Tigers were more than 7-15 record

The record will forever say the Massillon Tigers were 7-15 in the 2007-08 high school basketball season. Massillon coach Matt Creamer doesn�t deny that�s what the record says, but it�s not a true measure of what the Tigers really were by the end of the season.

�I think everybody looks at your record,� Creamer said Wednesday, almost two weeks since the Tigers ended their campaign with a loss to undefeated Timken in the sectional finals. �We didn�t feel at the end we were a 7-15 team; I thought we were playing more like a 15-7-type team. That says something about the kids. They kept improving and kept staying coachable.

�That was probably one of the more enjoyable parts of the whole year. We saw improvement almost daily and throughout different stages of practice in the weeks we ended up with, we just kept improving.


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