Ed DeChellis
Ed DeChellis
Edward Richard DeChellisis an American college basketball coach and current head men's basketball coach at the United States Naval Academy. Previously he was the head coach at Penn State from 2003-2011 and at East Tennessee State from 1996-2003. At Penn State, DeChellis led the Nittany Lions to an NIT Title in 2009 and a NCAA Tournament berth in 2011. DeChellis' years at East Tennessee State yielded three conference division titles and one NCAA Tournament berth. He was named the head...
blocked given hard intensity shots starting understand
He's starting to understand how hard he has to play and the intensity level. He's making shots, which has given him some confidence, and he's blocked some shots as well.
nice open shooting shots
He's done some really nice things for us. Shooting the ball, making open threes ... sometimes it comes down to making shots and getting confidence.
aware care shots somebody
He's somebody we've got to be aware of and guard. I don't care how many shots he's made recently.
crowd either good kinda shot waited wanna
I didn't know when the shot went in if it was good or not, and I didn't even wanna look either -- I just kinda waited for the crowd reaction.
critical good happen needed run shots
For 35 minutes, we were in good shape. We made a very good run at this thing, but it just didn't happen for us. ... We had our opportunities but didn't make some critical shots when we needed to.
ball cylinders half played shot wisconsin
I thought Wisconsin was on all cylinders in the first half and really shot the ball well and played well.
body force goes great handling job limit shot somebody touches tough
He's just a force inside. I don't think anybody's really done a great, great job of handling him. We've just got to make it tough for him to get the ball, try to limit his touches with the basketball. And then when the shot goes up, somebody better get a body on him.
ball beat great performance seen shooting shot start team
They beat us from start to finish. It was a great performance shooting the basketball. I've never seen a team shoot the ball they way they shot it. It just wasn't one guy, it was everybody.
challenged dakota days followed game good north shots state team
No disrespect, but North Dakota State went in there with a pretty good game plan, followed their game plan, challenged some shots -- they went in there and they were able to win. It's not impossible; a team just did it two days ago.
playing trying
It's about playing better. We are just trying to get them to play better.
highlight telling
I keep telling them that our highlight is yet to come.
fruits happy hopefully opportunity players worked
I really wanted our players to have an opportunity to play again. I'm happy for our kids, happy for our coaches, who worked really hard, and hopefully we'll see the fruits of our labor.
pulled senior seniors time
He was guarded, he pulled it, and the senior made a big shot. That's what seniors do this time of year.
fought kids
It's a very important step. The kids have fought the whole way. It hasn't been easy.