As good as (Jordan) was, our team was fortunate to pull it together and be better than Marist. It's not a game for individuals. It's a game for teams, and our team, today, was better than them. |
Charron never lost confidence in himself. When the bright lights are on, he wants to be out there. |
He's a man on a mission. I think that whole team is. |
I don't know if we're consciously trying to do that but we talk about valuing the basketball and the possessions are longer. We've made the possessions longer defensively, playing some zones, and offensively our possessions are longer, too. In years past we just let Alvin Cruz push it up there and try to find somebody quick. |
I'm really proud of this team, as proud of this team as any I've ever been around. We've had plenty of chances this year to pack it in and have gotten kicked in the head time after time after time. These guys just refuse to give in. |
It was a great win for us. We beat a hot team which has become one of the best teams in the league. These guys are starting to believe in themselves. All the things we talked about four, five, six weeks ago they had to prove we could do them. We're starting to prove we can do them. |
It will be tough. One of Fairfield's strengths is their depth. They have 10 or 11 guys, and if you even count our managers we have only nine. |
It's a good feeling to be at home and it's a good feeling to get a win. Four to six weeks ago, we probably wouldn't have won this game, but we're coming together as a team. It was better for us to battle back and win this game than to win by 12 to 15 points. |
It's caused them to focus more in a lot of ways. |
It's just simple execution. Cut hard, screen hard and pass good. It's not something we've never worked on before. |
It's not often somebody scores 36 points and you say you did a good defensive job on him. Lorenzo locked him up and Clif Brown did a good job, too. |
It's our ball and anything but that. It was a combination of execution. One guy not coming hard enough to the ball and another guy not putting enough zip on the pass or reading that he wasn't open. |
Our goals are the same. Nothing has changed at all. There's no panic here, no sense of any of that stuff. We're close, so doggone close you can still feel it. We've been a one-play-here, one-play-there kind of team so far. That's why we don't sleep a lot at night. |
That whole team is on a mission. They have the senior leadership and they can win this. |
That's a real good team. They can score. You can't cheat on anybody. They've got a lot of different weapons. |