[Brown and Augustine] had special careers here. We wanted to send them out with a bang. |
Coach called timeout and he just told us that we have to play more aggressive or it was a going to end up like it was at Indiana, and we turned it around. |
Even if I didn't play the last two years, it was fun being part of this whole thing. It's going to be a great experience being on the court more, especially playing out West. |
He called me one night and told me to come outside and he'd come and get me and we went to the gym. It was out of nowhere, and we were at the gym for two hours. I'm glad he feels that way about me. He has some confidence in me. And we hang out a lot more now, just trying to get to know each other better. |
He called me one night and told me to come outside, that he'd come and get me. We came to the gym for two hours. It was out of nowhere. |
He told us ... we were going to have to hang our hats on defense and the offense was going to struggle from time to time. He was right. So we've just been trying to compete on defense as hard as we can. |
I look at (Dee) as a mentor. He told me when people start running at me, I have to do shot fakes. Once you knock down one or two I just got it going. |
I look at Dee as a mentor. He has been telling me when people start running at me I have to utilize the shot fake. Once you knock one or two down you start feeling pretty good about yourself. I just got it going. I'm trying to take the pressure off Dee and James and be a factor out there. |
I look at Dee as a mentor. He's told me when people run at me I have to do shot fakes. That's what I tried today. Once you knock one or two down, you start feeling pretty good about yourself. |
I thought I released it and then the shot clock went off. Obviously, I was wrong. |
I'm just trying to be aggressive, just do more than one thing. It's working well right now. I'm trying to be harder to guard, moving without the ball and spacing out when Dee comes my way. |
I'm just trying to take pressure off them. I don't want to be out there just to be out there. |
It was a little disappointing, but we have no one to blame but ourselves. We let a couple of games slip by. |
My teammates did a great job of screening for me, and our point guard (Brown) did a great job of seeing the floor. I'm not too worried about myself. I'm just worried about doing the little things that can help us win. |
Obviously, it was [an adjustment] for me. But it was something I had to do if I wanted to play here. So I dedicated myself to doing that. I love to win. That's more important than anything else. |