Bob Thomason
Bob Thomason
Robert Lesley "Bob" Thomason, Jr.is a retired American college basketball coach. He coached the University of the Pacific Tigers men's basketball team for 25 seasons from 1988 to 2013...
brought deserved few game great slip toughness year
I thought this was the first game all year that I thought we deserved to win. I thought we did a great job. I think we brought our toughness to the table, and we just had a few things slip through our fingers.
coached credit game half hit percent second shots team tough
They hit a lot of tough shots. You've got to give them credit for making the shots they had to. I don't know if I've ever coached a game where a team shot 70 percent in the second half and we still won.
move tough
There were other things, too - things we didn't do as well as we would like - but that's the way it is. It was a tough call, but you've got to live with it and move on.
drop early guys learned lose proud stayed teams tough win
I couldn't be more proud of our guys. A lot of teams drop down to .500 when they lose that many players. We didn't know what we were going to do early in the year, but these guys just battled, stayed tough and learned to win even when they don't play their best.
good players
There are always good players out there. You just have to be in the right place at the right time.
easy games played
There haven't been a lot of easy games here over the years. They've always played well here.
create problems
You have to create match-up problems somewhere. If you don't have any advantages, it's going to be a long day.
adversity beat change defense goal might rebound shoot
We know that if we play well we can beat them. Our goal is to play better than we did. We might not shoot better, but we can play defense and rebound better.
hard win worked year
We want to win this thing by ourselves. We've worked hard all year to get into this position.
basketball christmas looked needed since team tired
We just looked like a tired basketball team. We haven't had a day off since the day after Christmas, and we looked like a team that needed a break.
chances
We weren't going to take any chances with him.
deserve emotion emotions great ready week
We really didn't deserve to win. We just didn't have great emotion and we had all week to get ready for this game. I'm amazed. I thought we were going to be excited.
beat league
If they beat us, they'll probably have the league pretty well in hand.
fat picture statue
If they ever do, they've got to take my picture from about 20 years ago when I was kind of thin. I don't want a fat statue out there.