Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Brady

When you have a player like Tyrus Thomas to roam around a basket and protect some defensive errors that you may make in the perimeter, it allows you to do some things that other teams may not be able to do.

John Brady

When you have a player like Tyrus, a guy who can just roam around a basket and protect you from defensive mistakes, it allows you to do things other teams can't. He has a wonderful gift for timing when blocking shots.

When you play the style we play, you're going to have some turnovers. But we had some uncharacteristic mistakes tonight. We need to get control of that. But I liked the way we clawed back into it. It's something we can learn from. If we don't learn from it, then we're not as good a basketball team as I think we are.

Rick Adelman

We always talk about basketball stuff, ... She'll talk to me about the practice, what she observed. She's very knowledgeable. She's been very good as a coach up there. They really do play hard, do the right thing.

Morris Peterson

We made a conscious effort to not make mistakes at the end, just play basketball and defensively we wanted to get some stops.

We love Maya; I could go on and on. Maya has a great desire to get better every time she steps on the court. She?s never complacent. And as much as she wants to improve on the court, she sees basketball as a tool to make a difference. Maya is far more than a great basketball player; she?s a great person. I have been blessed to have one of her because most coaches go through their entire career and not even come close to being able to coach a player like her. The kid is special.

When you have a guy like Bryce for four years, you know you are going to miss him not only because of the type of basketball player he is, but the person he is. He is one of those people you just build your system around.

Chris Gardner

When you don't guard the post and you don't take care of the basketball it is tough to win on the road in an environment like this. But we're young - we only graduate one - so, hopefully we can learn from this experience and go a little bit further next year.

We've got to get more out of them then we did last night. We've got to do a better job of finishing around the basket and getting in better position to score.

We've got to get back on defense, control the boards and stop their transition game. We've got to guard their sets and rebound the basketball. They're a tremendous rebounding basketball team.

We've got to focus on two things: taking care of the basketball and getting out of the situation of letting our offense dictate our defense. Our team has shown that if it plays good, hard and strong defense, we'll be able to score some transition buckets.

We've got to finish quarters strong and in the fourth quarter we have to play our best basketball.

This summer I was feeling really good about what kind of basketball team that we could create,

Gary Blair

There has never been a region like this. Never. There is no way a basketball coach, whether they're in this region or the other regions, can say this region is fair.

Charlie Villanueva

When Chris went out, someone had to step up, and I stepped up to the challenge. It feels good. It feels real good. It feels like you can't be stopped. The basket feels bigger than it already is.

When Chris came back out from the locker room to watch us from the bench, it gave us lift. He's just really important to us emotionally as a basketball team, even from the bench.

We said in the beginning of the playoffs, it's a whole new season. It's always been like that for Vermont basketball and it worked out pretty well for us today.

We rose to the occasion and played our best basketball the past few weeks. The end of our season sets a great tone for next year. These are building blocks for us.

Antawn Jamison

We're not a .500 basketball club, ... but we're playing like it.

We're trying to change a mind-set, because there has been a lack of success with men's basketball. One of the biggest things when I came in was to look at it from top to bottom. We're trying to put a new eye on things. ... A lot of people in the department have been here for a long time, 10 or 12 or 15 years. Hopefully I can bring some insight from (XU's) program.

We saw how we want to play. Eventually we would like our program to be where Bellefonte is and to play that type of basketball with ball movement and court spacing and rebounding and shooting.

Roy H. Williams

We saw a big-time basketball team play in a tough environment. Our guys in the second half, I love how hard we competed. ... It seemed like every time we'd get right there where I thought we could get over the hump, but we couldn't get a stop.

Corey Brewer

We said we played our worst basketball half of the year - and we're tied up.

We just haven't been getting the same financial support that basketball and football get. That's been our main disadvantage. So our programs end up having inferior equipment and poor playing conditions, and we can't hire the best instructors.

We just have not played good defense lately. That's not our character. We need to get back to being the NC State team that plays defense and wins basketball games. We can't rely on our offense to win games. Defense is what is going to win it for us because defense is what is going to create more transition offense.

We knew that we wanted to keep them from hitting easy lay ups on us. We decided that we would make them hit shots away from the basket to beat us and the girls did a great job of doing their jobs and sticking with the game plan.

We knew it would be a tough, physical basketball game and playing Central on its home floor would be a tough chore. We just kept telling the kids to stay calm and composed. Once we got the lead we were able to spread the floor and make them foul us. We didn't make a lot of free throws, but we made enough.

We knew it would be a defensive game tonight. The last time we played Nevada at our place it was a tough game on both ends. They were definitely the aggressor, they came out on a mission. They were determined to continue to play. Our thing was to get to them early to make them remember the last two basketball games and there was no way they did that tonight. They were focused, they were on a mission. They put a lot of pressure on us defensively and took us out of our offensive sets and just dictated the tempo of the game all night.

We just wrapped up a very good week of basketball. First we knocked off Lincoln, and then Bloomington and then finished like this. We are definitely playing our best basketball of the season right now.

We just weren't playing with the effort, the intensity, the desire, the passion that I think we're known for and that we've come to expect from our basketball team.

Billy Donovan

We thought the three-point line would be critical at both ends. It's the great equalizer in college basketball and we held them without one for (nearly) 35 minutes. And I thought Lee Humphrey shot the ball very well.

Mike Fratello

We thought it was the best thing for us to do. Let them have the opportunity to get back home, straighten out their personal lives if there is anything that has to be done and get them away from the heavy concentration on basketball so they can come back with a clean slate.

We thought, hopefully, we could out discipline them, but they were still able to fly by us a lot on penetration. We were able to keep them out of range early on and thought that would frustrate them, but when they wanted to get to the basket they could. There wasn't a lot we could do to stop it.