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...
exactly game hard heart love played please rewarded talk
I would love to be able to talk to you and tell you exactly how I feel about this situation. Nothing would please me more. (Humphrey) played his heart out and played hard enough in the game like this to be rewarded at the end, but obviously, he was not.
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.
cut work
We have our work cut out for us every night.
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We have the opportunity to play them at our facility. I know that our kids are very excited about it.
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For us to come out in a game I deemed a lot at stake - a chance to move up in the conference - it was disappointing. I was disappointed on how we performed. It's not a heart problem. The kids did not have a very good basketball IQ tonight.
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.
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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.
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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.
committed last three
We also committed three turnovers in that last minute.
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.
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It was fun to see our fans excited and into the game. It is clearly a basketball atmosphere.
execute game
We did not execute when the game mattered.
bright definitely short tonight
We definitely are not short on heart, but sometimes we don't play very bright and tonight was one of them.