It's everything I thought it would be. Us winning at Pacific and Louisiana Tech winning. Fresno State played Creighton very strong. It bodes well for us in general. |
It's going to be a matter of who can get the tempo their way. It will be different because we will have Elijah back. |
It's up in the air. |
No doubt he gave them solid minutes, which is what a sixth man is supposed to do. |
Obviously, (the Red Raiders) are very well coached. They run their stuff until they get a good look. From a talent standpoint, they're very average. They have a couple of real solid players, but they just run their stuff. This game is very simple, but we make it hard. |
Our coaches taught us that, as young black men, it's not enough to be good. If you're not better than, you're not going to get the shot, ... Not on the court, not in life. |
Really, all you can do is try to take the things that happened to you negatively and try to overcome them. |
Right now, we're on the verge of something pretty special. |
The key is my guys have learned how to win and learned how to finish games. |
The referee said (Fisher) threw a punch. It's a bonehead move if he did it. I didn't see it. |
The things that we went through back at Inglewood High, we were going to have to deal with in years to come. We just didn't know it then. That's the bane — and the blessing. |
The turnovers about gave me a coronary. But I think part of that was due to fatigue. |
There's got to be some sort of grace period to see if there is improvement (for new coaches) before you get hit with a penalty. We've got a new AD, a new president, new programs that we've implemented, and you would think we could get at least one of those penalties rescinded. But we didn't. |
They're a team that tries to slow the game down, and we're a team that tries to play as fast as possible. It's going to be a matter of who can get the tempo to go their way. |
They're a team that wants to slow the game down. And we want the game to be as fast as possible. So it's really going to be a matter of who can get the tempo going their way. |