African warrior. He played like a man tonight. |
After that (Alabama) game we had a team meeting. I think everybody looked at themselves and everybody bought into what will win games. I think we've done a good job listening to coaches and just going out and executing the game plan and just playing smart. |
All good stories have to come to an end. George Mason is a good team but we came here with a mission to win a national championship. |
All good stories must come to an end. |
All the talk was about Anthony, Matt and David leaving. Those three are great players, but we have a bunch of good players that returned. We just wanted to prove to everybody that we can play. |
At the end of practice, sometimes, we all get together. The first one to miss gets eliminated, and then we go from there. |
Both teams were fatigued at the end, but that's something you got to play through. |
Chris Richard was big for us. Like I said, he brings a lot of energy coming off the bench, and he doesn't get a lot of credit. But the things he does when he's in the game - rebounds, being physical, getting easy dunks, tip-backs - he just makes good decisions when he's out there. |
Coach gives us a lot of freedom to shoot. He just told me to be smart, to make sure that I was taking good shots. |
Coach kind of got upset that we didn't listen to him. We can't let half our shots be threes in the first half. |
Corey got called for a couple of cheap ones. But that's just something you've got to play through. |
Defensively, we had to rebound, stop penetration and prevent them from getting easy looks at the basket. |
Every time he shoots, I think it's going in. Those three threes were big. It just opened the game up for us. |
Every time Lee shoots, I think it's going in. He's just that good of a shooter. |
Everybody had us in the NIT. We wanted to prove ourselves. After that tournament, everybody bought into the fact we could be a special team. |