It's unbelievable how it's all worked out, most of all with these four letters on my chest. |
Jordan is a perfectionist, so everything that doesn't go right he wears on his sleeve. |
Jordan was masterful down the stretch at handling the ball and really doing a good job for us. |
Jordan went down to visit Florida, and they did a great job on the visit. His host was (current Grizzly player Anthony) Roberson, and he loved him. He had a really good relationship with Roberson. So when he came back, he was really leaning that way. |
Josh had surgery back in late September and at this point his pain levels are just unacceptable, just too much to handle. He has constant throbbing during every practice and every game, he's very sore every day and the next morning he's obviously very stiff. And it's not getting better. |
Josh Shipp was huge tonight. I mean, having not played 13 weeks, for him to do what he did tonight was just miraculous. |
Josh Shipp's minutes tonight were critical. He was spectacular. |
Just so you know, our goal is to not let you ram it down our throat. |
Last time I checked, Larry Brown started in college, for example, and he might be one of the top coaches. |
Maybe not that many. But it will be close. |
My biggest thing with him is he would never take any time off. He was sneaking in the gym. We got beat by West Virginia and all of a sudden he's back in the gym that night shooting for two hours. It's actually counter-productive when you wear your body out that much. It's like a marathon runner getting ready to run a marathon by running five marathons the day before he's going to run the marathon. |
My heart sunk watching Steele even get a shot off. |
Obviously, we don't have the depth we'd like. Everybody has to do a little more when you face adversity. |
Obviously, we're real pleased to get the win. That was a great finish for us. It's really just a testament to the character, the toughness, the heart of our players to have the never-quit attitude. I'm really, really proud of them. |
Our defense is what kept us in the game. I thought Oregon played very good defense as well. Somehow we hung around because we were playing good defense, playing every possession really tough. |