Karl Smesko
Karl Smesko
Karl Wade Smesko is the current head coach of the Florida Gulf Coast University women's basketball team...
adage boards fresh job start survive today tomorrow
We have to do a better job on boards than we did today and make more shots. The adage is to survive and advance. We start fresh tomorrow with a new team.
ball excited gets harder helped noticed players plays shoot time
I've noticed that every time we shoot the ball well, everyone plays well. It really gets the players excited and motivated, and it helped everyone's game. It helped us play harder and helped us get a lot of turnovers.
basket next played pressure renewed win
At that point, I thought we were going to win the game. We had renewed hope, played well and made some stops. But we couldn't get that next basket to really put pressure on them.
basketball care played shooting took won
We played really well. We took care of the basketball, we rebounded the basketball and we won comfortably without shooting great.
ball hand people pressure time
We put a lot of pressure on the ball out there. We had a lot of people on the ball, and everyone made sure to get a hand on the ball every time there was a pass.
defense good nelson played took
Hathaway, Schrader and Nelson took it to the basket. They also played good defense and really hustled.
fly good hard plays position proper works
She's done a real good job. She works very hard to get in the proper position and then she's very good making plays on the fly of the ball.
ball basket good job playing taking
She did a good job of taking the ball to the basket and playing her game.
almost december delta fort games january november region state talked tournament
We almost had Fort Valley, but couldn't come up with a date. Henderson State wanted us to be in a tournament but we had a tournament here at the same time. We talked with Delta State but they don't want to play in January and February, and we have enough region games in November and December without going into Mississippi.
excited good playing roll team
This team is as good as any team I've coached. Lot of it is getting on a roll and playing well when it counts. We've progressed well and we're excited to play.
delta goal good kids nice physical played regional run second team tough win
It's tough to think like that because the goal was to win this regional and we thought we had to the team to do that. Delta outplayed us. They were more physical and had a nice run in the second half. They played such good defense, but our kids scrapped and competed the whole game.
best conference seen since state sunshine team teams
That's the best Sunshine State Conference team I've seen since I've been here. They're real dangerous. They're one of the best rebounding teams around.
concerned consider level national nice ourselves putting rankings region top voters
It's nice to get national recognition and for the panel of voters to consider us a Top 20- level team. But ultimately, we're not real concerned with national rankings but putting ourselves in the region tournament.
enjoyable good successful
It was a very successful season, a very enjoyable season. Those were good accomplishments.