He had to be a little bit tougher and finish. He got some good, tight catches in the second half where he didn't finish. |
He hasn't been right for probably two months now. He's been carrying a burden in a very public way. All I can do is be there. I can befriend him; I can put my arm around him; we can love him. We want to make sure, obviously, that he has some closure. |
He hasn't been right for probably two months. He's been carrying a burden in a very public way. It's been very, very difficult to be dealing with what he's been dealing with for the last year and dealing with it in this conference. |
He hasn't been right for two months. He's carried the burden in a very public way and it's been very difficult for him dealing with what he's dealt with for the past year. He's played in this conference in a very public manner and it'd be difficult for anyone to deal with. |
He is a winning player -- he's got a toughness about him that's unique. He has a knack for making other people better. I don't know where we'd be without him. |
He pushed us around. He pushed us underneath the backboard. That's something that we talked about. He either fouls out in five minutes or gets seven offensive rebounds. Unfortunately, today he got seven offensive rebounds. |
He was a basketball junkie. Having his son play in this conference [the ACC] and be productive in this conference I think was something that was really special to him. |
He was a basketball junkie. Having his son play in this conference and be productive ... I think was something that was really special to him. He's really just a good man who loved his son and was supportive and fought — his oncologist gave him until December and here it is February. |
He'll come back when he's ready to come back. |
He'll come back when he's ready to come back. I'm not going to give him a time frame. That's not my place. The guy has to be at peace. That's more important than anything that's going on here in Blacksburg. When he gets back, he gets back. |
He's a kid in a man's body. He might be intellectually as bright as any kid that plays college basketball, but he's still a kid in a man's body. |
He's a very good shooter who always shoots on balance, and that's a rarity today. He never shoots off-balance. |
He's extremely quick and they do a good job of opening up the floor for him. He runs really hard in transition, he has the ability to get to the rim and he's got some maturity about him as a junior. He doesn't take plays off. |
He's going to be a really, really good player because it's important to him. He's the first guy in the gym every single day. He's the last guy to leave almost every single day. |
He's got a burden that's sapping him from his energy. He's going through it ... in the biggest conference in America, the most-publicized conference in America, and it's a very public pain he's going through. |