Rich Herrin
Rich Herrin
Rich Herrinis a college basketball coach at Morthland College. He was head coach of the Southern Illinois University Salukis men's basketball team from 1985 to 1998. He was also one of the most successful high school basketball coaches in Illinois history, at Benton High School, where he coached numerous renowned players, including former NBA and Olympic star, Doug Collins, Saint Louis University Walk-On Legend "Jumpin" Joe Durham, as well as former Georgia Tech great, Richard Yunkus. After SIU, he coached...
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He's a very good passer and played hard. And he turned his game up a notch the last five or six games.
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We played our best game of the year. Cahokia had won three of its last four only losing to Carbondale. This was a nice victory for us. I don't think anybody thought at the beginning of the season we would get 10 wins.
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We'll be ready to play. We have seniors who realize this will be their last high school basketball game if we don't win. They're going to play hard.
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The biggest thing is that we competed and got a lot of mileage out of our talent. No way I'm bad-mouthing our talent, but I tell you what, our guys played very, very hard in certain basketball games.
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Any time we win it's because we've played hard. I told the kids two things: One, you'll have a lot more left at the end when you've played hard, and, two, the harder you play the luckier you get.
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Their quickness made us panic a little bit. As long as we took care of the basketball and got a good shot every possession, we were in good shape.
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They came out quick and we didn't respond. We knew they were going to come out charged and ready to play and we didn't. They hit their shots and we didn't hit ours and next thing we know we're in trouble.
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We had a good game against East St. Louis. They just had a little too much talent for us.
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What really happened in the third quarter is they scored three buckets before we could get a timeout. We're in a 2-1-2 zone that should have been able to stop them and they just took it right down the middle on us. Those first three or four minutes of the second half are very important.
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We seem to play a little harder in our gym and, who knows, they might take us lightly. You have to figure now is the time when anything can happen.
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We did a good job. We finished on a good note. We only won 10 ballgames, but at the start of the year I thought if we won six or eight, it would be a good year. It turned out to be a very good year for us.
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East St. Louis is a very physical team and they have good athletes. I think they shot the ball a little better today than they normally do, and I do know this, I know they shot better at the free-throw line than they normally do.
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Our defense did a good job and we gained confidence as the game went along because of our defense. We played a triangle and two and our defense really stymied them.