Brian Goorjian
Brian Goorjian
Brian Goorjian28 July 1953) is an American basketball coach. He is the most successful coach in Australian basketball history. In an NBL coaching career spanning over 20 years since his debut with the Eastside Spectres in 1988 Goorjian has won six championships: two with the South East Melbourne Magic, three with the Sydney Kings and one with the South Dragons. With a win ratio of over 70% Goorjian heads Lindsay Gaze as the most winning coach in NBL history and...
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We didn't really have a great week of practice, we've had a lot of stuff on the road and there was a bit of flatness about everything, I guess with Christmas and everything.
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With Al, you've got to take your hat off to the guy. He handled himself so well. You can tell the team loves playing for him. I'm happy for him, I enjoyed the competition and I'm man enough to say I love the guy.
We are going to go up there and go for it. It's going to be a battle.
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Tonight, it wasn't spectacular basketball, but it was an absolute dogfight.
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There is a lot of pressure on us to win gold. We want to come out and play great basketball on Friday, and win well.
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One of our focal points going into the game was the boards against Brisbane and to stay competitive. And I thought Benny Knight was absolutely outstanding with 16 boards - I can't remember him playing a better game than that for us.
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One thing that came out of Sunday night's loss was that we didn't show Anstey enough respect when it came to him shooting the ball from behind the three-point arc.
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I have a responsibility to protect my team and I thought it wasn't taken care of during the game.
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It could be two weeks or it could be the season.
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If it goes up a level from the regular season, it's going to be an unbelievably intense physical battle.
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He was kind of out of it (unfit) when he joined us but Ian's improvement has helped to make us legitimate.
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We probably need another big, we probably need to add another if we want to get here again.
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We didn't take a backward step. We can bump and grind with the best of them and they're the best of them.
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We didn't have a good finish to the year. Now it comes down to how we play. For us, it's a youth situation, we'll be spreading the court out, it'll be a small style of game.