Tommy Amaker
Tommy Amaker
Harold Tommy Amakeris an American NCAA Division I college basketball coach and the head coach of the Harvard University men's basketball team. He has also coached for the University of Michigan and Seton Hall University. He played point guard and later served as an assistant coach at Duke University under Mike Krzyzewski. An All-American player, Amaker set numerous records and earned many honors and awards. He took Seton Hall to the post season in each of his four seasons as...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth6 June 1965
charge older team work
Hopefully, being an older team it can work in your favor. Hopefully, we can take charge of that (opportunity in the NIT) and do very well.
heart second throats veterans
They rammed it down our throats the first part of the game. But the second half, our veterans really showed something. We showed some heart and toughness.
certainly crowd evening heart led pulled toughness veterans
I thought our veterans really led the way with a lot of toughness and a lot of heart. And certainly our crowd this evening really pulled us through tonight.
energy momentum
It was a spectacular play. It was a big momentum play. You could see their energy increase. It was demoralizing to us.
early few obviously personnel score shots struggled tough
He struggled tremendously and obviously with some of the personnel that we have right now if he's not going to score well it's going to be tough for us. It started off early that he didn't make a few shots and it didn't get better from there.
allowed excitement exuberance fairly group kids players year youthful
With a different group of players you have a different team. Two years ago we were fairly young with a youthful exuberance and excitement about our program. I think this year the kids have been mature. It has been a different set of circumstances that allowed us to get to this point.
beyond climbing coming direction game moving program step thinking won
We haven't won this game in a long time. Thinking anything beyond this ... we have a game coming up Saturday. ... This is a step in (the right) direction. We're climbing the ladder. I feel like we're moving our program in the direction that we're all very proud.
couple days game hoping next prior
We need to get back to our order. I'm hoping we can do that the next couple days prior to our game on Wednesday.
certainly few good illinois last ncaa position puts recognize signature win
We're thrilled. This certainly puts us in position (for an NCAA bid) with a signature win around the country. We recognize how good Illinois has been over the last few years.
certainly none telling undoing
You can certainly look at a lot of stats, but none are more telling than 24 turnovers. That was our undoing this afternoon.
ability best expect guy key kinds means whatever
We need him to be one of our better players, if not our best player. Whatever that takes, whatever that means for Dion to internalize that. He's that good. He has the ability to do those kinds of things. Certainly, we need that from him. I'm going to expect him to be a key guy and one of our better players.
across ball catch court great hoping pitching shot supposed
We had it set up for Daniel. The thing he was supposed to do was make the play, not necessarily the shot. And I thought he made a great read pitching the ball across the court to Dion. I was hoping Dion would take the shot on the catch or off the catch.
people
We've let a lot of people down -- I've let a lot of people down.
bit earlier falling panicked pass shots trying
We panicked a little bit trying to get back with one pass or one possession. When shots weren't falling like they had earlier this season, we were pressing a little bit.