Rich Herrin
Rich Herrin
Rich Herrinis a college basketball coach at Morthland College. He was head coach of the Southern Illinois University Salukis men's basketball team from 1985 to 1998. He was also one of the most successful high school basketball coaches in Illinois history, at Benton High School, where he coached numerous renowned players, including former NBA and Olympic star, Doug Collins, Saint Louis University Walk-On Legend "Jumpin" Joe Durham, as well as former Georgia Tech great, Richard Yunkus. After SIU, he coached...
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They're a team we're capable of beating unless they play like absolute gangbusters. They're not a big team, but they're a very good offensive rebounding team and we'll have to check them off the boards.
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I believe this is the best ballgame that Mike Simmons has played. I was glad to see him run the court and get a couple baskets. He is gaining confidence and when you gain confidence, other players gain confidence in him.
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He's a very good passer and played hard. And he turned his game up a notch the last five or six games.
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The effort was not there like it should've been. It takes everybody on the whole team playing hard. We're a good team when we give an effort.
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Any time we win it's because we've played hard. I told the kids two things: One, you'll have a lot more left at the end when you've played hard, and, two, the harder you play the luckier you get.
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They're playing well right now, like any team should this time of year. They'll come with excitement. They like to get up and down the floor. They run the fast break efficiently.
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I'm a great believer in the difference between winning and losing is intensity. Our intensity has picked up lately. This is a great group of kids who make it enjoyable to come to practice every day. We are getting better all the time.
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The main thing is to encourage them in a little financial way to go to college.
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We played our best game of the year.
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We played our best game of the year. Cahokia had won three of its last four only losing to Carbondale. This was a nice victory for us. I don't think anybody thought at the beginning of the season we would get 10 wins.
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What really happened in the third quarter is they scored three buckets before we could get a timeout. We're in a 2-1-2 zone that should have been able to stop them and they just took it right down the middle on us. Those first three or four minutes of the second half are very important.
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We'll be ready to play. We have seniors who realize this will be their last high school basketball game if we don't win. They're going to play hard.
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We made some good passes that allowed Childers to finish. He really played a tremendous basketball game.
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We didn't cover the three and all we had to do was put a hand in their face and make them put it on the floor.