(Smith and Dudley) are the kind of guys that when you play against them, it's tough to like them. But when you get to know them, they're great kids. You hate to play against them, though, because they kill you. They beat you up. |
[So it was understandable that Wildcats coach Jay Wright expressed much caution in the wake of Fraser's return to practice on Monday. It was his first workout since Oct. 22, when he had his left knee scoped after experiencing swelling following Villanova's second practice.] He looked real strong, ... Now we have to be concerned with how his knee responds after every practice. We're going to take it very, very slow. |
[The Owls are] athletic and long, and that's what Louisville is. We'll be playing in a tough environment, so I feel good going into that game because of the way we played against Temple. |
A lot of times bigger players have to bang inside, they have to do the dirty work, they have to screen, they have to defend in the post, they have to post up. If a smaller guys doesn't mind doing that and actually enjoys doing that, he can play that position and that's what we have. |
Allan has a serious injury and he's doing OK . . . That's all we can say at this point. |
Allan has a serious injury and he's doing OK and being evaluated right now. |
Allan looked great. He was right back at it and didn't show any signs of tentativeness at all. He was right back at it. |
Allan's got that great scorer's mentality. He's different than the three of them. The four of them, tough, are very unselfish. |
And then to see Randy carry the flag into that stadium with 80,000 people. I could see how much confidence he had. He was growing up right in front of my eyes and was ready to take on the season. |
Anytime our guards got into their guards, there was always an outlet to one of their forwards. I was very impressed. |
Are they going to give us an asterisk? ... Curtis is going to have surgery on Nov. 11. At first we were devastated but we just went back to work. |
As a coach, everything I have I stole from somebody. In the Florida game, it was more of a case of, let's get through this, than, let's go to four guards. I wish I could take credit for it, but it's not really the case. |
At the end, he was just exhausted. I turned to him and asked: Have you got one more in you? |
At this point last year, we were in catastrophe mode. We were actually putting in new stuff, playing guys at different positions. ... I think we all were quietly apprehensive at this point last year, we didn't know what we were going to do. |
Billy (Donovan) has done an incredible job getting this group together. I think what we all see in them this year is an outstanding team. They just really play off each other. |