27 Quotes by Gordie Kerkman

The only thing difficult about a big arena is the background. You really have to focus on the rim so you don't pick up all that background.

We gave (Rocha) and maybe a couple of other guys some pretty good looks in the first half, and something we really want to tighten up is our intensity, to play all four quarters.

We cannot look back on that game other than to say we know a few things about certain players. We're a different team from then, too. I think we're a little better than we were.

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.

We were playing like we were down big, and we really weren't. I thought we were going for steals too quick. It was causing us to foul. It was causing us to give up easy baskets. Pretty soon we had to shoot threes and we had to foul. They hit free throws and we didn't hit threes. You're in bad shape then.

East Aurora is struggling right now but if we have to play them next Friday, I'll guarantee you they'll be playing a lot better than they have the last month or so. It's going to be tough for us.

I sort of thought that we got out of our game plan today. You could even see it in the first half. I wasn't very pleased with the way we were playing. I thought we were hurrying our offense a little bit. That's not necessarily our style.

Teams have had us in their sights for quite a while. We're used to that. And I think it's good for us to know we always have to be on top of our game.

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.