Dick Bennett
Dick Bennett
Richard A. "Dick" Bennettis an American college basketball coach who is best known for building the Wisconsin-Green Bay Phoenix men's basketball program into a mid-major power and revitalizing the Wisconsin Badgers basketball program. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he is the father of current Virginia Cavaliers head coach Tony Bennett and current Northern Illinois women's basketball head coach Kathi Bennett...
arrogance empties face false gut learned pride punch realize rebuilding truly
Sometimes you have to be empty. That is one thing I have truly learned in all the rebuilding projects. At some point, you have got to take a punch to the gut that just empties all the arrogance or pride or false hopes, and then you realize we better face up to who we are.
bad maybe
We got him into a bad situation, maybe a travel.
bad deal people president
What people don't like is uncertainty. What they really don't like is a president who doesn't acknowledge uncertainty and deal with it. Americans can take bad news, but they want a way out of it and they don't see that from Bush.
court defense fact half ivory offensive rebounds roy second work
We got some offensive rebounds in the second half and the fact that our half court defense was better ... particularly from Ivory Clark. He made Brandon Roy work for everything he got.
freshmen good great kids last lost number people players playing realize recognize team
You have to recognize that they've got a lot of young kids out there. They're playing freshmen and they lost great players. People don't realize the number of great players they lost. I think probably they're a good team, but they're not the same team as they were last year.
bit half hit playing seem
We seem to have hit a little bit of a wall. We were playing better in the first half of the season.
answer miss touches
We just had no answer for the big kid. He doesn't miss once he touches the ball.
badly beaten close lost
We lost a lot of close games. We've not been beaten badly by anyone.
earn execution half second timing
UCLA's execution in the first half was a thing of beauty. Their screens, their cuts, their timing was perfect. In the second half, we made them earn it.
inherited
I don't even look at those things. There were so many streaks that I inherited here, and Wisconsin. When I was at Wisconsin, there were so many streaks there, I kind of let them go in one ear, and out the other.
aside emotions fact kids maybe owned
I don't know what that is aside from the emotions of the game. Maybe the fact that they have pretty much owned us over the years. I'm not sure. I do know . . . that they've got a lot of young kids out there.
feeling leader maybe obvious trust watch
Obviously, we have no leader on the floor. That is obvious if you watch us. I don't think they trust me. My feeling is that most of them think I'm over the hill. Maybe I'm just exaggerating.
ability guard handle nobody quick shoot simply
Nobody could guard him. They were just too quick for us. We simply weren't able to handle that or their ability to shoot the ball.
expense score
Because they score at the expense of their teammates.