Keith Dambrot
Keith Dambrot
Keith B. Dambrotis an American college basketball coach and the current men's basketball head coach of the University of Akron. Dambrot also coached NBA Star, LeBron James, while serving as head coach of St. Vincent-St. Mary High School...
almost cost gets guys harder head jay last minutes played problem putting smith teams
I think we've had a problem putting teams away all year. They (CMU) played harder than us that last 15 minutes (of regulation) and it almost cost us. (CMU head coach) Jay Smith gets his guys to play hard for him.
belief believe biggest close difference doubt games kids last season teams won
The biggest difference between the two teams isn't talent, it's that belief factor. Teams that haven't won have that doubt in their mind. We won a lot of close games last season and our kids believe in themselves.
gives great loving played
I told him that he is making me look bad, but I am loving it. I have not played him that much, but he is a great kid. He gives us better firepower because he is a person that can score.
bit good played teams
They're every bit as good as any of the teams we've played if not better in a lot of respects.
coach cyclical hard jay kids pieces smith university
If Jay Smith isn't the coach here, then this university doesn't know what it is doing. This is a cyclical league, and he has the pieces in place to get back to the top. You can see it with how hard his kids play even when they are down.
key needed team
We needed to clinch Cleveland. That's a key for this team because we are not that deep.
beat figure mirror ourselves
We have to look ourselves in the mirror and figure out a way to beat them.
finish
We had them on the ropes and didn't finish them off.
controlled game hammered missed open run slip
We controlled the game for most of it but let it slip away. We missed open looks. We could have hammered them. They got that little run and we never recovered.
dribble gotta guard
We gotta be able to guard their dribble penetration.
board games goes locker somebody teams whoever wins won word
We put on our board (in the locker room) the word 'spurt.' Teams play even. Then somebody goes on a spurt and then another. Most games are won by spurts. Whoever has the most spurts wins games.
bring four games locker minutes move room talked ten tough twelve until
Twelve minutes. We got into the locker room at 7:58, and we talked about until ten minutes after 8. That was it. I don't want to bring it up again. We have to move on because we have four tough games left.
everybody played
We played well only in stretches. Everybody was tired.
beat last monkey monkeys season taking
We need to beat them. You always want to get a monkey off your back. This season we got the 20-win monkey off of our back. Last season, we got to Cleveland. This season, we got the (first-round) bye. We need to just keep taking monkeys off of our back.