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...
ball drought free game hanging hit missing next point road score shot start throws
Normally, on the road we don't hit shots. We get to a point in the game where we hit a drought and don't score for a while, and then we start missing free throws and the next thing you know we're hanging our heads. Tonight, we shot the ball with confidence. That was the difference.
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.
ball effort excellent job shoot
They are an excellent team. They play a lot of zone. We are going to have to shoot the ball better, but I think our effort will be better and I think we will be able to get the job done.
execute mental outlook
We just didn't have the mental outlook to execute at the end.
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.
amount basketball business dollars games pay people program schedule type
Not a lot of people would play the type of schedule we play. These are pay games ? not winnable games. The business of basketball is different for us. We take these games to make x amount of dollars to keep our program running.
good hard includes kids played saw six struggling team tonight
It's hard to get up for a team that only has six players. Their roster includes some good players. They are a lot like us in that they have some kids struggling with grades, but like us they haven't made excuses, and you saw that tonight in the way they played us.
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.
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.
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.