Jeff Lebo
Jeff Lebo
Jeffrey Brian Lebois the head men's basketball coach at East Carolina University. He was previously the head men's basketball coach at Auburn University, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and Tennessee Tech. Before becoming a head coach, he spent a total of eight years as an assistant coach at South Carolina, Vanderbilt, and East Tennessee State...
bad beaten half second team
That was not a PG-rated halftime. I thought in the second half we had a lot more energy. The first half was horrendous. One thing I did tell them is they couldn't have beaten a bad JV team in the first half.
energy execution gave guys moses played
I thought Moses and Brett were terrific. They're guys who haven't played much, but they gave us some execution and energy and got us back in the game.
body hurt language occurred team
When you have turnovers, you can just see the body language of our team when they occurred on tape. It really hurt the team.
playing
We can't play them man-to-man, so we had to do a lot of stuff, playing zone.
needed shoot
We needed them to shoot because we needed to get into the game. But they were making them.
aggressive ball offensive score struggle
We need to have him score for us. We struggle to put the ball in the basket. He's got to be very aggressive on the offensive end, which he was tonight.
point
We could never really get it to that point where we made it interesting.
forced front instead leadership people pick senior somebody watching
When you're struggling, you don't have a lot of senior leadership to pick people up. They're forced to play a lot of minutes. Instead of watching somebody in front of them and being apprentices, they've got to play.
ball finish kids percent putting success
We are doing 80 (percent) of things right and just can't finish the 20 percent - and that is putting the ball in the basket. It is frustrating for the kids but we have to go through this. It's a prerequisite for success down the road.
brightest foul stretch
We're small. We have to play aggressively. We can't back off because we're too little. We don't play the brightest by any stretch of the imagination. We just make some plays. If I had any hair, it would be out. We foul way too much. All of that has to do with us being small. We really have to play that way, but we have to be smarter.
hard score unselfish
He has to be able to score for us some. We can't play 2-on-5. It's hard when you can't score from every position. He's an unselfish player, but sometimes being unselfish can be selfish.
conference step
He's got to step up his game, as a senior, in conference play.
final fire hard reality sets
(Freshmen) all think they are going to come in and set the world on fire and go to the Final Four. When reality sets in to them a little bit, they can be a little discouraged. It's up to us to try to get them back. It's just a hard thing when you are going through it.
certainly guys wish
We wish Dwayne well. We certainly could use him, but we want guys here that want to be at Auburn.