J. Horton
J. Horton
appealed coaches coaching dan dean despite great job program retaining stability staff success
I was not going to go just anywhere. The stability of the program appealed to me. Dan is the dean of the Big 12 coaches and has done a great job retaining his coaching staff despite all the success ISU has experienced.
coach glittering good impressed improved league looks noble pacific played record soft teams
Pacific has really impressed us. When Quincy Noble was there, they played what I thought was a pretty soft schedule. They would come into league with a glittering record and then not do so well. Coach Sprague has scheduled some really good teams, and they've fared very well, so I think Pacific looks like one of the most improved teams in the conference.
coach ended junior lost midwest top
If he was at a Midwest junior college... he would have ended up at a top 10 program. He wanted a coach that would let him lead. He hasn't lost in about two years. It's not in his DNA.
albert beginning coaches leading needed side stretching talking work
At the beginning of practice, the coaches would be off to the side talking about what we needed to work on, and Albert would be leading the stretching exercises. He is a natural-born leader.
cal coach greatest guys honored kept state surprising turnaround
I'm in shock. I'm in awe. These guys I've been honored to coach have kept surprising me and surprising me and surprising me. This is the greatest turnaround in Cal State Fullerton history.
asked best bought coach guys hard player practicing time worker
Coach asked me to be our best worker and best player a long time ago. I've done my best to try and be that. These guys have really bought into practicing hard every day. That's not something we've always done.
coach man personally quit type
I know coach Q. I know him personally as a man and as a coach, and he's just not that type of person to give up on us. ... I know he didn't quit on us. I know he's not that type of person. He doesn't have that type of character.
coach preaching shot takes whatever
I wanted to take the shot but coach is always preaching to me about making a play. I just wanted to do whatever it takes to win.
adjustment coach definitely hard
I'm going to play hard for coach Melvin like it's coach Q. But it's tough. It's definitely an adjustment we've got to make.
aggressive coach jackson mike talked tried
I wanted to be aggressive. I have talked with (assistant) coach ( Mike ) Jackson about being aggressive for 40 minutes. And that's what I tried to do.
coach knock ready
Coach called a play for me at the end and I was ready to knock it down.
freshman kid practice straight took
They took him straight to varsity. He never even sniffed a freshman practice. That's the only kid we ever did that with.
determined equal fed gets happy huge monkey win
I think we were more determined today, and we just fed off the momentum. I'm just happy we got this win before we go to Dallas. Now, everyone's equal again. This gets a huge monkey off our back.
emphasis free game good point situations staple team throws work
Being a good free throw-shooting team has always been a point of emphasis for this program. We work on free throws in game situations as well. It is a big staple of this program.