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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Who knows what will happen in February? We dug ourselves into a hole early. But I like how we're playing heading into this stretch of the season.
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He was in a group that could have made it or not made it. But I said there's no way we're going out of this country playing on a team without P.J. Tucker. That's one of the things the USA teams have missed in the past. We've taken cookie-cutter kids instead of kids with big hearts who know how to win.
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But we're a little bit different team than we were against Missouri and Nebraska. There's no secret that our guards are playing a lot better now that we have them all.
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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.
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We're playing good enough to win, and that's a great attribute to have. Our kids know how to win games.
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He's learned how to play under control. Early in the year, I didn't know what he was going to do. But now he's just playing at a nice pace. He doesn't get too ahead of himself.
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I'm proud of my guys for hanging in there. I leave here encouraged, playing in this environment, with that group of guards.
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I think we had a chance to build a lead or take the lead because we were getting stops. We just didn't get it done.
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I think we're a top 10-type team. If this team stays healthy, we'll be hard to beat.
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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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Jimmy is great. To me, he's great with the kids and he's excellent for your program.
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I think everybody has so much respect for coach Sutton. When something like that happens, we all feel our own mortality. He and the Oklahoma State family are in our thoughts and prayers.
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I remember thinking he's lucky to be alive. That was my first reaction. But the more I heard, the more I wanted this kid on my team.