Ron Jirsa
Ron Jirsa
Ronald Howard "Ron" Jirsais an American college basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach at Radford. He has previously been the head coach at the University of Georgia and Marshall University...
attention game great looking turn
That's the way we are looking at the game Wednesday. UAB is a great team, but now we turn our attention to Tulane in the tournament.
finishing game hard shooting worked
We worked hard before the game at shooting and finishing better around the basket.
best effort game great since trying
We've been trying to get a great effort. I think this was our best effort game since I've been here.
attacked chris game games good great guards indicator nine physical second teams
Chris had two outstanding games. He was our leader. The Bahamian teams attacked with very quick, physical guards and it was a good challenge. In the second game he had nine assists and no turnovers. That's a great indicator of things to come.
game good happy hope mark presence sign tonight
I am happy to see (Bro Grebe) get into the game. We need another presence to give Mark (Patton) a break, and I hope he can come in and do that. Tonight was a good sign of what he can do for us.
athletic game late physically seemed strong team
That's an athletic team and that's a physically strong team. I thought late in the game they seemed to get stronger.
effort hard played plays shots
I think we played hard enough and with effort but we didn't make plays down the stretch. We have to make shots when we're doing the hard work.
certainly entire hard next playing
I think we are certainly playing hard enough, but we aren't doing it over the entire game. That's the next thing.
appreciate guys move president saying team thinks
Our team doesn't read the papers, and I don't think our guys look for those things. I appreciate president Kopp saying what he thinks and we'll move on from there.
continues hard mark niche work
Mark Dorris has a lot of quickness. If he continues to work hard he could find a niche for us.
hard hard-work mark patton work
Mark Patton showed us what hard work is all about.
athletic best both couple front guys gym mark player poised senior strong
Mark is really poised for very strong senior season. He was the best player in the gym up front both nights. They had a couple of 6-8 athletic guys on each team.
difficult earlier eight explosive feeling foul half hit hoping kept memphis minutes overcome run second seven sustain team trouble wall worked
I was hoping we could sustain what we had worked up in the first half, but foul trouble really kept us from going into the second half with the same feeling we had earlier in the (game). Memphis has an explosive team and I think they were able to run us and we hit the wall about six, seven or eight minutes into the second half. And that made it difficult for us to overcome that run.
contribute couple days help mark
With only a couple of days at practice, Mark was able to come in and contribute and help us out in the backcourt on this trip.