They are not like they were under Dick, but they are still a half-court-oriented team. They're not a team that goes up and down a lot, but there aren't a lot of teams in the Big Ten that do that. |
They are running the ball a lot more on the break. They're being aggressive as far as taking the ball to the basket and making things happen. |
They create a lot of problems inside with Hansbrough because you can't handle him by yourself, and they did a nice job of moving perimeter people to open shots. They hurt us on baseline drives which we had said, going in, that's their drive of preference. They did it and continued to do it. |
They have so much respect for Mustafa. They knew how excited he was about coming home. |
They missed shots from when I watched them before, they didn't miss any. I just hope they shoot the ball against us like they did yesterday. |
They were expected to be down a ways. |
They're a great shooting team and when you have to drop ... they did a good job of finding the open man. |
They're hard to play. We got that lead and it looked like we were in pretty good shape. Then they scored on eight or nine possessions and were right back in the game. |
They're just playing so well. |
They're not a team that goes up and down a lot, but there aren't a lot of teams in the Big Ten that do. We're going to try to play our brand of basketball, and I'm sure our style has been faster than their style. But the good thing is, in our league, there's been a good balance of both. |
They're not that quick as much as they are physical. That took Staf out of his game. |
They've played really well ever since Dick Bennett has been there. It's a case now where (players) have been there two or three years now and they understand his system. They need to do what (Bennett) wants them to do to be successful. |
They've played well ever since Dick Bennett has gotten there. It's been a case where guys have been involved (in the program) for two or three years. They understand the system and know they need to do the things coach wants them to do if they want to be successful. |
This game was invented to have fun. If you can't enjoy playing basketball, you've missed a lot. |
This is a great tournament. That's something the tournament committee needs to take a look at. Maybe there needs to be a radius in miles (from campus) or something. But I don't for one second want that to sound like the reason we lose the game. It's not. |