John Brady
John Brady
basket blocking defensive gift guy player protect teams timing wonderful
When you have a player like Tyrus, a guy who can just roam around a basket and protect you from defensive mistakes, it allows you to do things other teams can't. He has a wonderful gift for timing when blocking shots.
awful element guess
When you do back away and look at it, we are awful young. I guess there is a little element of surprise.
hit knew offense outside
We knew that if we were to win, we were going to have to hit some outside shots. But we never could get offense going from the outside. We were 0-for-6 from three-point range.
looked ought wear
We ought to wear them every game. We looked like Pete Maravich at times out there with the ball.
block close difference gets helps shot thomas time
Tyrus Thomas really makes a difference around the goal. Every time he gets close to somebody, they think he's going to be there to block the shot it seems. So, Tyrus helps us around the goal.
ankle
Tyrus rolled his ankle at the end of the first half. X-rays were negative.
athlete athletics tremendous
Tyrus is a tremendous athlete who we need back.
meeting request
There is no request for such a meeting before us at the moment,
game happened maybe practice run work
We hadn't run it in a game but maybe one time. We happened to work on it in our practice the other day.
ball bump comfort coming defense double good screens team time tried unique zone
We were going to double team him on ball screens and not let him get a comfort zone of coming off the screen with the ball. We were going to bump him every time he tried to go through the lane. The unique thing about it, you can play good defense, but when you can play good defense aggressively as we did without fouling, I think that's a key.
coming double follow screens team
We were going to double team him, follow him around the double screens that they set for him coming to the lane.
bunch deserve everybody fortunate gets great guys hard marches moment special youth
You know, everybody gets fortunate in their lives, and this is a great moment for me personally, but it's also a great moment for a bunch of guys who really deserve it, how hard they worked. This is a special team. Youth marches on.
proof
The proof is in when you look at him,
looked message saying sent tonight win
We have a lot of confidence. I'm not saying we're going to win every game. I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying the message we sent tonight was that we looked like a real team.