Jerry Slocum
Jerry Slocum
Jerry Slocum is an American historian, collector and author specializing on the field of mechanical puzzles. Prior to retiring and dedicating his life to puzzles, he worked as an engineer at Hughes Aircraft. His personal puzzle collection, numbering over 40,000 mechanical puzzles and 4,500 books, is believed to be the world's largest...
basically came case good hard keeping learning minimal played spent
He came into the game, basically because of his size. We spent (Friday) working with him pretty hard on learning our offenses. When he came in, we just shrunk our playbook down to a minimal amount. He just played tremendous, keeping it simple. That has to be the case and he did a good job.
forty physically
They just physically manhandled us for forty minutes.
committed last three
We also committed three turnovers in that last minute.
gave last lost possession rebound regulation
We gave that one away. We lost it in the last possession of regulation on a rebound that we had in our hands.
basketball exciting player state titles wisconsin won year
To have someone who was a player of the year in Wisconsin and who has won two consecutive state titles is very exciting for our basketball program.
ball great night saturday shoot shot
You feel better about yourself when you shoot the ball better. We shot the ball better on Saturday night in a great win.
couple games good group handle learn played
This group has got to learn how to handle success. We played a couple of good games and they come out and think they can do things their way and it doesn't work. We played poorly.
anybody chance conference given night points
Anybody who can get to 70 points in our conference on any given night is going to have a chance to win.
beat mental mistakes opponent quality stage
You're not going to beat that quality of an opponent by making those kind of mental mistakes that we made. At this stage of the year, it's very disappointing to see we would make some of those errors.
basketball clearly excited fans fun
It was fun to see our fans excited and into the game. It is clearly a basketball atmosphere.
floor free knew nearly playing shooting throws
We knew it wasn't going to be easy, playing on their floor and with them shooting nearly 40 free throws to our nine, but we still had a chance.
beat giving glass offensive small
When you get beat on the glass like that, it's a big factor. When you go with that small lineup, you end up giving up some offensive rebounding to get some more offensive production.
beat
When you get beat on the boards, it is a problem.
eight game kids ninth past second separating teams telling week
We still have a lot to play for. We've been telling our kids that for the past week. A week ago there was only one game separating eight teams from second to ninth place.