Rod Barnes
Rod Barnes
Rodrick Kenneth Barnesis an American college basketball coach and current head coach of the Cal State Bakersfield Men's Basketball program. He previously served as head coach for the Georgia State University men's basketball team of the NCAA Division I's Colonial Athletic Association. Barnes was also head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of Mississippi...
confident fight team
We're not the most confident team by our play right now, but we've got to fight through. We're going to keep fighting.
letting stayed talking
We stayed there for a while talking to him, just letting him know we were there for him.
easily forward lost row steps though three win won
We won three in a row, we lost three in a row and we can very easily win three in a row again. What we can't do is take steps back. Even though we didn't win, we made a step forward today.
confidence confident weeks
We still have confidence - not as confident as we were, maybe, two weeks ago, but still confident that we can win.
change good gotten night team
We're a team that's gotten off to a good start. But we've got to come to play every night, or things will change in a hurry.
last ncaa ok
We're going to play in the NCAA Tournament. So this is not their last go-around with me, OK ?
basketball behind focused good inside scoring year
When we can go inside to Curtis, he's good at scoring with the basketball. I've really focused this year on our offense. We're a little behind on defense.
determination games tournament win
We were in a tournament with all of our guys. All of a sudden, we come back and ... we're determined. We win 27 games (in 2000-01).
chance expect work
I expect him to be back. He won't get a chance to work out with us, but we expect to have him back in uniform.
carolina game helps kids lost south team
If we lost that first game at Alabama, our kids would be questioning themselves. We accomplished that. To come back and play an experienced team like South Carolina and win, it helps with our confidence.
advantage exciting freshman game given intense means sleep sophomore taking wants win
He's been given more opportunities and he's taking advantage of that. So it will be exciting for him to go back, but I don't think it means as much as his freshman and sophomore year. I think it's big to him, but it's not like he's not going to sleep before the game or be all intense about it. He wants to win because I think Bam just wants to win.
confidence looked taking tense
We looked like we lacked confidence and we were tense taking the shots.
action last saw
He was good, not great. You could tell he had not had live action in the last two games. But I saw some aggressiveness.
backup challenged few games good helped knocking last lost minutes played playing point running shots state
He has really helped us and been a good backup point guard, but we have got to get him back playing well. I challenged him after the Mississippi State game. He has lost some of his aggressiveness. He was attacking, knocking down shots and running the team. The last few games he has not played as many minutes as we need him to play.