My first thought was, I was just proud of the boys. Don't be sad for me. You should be happy for me because I had a great opportunity to coach one of the greatest schools in college basketball. |
My natural tendency is to help people. |
Not having two starters in your lineup was definitely a blow. |
Not once did any student say anything to me or my staff or team. They're focused on their team. More than anything, students want to go to the middle of the floor to their team. I don't know if it's good or bad. |
Not one game has been different. Every team we play on the road has been incredible. |
Now we feel the program is going the way we wanted it to. This year, we'll have high, high expectations. We feel like it's our team now. |
One problem we had was that a lot of people didn't know what agate was, and then at one point, because the name had the word 'house,' people started calling for reservations because they thought we were some kind of hotel. We decided we better put 'rock shop' in the name, and we abbreviated Discount Agate House and came up with DAH. |
Our attitude is getting back to where it needs to be. |
Our defensive intensity has stepped up. The attitude about it has been good. |
Our defensive strategy was to make sure when Tucker had the basketball, the closest defensive player to him would stand in the gaps. We wanted to make sure we had two spies on Tucker at all times. |
Our guys have had a different attitude over the last week -- even in practice you can just feel the team getting back to where we were earlier. Right now I just feel us playing pretty good. |
Our guys kept fighting. They showed a lot of courage tonight. |
Our offense is a little better when our defense is better. We got a chance to push it in transition and get some open shots. That was the difference late. |
Our plan was to miss the second free throw at 0:00.8. Since it went to two (seconds) we had to make the second free throw. At 2.1 a lot of things could happen in that situation. |
Over the last three or four games, he's really been aggressive offensively. This is the way we expect him to play, and he's playing some great basketball. |