He was not responsible to the structure of our academic program. I think this should take care of it. He dug himself a hole in the first semester, and I expect a sense of urgency we haven't seen. |
He's a special player. He plays with a great pace. He's got an inside-out game and he can shoot it with range. He's a load. |
I doubt there were many believers left. That's reflective of where we were at in our season. |
I saw a lot of positives tonight on the floor for us as we fought hard against a seasoned Big South basketball program. We are very young and they are the most experienced team in our league. I give them all the credit tonight as they deserved to win. |
It was a very poor performance in that first half. We've got nobody to blame but ourselves for that. ? I was as disappointed with that first half of play as I've been with any half since I've been coaching at Liberty. |
Life is a do-it-yourself project and we Jack Kevorkian-ed ourselves tonight. It was assisted suicide. |
Our inability to find somebody who can give us a punch in the lane is a real handicap. |
That's an incredible stat for me to look at. That means Larry Blair is now a force inside the arc. He had 34 points inside the arc. That's a tremendous job of him driving. When you get to the place where you're mature enough physically and confident enough to penetrate that basketball, you can literally put a lot of pressure on everybody's defense. |
The important thing for us is just establishing that we can win. Winning can be a habit. Unfortunately, so can losing. |
The thing I appreciated about that lineup tonight is that, hey, we've got five guys out there that are really trying to operate with a basketball IQ and really play sound basketball on both ends. |
These guys bounced into the gym (Sunday night) ready to practice. That's the way we've been all year long. They practice with energy. They just had to parlay it into a performance (Monday) and try to build themselves some confidence. |
They're as good a team as I've seen in my tenure in the Big South. |
They're excited to play together. That's one thing I'm excited to see. We have a group of kids who are preparing very, very hard for the season because they believe they can compete effectively. |
We certainly ran into a buzz-saw. They churned us up. |
We have got to get some more contributions from the post. We're a doughnut down there and that has to be addressed. |