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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The strength of the team is up front now. But we don't have a guy who you know can give you points when the going gets tough.
eddie people respect
People can say what they want and think what they want. I like Eddie Sutton. I respect Eddie Sutton.
gone hardest
D.J. has been at every practice. He's our hardest worker. There's not a day gone by where we haven't called each other. He was the most important recruit.
confidence playing
Confidence is like a drug. Right now, we're playing with a lot of it.
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Duke is the premier basketball program in the nation. For us, this is a great opportunity, and to me, it is an honor to go to Duke and play. Playing Duke will be a great experience for our kids and will certainly prepare us for the wars we are going to have to play in the Big Ten.
defensive good score trying
They are a good defensive team. We were trying to score as much as we could, but they just wouldn't let us.
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I want a staff that could relate to young people, understand our values that our program will have and that will not only serve as a source of motivation but also guide young men to become better players, better students and better people. These two guys will be tremendous representatives of our program and our university.
feeling guy hop
Sometimes, you have to know when a guy is feeling it. You could just tell for some reason, he got his hop back.
feeling
Sometimes you have to go with who is feeling it.
game harder practiced season teams
This has been a frustrating season in a lot of ways. This is the first of my 12 teams that practiced harder than they played. Come game time, we didn't always play as hard as we should have.
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They run out there behind that three-point line and it's kind of like a sea to them. Kevin doesn't guard three-point shooters . . . In the back of Kevin's mind, when he gets that far out, the first thing he's thinking about is getting beat off the dribble.
amazing left
Amazing thing is he tipped it in with his left hand, and it's broken.
country leaving
There was no way we were leaving the country without P.J. Tucker.
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You would think we'd never, ever, ever scouted an opponent or worked on defense or any of those things. We tried to man them. We tried to zone them. We couldn't get them to miss.