302 ordspråk av Mike Krzyzewski
Mike Krzyzewski
We know we have a lot of fans, but how are they going to get to see us play? In our arena, you just can't get a ticket.
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We lost, and that's the main thing that went wrong,
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We overcame one of the great performances of an individual that has been done here in the last five years. Thornton's performance was nothing less than spectacular.
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We played better and we didn't let up.
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We played better defense against them, but we just fouled them too much. Their two big guys went to the line for 30 free throws. The initial defense was good, but you can't foul them like that, and they hit a pretty good percentage of their free throws.
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We played really well in the second half, except for those last few minutes. It started with the last four minutes of the first half, when we started getting hands on balls and turned defense into offense.
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We put something in, and he improvised. It was all him, and it was huge.
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We thought we could really deny passing lanes tonight and our kids did, and that was something we really exploited right from the get-go. That was set up by [Paulus'] pressure on the ball.
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We valued the ball and we played great defense in the second half. That's why we won and that's why we were more aggressive on the offensive end. We were being strong with the ball and strong on the ball defensively.
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We went into him more today down the stretch than we've done ever.
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We went to like a match-up zone to stop their penetration. That's the first time we've played that for that extended amount of time. We played it for about 10 minutes -- that's 10 minutes more than we've played it most seasons.
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We were being strong with the ball and strong on offense. But we're managing to overcome it by scoring when we need to.
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We were never a dominant team. We knew that, and things would have to go right for us to win.
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We were not worthy of our jerseys, our Duke jerseys, in the first half.
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We weren't as good of a team last year. That team did remarkable things - they were a remarkable team to accomplish what they did.
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