Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Brown

You hit the chains with your disc. The basket is below the chains. Sometimes you hit the chains and it won't drop into the basket. You get frustrated with that, but it's like golf.

Charlie Villanueva

When Chris went out, someone had to step up, and I stepped up to the challenge. It feels good. It feels real good. It feels like you can't be stopped. The basket feels bigger than it already is.

When Chris came back out from the locker room to watch us from the bench, it gave us lift. He's just really important to us emotionally as a basketball team, even from the bench.

We said in the beginning of the playoffs, it's a whole new season. It's always been like that for Vermont basketball and it worked out pretty well for us today.

We rose to the occasion and played our best basketball the past few weeks. The end of our season sets a great tone for next year. These are building blocks for us.

Antawn Jamison

We're not a .500 basketball club, ... but we're playing like it.

We're trying to change a mind-set, because there has been a lack of success with men's basketball. One of the biggest things when I came in was to look at it from top to bottom. We're trying to put a new eye on things. ... A lot of people in the department have been here for a long time, 10 or 12 or 15 years. Hopefully I can bring some insight from (XU's) program.

We saw how we want to play. Eventually we would like our program to be where Bellefonte is and to play that type of basketball with ball movement and court spacing and rebounding and shooting.

Roy H. Williams

We saw a big-time basketball team play in a tough environment. Our guys in the second half, I love how hard we competed. ... It seemed like every time we'd get right there where I thought we could get over the hump, but we couldn't get a stop.

Corey Brewer

We said we played our worst basketball half of the year - and we're tied up.

We just haven't been getting the same financial support that basketball and football get. That's been our main disadvantage. So our programs end up having inferior equipment and poor playing conditions, and we can't hire the best instructors.

We just have not played good defense lately. That's not our character. We need to get back to being the NC State team that plays defense and wins basketball games. We can't rely on our offense to win games. Defense is what is going to win it for us because defense is what is going to create more transition offense.

We knew that we wanted to keep them from hitting easy lay ups on us. We decided that we would make them hit shots away from the basket to beat us and the girls did a great job of doing their jobs and sticking with the game plan.

We knew it would be a tough, physical basketball game and playing Central on its home floor would be a tough chore. We just kept telling the kids to stay calm and composed. Once we got the lead we were able to spread the floor and make them foul us. We didn't make a lot of free throws, but we made enough.

We knew it would be a defensive game tonight. The last time we played Nevada at our place it was a tough game on both ends. They were definitely the aggressor, they came out on a mission. They were determined to continue to play. Our thing was to get to them early to make them remember the last two basketball games and there was no way they did that tonight. They were focused, they were on a mission. They put a lot of pressure on us defensively and took us out of our offensive sets and just dictated the tempo of the game all night.

We just wrapped up a very good week of basketball. First we knocked off Lincoln, and then Bloomington and then finished like this. We are definitely playing our best basketball of the season right now.

We just weren't playing with the effort, the intensity, the desire, the passion that I think we're known for and that we've come to expect from our basketball team.

Billy Donovan

We thought the three-point line would be critical at both ends. It's the great equalizer in college basketball and we held them without one for (nearly) 35 minutes. And I thought Lee Humphrey shot the ball very well.

Mike Fratello

We thought it was the best thing for us to do. Let them have the opportunity to get back home, straighten out their personal lives if there is anything that has to be done and get them away from the heavy concentration on basketball so they can come back with a clean slate.

We thought, hopefully, we could out discipline them, but they were still able to fly by us a lot on penetration. We were able to keep them out of range early on and thought that would frustrate them, but when they wanted to get to the basket they could. There wasn't a lot we could do to stop it.

We thought he could have been a pretty good Division I volleyball player. He could have been an All-American. But he decided to go to HPU and play basketball, and he was a good basketball player. It was economics. You can get a full ride at HPU and Hilo, but only a partial scholarship here.

We think we're a pretty good basketball team. If we had everybody, we'd probably think we're a great basketball team, but right now we're a good basketball team turning into a great basketball team.

We're not ready at all. We're just not. I told those guys that defensively we're not ready. Offensively, I think we'll be able to score some points. Defensively, we're not ready for Big Ten basketball yet. In fairness, we haven't mixed things up and we've just played man-to-man defense.

Channing Frye

We're not playing the type of basketball we need to be playing.

Bruce Pearl

We're not playing our best basketball right now and haven't been. I think that for the first time the confidence has to be shook a little bit.

We're not playing our best basketball of the year, but we're definitely closer than we were a couple weeks ago.

We're not in it for moral victories. We've got a good basketball team. We have to continue to get better. They have so many weapons, they can beat you in so many ways.

We've decided to go a different route. (Crisostomo) didn't have the time nor energy to coach our basketball team.

To be such a young team I feel like we've made some strides at the end of the season. Co-Lin has a really good basketball team, and it will be a challenge.

We were tired, physically and emotionally. But mostly emotionally. We were unable to make plays. It wasn't for a lack of effort. Just basketball luck.

This year Washington is playing outstanding basketball. We've continued to play well, so each year when we meet, they get bigger and bigger with more excitement. It's beginning to be a big rivalry.

This town has such a passion about women's basketball. Hats off to our fans. I think I may have seen a couple leaving early, but we'll forgive them.

We just have to see what we did back then, and see what we're doing now. We're going to have to finish the last games off strong. I felt pretty good out there. Right now we're not playing both ends of the floor each game, only sometimes.