It just wears on you. It happens quickly and suddenly, and it's lethal when it does. |
It was a game of two halves. I thought we played really well in the first half and did the things we needed to do to win the ball game. In the second half, we did exactly the opposite. We didn't do anything well enough to win. |
It was very difficult. We're not going to do it again. |
It's a game of two halves. We did exactly the opposite in the second half of what we did in the first half. We were nowhere in the zip code with Smith on his first two shots. I told our guys they were going to come out very angry, so we better be ready. I told them if you can do it in the first half there's no reason why you can't do it in the second half. |
It's a great environment. I was trying to tell the kids about the fans. It's a big-time atmosphere. We were trying to explain to the players that they are coming to a really class atmosphere and you have to be ready to play. |
It's a great league. They just start rolling in on you. |
It's a step backward. It just kills you. |
It's not how many times you get knocked down; it's how many times you get up. |
Liddell has a very diversified game, a very mature game for a freshman. He had a little bit of an Oscar Robertson game. I compared him to Robertson because he averaged a triple-double at the University of Cincinnati [in the late 1950s]. He has a great nose for the ball. He knows how to play. |
McAllister gave everything he had. We didn't have enough. |
Nothing worked. That's inexperience. You need someone to step up and make a play. We have no margin of error. We have to be at 85-90 percent effectiveness. It might be 95 percent to win a game. |
Nothing worked. We didn't get any clean looks, and I don't know if we got a clean look, if we'd knock it down anyway. |
Now we have to get the swelling down. It's a matter of his tolerance. |
One of us is going to win. Even by default. |
Our kids got up. [St. Bonaventure] put us on the mat and knocked us out. I kind of felt like they thought they had the game won then. We just came fighting our way back. |