For a while there in the second half, we played not to lose instead of playing to win. We had a chance to lose the game, but we won it, and we will move on. |
For us to get a first seed, it just doesn't happen. Well, it's never happened here before. It's hard. There are only four teams that get this. I'm really proud for the respect that the committee has shown toward us. |
Go ball. Go ball. I'll worry about the coaching. You just get out there and ball. |
Grown people cried in that arena, my wife and kids included. And it wasn't because we lost. They were crying for him. You learn that at your worst moment, people feel compassion. |
He has a mother and a father who absolutely love him and tell him that every day. They let him work through the grief and then said the grieving is over. (The game) was over by 3 o'clock, and by 7 or 8 they were eating on Beale Street. |
He made runners, he made them when they bumped him, he made them inside. He rebounded the ball. He did a fairly good job of defending. We (isolated) him about 10 straight times, and about nine of them, we got something good; either he scored or got somebody else something. |
He stands for three things: his family, his players and winning. I will miss playing him, but he will be coaching again. |
Hopefully he'll respond to this and understand I'm trying to do whatever I can to make sure he understands there are boundaries, |
How 'bout that. We're chasing greatness. |
How about that? That's the first time in the history of the school. |
I barely wanted to be here. ... We've got to be able to check a minute into the game who's into this energy. Who is into what we are doing. |
I did a better job last year than I did this year. |
I did a better job last year than I did this year. Awards are great. Our award we're trying to get here is trying to win this tournament. I'm happy for Rodney, happy for all the players who get these awards because they've worked hard for them. |
I didn't like the start of the game. The first two shots were not how you start a game. What I liked was as the game got going we had a big lead, we never got out of whack. We kept running our offense. |
I don't think he needs the verification. But what he has done there to develop players and to build a program and to do it alongside an unbelievable football program -- which is not easy -- and to have your own identity and to play big in big games says a lot. |