Chris Quinn
Chris Quinn
Christopher James "Chris" Quinnis an American former professional basketball player who currently serves as an assistant coach for the Miami Heat...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth27 September 1983
attention east game less longer pay rooting teams winning
We pay attention a little bit. I'm rooting for our Big East guys. For every game we keep winning there are less and less teams playing. The longer we can play, the better.
almost consider freshmen games guys played tenth veterans
I don't consider them to be freshmen anymore. They've played in a lot of big games for us so far. We're in our tenth game of the season, and those guys are almost veterans already.
games knew matter minute players shot took type
He's been through a lot of big-time games here. The minute he took that shot, I knew it was going in. He's one of those players that no matter what type of shot he takes, you think it's going in.
energy games ourselves pick reevaluate team time
We were pretty soft. We were not the team we had been in some of the games where we were battling. It was time for us to reevaluate ourselves and pick the energy up.
game great hanging love opportunity point season sneakers teams
A lot of teams at this point in the season are hanging up their sneakers and we get the opportunity to keep playing. For a lot of us, it's a game we love to play so the NIT is a great opportunity to have some fun.
earlier free games hit might stuck throws
Some earlier games this year, we might have folded. But we stuck together, hit free throws down the stretch.
games road together tougher
Road games are very important to us. We've got to be a together group; we've got to be a tougher group.
beat both good job team
I think we had some possessions there, both defensively and offensively after we were up five, and we didn't get the job done. To beat a team like Marquette, you have to be good in those situations.
hopefully people played
I thought I played pretty well and hopefully other people thought that too.
boards halftime pushing talked
Man, I was in there squeezing some boards down. We talked a lot at halftime to keep pushing it and keep getting better.
defensive focus halftime hang hold lead past push talked team teams though
We wanted to focus on the defensive end of the floor. When you hold a team to 49 points, that's always pretty good. The thing we really talked about at halftime was even though we were up 12, in past games, the 12 went to 10 and 8, and we let those teams hang around. We wanted to push that 12-point lead to 15 and 18, and concentrate on attacking.
coaching final fun next pleased successful year
We're not pleased with the final result, but with the inexperience we had we think it was a very successful year. It was the most fun we've ever had coaching a team, and next year we should be much improved.
almost came fought gave hard played second
We never gave up. We came back and played better in the second half, fought hard and almost won.
eight great guys playing
When we have those eight guys playing their roles, we can be a great team.