Chris West, our strength coach, said it was our best workout we've had in three months. It was no nonsense The time was short, but the attention-getting was there. |
Coaches all understand. Coaches aren't responsible for the actions of their players, but if you're a good coach you feel very responsible for their actions. |
Coming off a Villanova game where he played 13 minutes and didn't score a point, I started him the next game to tell him we've got to get him back. For us to win, we've got to get him back. ... Thank God we got them back. |
Could he have played (Friday)? Probably. But obviously we didn't need him. |
Craig is a very confident kid, without being arrogant. I thought he really looked like a point guard tonight, with a great deal of composure. |
Denham had arguably the best performance of his career at a great time. |
Denham is playing the best basketball of his life. This is the guy we had while winning the Maui Invitational. Denham had some roadblocks but thank God he stayed with it all season. But that's the story of this season. It's all about who can persevere. |
Denham's knee was stiffening up so we didn't play him in the second half. |
Did you ever see Jeff Adrien? I wouldn't want to put Rob Garrison in there. But I think Jeff can handle himself OK. |
Don't get too carried away. Get around this league, go to some of the places, get on the road and see some of the friendly faces in this league and maybe we'll see you another time. |
Donyell Marshall was here tonight and he left with four minutes to go. That should never happen in a Connecticut game. |
Ed gives us a physical presence that we're going to need. |
Elvin Hayes was such an incredible scorer that it was hard for me to believe, ... I had seen Bob Pettit do it to some degree, he was 6-foot-9, but Elvin Hayes took it to a different level. He was a scoring machine who went outside at 6-foot-9 and that was so foreign to what we knew. He never really got the credit he deserved for what he accomplished. |
Every one of those threes were like daggers. |
Every Saturday, my dad took me to a football game, |