Matt Doherty
Matt Doherty
Matthew Francis "Matt" Dohertyis a former American college basketball coach and current scout for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association. He is the former head men's basketball coach at the University of Notre Dame, the University of North Carolina, Florida Atlantic University, and Southern Methodist University. He has also worked as an NCAA basketball analyst for ESPN...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth25 February 1962
CityEast Meadow, NY
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We are excited to have David join our program, ... He is a fine young man who represents all that we look for in a student-athlete at FAU. He's a good person and a good student from a good family. As a player, he gives us another ball handler who can run the team while putting terrific pressure on opposing guards. We were fortunate to find him at such a late date.
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He had a minor violation of a team rule so he didn't start. He handled it great.... I might not start him next game.
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We're the hunted and that's a new experience for some of our guys. We've got to get better. Teams are going to be gunning for us.
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He's the only guy on the team that really commands a double-team. ... That says something about a freshman. Now we have to be able to adapt when that occurs to take advantage of the double-team.
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He really pushes the basketball and gets into gaps. No one person can guard him. It has to be a team effort.
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A team is like a child. First it's the infant stage then the adolescent stage. I think we're in the adult stage. Hopefully, we don't revert back to the adolescence stage.
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We are excited to have David join our program. He is a fine young man who represents al that we look for in a student athlete at FAU. As a player, he gives us another ball handler who can run the team while putting terrific pressure on opposing guards. We were fortunate to find him at such a late date.
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We had our (big) men helping bring the ball up. So, if we were able to break the press, we had good scorers who were able to stop and shoot on the other end. This team is getting smarter, and we know who should take (the shots).
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We have to play the hottest team in the conference and we didn't play particularly well against them last time. Stetson has as good of a chance as anyone to win this thing. We need everybody operating on all cylinders.
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I thought the effort was there, but we just weren't making our shots.
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I think so. This year I want to spend time with my family, do some TV and see where the fire burns after the season. I was watching Remember the Titans the other day, and it made me think about the emotions you go through. There's nothing that moves you emotionally like coaching. You have high highs and low lows, and to be able to have an impact on young people, to get a group of young men together and accomplish a goal, that is a real exciting challenge for me. You don't get that in any other profession.
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We are the hunted, and that is a new experience for our guys.
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Rodney is a tough kid. He really has a good work ethic and is one of the hardest working players I've been around.
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It didn't really occur to me until yesterday. I was hanging some pictures in my office and there was one of Michael Jordan taking that shot, and I told one of my players how there were 63,000 people at the Superdome that day and that's when it hit me.