There are some guys you have to kick in the butt to get the response you want. There are some you need to pat on the back. He's one you need to pat on the back. |
There is no question that the better team won. |
There was a fracture that showed up on the X-ray, but it is an old fracture that occurred when he was in high school. The feeling initially by the people that looked at the X-ray up north was that it looked like a current injury, and if that was the case it was going to be a while. |
There was no question in my mind he was going to be a really good player, and we wouldn't have watched him as much as we did if we didn't feel that way. I think he's had a great opportunity at Stanford and he's taken advantage of it. |
There was so much hype about Gonzaga they just couldn't carry it through. |
There were a lot of times where he was open and didn't get the ball. The thing about a post pass, it's either there right now or forget about it. |
There were people who said that at the start of the year Sean would have taken over (the team). But Eddie's concern was that he didn't want to leave him an inexperienced team. Otherwise, I think he might have turned it over at the start of this year. At least those were some of the rumors going around with the coaches. |
There's a lot of optimism. |
There's no question that the thing that did it for us was our defense. That's been our trademark all year long. Our guys believe that defense is a way to win games. |
There's no question the better team won. They're just a whole lot more physical than what we are. In the first half, we made a lot of mistakes. I thought if we could do a better job of taking better care of the ball, we could make a run. But UCLA's just better. They really play well together, they play very physical and they have a lot of weapons. |
There's no question the better team won. UCLA is a whole lot more physical than we are. We got the ball to the bucket but they did a good job not letting us get the shot off. |
There's no question the team that played the hardest and the smartest ... won. |
There's no reason to change that (assessment). |
There's no sense of urgency. They don't have that refuse-to-lose mentality. |
They are just playing so well. They are doing the same things as last year. They run the break, and they are very good on the offensive boards because they have so much quickness. They can send five people to the boards and then cover up for it. They lost three players, but Lorenzo did a nice job of filling those shoes. |