Mark Gottfried
Mark Gottfried
Mark Frederick Gottfried is an American men's college basketball coach and former player. He was named head coach of North Carolina State University on April 5, 2011...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth20 January 1964
athletic players
(Arkansas is) one of the most athletic groups, players 1 through 9, in this whole tournament.
coach difficult
As a coach, sometimes that's a difficult thing to do.
building everybody players sure throws understand
It throws you off a little bit, but the most important thing is to make sure the building is safe. The players understand that. Let's make sure everybody is safe.
attention feeds gets thomas
The two of them are winners. Thomas feeds off of Big Baby's attention so much. Thomas gets all the junk, cleans everything up.
bench energy gave great hit lift senior somebody tonight
Alonzo gave us great energy, a great lift off the bench and hit some big shots. Sometimes on senior nights, it's somebody else who emerges, and tonight it was Alonzo.
alabama call continues needs night sat side sunday team until
Alabama needs to be a team that continues to play well. I've sat on every different side of this thing, guys. Until Sunday night when they call your name, nothing's for sure.
balance ball defense difference good half job kept minutes second taking tonight
The difference tonight was the defense in the first 15 minutes of the second half. I thought Auburn kept us off balance in the first half with the 1-3-1 zone. We weren't taking good shots. We didn't do a good job getting the ball around the basket. We didn't do a lot of things well.
defense difference minutes second
The difference tonight, I thought, was the defense in the first 15 minutes of the second half.
bad call regularly
And I feel bad about that because typically I'll call him more regularly than I have lately.
daily routine sure
All we want to do is get (the soldiers) out of their daily routine of what they're doing, ... But I'm sure they're going to play hard.
gave great lift somebody
I thought Alonzo gave us great energy, great lift off the bench. He did a lot of things well tonight. Sometimes on those 'Senior Nights,' somebody else always emerges. Tonight, it was Alonzo.
pickup principles talking
I think the carryover is that the pickup games, when we're not present, are better, ... They're talking about principles defensively.
defending good job struggle teams time
I think teams have done a good job of defending him a little better. And he's not Superman. He's human. He's going to struggle from time to time. That's just part of it. He'll be fine.
asked ron team
I will be completely miffed if this team hasn't done everything that we've been asked to do. I think Ron (Steele) said it best, 'It's out of our hands.