Jerry Slocum Quotations

We did not execute when the game mattered.

For us to come out in a game I deemed a lot at stake - a chance to move up in the conference - it was disappointing. I was disappointed on how we performed. It's not a heart problem. The kids did not have a very good basketball IQ tonight.

If we are going to have any chance at all on the road we have to do a better job of rebounding on the defensive boards.

He came into the game, basically because of his size. We spent (Friday) working with him pretty hard on learning our offenses. When he came in, we just shrunk our playbook down to a minimal amount. He just played tremendous, keeping it simple. That has to be the case and he did a good job.

He came in basically because of his size.

He just played tremendously tonight. I'm proud of the way they all battled back tonight.

John has been a work in progress the last two weeks. We need him.

It is a tough one to sit on when you have that type of performance.

I would love to be able to talk to you and tell you exactly how I feel about this situation. Nothing would please me more. (Humphrey) played his heart out and played hard enough in the game like this to be rewarded at the end, but obviously, he was not.

We have our work cut out for us every night.

We have the opportunity to play them at our facility. I know that our kids are very excited about it.

We didn't shoot the ball very well. We didn't guard very well. I'm very disappointed. Our execution offensively and defensively wasn't very good.

We definitely are not short on heart, but sometimes we don't play very bright and tonight was one of them.

We still have a lot to play for. We've been telling our kids that for the past week. A week ago there was only one game separating eight teams from second to ninth place.

We knew it wasn't going to be easy, playing on their floor and with them shooting nearly 40 free throws to our nine, but we still had a chance.

When you get beat on the glass like that, it's a big factor. When you go with that small lineup, you end up giving up some offensive rebounding to get some more offensive production.

When you get beat on the boards, it is a problem.

We also committed three turnovers in that last minute.

We gave that one away. We lost it in the last possession of regulation on a rebound that we had in our hands.

To have someone who was a player of the year in Wisconsin and who has won two consecutive state titles is very exciting for our basketball program.

You feel better about yourself when you shoot the ball better. We shot the ball better on Saturday night in a great win.

Anybody who can get to 70 points in our conference on any given night is going to have a chance to win.

You're not going to beat that quality of an opponent by making those kind of mental mistakes that we made. At this stage of the year, it's very disappointing to see we would make some of those errors.

This group has got to learn how to handle success. We played a couple of good games and they come out and think they can do things their way and it doesn't work. We played poorly.

It was fun to see our fans excited and into the game. It is clearly a basketball atmosphere.

They just physically manhandled us for forty minutes.