We're still, you know, making some mistakes — some unforced mistakes that cost you. They could have cost us tonight. |
We've been to the finals a lot and we want to play well. It will be a tough game. |
We've been way behind against quality teams, but we keep fighting back. This team fights hard. They make some mistakes, but they keep fighting. When you lose four in a row and do what we had to do to win tonight, I'm very proud of them. This is a great lesson for all the guys. They can win without Gerry. |
We've got bad foul shooters, what can I say? We won. |
We've got some really good teams. It's going to take a major upset for somebody to beat Connecticut. And three or four of our other teams are good enough to make a Final Four, maybe five. |
We've got to score on the perimeter. There's no secret there. ... If we don't score on the perimeter, we're not going to score. Offensively we have to get better. |
We've had too many bad turnovers and we've got to get that corrected. |
We've learned some things about our team this week. |
What Mike has done is certainly in the same category as what John Wooden did. It's an awfully, awfully impressive thing in today's world. |
When Connecticut caught us, and they caught us a lot, we kept going. Gerry wouldn't let it get away. He was playing on half a leg today. He's got more guts than anybody I've ever coached. |
When Gerry gets going like that, it's disheartening. He can pull up and make it from anywhere inside the half court. |
When Gerry got the ball coming down, I set something up. I told him (to) drive and give it to one of three guys at the end of regulation. He looked at me and said, 'Can I shoot it?' I said, 'They're not going to let you shoot it. But if they do, shoot it. As soon as he released it, there was never a doubt that ball was nothing but net. |
When they caught us, and they caught us three or four times, we kept going. Usually, when that happens, you let it go away a little bit. But these guys (Syracuse player) wouldn't let it go away. |
When you lose three straight games, you lose a little confidence. And we've lost a lot of confidence. |
When you lose your best player without any practice time or anything (to prepare), that's a huge mountain to overcome. I think this is a great lesson for the other guys, that they can win without Gerry. That'll help make them stronger, give us a chance to rest Gerry. Other guys know they can step up and make plays. |