Bob Curran
Bob Curran
fact lead pitching playing staff
Our pitching staff has to lead us. With the fact that we will be playing better defense, they should all be successful.
breaking count pitch threw throw
He threw a lot of first-pitch strikes. He competed all the way through. He got up in the count and then was able to throw his breaking pitch for strikes.
decision games gym played players staff stay summer weekend
I think we kind of made a decision as a staff and the players did, too, to stay away from the summer circuit, get back to the gym and get back to fundamentals. We only played about 27 summer games and did not get in any weekend tournaments.
confused guys kids nba running watch
We didn't give up, which is nice. These kids want to win; they are just young in a lot of ways. I told them that when you watch an NBA game, you don't see guys running around confused about what they're doing.
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kids shape
You know, the kids got up and down (the court) and had fun. Hopefully, they got in a little better shape doing it.
hard kids practiced tremendous
We actually put heart-rate monitors on the kids and they practiced with them. That way, I could tell who was working hard and who was not. That was just tremendous for us.
adrenaline bit starts
He was limping a little bit (Thursday) afternoon. But once the adrenaline starts pumping, he should be OK.
couple good knocked looks open
He had a couple open looks there and (being a) good player, he knocked them down.
game letting people scoring teammates
When he's scoring a lot, we're not at our best. When he's letting the game come to him and getting other people involved, he's making his teammates better.
basketball care hard kids teach
If we have kids who can put the basketball in the basket and take care of the basketball, we can do the other thing. It's kind of hard to teach kids to put the ball in the basket.
basketball good knew provide step win
He's a good shooter. He knew that to win the basketball game, he had to step up and provide scoring.
seems shoot
He did shoot around with us. He seems to be fine.
gave practice schedule worked
For such a young team, the schedule worked out perfect. It really gave us a lot of practice time.