In the first five or six minutes of the game, we were right on target with what we needed to do to win this game. Tonight, it seemed like everything we tried to do, they did just a little bit better than us. |
It came down to the wire and Utah made some really good plays. |
It is a real factor. |
It is very hard for defenders to stay in front of him. He is deceptively fast for a kid as big as he is. Rashaun gets about 27 minutes a game, sharing the point with Austin Ainge. |
It looked pretty bleak there for a minute. |
It was a great lesson for us. |
It was a style Austin hadn't seen before. He got used to it later, but all our guys battled, and I'm proud of them. |
It's a great time of year. There's a lot going on, and there's a lot of focus being paid to conference standings and potential NCAA tournament teams. It's a time of year where some people thrive and others struggle. |
It's a very tight-knit group, and they're all supportive of each other. |
It's all what you make of it. I personally think the bye week is a good thing. The kids seem to get really hungry when they have a week off. |
It's just a matter of worrying about yourselves, getting ready and trying to play hard. |
It's something we can build on, even if it wasn't our best game. |
Less than one-half of one percent of our students are involved in assaults. |
Let me tell you, that guy is really, really good. It's hard to judge how he'll do with blocked shots because he didn't have any against New Mexico in the last game, but he had 19 against us in two games. You wonder if he'll be healthy. ...You try to prepare the players for how he might help out, but at the same time you don't want to get them so nervous that they're just throwing the ball up. |
Luckily, the weather's not too good with the snow. So it's a good environment for basketball. |