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...
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I found it easier than I thought it would be. You have a ton of interviews, but if you're comfortable in those settings, it's not bad at all.
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What people don't like is uncertainty. What they really don't like is a president who doesn't acknowledge uncertainty and deal with it. Americans can take bad news, but they want a way out of it and they don't see that from Bush.
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We got some offensive rebounds in the second half and the fact that our half court defense was better ... particularly from Ivory Clark. He made Brandon Roy work for everything he got.
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You have to recognize that they've got a lot of young kids out there. They're playing freshmen and they lost great players. People don't realize the number of great players they lost. I think probably they're a good team, but they're not the same team as they were last year.
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We seem to have hit a little bit of a wall. We were playing better in the first half of the season.
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We just had no answer for the big kid. He doesn't miss once he touches the ball.
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We lost a lot of close games. We've not been beaten badly by anyone.
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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.
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Obviously, we have no leader on the floor. That is obvious if you watch us. I don't think they trust me. My feeling is that most of them think I'm over the hill. Maybe I'm just exaggerating.
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We were consistent on both ends of the court.
These are the lessons. They were the teachers, and we were the students.
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Sometimes you have to be empty. That is one thing I have truly learned in all the rebuilding projects. At some point, you have got to take a punch to the gut that just empties all the arrogance or pride or false hopes, and then you realize we better face up to who we are.
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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.
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They made the plays they had to make and we didn't.