(The players) may not be giddy. But I?m still giddy. |
At the start of the second half, defensively, we were able to adjust to some of the things they did in the first half but I knew they would never go away and just tried to keep our kids focused. |
Because of the financial situation, we used to get to the end of the steak dinner, and then you ask them to pay 42,000 dollars, and that was usually a deal-breaker. Now you can sit there and you know that, at the end, there's a little bit of a rainbow if it's a kid you want. |
Brown has been tremendous all year long, at the beginning, I don't know if he was wound up a little bit or what. He made some great plays down the stretch and he really came through at the end. |
Charles used to drag Donald (Brown) to the gym every day. (Lee) worked with (Brown), helped him with his confidence. |
Everybody in the program is very excited about the schedule. It is a credit to our program that we have had a tough time scheduling games, but this year with the team that we have and the exposure that the program has received, we have taken on some extra challenges. |
I almost threw them out. It was more like (the players saying), 'When's the game going to get here? |
I did feel like the game was there for the taking from the beginning. |
I don?t see him playing this year. He?s really not getting a whole lot better. There?s been nothing official yet. We?re just going to wait until (classes) get back, talk to the doctor and go from there. |
I don't know if you can step out of character. This is a group of kids that's level-headed, they realize how big things are and how important things are, but they have fun. They've taught all of us to have fun. |
I don't mean to be a tyrant. A couple threes here and there, and you want to go and slop it up. That's not these kids. They haven't been like that all year. I wanted to remind them the time of year it is. That's disrespectful, and that's not our team. |
I don't want to go there. I can't look at that. They're good enough just by getting in passing lanes. We have a good basketball team, and we'll play another day. |
I haven?t had any questions about the kids and where they?re taking shots. I get excited when we?re aggressive coming off screens and taking shots, even when (defenders) are trailing. But I can?t force them. They are the ones playing. They have to make those decisions. |
I think a couple of those baskets when we started the second half were kind of like inside baskets, where we stretching a little bit and then going. I thought we weren't as impatient as we had been earlier in the game. |
I think a lot of things happen that we play the way we do. |