They?re not an ordinary team by any means. (The late) Jim Maloney said that shooters solve all your problems, and they have shooters. Villanova deserves to be No. 1 because no one can shoot the ball as well as the four players they have on the court, not even (No. 1) Duke. |
They're a great team. They know what they're doing. They're smart. Some teams are smart, but not tough. Some teams are tough, but not smart. This one's both. They've always been that way. |
They've got to learn how to finish games. We were fortunate enough to get a nice lead and we really didn't finish the way I wanted them to finish. We certainly should not have won. |
This is not a good team. It's fool's gold with our shooting. What happens when they don't shoot well? You have to have somebody to carry the day. This is just not a good team, not at all. |
This team makes more foul shots than any team in the nation has taken. |
too far in talking to the media about the incident. It would have gone away if I had not used some of the words that I used to the media and the media [hadn't] acted as if they had never heard them before. They felt I had suggested to intentionally send in someone to hurt somebody. |
Villanova could easily be No. 1 in the country. There's nobody that shoots the ball as those four players on the floor, not even Duke. |
We are blessed to bring back one of the finest young men to play basketball here at Temple University as an assistant coach. Mark is a remarkable man, both on and off the court, and our young players can truly learn something from being around him. |
We could not get rebounds and we could not stop their big guy, Williams. Our big guys aren't tough, and this (Duke) is a great team. |
We could not stop him and we could not rebound. Our big guys are just not tough. They're not. |
We could not stop the great player in Williams inside. Our big guys are just not tough. |
We go into neighborhoods as coaches and think we can convince a kid that 'son, if you get educated, you'll go to college, have a good job, a car,' ... That's bull. We don't understand that as he looks out of his eyes and sees Mike Tyson and others like him as heroes, he feels everything is instant. He thinks, I can gain a lifestyle without waiting 10, 15 years. It's easier to go out and commit a crime. |
We lead the nation in defense every year and it doesn't translate into wins. Sooner or later, you've got to put the ball in the basket. |
We ran into the rifleman. They put it all together, and they just destroyed us. Everybody had a gun but us. |
We shot the ball real bad. The defense was all right. |