Kelvin Sampson
Kelvin Sampson
Kelvin Matthew Sampsonis an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the Houston Cougars men's basketball team. He was a head coach at Montana Tech from 1981 to 1985, Washington State University from 1987 to 1994, the University of Oklahoma from 1994 to 2006, and Indiana University 2006 to 2008. He has also been an assistant coach for several NBA teams including the Milwaukee Bucks and Houston Rockets...
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SMU was his school. Jimmy is my guy and when that job came open I wanted to do everything I could to help him get that job.
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You have to take what you're good at and work with it.
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Recruiting is not something you can rush. You have to be patient with it. At the same time, you have to work behind the scenes with the coaches. Those are the people I want to get to know the best.
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We feel fortunate to win this game. But you know what? Five months from now nobody's going to ask you won it. We're 19-6 and now we move forward.
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Texas has kind of separated itself. They're the one team that cannot be at their best and win, because they're good. There's not that much difference between the rest of us right now. We're all searching.
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I've had some great conversations with these guys and I'm not trying to talk them in or talk them out of anything. I'm just trying to get to know them and trying to do that in the best way possible. You have to respect these kids. I'm also dealing with it on the other side (in Oklahoma), and it is sensitive.
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Sometimes recruiting is either through convenience or necessity. We can't go into next season with the team we have right now up front. We have to have some help. And if you need immediate help, the best source for that is junior college right now and that's where we'll go. We need some size.
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The important thing in all of these situations is that the player is happy. If this is what he thinks is the best thing for him, then I wish him the best.
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I think we've just got to learn to sustain. Turnovers can come in a lot of forms. Sometimes a bad shot's a turnover. Shot-selection turnovers. It was a frustrating game.
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Is that good or bad? The league is so talented, I don't know what advantage it gives you. There are about four or five teams in this league that are good enough to win it.
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We lost a one-point game and a two-point game without our best shooter. I knew when we got him back we'd be a lot better shooting team.
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I'm going to be really patient, and I want to help them. But I want them to make a decision that is best for them. And I just want to facilitate it. It's not a hard sell. It's these kids' lives. And that's more important than anything else we're dealing with. The most important entity here is these kids and their decision, and I'm dealing with it on both sides.
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Oklahoma was the difference today from the first game. We just didn't have it today. I thought Texas played good against us the first time. But we didn't show up today. It was simple as that.
I don't want to make excuses, but he just couldn't move.