Jay Sparks
Jay Sparks
conference days game people played players playing positive ready typical
This was a typical game for us after 19 days off. We experimented by playing a lot of people and all 11 players who played got in at least 10 minutes. That is a positive for us as we get ready for conference play.
based good half maybe outside played possession run second
The whole first half they wanted me to tell them what to do based on our set plays. Outside of maybe one possession in the second half, we didn't run a set play. We just played basketball, and I thought that was good for us.
athletic attention basketball change committed department liked loyal obvious program sports staff
As an athletic department staff member, he is so loyal and so committed -- not just to men's or women's basketball, but to the whole program. He's not been able to give to the whole athletic program like he would have liked to and so I think the most obvious change you'll see is his attention to some of the sports that he has not been able to really commit to.
add bottom girls high left lesson line open proving shoot tough
When you add it all up, we just didn't shoot a high percentage. That's the bottom line of this game. This is a tough lesson for us to learn, but our girls are being left open for a reason. They're not proving they can make shots.
basketball coming deserved game good knew needed points team win
They are a very good basketball team and we knew that coming in. They deserved to win this game because they did everything they needed to do to win. We didn't do that... . They were at least 23 points better than us tonight, if not more.
apply capable few game good hopefully learned people playing rest step successful tonight toward
There were a few good performances out there, but, truthfully, there weren't enough of them. We will hopefully take what we learned in this game tonight and apply it toward getting better on Friday. We have to have some people step up and play the way they are capable of playing if we are going to be successful the rest of the year.
add concentration equals focus lack total
It was a total lack of focus, concentration and intensity. You add all that up and it equals 27 turnovers and a loss.
obviously player reason
That's obviously a significant reason why she's player of the year. She does those kind of things for her team. Give her a whole lot of credit.
aggressive good job throw trying
We were trying to take it right to them, but we didn't do a very good job of that. We could throw it in there, but we didn't do a very good job of being aggressive once we got there.
answer broke games half minus second seven shot win
We broke down all our games and, minus two of them, we had a shot to win seven of them. This would be eight. I thought we had a shot to win, but in the second half we'd get one-shot-and-out and we couldn't answer them.
burden coaches confidence might playing puts throw
I just don't think our girls, offensively, are playing with a whole lot of confidence, so it puts a burden on all of them and us as coaches to know who to throw it to that might make a shot.
gonna lose round seed
Clayton State's the No. 1 seed in the region. They could lose in the first round and know that they're gonna keep playing. We can't do that.
against enemy ourselves playing rust weeks worst
We will have had 2 1/2 weeks off, so we're playing more against ourselves than the other team. We're going to be our own worst enemy because of the rust that we'll have.
bounce nice side wrong
We've been on the wrong side of those a lot this year. It's nice to see we got one to bounce our way one time.