Jim Calhoun
Jim Calhoun
James A. Calhoun is the former head coach of the University of Connecticut men's basketball team. His teams won three NCAA national championships, played in four Final Fours, won the 1988 NIT title, and seven Big East tournament championships. With his team's 2011 NCAA title win, the 68-year-old Calhoun became the oldest coach to win a Division I men's basketball title. He won his 800th game in 2009 and finished his career with 873 victories, ranking 12th all-time as of...
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We've taken the quality of teams and just increased them in quantity. I don't think anybody truly understands how difficult this league will be day in and day out.
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There are no easy routes in this tournament. I thought we could eventually take control of this game, but Kentucky kept fighting back.
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We lead the country in field-goal percentage defense at 37 (percent) coming in. We average 9.6 blocked shots per game. All those numbers would tell you that we did not do the things that we're capable of doing.
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We're trying to give him a lot of reinforcement, tell him to take a couple of chances, make a few mistakes, because you can't make good plays unless you make a few mistakes. Craig becomes more important down the stretch.
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We're trying to put pressure on Craig ? and I mean positive pressure ? and give him the reinforcement that he needs to take a few chances. You can't make good plays unless you make a few mistakes.
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The problem is trying to encapsulate 38 years of your life, of everything that has happened, the ups, the downs, the people involved,
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We haven't played defense really well the past couple of weeks and that was just highlighted there.
seen stayed watch
We have not seen each other as a group, I didn't watch any of the games. I just kind of stayed away, did things with my wife, shopping.
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When he got a rebound, nobody was going to take it away from him. For a freshman to go in and make that kind of a stand is very significant.
nobody
We have no one like Brandon Roy. Nobody does.
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We will go home to Storrs later this afternoon. I will be upset when I get to my house. Tonight will be painful. Friday will be painful. I will never speak again about anything specifically from the game. I will talk very often about how we all felt after it was over.