He played like a grown man. |
He said, 'Good luck in the national championship game? . . Wow, that sounds great. |
He's a monster. He's not the SEC Player of the Year for no reason. |
He's an animal, everybody knows that. We just came at him with different traps. He weighs so much and he's so talented offensively. He can put it on the floor, he can shoot it, and he's so hard to keep off the glass because he's so big. |
He's like my best friend. We talk on the phone almost every day. |
He's not the player of the year for nothing. But we played a lot of zone on him. I was just being aggressive. We tried to keep him guessing and on edge. |
He's not the SEC player of the year for no reason. We just tried to contain him. He did get our frontcourt in foul trouble, but we did a pretty good job on him. |
His girlfriend is like 30 years old. He goes to clubs. The last time I was out with him, I couldn't keep up. |
History doesn't help you win basketball games. What does history do to help you win a basketball game, or what does tradition do to help you win a basketball game like [tonight's]? |
I am so happy he was able to see me play. And to win, too. It would have been very depressing if we had lost this game. |
I came out fired up but at the same time they did a really good job of defending me, especially [Will] Thomas. I mean, what can I say? He did a great job on me. I'm just glad the other guys stepped up because there were definitely some points where I stunk it up a little bit. |
I can't pass this up. This is too good. |
I can't wait. These are the reasons we come to play basketball for the University of Florida. We want to be in environments like that. You dream your whole life about playing in front of 24,000 people and having 24,000 people hate you. |
I could see pretty early in the game. But it's not about that. It's team effort. I got a lot of blocks, but we were intimidating inside because we are trees (tall players) out there. |
I definitely wanted to say, as a teammate, I am really proud of a guy who wasn't able to play as much as he wanted to, but he's not giving up. It's just a sign of his strength mentally. We definitely needed him tonight. |