Gordie Kerkman
Gordie Kerkman
cannot certain few game team
We cannot look back on that game other than to say we know a few things about certain players. We're a different team from then, too. I think we're a little better than we were.
game hurrying offense plan pleased sort
I sort of thought that we got out of our game plan today. You could even see it in the first half. I wasn't very pleased with the way we were playing. I thought we were hurrying our offense a little bit. That's not necessarily our style.
compliment finish games half hang kids season second
That's one of the things in the second half of the season that I would really compliment our kids on is they finish games really well. Tonight, we didn't. We had to hang on.
bunch fun game guys nice primary reason standpoint team time took whether
I think the characteristics that these guys have are the primary reason why we were 29-2. They're a fun team to coach. A bunch of nice young men. From a standpoint of whether we could get to Peoria or not, we just kind of took that one game at a time this year.
game playing smooth
I think we're playing pretty well. I will always say that we could play better, but I don't think we're playing poorly. I would like to see us smooth out our game a little more.
battle game hold impact kenny points prolific ways
He could impact a game in so many ways that he didn't always need to score. We don't often have a prolific scorer in our system. I was even able to hold Kenny Battle down to 18 points a game.
free hit last learned played shoot since stop three time
They learned to shoot the three better since the last time we played them. I didn't know if we could stop their threes, but we hit our free throws.
capable emotions particular situation
We just had to play basketball. That's one of the things we addressed, don't let the emotions of this particular situation get you down. We had to come back and play the way we're capable of playing.
bad causing easy free hit playing shape shoot soon steals throws
We were playing like we were down big, and we really weren't. I thought we were going for steals too quick. It was causing us to foul. It was causing us to give up easy baskets. Pretty soon we had to shoot threes and we had to foul. They hit free throws and we didn't hit threes. You're in bad shape then.
east guarantee last month next playing struggling tough
East Aurora is struggling right now but if we have to play them next Friday, I'll guarantee you they'll be playing a lot better than they have the last month or so. It's going to be tough for us.
couple four gave good guys looks maybe
We gave (Rocha) and maybe a couple of other guys some pretty good looks in the first half, and something we really want to tighten up is our intensity, to play all four quarters.
battle blow conference guys people point state thinking tournament whether wrapped
Once we got the conference to a point where we wrapped it up, that's when we started thinking about the state tournament series. Whether these guys could make it or not? We're not an overpowering team, but we will battle you. I thought we could play with anybody, but we didn't really blow too many people out.
good quite sights teams top
Teams have had us in their sights for quite a while. We're used to that. And I think it's good for us to know we always have to be on top of our game.
match men problem
It's going to be a problem for us because we don't have any big men to match up with him.