Gordie Kerkman
Gordie Kerkman
game hurrying offense plan pleased sort
I sort of thought that we got out of our game plan today. You could even see it in the first half. I wasn't very pleased with the way we were playing. I thought we were hurrying our offense a little bit. That's not necessarily our style.
battle game hold impact kenny points prolific ways
He could impact a game in so many ways that he didn't always need to score. We don't often have a prolific scorer in our system. I was even able to hold Kenny Battle down to 18 points a game.
deserving leader people realize several success
A lot of people don't realize what a leader he is. He is more than deserving to be on the list. He's been a big part of our success in several capacities.
gets hands hits shoot
He does a lot of things. Gets his hands on a lot of balls, hits the boards, defense. He has a lot of talent. He can shoot the ball. He can make a lot of things happen.
match men problem
It's going to be a problem for us because we don't have any big men to match up with him.
outside surprised
They kind of surprised us with their outside shooting.
room running stickers
He does so many things. We put stickers on the players' lockers, and we're running out of room on his.
battle blow conference guys people point state thinking tournament whether wrapped
Once we got the conference to a point where we wrapped it up, that's when we started thinking about the state tournament series. Whether these guys could make it or not? We're not an overpowering team, but we will battle you. I thought we could play with anybody, but we didn't really blow too many people out.
bunch fun game guys nice primary reason standpoint team time took whether
I think the characteristics that these guys have are the primary reason why we were 29-2. They're a fun team to coach. A bunch of nice young men. From a standpoint of whether we could get to Peoria or not, we just kind of took that one game at a time this year.
close greatest highly idol john state truly winning
John was an idol of mine. He was so close to winning a state title. He is very highly respected. He is truly one of the greatest in the state.
kids year
I think our kids have been that way all year long.
basketball came conference everybody football good hope level people picked thinks tough walk
It's a very good conference. When we came into it, people said we'd walk right through and we haven't. Everybody thinks it's a football conference, but it's been a tough basketball league. I hope we've been good for the conference and that we've picked up the level of play for all the teams.
bad decisions guess people pressure tend type
I thought we made a lot of bad decisions but, I guess when people put that type of pressure on you, you tend to make bad decisions. I thought we were very listless the first half.
compliment finish games half hang kids season second
That's one of the things in the second half of the season that I would really compliment our kids on is they finish games really well. Tonight, we didn't. We had to hang on.