Chris Long
Chris Long
Christopher Howard Longis a defensive end for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He played college football at Virginia, where he was recognized as a unanimous All-American. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams second overall in the 2008 NFL Draft...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth28 March 1985
CitySanta Monica, CA
according best college country excited glad higher might playing respect says seed team
I thought we might get a little higher seed. We're the 16th best team in the country according to the college coaches. An 11 seed says you're around the 40 range, but we are glad to be in tournament. We are excited about playing Saturday. The way to get respect is to win.
knew open shot
I knew if I had an open shot this year, I was going to have to take it.
fell hard last staff top work
After we fell out of the Top 25 last year, there's been a lot of hard work to get back, by the staff and the players.
ratio talked
We talked about a plus-three ratio in turnovers this week.
close defending ncaa opportunity
We were fatigued, just like they were, and this was their opportunity to go to the NCAA Tournament. We were defending enough to keep it close when we couldn't score.
special
We went there and did something very special today.
ball top
We went over the top of the ball screens.
felt issues sorry team
Every team has issues and problems. We never felt sorry for ourselves.
add behalf bit client helps legitimacy
Sometimes they say they are working on behalf of a client because it helps add a little bit of legitimacy and obscures what's really going on.
best shoot won
That's how we won 26 games. When we don't play our best or shoot well, we rebound.
people until
You never know how important they are until they are needed. We had about 100 people out here searching.
good people played players playing says start until wait
Personally, I can't wait until we start playing those quote-unquote 'good teams' that everyone says we haven't played yet. I think we'll do well. People are going to find out we have some very good players on our team.
clicking
I DON'T know what it is, but we're just not clicking at the moment.
changed definitely easy fed passing second stops
We definitely made big stops (in the second half). We got some shot-clock violations. That kind of changed it. We fed off that. We got into the passing lanes and got easy baskets.