This was one of the worst defensive teams I've had. I tried to adjust to people. People are gonna start adjusting to me. ... I don't think anyone wants to be perceived as a jerk. Sometimes a coach wants to be liked. I don't care if I'm liked anymore. We will be tougher. |
Those two guys are going to have to learn under fire. |
Those two statistics are ridiculous. But as down as I am and as our fans are, this season wasn't a total disaster. We won 22 games and had some good wins playing maybe the toughest schedule in the country. |
To do it in front of a lot of his home and family, that's pretty exciting and impressive. I was happy for him. I thought he made a couple of big key plays in clutch times. |
To do it in front of his family, that was exciting. I thought he made a couple of big plays at clutch times. ... We have pretty good players, and I think it means we've got guys who've stuck around. Those two things are good. |
Turnovers really killed us. We struggled not to turn the ball over. |
Usually, if the head isn't working, the body dies. It doesn't matter how powerful the body is. And a point guard in our system is the head. |
We asked Paul one time if he was doing that to pad his own rebounding stats or if he was doing it for real. |
We bring people from different areas, and they melt into one. |
We came here to get our school clothes. |
We did a pretty good job on a lot of guys, just free throws, free throws, free throws. |
We didn't execute as well in the last three minutes. We were shooting almost 50% against a good team, we just couldn't get it done down the stretch. |
We didn't get beat by some chopped-liver team. I mean, don't kid yourself: They're going to win a lot of games -- a lot of games. |
We didn't play great but we played good enough to win. This was a step. How big a step? It's too early to tell. |
We didn't play well, they played well. They deserve the credit that they get. That's an NCAA (Tournament) team, I don't think there's any question about that. |