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...
both duke group helped miss obviously opportunity sad school seniors special tradition win
It is very sad now. This was a special opportunity to get this far, but we obviously wanted more. The seniors were a special group both on and off the court. We will miss being around those seniors. We wanted to win for them. They helped the Duke tradition and made the school feel proud.
brings closer finish game hit plays stops together
It makes us finish a game down the stretch. J.J. hit a big shot, we had to get (defensive) stops together and that brings us closer together. We had to make game-winning plays and that's what happened.
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.
battle both deserved game lose nobody shame teams
It was a battle for 40 minutes. Nobody quit. It was a shame that one of the teams had to lose because it that kind of game where both teams deserved to win.
ball
I wanted to make him put the ball on the floor.
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.
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.
cutting game last
You want to be cutting down the nets at the end. For this to be the last game for this team, that's disappointing.
came good great guys hit open run shots stuff tough tried
It's nice, but we came into get a win, and that's what we got. All that other stuff is minor. Guys made me look good tonight. They got in open spaces, they hit some tough shots and made some great plays, and I just tried to run the offense.
past share sweet three
I don't think it's going to be all pretty and sweet like it has been the past three games. I've made my share of mistakes, but the thing that I want to do is get better.
against bit games noticing scouting seen struggled teams
I think we will see a little bit more of that now. Some of the games we've struggled in, we've seen match-up zones. So teams are scouting us, noticing that. But I think the more we see, the better we'll get against it.
good guy proud
You always see these things in highlights-coming up, you know, 20 years ago this guy did this record. To be a part of it and to have him be such a good guy as well as teammate, it's something that he's really proud of and I know that we're really proud of him.
defense enthusiasm good knew lacking last needed playing truth
We needed to get angry. We weren't playing well the last two games, and at times we were lacking enthusiasm. But we knew the truth about us and that we would could come out and play good defense and win.
ball careless fight hard played throw value
We played so hard defensively to fight for that ball and then for us to be so careless and throw it away, we didn't value the ball.