Roger Gerlach Quotations

She (Perry) did have a nice free-throw shooting night. Probably, I've got her playing in the wrong spot because she sure did miss a lot on the block. Early on, we really did try to establish inside but it just didn't happen. But we did a nice job defensively, and that turned the game around.

She is a very talented basketball player and I don't have a problem with her taking that many shots because in this game it won't go unless you throw it up there, but we just need to make sure when we have a good shot and when we don't.

From my own standpoint, I'm going to go up whether we win or we don't. But, I think this would be a great win for all of the people who had paid their dues.

Playing them at Carbondale, whether we won or lost, gives us a sense of the unknown, and likewise for them. It takes the mystery out of it.

I think our team is going to show up. I know that's the pat answer, but we're not content. I didn't get that impression at practice.

We played a little bit better defense (during the run), and they (Nashville) went about four minutes where they couldn't score. We tried to extend the floor and put a little bit more pressure on them. That was just a good ballgame.

We were very undisciplined in the first half. I wasn't happy with how we closed the first quarter but that little run gave us some daylight.

We think we've got a pretty good team. Until you beat a team like that, and recognition comes, you don't really get the recognition.

We think that is a prelude to them all going in the next game. We try to focus on shooting percentages, not how many shots we miss, and we ended up shooting 37 percent. The reason people gasp for air is that they are point-blank misses. We can probably attribute that to nerves. We did substitute early, trying to get back in our normal breathing pattern.

We've had three or four games this year where we've scored 30 or more points in the first quarter. We are notorious for jumping out of the gates pretty darn quick.

The second we played much better. I don't know if we wore them down or what, but we were converting on our offensive trips.

There was no quit in us. They just played better. They executed better. They made their free throws, and we did not make our free throws. I think five of the misses were front ends (of one-and-one opportunities).

It's not that we're doing anything different or they're doing anything different. I think we've got pretty athletic kids. The bottom line is that the team with the most talent usually wins, and, right now, I think we can put more basketball talent on the floor.

It just took too much energy. It's so hot in this gym that we just couldn't do that for 32 minutes.

It seemed like whenever we got to the point of really putting the pressure on, the pressure of them losing the ballgame, we just couldn't get that push to get over the top.

They've played a lot of big ballgames, and until somebody beats them, they are the sectional champions from last year.

I just thought every year you were going to go to the state tournament, as if there weren't other teams out there that also want to go.