Barry Gebhart Quotes (25 Quotes)

We'll stay with our normal routine. There won't be much of a difference in our practice schedule. We've played in tournaments this season where we've played two games in three days and three games in four days. This week will mimic the state tournament later this year.

I'll take what we got in the last 10 seconds every time. Lewis' shot seemed to roll around every end of the basket, and Colin's shot looked like it was in.

I thank the parents for sending me the finished product. These guys were truly ambassadors for our program. I can't tell you how many teachers have told me what a great group they've been in the classroom. That same attitude that made them successful in the classroom made them a success on the court.

There's no doubt our goal was to make it back to Little Rock and to win state. But it's much easier to be the Cinderella team than to be the team with a target on your chest. Before every game we played, we knew right off the bat that we were going to get

Its hard to lose any game and especially one that's so close. The fact that we didn't come away with the win doesn't lessen what these guys did last season at all. They've been a classy, hard-working bunch all year long. They played with a lot of courage and a lot of determination. I couldn't be any more proud of them. I wouldn't feel any better about them even if we'd won that game.

We didn't do a good job on him the whole game. In the first half, he drove to the basket and made free throws. In the second half, he made jump shots. You just have to give him a lot of credit.

I hated that they had to go out on such a sour note when they had done so much for our program, our school and our community. They generated a lot of excitement for the community with their run to the championship game last year. I know they were set on bringing that back this year.

It's getting to be much too common. We have to get where we can put a 32-minute game together. Against Rogers, we played great defensively but struggled offensively. Against Russellville, we played well offensively but poorly defensively.

It would be nice if everything always came up roses in life and you were the Cinderella story all the time, but sometimes you're on the other side of the coin. It's our fate tonight to be in that role.

Trevor is doing fine. He's feeling pretty good.

I didn't order awards, because I didn't want tonight to be about awards. I wanted it to be about a collective group of guys that may be together for the last time.

I've been told that if we get them on the wrong night, and they are shooting well, then we'll get their best shot. It seems like we always get everybody's best shot.

Marcus was more aggressive than we were on defense. You can't allow a great player to dictate what he wants to do. When that happens, you're in trouble.

You look at the other team and try to figure out who's capable of beating you. Obviously, we're not going to shut anyone down, but we tried to slow those guys down.

We got out of rhythm in the second quarter. We had a pretty good lead and then all of sudden, it got away from us. They ended up leading by 6, and it was a 12- or 13-point swing. Heading into that second quarter, I thought we were on the verge of taking control.

I had so many options on this team to work with. I said to myself so many times, if maybe I did this or that we could've won. We were in every game this season. The most we lost by was 5 points, and that was in overtime.

All of these guys sacrificed individual awards for what was best for the team.

It's a different look. We normally don't play teams with four guards, but I'd like to think we're versatile enough to match up against it.

We've had 11 games away from home now. I know the kids are anxious to play in front of their home fans finally.

He's one of the two or three guys we run plays for to go one-on-one or come off a screen to make people guard him in space. And when he gets his feet set and gets himself gathered, he shots a very high percentage from the outside.

We have good shooters. It's just a matter of them getting comfortable and getting their feet set.

We started to run and jump at them. We did it from different places, so they couldn't tell where the jump man was coming from.

He's always under control, both physically and mentally. He just knows what he's doing and knows what needs to be done at all times. That's what you want from a point guard, because its hard for a team to stay under control when its point guard isn't.

Our strength is our defense. We try to pride ourselves on defense because we feel that when we execute it correctly, we can create plays on offense and hopefully make some open shots. These past two days, we've really shot well though.

I'm not sure we did anything well tonight but compete. We hung in there and kept playing and kept playing. We played good defense all night and never gave up. Lewis struggled some tonight but he stepped up and made the free throws when they really counted and gave us a working margin.