Dan Monson
Dan Monson
Daniel Lloyd Monsonis an American college basketball coach, the head coach at Long Beach State since April 2007. Previously he was head coach at Minnesota for over seven seasonsreaching postseason play five times. Before coaching the Gophers, he was the head coach at Gonzaga for two seasons, the last of which leading the Zags on an improbable run to the Elite Eight...
desire focus line
I thought our seniors' focus and desire was excellent. They put it on the line today, but it just wasn't enough.
against confidence quality road team took win
When you have as many opportunities to win on the road against a quality team as we did and don't come out with it, that took its toll. Physically, but more importantly, emotionally. We have to get our confidence back.
prove
We think we're better, but we have to go out and prove it here.
confident good physical playing white
We're not playing good enough, and we're not confident enough right now. Purdue was tougher. We would get one shot, and Purdue got the rebound. Kiefer, White and Ware were more physical than our guys.
age believe checks posted
You have to believe in your bosses, especially in this day and age where there is so much out there that can be posted without checks and balances.
dream country team
Every team begins the year with the goal of going to the NCAA tournament. Until somebody takes that dream away, you pursue it. The reality is, we're a long way off from being in the NCAA tournament. For us to do that is a pipe dream. But if we were to win our last four, we're 8-8 in the best conference in the country. We'd have an opportunity.
senior attitude reality
You want every senior go out like the seniors did last year having the best year of their career. But that's not reality. It's not going to work that way for everybody. But I think Moe's attitude has been fantastic.
believing came minnesota ourselves row success team winning won
We scheduled success in 2004-05. We came out of that believing in ourselves after winning 10 in a row in the non-conference. Any Minnesota team should have won those 10 games, but it didn't come easily.
area bottom certain control dig games gave line ourselves road taking three win
We had to go on the road and dig some games out. In certain areas, we gave ourselves an opportunity. But the bottom line is the area that we said we had to control to win we didn't. That was taking away the three from them.
knew last score type ways win
Last year's team, you didn't know if we were going to win or lose, but you knew we were going to fight. We have some different ways to score now, but do we have the same type of personality?
came defensive offensive
We need to play a little better, especially on the defensive end. They came in and got into an offensive rhythm.
playing team
We're a different team when he's playing like that.
believed credit game guys plan
I think it was a real credit to our guys that they believed in the game plan and how they had to play to win.
against lacking struggling team tough
That was a top-10 team against a team struggling and lacking confidence. This is a tough place to come in and have confidence.