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...
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.
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.
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.
playing team
We're a different team when he's playing like that.
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.
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.
build five four guys hurting wins
It was a one-play game, four or five different times, and we just didn't get it done. We just need to get some wins to build some confidence. Our guys are just really hurting right now.
caught middle
We got caught in the middle some and they made us pay.
challenged change earlier needed
We couldn't play them the same way we did the first two times. It just wouldn't work. We needed something to change that, and we challenged Vince earlier in the week.
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.