John is as tough as any player in America. |
John is as tough as any player in America. He dives for every loose ball. He has stitches in his chin. He has a scar on his forehead. I tell him the longer the season goes, the uglier he gets. |
John is as tough as it comes. At one point during the game, I asked him if he wanted to switch off and guard somebody else for a while. He glared back and me, so I knew what his answer was. |
Obviously, all the credit goes to coach Stokes and the guys at ECU. I thought they played a hard-fought, very spirited game. Played exceptionally well. |
Six or seven teams are really playing at a high level when you look at our conference. …On a neutral court, you could get any results. |
The second half was a little awkward, there were so many fouls called it became a free-throw shooting contest. |
They came out and jumped on us and took us out of our game early. We had some scouting breakdowns on personnel and that came back to bite us. |
They're a great spurt team. Especially when they play here, they can get on a 10-point run. And often that seems to be the difference. |
They're unbelievably balanced, unbelievably unselfish. |
They've still got four really good players that start on the floor. Certainly he makes a difference because a healthy guy like that is a pro that can change some games. But at the same time, it's not like they drastically changed. They didn't all of a sudden just fall apart when he went out of the lineup. |
This has been a very difficult decision for me to make, however, I feel it is in the best interest of my family, my career, and myself to pursue a new opportunity. |
We are having a pretty good year. The year started off great. It was a nice tournament win for us. Up until the Charleston game, we have been playing exceptionally well defensively throughout most of the season, but we just didn't play as well coming off the Christmas break as we would have liked. Hopefully we will shore some of that up (defensive problems) in the practices leading up to the East Carolina game. |
We didn't do anything in particular that was overly ingenious, we just went out there and guarded them. |
We had a little chip on our shoulder all weekend. Very few people were talking about us, so we felt like we had to play our way in. |
We had a little chip on our shoulder all weekend. We're the top seed, but everybody has been talking about other teams deserving at-large bids. Very few people were talking about us, so I felt we had to play our way in and we certainly did that. |