This program's always had tough kids. That is way too general. ... I'm not buying they didn't have toughness here. |
This team never, ever gets affected ... they just battle back. We're playing our best basketball of the year by far right now. |
This team never, ever gets affected by it. They just continue to battle back. There's nothing that they haven't seen in terms of adversity that's going to bother them. |
This was a great gut-check win for our team, our program. To go through all that and have to go to overtime and to gut it out, it's a testament to these kids' character. |
This was just a great gut-check win for our program. We beat an NCAA tournament team tonight, and to come out in this type of environment and play so well is a testament to our guys. |
This will be unbelievably hard on everyone, even though, you know, religiously, we all understand that this is a celebration day of her life. But it's too short a life as far as we're all concerned. |
This year has been exceptional in that we've had so many injuries, more so than in any other year. |
Thomas is the Shawn Marion of college basketball. And Shawn Marion is the greatest athlete in all of the NBA. |
Those kids were connected at birth as far as I'm concerned. I just happened to be the coach that was lucky enough to get them to come. |
To be down 11 at halftime (Thursday) and come out and play so well to start the second half - we have to stop doing that. |
To hold him to 20 is a minor miracle. |
To me, the image of L.A. is hard-working, good people, who play together and are tough. (They) just happen to live in the greatest place in the world. |
To shoot 3 for 19 from the threes and still win the game is a testament to our defense and rebounding. |
Tonight was just like our night. They missed some open shots. We didn't put a lid on the basket for their free throws. |
Typically if we get out-boarded by nine and shoot 5-of-13 from the foul line and allow someone to shoot 61 percent in the first half, we are not going to win. We gutted it out, found a way. |