Charlie Coles
Charlie Coles
Charlie Coleswas an American college basketball coach and the former men's basketball head coach at Miami University and Central Michigan University...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth6 February 1942
advantage although certainly december early february five game games help home league letting pick road strength team three traveling treated wins
Although we are on the road for much of November, December and part of January, if we can pick up some early road wins it will certainly help to have home-court advantage down the stretch, especially having five league games at home and traveling for just three in February and March. With the strength of every team in our league, there is no letting down and every game has to be treated with a championship effort.
best played struggling team wonder
We're going to Akron, which is the best team in our league. The way we played tonight, I really wonder when are we going to find it ... Everybody's struggling now.
fine hard team until
Everything was fine until he showed up. He's good, and they're all good. They're a hard team to play, but we really need to play them well.
forget four last
We need to forget about the last four games.
best defensive game hit open
We will have to play our best defensive game of the year, and we need to hit our open shots.
defended stopped
We just stopped competing. They made a run; they defended us real good.
against cut earn
We have to cut our turnovers down and make them earn their baskets against our half-court defense.
anybody good mileage minutes next ok played replace team took
We should be OK next year, but we have to replace Hatcher; that's going to be the key. He took a team that wasn't very good and made them good. I never got so much mileage out of a guy. He probably played more minutes than anybody in the league.
bowling came fight green played waiting
Bowling Green has always been a nemesis for us and they have a lot of fight in them. We came out and I thought we played well. And I'll take it. I know the Falcons will be waiting for us when we go up there.
coming guys
We've got a lot of guys coming back, but they've got to get better.
excuse liked playing practice tuesday
I would have liked to play Tuesday night; it won't be an excuse. When you're playing well, you want to play more and practice less.
allow easy high presents shoots
Leon Williams, in the middle, presents a problem. He can score, and he shoots a high percentage. We can't allow him to have a 20-point ballgame. We can't give him easy shots.
buffalo confident crowd environment execute hostile players tough type
We need to be confident in a hostile environment. That Buffalo crowd can get to you, and we want our players to play with confidence. We need to execute our offense, and sometimes that's tough to do with the type of environment their crowd creates.
five handle match people starting top
We're a team, right now, that can't handle when people are out. I think our starting five would be pretty doggone good. I don't know if our top 10 or 11 would match up with other teams.