Steve McClain
Steve McClain
Steve McClainis the men's head basketball coach at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He had spent the previous five seasons on the staff of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team...
hard work
We had 30 fouls to give tonight. We were going to make them work hard for everything.
holding lack people work
The big thing holding us back is the lack of rigs and the lack of people to work on them,
ability coach coaches cowboys doubted hard head last lead players proud wins worked
I know that in this business, as head coach I am measured, ultimately, by wins and losses. I was very proud of our players and what we accomplished last week. I have never doubted my ability to coach and lead the Cowboys successfully. I know how hard our coaches and players have worked for this program.
ask clicks fight lost people point struggling team wait win work
People always ask you 'Have you lost your confidence?' We were struggling and (something) clicks at some point that makes a team go 'Now wait a minute. We're going to fight and we're going to work to try to win this game.' Something clicked.
care excited faith game guards kids settled stretch
Our kids got a little excited during that stretch of the game and didn't really take care of the ball. But I have a lot of faith in my guards and I think they settled down after that.
compared might people tapes watch
Our world's a little different because we can get so many tapes on people compared to high-school and junior-college. Every one of the teams, you might have about 14-15 tapes you've got to watch and know everything about them.
frustrated justin
I think Justin was tired. I think he's frustrated right now.
brad clean freddy front knew ready standing
I thought he had a clean look. I knew where Brad (Jones) was going there (with the pass) because Freddy Robinson, I think, was standing in front of him ready to take a charge.
everybody excited feeling hopefully learned start
I think everybody will start (tonight) feeling like you got through the preseason, hopefully you learned some things, hopefully you learned some things. Now, it's the start of another 16-game season, and I think everybody's excited about it.
people places played
You look at the places they've played ... and not a lot of people would have done anything different than they've done.
carry good guys needed offense tonight
Were we as good defensively as we needed to be? No. But tonight should have been a night where our offense was good enough to carry us. We didn't get enough from our big guys to carry us.
calling fire
We'll see if I can fire him up on Wednesday, how about that? Are you calling him a kinder, gentler Ritchie?
ball chance defense kept shooting struggled win
We struggled shooting the ball but our defense kept us where we had a chance to win the game. That's kind of been our trademark.
spread vegas
Give Vegas credit. They spread us out and executed.