Brian Smith
Brian Smith
Formerly played for South Sydney from 1975 to 1979 and is best known as the coach of teams like the Illawarra Steelers and Parramatta Eels.
ProfessionRugby Player
Date of Birth14 March 1954
bring guys people playing pushing starters stay
We were able to bring a lot of people off the bench. We were able to stay fresh. We have a lot of guys pushing our starters for playing time.
answered hearing people questions stuff sure year
Timmy's answered questions all year long and (now) I'm hearing stuff that people say he's got to do this or he's got to do that and I'm not really sure that he does,
build finding move people roads ways
We're finding we're not able to build all the roads we need to build, so we have to find other ways to move people around.
attitude games guys last mind nobody people played playing respects role seed thinks underdog won
The guys have played with the attitude (that) nobody really respects them and nobody really thinks they can win. We don't mind playing the underdog role and I think there's a lot of people that thought we were the underdog at the 4 seed and we shouldn't have been seeded fourth, and that's fine. Those are people's opinions, but we've won 16 of our last 18 games right now and we're just on a roll.
break designed finish major mentally move people second twice
It's a move designed to finish people. I've never been able to use it in a major competition, but I used it twice today. It can mentally break people and I could tell that he didn't want to try to get off his back when I used it the second time.
guys size
Our guys know the court's the same size we have here.
expect happen last reminded year yesterday
Yesterday was a joke. We don't expect that to happen again. It was a fluke. It reminded all of us about last year and how much we don't want to go through that again.
city danger impact putting seeing ships visual
We don't feel we are putting that roadway in any significant danger at all and don't feel that this has any significant impact on the city of Eastport in any way other than the visual impact of seeing the ships go by.
basketball played smart
We played smart basketball and did what we had to do down the stretch; we executed well.
hate race time
We hate that we won't be able to race at Joliet, but there just isn't enough time to get it done.
control game guys keys line
We had a lot of guys around the football. One of the keys to the game was that we were able to control the line of scrimmage offensively and defensively.
group match
Our first match in the group could not be more difficult,
field free good percentage throws
Our field-goal percentage wasn't good and our free throws weren't good; 14 of 23 (at the line) wasn't good.
attack bit blew boy came chris crowd early fortunate great heart learned learning maybe walk youth
Maybe some of our youth came out a little bit in that. But I think they learned their lessons. We were fortunate enough, like I said, to be able to walk out with one even after we blew that lead. It's all a learning experience; it's fun. I mean, a great crowd and the boy were into it -- I told Chris Newsome I thought he was going to give me an early heart attack and I'm too young to get one of those.