Jerry Eaves
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"Jerry Lee Eaves" is an American college basketball coach and the former head men's basketball coach at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Eaves played at Ballard High School (Louisville)/Ballard High School and the University of Louisville. He played professionally for the Utah Jazz, Atlanta Hawks and Sacramento Kings.

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Not a lot of people would play the type of schedule we play. These are pay games ? not winnable games. The business of basketball is different for us. We take these games to make x amount of dollars to keep our program running.

Basically, we started the year without our top player from last year, and then we lost two of our top three scorers already this year. If we've had any kind of luck, it's been bad luck.

There are things they have to do that they did not do in a timely fashion.

The kids are starting to believe. They were unselfish against the press, which is what we wanted them to do.

I think that our size affected them. When they wanted to run their offense, we put a lot of pressure on the ball.

We're just trying to get it together, little by little. It was good for us to come out on the road, we've had a lot of losses in our offensive production but we're coming together as a team more defensively.

My alma mater, the University of Louisville, would not play the schedule we have. If we played their schedule in our gym, we'd have three or four wins by now.

Playing better competition never hurts. I think you need to be fair with your program. ... I'm a true believer in playing real competition ... and it makes it easier for them to play with the talent level is closer to their ability.

They are an excellent team. They play a lot of zone. We are going to have to shoot the ball better, but I think our effort will be better and I think we will be able to get the job done.