Dave Bike
Dave Bike
Dave Bikewas the former men's head basketball coach at Sacred Heart University. He led the Pioneers to a Division II national championship in 1986, and oversaw the transition of the program to the Division I level. He retired on May 30, 2013, after a 35-year career...
despite game last lost missed playing point run slow
We can't let them play their up-tempo style. We won't be able to run with them. They are playing well, despite having lost three, 1,000 (career) point scorers from last season. They haven't really missed a beat. We need to slow this game down.
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Monday night is going to be difficult for us. We had our opportunities tonight, but we shot blanks. We went down to our last opportunity and now all we can do is sit back and pray for one more chance to play this season.
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He earned his scholarship. You have to commend him for what he did with us. He was only healthy for the last two years. I've said 'It's not easy being Trim' because of the way he draws attention under the basket. It's a game of production and Trim produced for us.
ride season somewhat thrilled
The season was somewhat of a roller-coaster ride & but we're thrilled we're still riding.
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We don't feel good at all right now. We had a chance to close out the deal and now we're giving someone else that chance. It's crazy. It's disappointing.
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We forced ourselves to make more plays. We'd shoot ourselves in the foot, but I'm pleased with the way we made extra plays down the stretch.
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If they're somewhat decent and tall, they tend to get gobbled up by a bigger classification.
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It's an important part of the season. I don't want to say it's critical yet. If I have a choice which I don't have of when you want to lose three in a row, we're lucky it happened now and, hopefully, we can stop the bleeding.
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They were quicker to the ball on balls that we both had chances for.
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We didn't play well enough to win. It was a situation of playing against the game a little bit. Foul shots is against the game. Open threes is against the game. LIU played well and they beat us, but we lost it, too.
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(Assistant coach Johnny Kidd) put the keys to the game on the board before the game, which is important. But I said, 'You've got to remember, 90 percent of your brain has got to be filled with heart and desire.' You've got to respect the basketball and do the technical things, but you've got to play with a lot of heart.
advantage bad bonfire feeling full hoping inside laid light opportunity ourselves saturday time
I really laid it in on Saturday that we had the opportunity to get ourselves in and we didn't take advantage of that, and how bad that felt. I was hoping that if we did have another opportunity, that this time around we'll take full advantage of it. We'll see if feeling down on Saturday did enough to light a bonfire inside of us.