you know South is stoppable and if you're looking if you're looking right now at these two teams South is really hoping go town pulls off a miracle here and can cut this deficit because exer a team we've talked about a lot this season does a great job at turning defense to offense and you can't be putting up 50 against them right now it's the third quarter 5 minutes to go they already have 50 yeah good point and a lot of that comes from their defense their defense
057has been creating fast points for this team they absolutely love to turn defense into offense Nate able to grab that re put it up a third time oh they're going caught on the ground man but that that right there he's able to grab a rebound over four guys you know what I think he consulted with his with his partner and they called it on the shot wow that's awesome that was a tough exchange to get that an Juan Nate he he just does a great job at capitalizing on these and ones and like he he takes the contact doesn't matter if the foul gets called or not that bucket's going in and you know it's he gets he gets I don't even know how many and one I wish they kept that as a stat
058and ones per game he's got to have like five I can't think of a player we've watched all year that puts his body on the floor puts his body on the line more more than Nate yeah man he's out there taking charges every single basket I swear he hits the floor with a loud B bang gets up runs right back on defense you see gown's getting a little ansy here down 21 got to start figuring it out there's a nice move inside there you go by Tyler Dion Delany again he gets doubled quickly able to pass it to the open [Applause] guy there's Nate to the Lane again we have go sound quickly the other way oh oh CCO with the big and let's see if we can turn that into two now TI oh
059oh tipped once twice three times just tough break but Greco had me and Coupe over here in shock that's why we couldn't give Cooper a microphone yeah me and C are you kidding me it looked like Greco knew that block was coming he settled for and waited and that guy still tested them yeah he's going to find Nate open in the corner that's going down MCN for three from the corner right in front of the Hawks bench that's that senior matchup that senior Duo man can't ask for any better seniors to be on your team there's a deep three Again by Dion who's single-handedly keeping gtown you know I was GNA say close not close but at least in the game yeah you know at least giving them energy so that you hear the parents
060right now just trying to give these kids energy don't look at the scoreboard coach ball used to always say to us on the football team put your head down and play don't look up play that's the best advice you can give to any team whether you're winning or losing if you're winning don't take that foot off the gas if you're losing don't act like you're down 30 don't act like you're not in the game you're always in the game and there you see a nice Cut just not able to finish so there's no quit in this Grizzlies team that's for sure you should always act like the game is winnable until the fat lady sings until the clock hits zero you got to you got to act like the game's win B and you can
061hear that ah that g sound traveling crowd they're they're stomping they're cheering they're trying to get their team back in it tibs taking a break I believe that's his first break since he took that hard fall you know looks like he might be a little bit banged up out there he seems you know like he's got took a deep breath while he got on the bench so you know if I if I was coach holes treat him like a ghee right now maybe put him in if you really need him but you you got two guys who are in their own right tall and like you know they they're big guys they got the same build as you know Nate tomasi is basically just tibs 2.0 just 2 in shorter so yep and here we
062have a three from O'Brien and don't look now but that's eight straight points from the Grizzlies yeah and you can hear the parents great look down down to tasi I'm counting that as a dunk are we calling that a dunk his fingers hit the rim all right and that's exactly how you quiet down that crowd you heard they were up they were hyped they were getting these Grizzlies the energy that they need to score those eight points in a row tamasi with a half dunk we'll call it he quieted them real quick it is crickets over there now and we're going to have a golf sound timeout blaw time out and let's take a peek in at South in marac we're under a minute to go at a seven-point lead here for south of course
063playing at home I believe number zero is Caruso if I'm correct he's he's a dog he's absolute stud he can cause some problems for exitor but you know like I said I I'll take this defense over anybody I said it earlier when we were talking about with Greco back against two for marac I talked about with Greco back uh when we were talking about Bedford if I'm any team right now I know South played them maybe a week ago and beat them but I don't know if I want to play them again it's it this extra team is dangerous I would agree and here we have a baseline out of bounds for Grizzlies and they're going to throw it off a Hawk Down Low and try it again no quickly this game went from 20
064point lead to you know 165 so we'll see if oh could have been a tough steal from Nate there and a really heartbreaking turnover for G I think I think that one surprised even even Nate that was on him before he even knew what to do with it kind of hit him in the hands and surprised him he kind of threw it right at Nate he didn't even necessarily throw it to Giovani so I wonder if there's a miscommunication about where he's going to go but tough steal there by Greco Greco pokes it away good pass by mdon out ahead and that's going to stay Hawks ball yeah that's the biggest thing if you're at golf sound right now you can't have turnovers I would ra if I'm go sounds coach I would rather us
