It isn't that we couldn't use somebody like that. It would have to be one of those things where New York would have to say that they really want to get rid of the player and could help us in some financial way to do it. We wouldn't know until this summer if that would even be a possibility. |
It makes it difficult, but no more difficult than it has been in the past. It won't make it impossible. |
It was hard for me. He worked with me every day. We did a lot of stuff together ... I almost left the K-9 program. |
It would be easier if we could just say it's one thing. One game it's the defense, the next game it's the offense, another game it's something else. |
Konrad probably has more of a varied offense than Brock did at this time. The other thing that's probably helped Konrad is that he's got two additional years in college wrestling. |
That's not coming from us; I certainly haven't pushed it. Nobody's presented me with a case (for a trade). That's not something I think we need to do. |
The things that I admire him most for are his competitiveness and an ability to rise out of a rough neighborhood. The thing we all saw about him was his great love for his fans, in particular children. He just had a tremendous personality. He never forgot where he came from. |
The way we're going to go about this is it's going to be like schooling. He's just left one career and we want him to have a long-term career with this organization. As Fred said, he wants to have a very important part of that, make us a team that we would all like, and that is a team that has the ability to win a championship. |
We don't have a top candidate at this point. I have never met P.J. |
We have gotten to know Fred very well over the past few years, both as a basketball player and as a person. When Fred relayed to us his decision to retire we didn't waste a minute in asking him to join our front office staff. |
We thought a ship had hit us. |
We will try to convince him that it would be to his advantage to play with us. |
We'll let the whole year play out ... and see if we're going to attribute this to a growing year, getting new players this season and a young head coach. We'd have to build quickly next year, though. It's very hard to get a quality player (in free agency). Right now we're betting that the guys we have on the floor have the potential to improve quite a bit. |
When Fred relayed to us his decision to retire, we didn't waste a minute in asking him to join our front office staff. We will use his many talents on both the basketball and business sides of the team. |
When I got back to Corbin with the dogs, I was glad I stayed in the K-9 program. We've got the community behind us, that's very obvious. The community wants us to have these dogs. |