Fran Dunphy
Fran Dunphy
Francis Joseph DunphyOctober 5, 1948) is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the head men's basketball coach at Temple University. He succeeded John Chaney in 2006...
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The Yale guys really turned up the screws defensively. We needed to be more patient. We needed to be exact in what we were doing.
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I think our guys are pretty bright. They understand how important the game is and how Princeton is playing. They respect everybody in this league and understand how hard it is to win the league.
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He's just a good basketball player, and the opportunity presented itself and he's done a good job with his opportunity. All you want from your young guys when they're given that chance is to play their very best. It looks like he's really stepped his game up.
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It was critical for us. I thought our guys did a good job early on, but you know they are going to make a run.
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I'm guessing I just got divorced from those kids. And that's not an easy thing. And while I get divorced from those guys on one hand now I accept another group of guys with open arms and I will do my best to do everything I can to help you be better.
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He'll have played against some of the best players in the country, so hopefully it will help his game as he plays the guys in our league as well.
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For the most part, I was very proud of our effort. Before the game, we talked a little bit about having tremendous respect for this program, but we couldn't let that become a fear factor. I thought our guys did a pretty good job of understanding that concept.
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We took advantage of the fact that they had a couple of guys that didn't shoot it as well as they are capable of. For the most part, we did a pretty good job.
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He's really the guy they rely on the most for leadership.
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I think we were timely in our shots dropping tonight, and that's what you gotta do if you're going to win a game like this on the road. It's a terrific win for us, no doubt about it.
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We have to prepare that they are going to play the 50-point half on offense unless we guard them extremely well.
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Our whole defensive thrust was better that last 10 minutes or so. It was a big stretch for us. From that point on, I thought we really played terrific basketball.
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We have obviously some very bright kids who can do some high-level academic work. But when it comes to playing basketball, nobody cares. Unless we do a good job, nobody's going to appreciate the kind of people that we are or the kind of students that we are.
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I wish that was the only problem we had.