Chris Lofton
Chris Lofton
Christopher Franklin LoftonMarch 27, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who plays for Le Mans Sarthe of the French LNB Pro A. He played college basketball with the University of Tennessee Volunteers. He was a member of the NBA's Denver Nuggets Summer League...
believe coach
He's the kind of coach that makes you believe you can win.
finally fired kept
I kept shooting. Finally one went in for me. I didn't see the goal. I just fired it up there.
chances hurts shot
I just wasn't hitting. My shot was off. When my shot is off, it hurts my chances of scoring, and that's what happened.
ball catch coming continuing easy harder main move moving standing
I'm focused, and I'm ready. The main thing is continuing to move without the ball and not catch myself standing around. When I'm standing around, I'm easy to guard. But when I'm moving and coming off screens, I'm harder to guard.
bad couple guess took
I guess you could say we took a couple of bad shots.
beaten fourth guess people telling time
I guess this is big. People have been telling me it's big. It's only the fourth time we've beaten them here.
basketball coming fun home playing special win
It is real special coming back to my home state, but this is not my home. Home is Maysville. It is just another game, just another win in the SEC. I am just having fun playing basketball at Tennessee.
basketball nice recruit
It would have been nice for them to recruit me, but I really didn't care. I just wanted to play basketball somewhere.
capable level
There's another level we need to get to, and I think we're capable of getting to that level. We're going to need it, because it doesn't get any easier.
limiting physical playing stuff teams touches trying
They just weren't going in today, you know? Teams are playing a lot more physical and limiting my touches and trying to make me do stuff I don't want to do.
coming higher players
They did what they had to do. They had players coming in that were higher rated.
executing felt hard home plays protect supposed win
This is Rupp Arena. It's hard to win up here. I think they felt like they had to win. This their home court, and you're supposed to protect your home court. But we never give up. We just keep executing plays and doing what we've got to do to win the game.
both coach fun teams
It was not fun at all. If we're hitting, and they're missing, that's something, but when both teams are hitting, that's not real fun for us because we know Coach is going to let us know about our defense.
felt good
It was a good look, but he was all up on me. It still felt good.