Jerry Slocum
Jerry Slocum
Jerry Slocum is an American historian, collector and author specializing on the field of mechanical puzzles. Prior to retiring and dedicating his life to puzzles, he worked as an engineer at Hughes Aircraft. His personal puzzle collection, numbering over 40,000 mechanical puzzles and 4,500 books, is believed to be the world's largest...
performance sit tough type
It is a tough one to sit on when you have that type of performance.
forty physically
They just physically manhandled us for forty minutes.
john last progress work
John has been a work in progress the last two weeks. We need him.
basically came case good hard keeping learning minimal played spent
He came into the game, basically because of his size. We spent (Friday) working with him pretty hard on learning our offenses. When he came in, we just shrunk our playbook down to a minimal amount. He just played tremendous, keeping it simple. That has to be the case and he did a good job.
played proud
He just played tremendously tonight. I'm proud of the way they all battled back tonight.
couple games good group handle learn played
This group has got to learn how to handle success. We played a couple of good games and they come out and think they can do things their way and it doesn't work. We played poorly.
basketball clearly excited fans fun
It was fun to see our fans excited and into the game. It is clearly a basketball atmosphere.
basketball chance conference game good heart iq kids move stake
For us to come out in a game I deemed a lot at stake - a chance to move up in the conference - it was disappointing. I was disappointed on how we performed. It's not a heart problem. The kids did not have a very good basketball IQ tonight.
anybody chance conference given night points
Anybody who can get to 70 points in our conference on any given night is going to have a chance to win.
exactly game hard heart love played please rewarded talk
I would love to be able to talk to you and tell you exactly how I feel about this situation. Nothing would please me more. (Humphrey) played his heart out and played hard enough in the game like this to be rewarded at the end, but obviously, he was not.
committed last three
We also committed three turnovers in that last minute.
gave last lost possession rebound regulation
We gave that one away. We lost it in the last possession of regulation on a rebound that we had in our hands.
beat
When you get beat on the boards, it is a problem.
beat giving glass offensive small
When you get beat on the glass like that, it's a big factor. When you go with that small lineup, you end up giving up some offensive rebounding to get some more offensive production.