Devan Downey
Devan Downey
Devan Deangelo Downeyis an American professional basketball player...
coaches maybe
They were way down the list. I know the coaches don't like that, so maybe they'll have it out for me.
ball deserved focus game whatever
I told E before the game that I was going to look for him as much as possible. He deserved a game for us to focus on him and let him do whatever he wanted to do. We wanted to get him the ball because he deserved his homecoming.
deserved focus game hard plays practices whatever
I told 'E' before the game that I'm going to look to you as much as possible. He's a senior. He deserved for us to just focus on him and let him do whatever he wanted to do. He plays hard and practices hard. We just wanted to get him the ball.
means win
We just told each other we had to get a win by any means necessary.
andy coach coffin head nail shut
We just told each other we can't lose. This is the way (interim head coach Andy Kennedy) put it - someone was going to be a nail and a hammer. Someone was going to have their coffin shut tonight. We couldn't let it be us.
either overrated
Either they're overrated or we're underrated, one of the two.
everybody game knows percent
This whole game is my fault. Everybody knows that if I don't play good, we can't win. This game is 100 percent my fault. I ain't the kind to make excuses. I just didn't come to play.
beat committee deserved everybody game hard lay prove selection teammates telling win
What I've been telling my teammates is let's go out and win. If we just go and lay down and get beat the first round, the (NCAA) Selection Committee is going to say, 'I told you. They can't even win a game in the NIT. What makes you think they deserved to be in the (NCAA) Tournament?' So I just told them let's go out and play hard and win it, just to prove everybody wrong.
gets
It's just Eric's will to win. He was just talking. He gets a little emotional. That's all it was. It was nothing serious.
against coaches toughness
It's us and the coaches and everyone against us, that's what we need to get that toughness in it.
bigger forward looking year
They're never on TV. Every year they go to the NIT. They look forward to going to the NIT. I was looking for bigger things.
beat free games hit lost saying seal throws today
It just rimmed out. I ain't going to beat myself up saying that I lost the game. I've hit a lot of free throws at the end of games to seal the deal. Sometimes they go my way. Sometimes they don't. Today they didn't.
definitely
It was definitely one we let get away. We should have had this one.
beat beaten double figures james team
There's no way that team would've beat us with James and Jihad. We would've beaten them double figures with those two.