It's what you expect when you play a Dick Bennett-coached team. |
My store is basically a working museum. There's not a lot of new hat equipment out there, so I still use what they used long ago. |
None whatsoever. They are a completely different team that's playing extremely well. |
Oh, my goodness, they don't have three lottery picks. They've had a bad stretch, but that's all everybody wants to talk about. All I see is an athletic team, a Hall of Fame coach (Lute Olson) who gets the most out of his players and has been for 20-some years. But before all is said and done, as always, they will be a team to be reckoned with. |
People talk about how young they are, but sophomores today have played a lot of basketball. If you are a good player you are a good player. |
Preseason predictions and rankings don't mean a thing. |
Quite frankly, I don't care if we had six guys who could have stepped in, when Matt's playing like that, you leave him on the floor. They're college kids. I've never seen a guy who's healthy who wants to sit. And when the ball's going down and you're playing well, nobody wants to come out. |
Right now our total energy is based on Arizona and trying to play better than how we played against the Bruins on Saturday. I think it's premature to respond to anything relating to the NIT. |
That basketball team with the exception of (freshman) Marcus Williams was a game away from going to the Final Four last year. So there's some experience. Everybody wants to talk about how down Arizona is. But they still have a good nucleus. ... All our problems today were caused by their play. It's not what we didn't do, but what they wouldn't let us do. |
That is a very good basketball team, without many weaknesses. We got off to a horrendous start and never recovered. It seems like every hustle play every key rebound they got. ... They beat us on the glass, they had more energy. They are better than we are. |
That is extremely hard to do. Did I say anything to him? Nah. What was I going to tell him, make them? |
That would be like us trying to play without Chris Hernandez. |
The bottom line is we're not playing very good basketball. We're not a very confident group right now. |
The easiest thing to do in coaching is when you have an element of success, to take off (for) the highest paycheck. That's never been the agenda for me. My agenda has always been what's best for the kids. |
The first half we probably shared the ball as well as we have all year. Zones give us a chance to get open looks. When teams get up on us and pressure us man-to-man, it causes problems for us. There were a couple sequences in the first half where we made seven or eight passes, side to side. Zones are usually good for us. |