Jerry Mortimer Quotations

We've given up only 40 points a game on average during the season. It's probably gone down now in the tournament.

He's a super player, he was hitting from 22-23 feet.

We must have given them eight points on second chance shots.

I thought it was a neat thing they did. We had a small remembrance here at school on Friday. In small schools, you know everyone and they're close. I thought it was a really nice gesture on their part. They did it for themselves, but they were thinking of other people.

That was as perfect a quarter as you will see. It was by far our best quarter of the year.

Tyler hit some timely shots. He kept us in the game. Juda is a very good team. You have to pick your poison with them. If you care about the outside too much they kill you with the inside. They're very good passers.

We got three guys back and it's nice to see Nick (Flannery) scoring again. It was a good game to go into tournament with even though it was a loss.

Whatever you do now is extra. But I guarantee you, we're going to be there to play. If we can keep the game slow, anything can happen.

We're playing a good basketball team, they're No. 1 or No. 2 (in the Associated Press state rankings) for a reason. We have a real challenge on our hands. We go the way our guards go. If they play well and take care of the ball, things will go good for us. We'll have to put it all together.

You get injuries. You just try to get through it. You have tired bodies at the end of the year. I think they are more prone at the end of a year.

There's no pressure on Black Hawk, no one expects us to win this game. Yet they believe, and when a team believes, anything can happen.

I told them we got to quit playing their way. They are going to pressure but you don't have to play fast.

He took a heck of a dump when he made the play. I'm grateful that he'll be back for baseball. Thankfully, it wasn't his pitching arm.

I don't think these kids were even around for the first two games at Darlington. This is only the third (regional championship) in school's history. I tell them 'you don't know when this opportunity is going to happen, you'd better take advantage of it.' It's a piece of history.

The first tournament game can be the hardest to play. I told the kids that they should play aggressively and not think about losing because if they were going to lose, it was because (Belmont) was the better team.