(We) know that we have a team that can do this. We got this far this year, and it's going to be a lot of the same guys and some new guys coming in that can definitely contribute the same way next year and the year after that. |
After that, we kind of got our focus. We made a conscious effort to be a great defensive team. |
All he talked about was defense. That's what he does, that's what he coaches, and that's what he preaches. |
Any competitor and any person who's at this stage needs to hurt to go far to improve and get better and don't let it happen again. |
Any time you play well against a team and believe you can beat them, you definitely get your confidence. It definitely carries over to the next game. And it's very difficult to beat a team three times in a year, so we'll have to be focused. |
At U.C.L.A., no other banner but national championships go up. |
Defense wins. Everybody in this locker room is a winner. You want to be in the winning locker room? Play defense. You gonna have shooting nights like tonight and yet look at the bottom line -- we're still winners. We're still the ones with the trophy. |
Every game is a chance for us to put it away. Nobody can catch us if we don't lose anymore. |
Every game is a chance for us to put some distance between us and the rest of conference. We know that no one can catch us if we don't lose. |
Experience is never overrated, no matter who you are. In our case, we're coming together as a family. We're playing harder than our opponents, and our defense is getting us through. |
For any guy in our locker room, in our program, in this family, we really know what matters. Nobody cares about individual accolades. That's why we're still playing. |
Getting off to a slow start (Thursday) against Gonzaga, we learned from that. We didn't want to come out the same way. We looked to be aggressive and really stayed tight on defense every possession, whether it was ball pressure or talking to each other. It definitely paid off. |
Going back to November, it was nonexistent compared to where we are now. |
He changes a lot of other shots even if he doesn't block them. He was great tonight. |
He changes shots with his height and his athletic ability. He's long with good timing. He does a good job of staying on the ground until it's time to go up and bother the shot. He definitely was a factor tonight. |