We had good looks for the most part. We executed pretty good, we just didn't make good shots. |
We have challenged him this year. If we are going to be good, Serge needs to make plays at both ends of the floor. He had some good games last year, but we need more, ... He went back to Cameroon for the first time in more than five years to see his family this year, and I think that has rejuvenated him. |
We just didn't put two good halves together. |
We keep putting ourselves in position (to win). We've just got to do the small things. We just didn't get the breaks we needed, at the time, when the game was in the balance. |
We knew he was a great player coming in. In the second half he was taking good shots and playing aggressively. |
We knew that's what they could do. We also knew that was what they would try to do in the second half. We just didn't do anything to stop them. |
We met with the six returning players from last year and in those meetings my staff and I went over what each of them needs to do to improve their skills and help the team, ... With the improvements that all the returning players have made by spending the summer on campus and working in the weight room, in conditioning and on their skills, we have a chance to be right where we were last year and that is competing for an NCAA Tournament spot. |
We really worked on him. We really tried to front him. We tried to make him work hard to get the basketball. I thought we did a good job on him. We just couldn't keep him off the free-throw line. |
We still have something to play for. When you don't have anything to play for it's a little easier to throw the towel in and start pointing fingers. Our goal is still the same -- to win every basketball game we can and put ourselves in a position to get ready for the Pac-10 tournament. |
We talked at the half about making sure we came out and did not have a lull. We wanted to make sure we stayed aggressive, moved the basketball and moved our bodies. I thought they did a great job of that. |
We were going a little too fast at the end of the half there. We had a chance of widening that lead a little bit by slowing up the tempo and playing our game, but they hit some tough shots. It wasn't bad defense, it was good offense on their part. |
We'll continue to bring Sylvester along. |
We're actually going to be at seven locations and there are going to be seven individual winners and we're going to have those winners do a final exam where they do a little reporting story of their own and then we're going to have one winner from those seven finalists, |
We're longtime friends, we're golfing buddies. I told him, 'Good luck in retirement. Of all the people I know you deserve it,' and I said, 'I love you' and he said he loved me. |
We've improved every game we've played. We played some games early that tested us against Santa Barbara, Iowa and Minnesota. We've gotten better. We're still a very young team. We've got six new guys. |