Mike Montgomery
Mike Montgomery
Michael John Montgomeryis a retired American college basketball head coach, most recently at California of the Pac-12 Conference for six seasons. He is best-known as the head coach at Stanford for 18 seasons, from 1986 to 2004, where he succeeded Tom Davis. Before that, Montgomery was at the University of Montana for ten seasons, the last eight as head coach. He also led the Golden State Warriors of the NBA for two seasons, from 2004 to 2006...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth27 February 1947
CityLos Angeles, CA
block errors failing free given ourselves second shooting shot
We're just making fundamental errors we shouldn't be making. Failing to block off on a free throw, given up a second shot ... we're just shooting ourselves in the foot.
anybody beat game given good ground hear maybe middle playoff starting talk winning
I think there's probably a middle ground of expectations. We're going to hear a lot of playoff (talk) -- and that's a good thing. I would think we'd be competitive in every game we play. We have the thought we're good enough to beat anybody on a given night. Maybe that's a starting point. Let's talk about winning more (games) than losing.
ball happens
Ironic, isn't it?. But that's what happens at the end. Fundamentals, fundamental. You can't get breakdowns at the end. ...That was a ball we just had to rebound.
basically four looked starters
We've looked surprisingly good, ... With only four starters back, we're basically a young team.
confidence effort kids
I thought it was important for us to get a split, just so the kids get some confidence in themselves, in what we're doing. The effort was there, now we get some results.
board guy knows personnel relying
Keith is a guy that I'm relying on more, having been with Keith for a year, to be the guy that's my sounding board during a game-type situation. Keith knows our personnel and John's just working his way in. I'll probably end up relying more on Keith.
aggressor foul gets
Typically, the aggressor gets the call, and I think that's what happened. We were a little disappointed in the foul shots. But like I said, the aggressor typically gets the calls, and we were not the aggressor.
ball best corner driving everybody figure nice position trying
He's been up and down like most young players, like everybody we have. He's made some nice corner jumpers for us ... He's driving the ball better lately. We're just trying to figure out what everybody can do and put them in the best position we can.
backing coming hard poise runs
He's fundamentally sound. He's a hard worker, not backing off at all. He runs the team. I think he's been a surprise, just his poise coming into camp.
college
He has only two years in college and he doesn't have any experience. So right now, he's just kind of in limbo.
learn older players playing teach
I don't know enough about the whole thing to know what playing would do. It's important for them to be with us. I think we need to teach them as much as we can, learn from the older players how to be a pro.
bad knew stagnant stuck tendencies
We got stagnant with the ball. We got stuck in bad situations. They knew our tendencies and what we were going to do.
allen ball guard nine ray shooting stagnant stretch worse
We scored nine points. We just started shooting threes. We got stagnant and the ball wasn't going down and we didn't guard Ray Allen and it was just a stretch where it was worse than that.
strengths
We just got to do it with this group. Find out what our strengths are.