065miss a shot than give exer any more uh energy on these Steals and these quick quick easy buckets on the rebound at least you have a chance to get your defense back and set and play defense but if you if you give up a steal fast break they're most likely over there you know with a person Advantage whether it's 2 one one Z three on one three on two you just want to make it difficult at least that's a good point Corner three there you go find the open guy ah just can't hit it good good though as we said no quitting these Grizzlies there's Santos driving with left hand can't get it to go but go time with the rebound again puts it up and there's oh good hustle play and they're going to
066find that's blocked by a bluehawk all over the floor tamasi over here doing a great job at shutting down this student SE or this parent section right when they get hyped that was a great block there a couple body set the ground good thing everything everyone's okay Greco just stepped out of bound there on that [Music] [Applause] rebound but right now even though just rebound exchanges t i oh man I didn't like that I think he got a little too fancy with it he had an open guy in the corner could have made a way easier good steal though good way make up for it I don't know if you want to go oh man I like the confidence though going right to the hole draws the foul and going to go to the stop
067the clock give this team a chance to regroup a little bit bring the energy back down yeah good job there you know you force the force the turn or Force the turnover with a great steal hot hands right there and you know especially with that foul you stop the clock maybe get your team one more possession during this quarter try and cut this lead within 15 [Applause] 13 having the having the Santos Brothers out there you know hopefully that brings some energy for gwn they certainly play with a whole lot of energy yeah Giovani Santos goes one for two from the line and it's a 15-point lead here for the Hawks in the closing seconds of the third quarter very interesting way of getting off these screens you see it I see it a lot
068with Isaiah Santos number zero he when he gets off these screens he does like a little spin Back Spin where I wonder if that's a coaching point or cuz I see it every single time even when it's a little bit of contact he's always spinning off of these and not like the normal like let me try and get by you like he's like tripping up yeah he's looking to he's looking to sell a foul it looks like yeah and that's not going to help you you know you might be able to get foul every now and then but you got to just focus on getting to the open guy uh that one is not going to count just after the buzzer was a good shot I like shot3 exer I will say what I like
069to see from ex is they do not seem happy right now that's a good point they just they they they know right now that this game's a even though it's a 15-point game they think it's a lot closer than that should be there's a couple mistakes that we you know I talked to Coach Holmes before half you you know they've scored 16 points in that quarter uh he said obviously he he essentially said obviously there's no perfect halves but quote putting up 42 in the first in one half ain't too bad right so you know obviously he he felt there could be some improvements but you know they still had a great first half but you know he told me that for the second half they got lock in defensively and we're we're seeing we're
070seeing the Grizzlies definitely put up some fight here we've talked about this before just as we get this live look in here at at South in marac and that looks like South is going to pull it out here we're shooting foul shots um just trying to kind of do what they can here marac what they can to control these final seconds but we've talked about it before here um a coach's dream is a game you win but you still have something that you can coach them up on so being able to say you know we didn't close them out we let them back in the game in a lot of ways that's a coach's dream and and a lot of that you know coach Holmes like you said it's you know you couldn't pull him
071away but it's also just you know we couldn't get to a comfortable enough place we couldn't get to a place where maybe we could you know take a breath right there's a lot of times where like right now it's a 12-point game you can't take that deep breath right now you got to match this intensity you hear the parents and these Santos Brothers they are going good steal right there and the no look brotherto brother pass again Giovani I I tend to oh that's tough and that's Durham they're feeling it now it's single digit lead exor got to slow it down we talked about earlier they do a great job of slowing it down when need to Greco going to call it TR Trav man they got to bring it down here got to bring
072it down got to give this crowd The Reason To Get Hype we're going to go back with the big lineup here the one thing I don't really like what I'm seeing from go toown is girani man you we've seen a lot in this game whether it was that pass where he was turning around jogging before the bucket was made you see him try and get a little too fancy I'd like to see him bring it down a little bit let's let's play you know let's play cautiously you saw the pass where he almost had the back court y you know sometimes it works but you don't want to risk it sometimes the safer less fancier option is the best best chance that shot was halfway down that would have really silenced the crowd Isaiah was
073able Isaiah was uh sticking his tongue out to Nate while he's bringing up the court they're trying to play these mind games right now tough layup this is crazy we got a seven-point game now Nate slowing it down bringing up court and you can see the body language from the Grizzlies y you can see exactly what caused that chippiness a few weeks ago silencer silencer right there got to quiet them down for a little bit you can hear the student section of exra trying and get into it tough layup there from Isaiah Noah finds the open guy can he hit it ah no turn over there that's out of bounds off gtown Isaiah's got to take a deep breath he was yelling at he's yelling at O'Brian's got to take a deep breath here you
