Defensively, they remind me of us, to be honest with you. My biggest concern is, 'Can we guard them?' The next question is, 'How are we going to score?' The people we've played the last couple of weeks we've had trouble scoring. |
Even though it's an individual statistic, it's a blue-collar, workhorse statistic. It's something that you can address with our team because it's an effort statistic. Yes, we are watching it and I do want him to get it because it's something that's never been done in the history of the NCAA. |
Every time I think about Boise they scare me, concern and scare me because of their ability to score. |
Everybody knows he can do it. Night in and night out, they're trying to stop him from getting double figure rebounds. Regardless of how he plays, regardless of how our team plays, win or lose, you're going to pick up that stat sheet and 99 percent of the time there's going to be 10 rebounds on there. It's incredible. It's incredible. |
Everybody's been playing this way against us. It's the same look, I wake up at 3 o'clock in the morning and I see it. I'm going to run it next year against somebody. I've seen it so much I'm going to run it. |
I couldn't fine Paul for now, but I could fine him for later. |
I don't know this to be true, but our quickness was just as quick as them, if not quicker, at certain spots. We thought it was bothering them. I don't know if they face our kind of quickness in our league. Maybe they do, I don't know. We pressure everybody pretty much that we play, just like they do. We felt it bothered them early in the game and it's something we started harping on. |
I don't know what impact it had. It was something we didn't want to happen. He made a nice play. |
I don't want to do it again. I'll tell you that. |
I think Alabama said in the second half, 'No more letting him catch it. Let's make it hard for him to get it in there. Boy, we didn't get a lot done with the other players when we needed to. |
I think we're in the NIT. We'd better be, or we're pulling out of this league tomorrow. I know we've done enough. We'll look forward to that call Sunday night. |
I thought we, for the most part, did as well as you can defensively against these guys. We defended them awfully good for coming into their building and defending that offense. Unfortunately, I thought our guard play was bad in the second half. (We) forgot about the best player in the league right now. |
I'm very happy that our players have been rewarded for what they've accomplished this season. We won 20 games overall and finished tied for second in the Western Athletic Conference, which is the ninth toughest conference in the country. I'm thrilled that our program and these kids have been rewarded. |
I've watched him for three years and it's been unbelievable. |
If he can go in the first round, I want him to go. If he can't, he should pursue some of this other stuff. Honestly, it's unbelievable when you see it every day. |