Auburn is a very difficult team to play against, because they take so many threes. When they make them like they did - and I thought they made some awful difficult shots - they're going to hang around and play with anybody. |
Based on what do we deserve to win those games? Based on what? Three, four sophomores and a freshman? That doesn't give us a right. |
Because he made shots, it energized the rest of his game. He was getting away from that. He was getting ahead of himself. |
Because the game was close, our weaknesses got magnified. We had the same weaknesses against Kentucky, but when you win by 17 ... you have a tendency to look past all the mistakes and focus on all the exciting plays. |
Certainly, I'd like to make a deep run in the tournament. But I'm at peace with this team. |
Chris has seen himself improve and get better. And I think that is a tribute to him really making some great strides as a person in terms of his work ethic, in terms of competing, in terms of understanding what we want as coaches. |
Chris, really, to be honest with you, was a very, very difficult guy to coach in his first two years here. And he has really grown. |
Coach Pitino sat me and Delray down and told us, 'If you take one shot, we'll lose,' ... I don't know if it was radical as much as he was saying to us, 'Here's what we have to do to take advantage of the way Georgetown is playing.' |
Coming out of high school, he was one of the few guys that could dominate a game without scoring, ... He was special. The way he played against us was the way people thought he'd be. If he played like that every game, he wouldn't have been at Villanova very long. |
Corey had a very good game shooting the basketball. |
Corey just didn't have it today. And it's hard to expect him to have it when you don't practice for two days. |
Corey was a definite spark for us at the start of the second half. He made a couple baskets to get us going and he did some good things defensively. |
Corey's ankle has not healed at the rate we would have liked. He has not been himself. When he'll be 100 percent, I don't know. |
David shouldn't have been out there. He wasn't feeling well at all. |
Did I think I would be here for 10 years? You never know. You almost have to go one year at a time and try to do the very best job you can. . . . It's very hard to stay at a place a very, very long period of time. |