It's day to day. If he's able to play, we'll use him in spurts of four or five minutes. ... Any help he gives us is a plus. |
It's no secret, as he goes, we tend to go. |
It's not going to mean anything to us right now. Our focus right now is to win games, and win a Pac-10 Tournament, or close to it. When it's all said and done, it depends on what are the team records and getting a few wins in the Pac-10 tournament. |
Luke is such an intellectual player and he's so driven. He works extremely hard. He's following the same path in the NBA as he followed here. We knew he would be successful, but it wasn't until his third year that he really took off with us. |
Nobody will think about it at all. But from where it came from to get to this point is just incredible to me. |
On a personal note, my family and I have gone through some difficult times that we continue to work through. I ask for respect from the community, all Oregon basketball fans and the news media to allow my family to work through these matters privately. |
Quite frankly, in every situation we've seen (in the last minute of recent games), we've drilled it in practice. |
Quite frankly, we really missed him. We missed his energy, his toughness, his defense, his hustle. He's a glue guy for us. |
Roll hit two big threes that hurt us. It was a tale of two halves. We played a fantastic first half that was some of the best defense we have played, but we didn't have the legs in the second half and didn't match their intensity. I think we were worn down a little bit. |
That's going to be a good battle for us, and we'll be ready to go. |
The biggest thing for us is to just win games, as many as we can. |
The good thing about it is these kids have showed a tremendous amount of character to bounce back and put themselves in position to win. And we may have gotten over the hump in our games over the weekend. |
The main thing for us is putting UCLA behind us. |
The start of Pac-10 rejuvenated them. We were able to get the preseason behind us. We stumbled in some games, and there was a negative hangover. |
There's a big part of me that didn't want to be the guy to beat Dick Bennett in his last game. There's part of me that wanted him to go out a winner that he is. He's a tremendous man. He's done so much for college basketball, and every program he's been in, he's improved the program. However, it was important for us to get the win and move forward. |