The Lake Oswego Review newspaper has an article titled."Behind the scenes with Kevin Love: An inside look at his final day, and game, as a Laker" by Kerry Eggers. Some interesting quotes from that article:
Shoff (Lake Oswego Coach) has gathered his players for the pregame talk. This one is more emotional than the one before the Sheldon game.
"It was a year ago we were sitting in this room, celebrating a state championship," the coach begins. "I want you guys who were with us last year to remember the feeling we had celebrating. That's the kind of memory you want to have. ... You know what it takes to be in a game like this. There will be 9,000 and something people out there, and 8,000 and something will be rooting for South Medford. ... but once the ball is thrown up, we just play. It's a game of basketball.
He quotes Lake Oswego, star Keven Love who is UCLA bound as saying:
"...We felt that it was really our 12 guys out there vs. everybody tonight. Their fans were against us, and some of our fans as well."
What does he mean by that?
"I'm not going to go into it," Love says. "I have a lot of school spirit. I love Lake Oswego. We felt like we were the underdogs, playing against everybody else. Like Coach Shoff says, we were in a foxhole together. That's how it's been the last four years. Nobody likes to see Lake Oswego succeed.
To read the entire article click on the title above for a link.
