I think a lot of people thought that was it. We've done everything we could do, and I think that would be a fair assessment. I saw more than I thought we had. It was nice to see it. |
I think a lot of times, you find your (conference) tournament champion being somebody that underachieved. |
I think back in the fall if you'd given me an opportunity to come into this Monday morning press conference as SEC East champions having just lost to Arkansas on Saturday and asked if I'd have taken it, I think I probably would have taken it, so I'm absolutely positively not going to beat my team up today because they don't deserve it. |
I think it's very wide-open. I think LSU is obviously the team to beat as SEC (regular-season) champion. I think Florida comes in playing extremely well, as does Arkansas. |
I think Major needs to be challenged, and he needs to be a leader. He's capable of it. He knows how I feel about his abilities. |
I think most guys would have called it quits and had the surgery at the time of the injury. We obviously didn't report it from the standpoint of competing. We didn't want anybody to take advantage of it. It's out there now. Just imagine how he'd do with two hands instead of one. |
I think that we've got to focus on trying to come down the stretch here and start playing better basketball. Every night we've had some really, really intense, physical games the last three or four, and there's no margin for error with this team. When we slip up a little bit, obviously a team like Kentucky is able to expose it. |
I think the body of work and the fact that we had such a tough schedule was respected here tonight. |
I think this team showed a lot of character tonight. Vanderbilt played awfully well, and we were up against it. |
I think we are fortunate to have Kentucky as our rival. It is what is going to help me build this program into something. |
I thought every time Humphrey got an open look, that was the one that was going to go. He's a great player and got pretty good looks. There were 25,000 people in this building that were not going to let that ball go down. |
I told every kid I'm recruiting to make sure they're watching (last night) on CBS. Phillip wears the same color shirt as I do. We're on the same team. |
I told him I wanted his permission and his blessing to bring out the orange jacket for the Vanderbilt and Kentucky games. He fully approved of it. |
I told the team earlier this week that this could be an important game for us as far as the postseason - if we can get ourselves in position to be somewhere near that bubble - because this could be one that could help us but could hurt us. |
I told the team earlier this week that this could be an important game for us as far as the postseason if we can get ourselves in position to be somewhere near that bubble because this could be one that could help us but could hurt us. |