John Mercer
John Mercer
ahead certain fly game pants plan players seat teams time work year
You just try to get an idea of the certain teams and players play. When you see all the teams during the year you can have a game plan ahead of time of what you need to do. You can work on certain things in practice. This way it's just more fly by the seat of your pants coaching.
balance certain errors patterns playing point practice
In practice, we've been working on point patterns and recognition. There are certain sequences you go through during a point. We want (the players) to find a balance between making unforced errors and playing too defensively.
birthday certainly days develop few meal nice ok past preparing proper quiet relatively soon whose
They were preparing a nice meal for Dayna Curry, whose birthday was on the 4th (of November), ... Over the past few days it had been relatively quiet in Kabul proper and I think emotionally they had all come to develop a sense of resignation that they were in for the long haul, that they were doing OK emotionally but they certainly did want to get out of there as soon as they could.
birthday certainly days develop few meal nice ok past preparing proper quiet relatively soon whose
They were preparing a nice meal for Dayna Curry, whose birthday was on the 4th (November). Over the past few days it had been relatively quiet in Kabul proper and I think emotionally they had all come to develop a sense of resignation -- that they were in for the long haul, that they were doing OK emotionally, but they certainly did want to get out of there as soon as they could.
brushing help players practices
This week's practices will be all about brushing up on things. We'll help the players with things that they feel they're not doing crisply.
continue days hope kept leverage maybe political safe taliban
The other is that maybe they are going to be pawns for some leverage in political negotiations. I still have hope that the Taliban have kept them safe for over 100 days now and they will continue to do so,
award conference consistency continue glad head hopefully improve recognized rest shown solid team toward usa wins year
She's been solid all year and shown a lot of consistency in her wins and effort. We're glad she was recognized with the award and hopefully she and the rest of the team will continue to improve as we head toward the Conference USA tournament.
against forward good looking penn pitt state team weekend year
Pitt was a good team and they will have a good year in the Big East. We're now looking forward to our weekend against Penn State and St. John's.
bottom half improvement played
I thought we played better, especially with the bottom half of the lineup today. We showed a lot of improvement and I feel like we're getting better as we go along.
came coming determined excellent good job match played tonight
I thought we did an excellent job tonight after coming off two losses. We played a very determined match and we came out with a good win.
determined doubles effort excited gave great grew hung losing players saw singles six team
We're really excited that we hung in there after losing the doubles point. I saw six very determined singles players today. We gave a great effort and I think this team grew up a lot out there.
continue excellent excited hopefully matches playing proud rest weekend won
We're very proud of Kellie and excited for her. It's very deserved. She had an excellent weekend and has been playing well all year. She won some important matches and hopefully she will continue doing that for us the rest of the way.
bouncing difficult last level match proud short team tough turn win
We had another tough match with a short turn around after a difficult match last night. I was proud of our team for bouncing back at the level that we did to get the win today.
best class excited four recruiting since
Those four are the best recruiting class we've had since we've been here. They're going to do nothing but get better and we're excited to see where they take us in the future.