Greg Paulus
Greg Paulus
Gregory Russell Paulusis an assistant coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team. Paulus is a former multi-sport athlete, playing college basketball as a point guard on the Duke University men's team and later football at Syracuse University as a quarterback after graduating from Duke...
activity ball difference easy everybody half led second transition
The difference in the second half was the activity that we rebounded the ball with. Everybody contributed defensively and led us to easy transition baskets.
gets needs playing tougher
As you keep going along, it gets tougher and tougher. We just need to keep playing defense. That's the thing that needs to be constant.
expect four hit knew missed
J.J. is going to get the looks. Sure, he missed his first four 3-pointers, but we knew he'd come back and hit the shots. We expect him to hit them and we look for him all the time.
casual everybody sharper struggled trying weaknesses
I've got weaknesses and they're still there. One of the things I had struggled with was being casual with the ball. I'm trying to get sharper with that and get everybody on the same page.
great knew
He knew that he was going to get the record, and so did we. He's such a great shooter, he was going to get that couple.
athletic boston college dangerous fourth game great knew ncaa physical pulled tournament
Boston College is a great team. They're going to be very dangerous in the NCAA Tournament and we knew that game was going to be physical because they're such an athletic team, really physical on the inside, and it's the kind of game back and fourth and we pulled it out in the end.
felt good preparing
We've been preparing for this all year. I felt comfortable, and I thought we were good from the get-go.
against careful guards score
When you don't score against that zone, you've really got to be careful because once they get the ball, then their guards can go coast-to-coast against you.
everybody excited games momentum next playing showing win
We want to get going here, win the next two games and get some momentum before ACC play. We're excited to get back to playing and showing everybody what we can do.
collapse fight kick played screens tried zone
We tried to penetrate and then we'd kick it back out, fight through their screens and try to let their zone collapse but they played well on defense.
confident couple far success
We've been there a couple of times this year, and we've had some success and we're pretty comfortable. It's not too far of a drive, and we feel pretty confident in that place with the set-up, the rims and the court, everything like that.
matter ready tougher understand
We're going to be ready to play, no matter who we play. As you keep going along, it's going to get tougher and tougher. We understand that.
gave hug mix proud throw water
We thought we'd mix it up a little bit. Sometimes we throw water on him. Sometimes it's Gatorade. This time, we just let it be and gave him a hug and said congratulations. But we're very proud of what he's done.
took
We took them out from what they wanted to do.