Sam Taylor
Sam Taylor
anyone close couple easy games learn looked lost pleasant proved tough year
I don't think anyone looked at Mt. Pleasant as an easy game. It's been that way all year for us. We lost a couple of tough games that we need to learn how to close out, but I think we proved that we can play with anyone.
across associates both buy channel customers drive store strength win
The big win is leveraging the strength of one channel across another. So how do we get our store-only customers to buy across both channels? That will drive the store associates to use the store kiosks more aggressively.
against beginning bit good half mistakes momentum needed pressure recover second shift step team
It was just a momentum shift that we really couldn't recover from. We needed to step up at the beginning of the second half and we just couldn't. I think their pressure kind of got to us a little bit and they are just such a good team that we made too many mistakes against them to win.
anytime ball basket catching feet five good kid six
Anytime your 6-foot-8 kid is catching the ball five or six feet way from the basket it's a good thing.
appliances build colors custom room three
They can custom build a room and see how the room and the appliances look in different colors or in two or three dimensions.
head reports
Now, e-commerce reports to the head of retail.
boards early energy games light obviously previous score tone
We don't light up the score boards very often, so it is important for us to get out early with a lot of energy and really set the tone early. In previous games where we did that, we obviously did much better than we did tonight.
less money
The more vendors you add, the less money there is.
anywhere ball face good point scrappy season shoots team
They are a scrappy team that shoots the ball pretty well. Harman will put it up from anywhere and they don't back down. At this point of the season you know you are going to face a good team.
bring energy whatever
There was no energy. For whatever reason, we just didn't bring any energy on the floor. It was disappointing.
building center community design tying
With the new design center we are building loyalty, a community and tying it in to our multi-channel strategy.
good playing
We're right where we want to be. We've just got to keep playing good baseball.
deep dug energy half hole job ourselves second
In the second half we had a lot more energy and did a much better job on the boards. We had just dug ourselves too deep of a hole in the first half.
base build goal
If you can do it yourself, you should. The goal is to build up your base of customers.