Gordie Kerkman
Gordie Kerkman
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
capable emotions particular situation
We just had to play basketball. That's one of the things we addressed, don't let the emotions of this particular situation get you down. We had to come back and play the way we're capable of playing.