074can't turn against each other in moments like this you're still in the game one mistake hey turn around next play I know basketball doesn't really have plays like football but that's how your mindsets got to be NE next second next play next you know defense possession and there oh and you got Tyler again his fourth three of the game he's hype he was he was saying some words I don't know if it was to himself or his teammates but today one oh man he he he kept himself did great job kept himself from ganging Greco's face there almost you know not risking a tech there good and one coach farmer over there telling him to bring it down a little bit you see on the replay he ran right over over the Greco and then
075quickly played it off you know I'm just hyped I'm not running towards A1 that was a tough and one and you can see you can see coach farmer talking to a couple of his seniors over there you know probably probably saying exactly the same thing you're saying we are we are in a 10-point game a free throw here cuts it to single digits you cannot let the emotions take control Nate I'm looking at Nate and Isaiah looks like they're exchanging words here uh you know this game this game like last time gang chippy last time it was a lot less close so we'll see if gown's kind of mentality of we're going to get in your head can work you're absolutely right and we saw after the after the made free throw there we saw
076Hastings bump Huxley a little bit you know making it look incidental but you know one two three of too many of those and and that really can shift the tide and nice ball Movement by great ball movement gound cutting the lead again to seven Isaiah again talking to Tyler re Tyler re he's one of those guys he just like oh tough pass was that Nate that was a great look Nate just halfcourt pass that absolute bullets silencer right there that again we say silencer doesn't have to be the game Ender but you know you quiet that crowd for a little bit suck a little bit of this air out of this gos town team I'll tell you right now the Grizzlies are poking the bear ironically the bear is poking the bear there you go
077but you know you got to know you got to know a balance you can't poke exitor enough to where now they're shooting lights out and they're coming through with the energy that they came through in your first meeting where Greco was running over the court getting blocks steals Ty hitting threes Greco hitting threes you know you got to you know got to got to have a balance and and I think to your point that's the reason for Coach Holmes's timeout right here I think he's noticing the same thing you're noticing the Hawks there's a lot of ways they can win but the way that they lose this game is if the emotions get away from them if they fall into that game that go sound's trying to get them to play here um we see
078it from go sound some teams can play with that Swagger uh that is not the Hawks ammo they put their head down they they play hard they find the open man they jog back the other way and so I think that's probably what coach Holmes is talking about in the Huddle here yeah could be a could be an unfortunate hit here for G I'm looking at their bench Noah Durham holding ice to his knee that's definitely that's definitely interesting guy keep an eye on that see if he can come back back in these last 5 minutes he's a great three-point shooter he's already hit a couple here tonight he's tough in the lane that would be that would be a setback for the Grizzlies yeah just getting an update South did win that game so
079they will host the winner of exer gtown on Saturday the time of that game TBD I wish I could see a little bit into that ex huddle I wonder if coach Holmes was you know trying to ignite those Flames even more for exitor or if he was trying to calm him down sometimes you know your team coach Holmes honestly one of the best coaches in the league you know you see every game they're so prepared for whoever they're playing but you know your guys the best we can't see inside their huddle but you know he knows if he needs to Cal him down or reignite that Flames he could have been saying stuff like hey they think they're better than you show them why they're not or hey we got to bring it down here
080we're playing way too quick we need to slow it down yeah and on that loose ball we saw a couple sharp words the referee for Santos after that so I think the referees are picking up on exactly what you're talking about as well with the Santos Brothers I'll tell you right now Greco you know he made that layup there and his his biggest thing is he just turned played ball turned right back up the court gave him the ball no talking nothing oh ah H oh good job reg grabbing it that's that's nice hands he was not expecting that pass was able to regroup oh good job Huxley poking free for Nate to grab gets a foul that is huge from Huxley poking way and tibs putting his body on the floor he is not
081afraid to take a hit after that huge ball you know coach Holmes brought him out game's getting closer it's a nine-point game he know or 11-point game sorry he knows he needs his guy tibs in there he laid out there was able to get the ball to Nate great job there great hustle play oh nice behind the back dribble by re that's huge good pass there by ream oh there you go banging Tibido down low too small muscles that one up I'm telling you right now tibs he 67 you got to get you got to get your 65 guy out there give them give your guys a chance to guard them hand in hand in the face from Greco there you just can't have a 6 in height Advantage minimum you know some of these
