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...
basketball looked miserable played prove shooting team throwing trying
We played miserable basketball in the first half. We looked like a team trying to prove it could be a 94-foot (end-to-end) team -- throwing one-handed passes, shooting on the fly.
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.
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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.
These are the lessons. They were the teachers, and we were the students.
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.
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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.
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We earned last place. The team slowly eroded, and we played our worst basketball at the end of the season. The game meant something to Arizona State. They wanted it, and we didn't. We don't have the toughness to play 40 minutes, and Arizona State could have beaten us by 40.
agreed effort last major running start talked trying turn wins
We've made it clear, actually agreed as a group, that we would like to make a major effort to turn things around this time. We talked about trying to get a running start last week. We're not going talk about wins and losses.
happy
I was happy we battled and showed a little grit.
against dominated foster good happened happens hopes hurt knew ok order oregon played reality
I think reality has set in. We knew we had to play well in order to foster those hopes. We played OK against Oregon State, and we just got dominated by Oregon. It hurt to play like that. That's what happens when you are not a good team. Our hopes were higher, but what has happened was not unexpected.
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We're all 100 percent for keeping the elementary schools in their communities opposed to making a warehouse for the kids, so to speak.
came glad
I thought it should have come sooner. I'm glad it came when it did.
improvement shown
We have not shown the improvement I expected.