Ron Jirsa
Ron Jirsa
Ronald Howard "Ron" Jirsais an American college basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach at Radford. He has previously been the head coach at the University of Georgia and Marshall University...
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Mark Patton showed us what hard work is all about.
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It's not necessarily about making every shot. It's playing extremely hard and I know that's a way to get the fans to cheer for us.
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That run stands out a little more when you don't play hard in the first half. We should have been working the whole night.
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We worked hard before the game at shooting and finishing better around the basket.
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Once you solve something, it gets harder to solve the next thing. The second half, when we didn't push it up the floor, that hurt us.
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I think we played hard enough and with effort but we didn't make plays down the stretch. We have to make shots when we're doing the hard work.
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I think we are certainly playing hard enough, but we aren't doing it over the entire game. That's the next thing.
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Gomez had a perfect night. Their inside players played really well. They are bigger than we are across the board and we didn't respond by playing harder or going to the basket stronger.
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Mark Dorris has a lot of quickness. If he continues to work hard he could find a niche for us.
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That's the way we are looking at the game Wednesday. UAB is a great team, but now we turn our attention to Tulane in the tournament.
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That's two in a row. He has to understand what he did and see if he can put it together for three straight. He has to play within the concept. He knows what we need from him.
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Mark is really poised for very strong senior season. He was the best player in the gym up front both nights. They had a couple of 6-8 athletic guys on each team.
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I was hoping we could sustain what we had worked up in the first half, but foul trouble really kept us from going into the second half with the same feeling we had earlier in the (game). Memphis has an explosive team and I think they were able to run us and we hit the wall about six, seven or eight minutes into the second half. And that made it difficult for us to overcome that run.
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We need to feed off the fact that we've beaten them. Home or away, we're going to give our best.