A game like this can rip your heart out somewhat, but you take the loss and get it behind you. |
Aaron Brooks had a bad game. He's had three fabulous games and he picked a tough night for us to have a bad game. We put Brandon in and he settled us. And he did a good job. |
Aaron with nine seconds left . . . take the ball to the hole, make a play, put the pressure on the officials to make a call. |
Any coach would be (concerned). Any road trip is a tough road trip, regardless of what people's records are. And they get tougher because a lot of us need to win games. |
Any road trip is a tough, tough road trip regardless of record. It's tougher in the second half of conference play because a lot of us need to win games. So you worry about performing well on the road. |
As it stands now we've got to win on Saturday. Obviously you want to protect your home court. |
Between him and Ivan, they've been pretty productive down there. With us, the way we've been playing, we've just got to go to the people who are consistent regardless what size they are. (Adam) and Ivan Johnson have both given us a real a solid five man at the spot. |
Bounce back. I can't say enough about them hanging in there and fighting through so much. They're starting to come now. |
But from the perspective of a dad, I soul-searched and said to myself, here was someone who's very gifted and wants to try something. |
Even though we came up empty-handed on this Bay Area trip, we actually got better as a basketball team. If we can grow from what we accomplished down here, come back home and protect our home court, we'll be a different team going out on the road. |
For us, it's move forward. If he comes back it will be a plus for us. |
From Day One when we recruited him, my job was to get him to the NBA. And he has said all along that he will not go until he's ready to go. |
Get used to it. We're not planning on stopping. |
Grit is what I saw. I've got to stay positive with them. The things they did to get themselves in that position (to overtake Arizona) was huge. |
He was a pro tonight. |