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...
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.
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.
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.
playing team
We're a different team when he's playing like that.
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.
character games team
I think you get in these games and you really see who your team is and what their character is.
build happiest life team
We're probably the happiest 1-6 team around. We showed a little life and got back to doing some of the things we need to do to be successful. We're not happy, but hopefully, we have something we can build off of.
advantage against few great team
Against a team as great as they are, you have few opportunities to take control. We didn't take advantage of the opportunities we had.
attitude felt good great news team today together
I felt this team was very together today and had a great attitude and approach. I told them the good news is we're only down 10.
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.
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.
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.