Quotes about spurts (16 Quotes)


    It has to be a balance for us. Kobe is a special player, but there is no way that he can shoulder the load himself. We played well together in spurts, but Kobe really was the man.

    This was just a super atmosphere for a basketball game. Bradley-Bourbonnais had a great crowd and they saw that we were short-handed. Bradley took it to us and was ready to play. Fortunately, we played well in spurts.


    I think they've shown confidence in me, and they see the talent level is there, the ability is there, and he's starting to show spurts of it in every game. Sooner or later there's going to be a breakout game that really gets this thing rolling.

    The concerns I've had is that defensively we haven't maintained our concentration. We've had some good spurts of playing good basketball, but we have not maintained the intensity, especially on defense. That's where we've really fallen down.


    Basketball is a game of spurts, you have to stay within reach. They played hard. They didn't play bad. We've stepped on the court before and I felt like we didn't play hard, but we've played hard. They deserved to be here.

    Basketball is always a game of spurts. And as a coach, it's my job to coach the team to stop the spurts. And that's what I told the team at halftime. We knew it would eventually be a much closer game, maybe single digits.

    This was a good sign of an experienced, veteran team and a focused team. They jumped out on us, they were doing some things. But, every time they would answer, we would answer, and I think we just had the last couple spurts.


    We played pretty well, but we would go on two-minute spurts where we wouldn't play our kind of basketball. It was a good ball game. They went on a 12-5 run in the fourth quarter and that was the difference. I thought we played well enough to win for three quarters.

    We have to take care of the ball better. I think in spurts we did a poor job of taking care of the basketball and they weren't even pressuring us. Sometimes we just play so fast that we make mistakes that we don't mean to make. I think we need to limit the amount of times that we do that because they have some great players on offense and they're going to get things done. We have to be just as efficient on offense as they are.

    Twenty-nine turnovers didn't help us at all. Shooting 1-for-9 in 3-pointers in the first half didn't help us. But, man, they're a scrappy basketball team. They play in those spurts and that's what makes them good. They can afford not to play well in 2- or 3-minute spans. We can't. We're not good enough of a basketball team to do that.

    We didn't really get after it like I was expecting. Neither one of them wanted to do anything in the beginning. It just came down to little spurts of action for Pugh to get a couple points on the board.


    We spotted Coal City that 8-0 lead, but the kids were able to come back. Coal City also jumped out to a quick 7-0 run to begin the second half. We played well except for those two spurts.




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