Bob Hill
Bob Hill
Robert W. Hill is an American basketball coach. Hill grew up in Mount Sterling, Ohio moving to Worthington, Ohio for high school. Upon graduating from high School, Hill entered Bowling Green State University. During the summer of 2011, he was invited by Nike to help Taiwan men's basketball team as a consultant. Most recently, Hill was the assistant coach of the Ukrainian national team at the 2014 FIBA World Cup and the 2015 Euroleague, as well as an assistant coach...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth24 November 1928
commitment credit definitely players playing
You have to give the players a lot of credit because it's definitely different than the way we were playing before. It's at the other end of the spectrum, and it was going to take a commitment on their part, a lot of concentration.
basket bell contested easy pick points poison rather shot
You have to pick your poison with them. How many points did Bell have (23)? It's something you had to live with. I'd rather them take contested threes than get an easy shot at the basket inside.
death easy great scared score start
We got off to such a great start and I was scared to death of that. Because when you score that easy, you're not going to score that easy the whole game.
bad beaten denver none
We didn't play. None of us. As bad as we played, Denver should have beaten us by 50.
bad beaten compete denver excuse gave guys none schedule
We didn't play. None of us. That's embarrassing. Our front-line guys didn't compete with their bench. There was no excuse for our performance. I gave the guys (Thursday) off because of the upcoming schedule and I shouldn't have. As bad as we played, Denver should have beaten us by 50 and they didn't.
bench compete guys none phoenix played rested
We didn't play. None of us. That was embarrassing. They played their bench because they play Phoenix (tonight). They rested their front-line guys. Our front-line guys couldn't compete with their bench.
chance fought ourselves position quit shot
We didn't quit and fought back. We put ourselves into a position where, if we make a shot here or there, we have a chance to win.
indicator playing playoff
When you're playing playoff teams, it is more of an indicator of where we are and how we're playing.
deserved group prouder win
Under the circumstances, I can't be much prouder of this group of players' effort. I think they deserved to win this game.
circumstance continue defense good profound work
Under the circumstances, it was a profound effort. I thought our pick-and-roll defense was horrendous, we have to continue to work on that. We got off to a good start.
chance circumstance game guys job keeping ourselves terrific
Under the circumstances with so many guys out we did a terrific job of keeping ourselves in the game with a chance to win.
disrupt help jeopardize knows open shoot
We're not going to jeopardize the game, but he knows if he's open from 3, he can shoot it. I'm going to try to help him. He's going to try to get it, but it's not going to disrupt what we do as a team.
board drawing fighting lose spot win
We're fighting for a spot in the kids' hearts. We win some and lose some. We'll regroup, go back to the drawing board and see what we can do.
climate doubt entire good playoff run team
We're good enough to be a playoff team with those two, no doubt about it in my mind. We're a different team with them. We're fast. We run and get out on the break. ... The entire climate has changed.