Watching his Spartans cruise to a 7554 win Jan. 6 over visiting Pleasant Hill, Richmond varsity boys basketball coach Kevin Jermain didn’t notice any rust from a 17-day gap between games. Some other issues, yes. But not rust. “To be honest, I couldn’t ask for a better way to start the game. … Defensively, we were … really getting after it,” Jermain said minutes after the Missouri River Valley Conference interdivisional meeting. “We were really … toned in on what their strengths were, and … the first quarter, we were just absolutely … fantastic defensively. And offensively, we were good enough.” But from the second quarter to midway in the fourth quarter, the Spartans were “just very inconsistent,” offensively and defensively, Jermain added. “I don’t know if I would call it rust because we played so well in the first quarter,” he said. “Just a lack of attention to detail. … I told them …, ‘We (have) got to be better in those situations.’ But they did a good job of finally figuring…