But, I've never coached a player as versatile as Brandon. |
Certainly, it shows that we may be on a little stable footing for the time being. Maybe the foundation is being laid. |
Coach Olson is fine with me. I think coach Olson is pulling for us [in the tournament], and I think he respects our program. |
Defensively in the first half, we really (played well). I thought in the second half we lost focus a bit. But I think, for the most part, we did a pretty good job defensively on them. |
Every time in the three years that we have been here that we played Arizona State, it has been a physical war. A couple of times there were some stand-offs, some hard fouls, a little bit of jawing. They haven't backed down and we won't back down. They're going to play with a lot of intensity. |
Everyone is saying we're the most likely team to be upset. |
Football was something that was pretty big, ... Football was at a higher level and it just wouldn't come to your mind. |
For good reason, people were very critical of Justin after the Stanford game. He's done a fantastic job for us. |
From day one as a freshman, he's been our best all-around player. He might not be the most exciting or (be) getting the most notoriety, but he's the best all-around player. |
Give Utah State a lot of credit. They were everything that we thought and have talked about all week. They are a very efficient team, gritty, well-coached basketball team. |
He came in and gave us instant energy. If we were able, we wanted to make sure guys who didn't get minutes recently, got some. |
He did it in the most unselfish way he could do it. |
He did what great players do. Great players take their team to great heights and he did that tonight with the help of his teammates. But the second half, he just took over. |
He did what he is capable of doing. |
He has a knack for getting in the paint and getting in the teeth of the defense and making plays, ... And he's got good quickness and is a really good on-the-ball defender. |