Jerry Eaves
Jerry Eaves
Jerry Lee Eavesis an American college basketball coach and head coach and athletic director at Simmons College of Kentucky in Louisville. He is the former head men's basketball coach at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University...
believer closer competition easier fair level playing talent true
Playing better competition never hurts. I think you need to be fair with your program. ... I'm a true believer in playing real competition ... and it makes it easier for them to play with the talent level is closer to their ability.
bad last lost player three top year
Basically, we started the year without our top player from last year, and then we lost two of our top three scorers already this year. If we've had any kind of luck, it's been bad luck.
four played schedule three university wins
My alma mater, the University of Louisville, would not play the schedule we have. If we played their schedule in our gym, we'd have three or four wins by now.
ball gone
When it was 23-13, they hadn't really gone anywhere, it was our problem, not theirs. We just couldn't get the ball in the basket.
coming good losses offensive production team together trying
We're just trying to get it together, little by little. It was good for us to come out on the road, we've had a lot of losses in our offensive production but we're coming together as a team more defensively.
fashion timely
There are things they have to do that they did not do in a timely fashion.
affected pressure run size
I think that our size affected them. When they wanted to run their offense, we put a lot of pressure on the ball.
best bit came free game goes guts guys hitting jason mix played team throws wake
My team played their guts out. It all goes back to hitting shots. We got some big free throws from Jason Wills. Leslie Powell played the best game of his career. ... The guys just came up big tonight. We had to mix things up a little bit just to wake some guys and it worked. Everyone contributed.
against defense field goal limits minutes people problem score scoring
Going 8, 9, 10 minutes without scoring a field goal is not our problem. The problem is Howard was able to score against us. Usually our defense limits people from scoring.
discipline hard vocal works
He has become a vocal leader, he works hard and he handles discipline.
last played sync tried
He hadn't played in the last two games, and he tried to play today. He was just out of sync and we can't have that.
glad needs school
What a legacy. It's something that needs to be done. I'm so glad the school is doing it.
beat good percent
We're just not good enough to play at 75 percent and beat people.
execute mental outlook
We just didn't have the mental outlook to execute at the end.