In terms of looking at Marcus and comparing him with other players who have come through this program, I would say Marcus is more like Sean than anybody else. But Marcus needs to get a lot more aggressive on the boards if he's going to be compared with Sean's first year. |
In the first half we could not buy a basket. Washington made us take the shots that they wanted us to take. Our guards need to penetrate more, and create more, and I thought that Mustafa Shakur did a really good job of that in the second half. |
In the first half, he was too quick to pull the trigger. |
In the second half his shot selection was better. Mustafa (Shakur) did a better job at kicking back the ball to Chris to give him a better shot. In the first half, he was too quick to pull the trigger. |
In the second half we did a good job defensively and made it difficult for them to get looks at the basket. Marcus' size and length bothered their point guard. |
It doesn't take a Rhodes scholar, ... if a guy is shooting 41 percent and a guy is shooting 53 percent, who the best shooter in the country is. If he played in the East, he'd be first-team all-America. He'd be the number one two-guard in the country. |
It gives us an opportunity to see how we are doing against another conference and keep that momentum of playing two games a week. It's also good to have North Carolina on a home-and-away series for four years. It helps our conference and West Coast basketball. |
It is an important streak to keep going. It is nice to be able to go in when you're recruiting and tell the kid that we were in the tournament four years before you were born. |
It is at the stage now we need to concentrate on the things we do well and eliminate the things we don't do well. |
It is good to be home finally. As we look at the remaining seven games, we definitely have to protect our home court. There is no question about that and then see what we can do about (the road). |
It may be a neutral court but not a neutral environment. But I guess after Illinois last year, we should be used to this. |
It probably lit a fire under him that if he's going to be in there he's going to have to earn it by being more aggressive. And he was much more aggressive tonight. |
It seemed like every time they got a decent look they put it away. We made, I thought, too many mistakes in terms of defensive play on penetration. We gave up far too many penetrations to the basket area. Probably 95 percent were right-hand drives and that's the thing we needed to take away. |
It seemed like every time they got a decent look, they put it away. We made, I thought, too many mistakes in terms of defensive play on penetration. We gave up far too many penetrations to the basket area. Probably 95 percent were right-hand drives, and that's the thing we needed to take away. |
It seems like he's had tough luck staying healthy. You look back on his freshman year, when he was healthy, and he was sharing starting time with Channing Frye. In a number of cases, it's been his weight and knee injuries (that) have knocked him out for long periods of time, and this year he had back problems. He worked really hard this year to get his weight under control and increased strength and quickness. |