They're very difficult to play against because they space the floor with five guys on the perimeter. And although they shoot and pass great and have a terrific system, what makes them so difficult is containing the basketball, because you can't be in total ball-you-man help position because of what they do offensively. |
They've been a top-10 team for most of the season, and they've been very deserving of that ranking. They've been very consistent, have great experience and have one of the premier big men in the country (Gray). |
This doesn't surprise me at all. I said from day one, we were young and we were going to struggle at times. We made some key mistakes down the stretch. |
This group is inexperienced, but once they start practicing together more, I think the sky is the limit to how good they can become. We've won all our games not because of who we played but because we've played them all at home. It will be interesting to see how they handle going into this environment. |
This is a great group of guys and they want to win badly, but we have a little talent deficiency on the backboard. They want to rebound, but every game they get their tails kicked on the glass. |
This is a team that's very young, and I knew from Day 1 this year we were going to struggle. |
This is a very difficult conference. I don't think anyone in Louisville besides me knew that. Now they all know. |
This is not Conference USA. That was a finesse, fast-break type league. This is a football league in a basketball league. We let them push us around on the glass. You've got to put pads on and get ready to go. |
This is the most disappointing preseason I've experienced in a long time, ... We'll look for the silver lining, and when I can find it, I'll let everyone know. |
This is the most disappointing preseason I've experienced in a long time. We'll look for the silver lining, and when I can find it, I'll let everyone know. |
This is who we are; we are a very young and inexperienced basketball team. The key is, six weeks from now, how good can we become? |
This wasn't a good victory. It was a great victory. |
This win (over Notre Dame) can help immensely. Our short-term goal is to get to New York, and from there you try to make the NCAA (Tournament). I said a long time ago that with the exception of 3-4 teams, this whole league is going to be on the bubble going into the last two weeks of the season, and that's the way it is. |
Transferring, for him to get the playing time he wants, is the best thing for him. |
Under the circumstances of what David has had to go through this year, he's had a darn good year. And he's done it under the most trying circumstances you can imagine. His threshold for pain is kind of incredible. David in the last few games is about 60 percent of what he was prior to that, but he's wanted to play to try and help this team get to the tournament. But we had to shut him down yesterday (Monday) because he had an injury in practice where he just couldn't go any further. |