21 Quotes by Jim Yerkovich

His rebounding, and he gets after the ball. He makes our other players better.

I think he will offensively. He fits. He's a smart player but we won't have as much depth as we did this year.

There's nothing harder and more unpredictable than high school state tournaments. I don't know if I've ever seen a team persevere better. I know I've never coached one, but I don't know if I've ever seen one.

I've never coached, and I've never seen at the high school level an inside player play as hard as he does, and that's been the key for us all year.

Defensively, he got himself in trouble by not being fundamental.

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

As long as I've coached I cannot remember a group of guys who've had a more consistent intensity level from game to game. Where's that come from? It comes from (Deane). His intensity level carries over to the people, and they just jump on the bandwagon and go. I think that's the best thing he does for us.

They played so well defensively. I was so proud of them because that's always been the heart of our program.

They're playing real well right now, as good as anybody.