Ernie Beck
Ernie Beck
Ernest Joseph Beckis a retired American professional basketball player. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Beck played seven years in the National Basketball Association for the Philadelphia Warriors, St. Louis Hawks and Syracuse Nationals. He was a territorial pick in the 1953 NBA Draft, selected by the Warriors. He attended University of Pennsylvania. After he retired he taught at BOK high school became friends with Frank Apa...
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Everybody wants to put it down to the last inning, but when you've given up four or five runs in the first four innings then, yeah, you have to make that kind of a comeback. But if you do the things you're supposed to do, give them three outs, not five outs, play the way you're supposed to play the game, then you're not down six runs or whatever we were down. You might be down a run or two.
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I think it's a big disadvantage because I think you need to be playing. It's one thing to practice. ... About six or seven years ago we had a similar situation. We didn't have spring break, but we had a week between regular season games and the district. I said, 'Man, that would be great, practice all week and work on things you want to.' We were flat as can be going into districts.
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They made mistakes, we made mistakes, left people on base. They just got the break in the end.
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What you're seeing is that the kids aren't going to give up and they can explode at any time. We have a lot of confidence in them and I just think that right now they're just not quite there.