Dick Bennett
Dick Bennett
Richard A. "Dick" Bennettis an American college basketball coach who is best known for building the Wisconsin-Green Bay Phoenix men's basketball program into a mid-major power and revitalizing the Wisconsin Badgers basketball program. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he is the father of current Virginia Cavaliers head coach Tony Bennett and current Northern Illinois women's basketball head coach Kathi Bennett...
plays
They made the plays they had to make and we didn't.
inherited
I don't even look at those things. There were so many streaks that I inherited here, and Wisconsin. When I was at Wisconsin, there were so many streaks there, I kind of let them go in one ear, and out the other.
alternate created creates figured found given josh locked shots
They figured him out. Josh is not one who creates his own shot. His shots have been created off of our screens, and we've given him as many as possible. But they've locked him out by just concentrating on him and we haven't found a lot of alternate scoring.
affected loss
The loss of Derrick has affected us more than I expected.
break good happier life next point season work
I feel good about doing it. It didn't work out for me, but I think it was the right thing to do. I would be much happier if things break for (Tony) next season than if they had for me this season. I'm at that point in my life now.
arizona basket coached collapsed great team teams
They collapsed under the basket (on defense) better than any Arizona team that I've coached against. That's something all great teams have.
ball cost inability rebound
I think it's the inability to rebound the ball that really cost us the game.
great sure
I don't think we have any great players. In fact, I'm pretty sure we don't.
expense score
Because they score at the expense of their teammates.
awful dominated game group night picked players superior vastly
This is a game where we were just dominated by a vastly superior group of players and coaches. We picked an awful night to not even be able to find the basket.
basically comeback cut dominated game heart minutes players superior team took vastly won
They won the game in the first 10 minutes and there was nothing that we could do to cut into that margin. They basically took our heart early, and we're not a team that has a lot of comeback potential. This is a game that we were just dominated by vastly superior players and a coach.
certainly ease good jim mind mine puts
It was good that Jim put this in writing. It puts Tony's mind at ease and certainly mine as well.
ability guard handle nobody quick shoot simply
Nobody could guard him. They were just too quick for us. We simply weren't able to handle that or their ability to shoot the ball.
came counted missed shots
They made their shots when it counted and we missed ours. It came down to that.