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...
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.
crowds great lee natural sure telling
Lee is a natural leader. He's been great to me, just telling me crowds are going to say this, or they're going to try to do this. He just makes sure you're doing your thing.
emphasis guys screen sets teams tough whoever wide
Sometimes guys put so much emphasis on J.J. that whoever sets the screen for him is going to be wide open. That can be a very tough play for teams to stop.
matter
You've got to win, or else you're going home. That's the No. 1 objective, and we got it. It doesn't matter if it's pretty or ugly, as long as you're surviving. That's what we need to be doing.
built defense taken time tonight
Defense is the foundation. It's what Duke's built on. It's taken us a little time to get on the same page, and tonight we were.
football touch
A little two-hand touch football -- that's enough for me right now,
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.
best defensive player
He's the best defensive player in the country.
confident couple good
I'm excited. It's good for us. We've been there a couple of times and we've had success. We're pretty comfortable there. We feel confident in that place, with the setting, the rims, the court, everything.
bad coach couple decision demands guys stand talking
I let a couple of guys get by me, and then made a bad decision on offense. Coach isn't going to stand for that, and I don't want it either. He demands perfection, and I do, too. We were just talking about getting it together.
considered great guess happens highest last time
If it happens for more years down the road, I guess it would be considered a rivalry. But they're a great team, and every time we play them, it's going down to the wire, to the last possession. It was intense; it was heated. It was at the highest level.
couple help needed tried
It was different the first couple of possessions not to have the two of them. ... We needed to be more aggressive, but we also needed to help each other out, and that's what we tried to do.
case couple equal everybody opportunity situation time
It was different the first couple of possessions not having the two of them. Most of the time when we practice, we try to get everybody equal opportunity in case a situation like this arises.
couple organized settled
It was different on the first couple of possessions not having the two of them, but I think once we settled down, we organized on offense.