Like I told our guys, until we can beat them, Jimmy Christian is a better coach than me, and they're better than you, period. |
Mentally, you figure out that if you're not strong enough, you need to get in the weight room. The hard part is all that skill and knowledge and ability, and he's got that. It's a tribute to their staff to find a guy like that who slipped through the cracks. |
Our heart goes out to (Collins). He?s a great player. We just hope he?s healthy. |
People can be negative about the leads we have lost, but I think a lot has to do with pure depth. We work hard to get the lead, but other teams have more depth and they come at you with that. |
The biggest difference between the two teams isn't talent, it's that belief factor. Teams that haven't won have that doubt in their mind. We won a lot of close games last season and our kids believe in themselves. |
They give you nothing inside. You have to score outside against them. They have solid, smart kids, and they play great position defense. |
They have been playing well. I come into every game thinking it is going to be close. I thought it was going to be a nip-and-tuck game. We just got it done on defense. |
They will come in with a chip on their shoulder after last year. But we have an incentive, too. It's going to be a big game. But all of them are big. |
They're every bit as good as any of the teams we've played if not better in a lot of respects. |
They're prepared to play. Nervousness isn't going to be an issue. You're talking about a team that traveled the country after I left. |
Twelve minutes. We got into the locker room at 7:58, and we talked about until ten minutes after 8. That was it. I don't want to bring it up again. We have to move on because we have four tough games left. |
We controlled the game for most of it but let it slip away. We missed open looks. We could have hammered them. They got that little run and we never recovered. |
We couldn't guard them in anything we played. If you can't guard them in anything you play it's kind of a sickening feeling. We knew going in it had to be a 68-62 game. Hell, they had 48 at halftime. |
We gotta be able to guard their dribble penetration. |
We had them on the ropes and didn't finish them off. |