Last year [in St. Louis], we had a practice with 30,000 people. We had a select few today. But we never look much at the crowd anyway. |
Last year, there was a little more pressure. We're more of an underdog. We want to be special and get back to the Final Four. |
Once he starts hitting, you just set screens for him and he does the rest. When he hits a big shot, he gets that swagger and you just know it's gonna happen. |
Our fans are spoiled. We're 20-4 and people are acting like it's the worst year in history. We have two home games in a row now and we have to be ready for them. We can turn this thing right back around. |
Some of the players on our team have never lost at home. Dee (Brown) and I have only lost once, and that was a pretty bad feeling. It gives us motivation to win. |
Someone told me at halftime I had five assists, but I just laughed at it. The win's more important. |
Someone told me I had five assists at halftime and I just laughed. It's nice, but the win is more important. |
That was probably one of the best offensive exhibitions I've ever seen. Like he said, we had confidence in him and he took care of business. |
That'd be the best. To do it at home on Senior Night, to do it with Dee. It would be a special night. |
That's fine. It's easy for us. We watch the same film and maybe the (last) game to see what we did right and wrong. The scouting report is the same. So it's easier on the coaches and easier on us. |
That's why I'm not so emotional about it. It's more of a basketball game than Senior Night. If we don't come out ready to play, they're going to beat us. |
The bench did a great job. The other starters did an unbelievable job just to make our night special. I think they consciously wanted to go out there and play hard for us, and to win another game in the conference. |
The coaching staff did a good job with the scouting report. They handed out the tape and I watched a couple of times. We knew a lot of his shots would be 3-pointers. We tried to contest those and put a body on him, and it worked out well for me. |
The young guys are seeing it's going to get harder and harder as we go on. This is a good learning experience. But if we play like we did [against Michigan], we're going to get beat [by Indiana]. We need to play better basketball. |
They are a great team. We're going to have to go in there and steal one. But to win the Big Ten, you have to go on the road and win some big games. |