Jerry Schartner Quotations

She did what she always does. She's in there to shoot.

She has to be one of the best ones ever...she lives and breathes and loves basketball.

She has to be one of the best, if not the best, that I've had in my 28 years coaching at Lincoln. I've had 11 girls go on to play Division I, Kristin could definitely be the 12th.

She's a great kid. If you talk to her for a while, you'll see she's a character. She speaks her mind; you never know what she's going to come up with.

I did the same thing ? tell them to work for a good shot ? and I think we're getting better at that.

If I said it was mind-boggling it would make a good story, but it wouldn't be truthful. She didn't make a whole bunch of extraordinary shots. We have plays that set her up for short shots. The kids fed her, and she was happy to receive.

With the exception of North, there wasn't any place where we didn't have to do a lot of scouting.

We were going to guard, hold them to one shot and not turn the ball over, which we didn't always do.

You didn't used to get that in the Metro, except for me.

We didn't have an answer for (Mays) at times. When she grabs an offensive rebound, there's a very good chance she'll come right back up and score a basket.

We're improving every game. We've won five straight (titles), looking for No. 6. We can't afford to lose any more.

Unbelievable, I just couldn't believe anything like that would happen to her.

You get a kid like that, just a pleasure to coach.

East is back. This is the first time since we were playing them six-on-six that we had to really plan for them. Same thing with Hoover. They used to be a team you didn't worry about, but not anymore.

At the beginning of games, she sometimes gets ahead of herself and takes some bad shots and misses a few. Some people might think, 'She's missing. Sit her down.' Uh-uh. I've seen what that girl can do. I just sit back and be patient. It'll come.

That's what she's in there to do. She's only an 11th-grader, and since we lose four senior starters she'll be playing a lot next year. The more I can get her in, the better off we'll be.

They're all capable. Every girl on this team can explode if they want to, but they go with their money and Turk is money.

At halftime I had to encourage Mallory to keep on shooting. Kristin is going to get her shots, but I sometimes have to get on Mallory about continuing to put the ball up.

Nothing worked for us, and they didn't miss.

She'll make 12 in a row to end practice, right at that basket. I don't think she ever misses two in a row.

I figured that would be a tough game, but we had a good night and she had a good night.