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...
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.
couple played shooter
We had a couple of (miscues) but we didn't let it get us down. We fouled the three-point shooter (Willingham) but we didn't let it extinguish our fire. We played well in overtime.
across basket bigger board harder inside night perfect played players playing respond
Gomez had a perfect night. Their inside players played really well. They are bigger than we are across the board and we didn't respond by playing harder or going to the basket stronger.
allow ball half line needed played second settled stretch
They're not going to allow you to set up what you're doing. We settled down in the second half and played much more effectively. We got to the line better but during that (first half) stretch we weren't able to get the ball where we needed to score.
carolina defense east fought good job played shots
You've got to give East Carolina credit. They fought us off and made shots tonight. On defense they played a zone, and I thought they did a good job with that.
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.
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.
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.
hit miles moved shot step stops
We had some stops and shot well in transition. Miles moved around and hit some shots. We need the shooters to step up.