082guys out here aren't 61 but you know the tallest guy besides uh delahanty is 61 62 maybe that's a huge height Advantage for exor in the paint and Huxley oh he can't make it good job gang his own Miss but could not hit it you got to love the effort on the offensive boards he uh the golf Sound Player there rolled over the ball and was out his body was out of bounds even though the wasn't and so that'll be exitor ball going the other way right now you're seeing gown kind of feel that pressure a little bit there's three minutes left in this game Isaiah I get you're trying to get something going here but don't you know don't put up a three like that maybe wait and settle before you rush a three
083and you see Nate finding Tibido again that time Tibido using the glass wisely down or full court pass [Applause] sorry Nate truly does a great job of just finding the open guy no matter where he is on the court it doesn't even matter where the other guy is all that matters is is the guy open they can throw it pass it from anywhere good job by re gang past the Trap his court vision is incredible good pass there by Greco nice job by tibs down [Applause] low tibs has 10 now you know he entered the half with two this is this is a great second half here from head and he didn't play a lot in that second uh in that third quarter oh Greco another block by Greco tibs on the floor again with
084a double digit lead andco gets that one going the other way and he's on the floor we'll see if he can silence the crowd nope Durham that would have been a huge three yeah coming back from the knee injury trying to get some energy couldn't Qui down the crowd after a block party from Greco and one woo and you're seeing the frustration there and we you have giovan Santos grabbing the jersey of Greco as he goes by outside of the view of the referee but the Hawks certainly saw it and the bench saw it and then you have Nate with the n one Nate even giving a little bit of a look there to durh what I love about this extra team is they're not going to necessarily give you extra Motivation by saying words
085to you they're just going to do slight things that you might see when you're looking at the game from a commentator's perspective that no this you know Nate hit that n one looked right at Durham as to let him know hey I'm here and he gave a little bit and Vince Carter it's over you'll see if once you rewatch The broadcast that you know that right there he knew that was huge tyin the corner his fifth three of The Game and his energy is up Santos now talking to the ref man he he seemed to aggravate with the ref I don't know for what that was pretty clean defensive possession I don't like that from G Jovani great three by the way great shot open but you know he's over there doing a three talking
086while he's doing it you're down 20 with a minute 30 and and I think coach Raymond farmer agrees with you as soon as he saw that he called the timeout and I think that's exactly what he's talking about with his team I'm looking at him right now it looks like he's trying to talk to Santos yep he brings him over he was getting water and he brought him over and he was kind of pulling up his shirt didn't seem like he was wiping his face with that I mean I don't know kind of what's going on with Santos I think he needs to take a deep breath slow it down you're a great player you're doing great you're doing a great job of keeping your guys in but you know coach Holmes sees it he
087took out Greco he took out tibs he took out Nate he sees the writing on the wall a minute 30 up 20 you can start giving these guys a break like we said earlier Nate and Nick do not take a lot of breaks and you know Santos is out both teams waving the White Flag or not both teams sorry golf sound waving the white flag and Coach Holmes showing some sportsmanship not keeping his starters out there this game is over and you know you it started with that with that Nate mcnf and one and then a Tyler Corner three to put it away absolutely and and and gtown you got to give them credit they fought they they brought the lead down to single digits they uh just they just didn't get the shots to
088fall here in the final sec in the final minutes I'll tell you right now late game a little too focused on talking and not getting back in the game and you know coming from a coach ball football football team you know I I just notice those things coach B's not a big guy on talking like I said put your head down and play don't look up uh but man they they could have been in it they could have been tight but they let the game slip away focusing on their uh emotions and focusing on getting inside exor's head and you know exor even though they let it get a little close ended up pulling the away waight in the game and Michael Burke for three bang bery nominated as a c Co athlete of the
089week last week for his big uh night his big three-point showing the other night Steven Bartell out there the third and final senior air ball tough air ball but you know Steven [Applause] senior out there their last home game they did a great job in a great showing winning by 19 and that wraps up today's broadcast with the blue Hawks winning 8263 over the Gown Grizzlies for the blue hawk media I'm Dan provos I'm here with Timmy like always and uh the Hawks will be back at it on Saturday where they will head two nashille South that game time is to be determined and before we step away here we just want to give a huge shout out and a huge thanks to Mr Eric chellis he is the man behind the camera he is
090the man behind all of what we what Tim and I get to do here he's our director our producer our cameraman he sets up all the cables all the tables and we couldn't do anything anything that we do here without Mr CH so thank you so much thank you Mr chalice for this opportunity and uh we were delighted to be able to provide some play-by-play this season and uh we'll see everybody Saturday in nashwa quick little shout out to Coupe for keeping the stats thank you Coupe awesome joining see you guys take care e