Ed DeChellis
Ed DeChellis
Edward Richard DeChellisis an American college basketball coach and current head men's basketball coach at the United States Naval Academy. Previously he was the head coach at Penn State from 2003-2011 and at East Tennessee State from 1996-2003. At Penn State, DeChellis led the Nittany Lions to an NIT Title in 2009 and a NCAA Tournament berth in 2011. DeChellis' years at East Tennessee State yielded three conference division titles and one NCAA Tournament berth. He was named the head...
against ball beaten guys hard post work zone
It's hard to get post guys the ball against the zone sometimes. For us, that's all we've been playing. We try to work on it pretty hard. Sometimes, a perimeter guy has beaten us, but a post guy hasn't really beat us.
ball beat great performance seen shooting shot start team
They beat us from start to finish. It was a great performance shooting the basketball. I've never seen a team shoot the ball they way they shot it. It just wasn't one guy, it was everybody.
beat came gonna hard win work
When we came to town, it wasn't a (guaranteed) win anymore. You're gonna have to work hard and play well to beat us.
ball beat credit obviously seen shoot shot start team
Well, obviously they just beat us from start to finish. I'll give credit to them ... I've never seen a team really shoot the ball the way they shot the ball and it wasn't just one guy. It was everybody.
beat illinois saturday wednesday
Illinois didn't beat us Saturday night. I don't want Illinois to beat us Wednesday night.
needed pressure steals tried
We tried to get some steals from the pressure because we needed to get more possessions.
closer good needed player shots
We just needed to get closer to him. He had uncontested shots in the first half, and he's too good a player to do that.
call matter
We just want the call to be right, no matter what it is.
tried
We just tried to not let them be comfortable.
certain order win
We have to do certain things in order for us to win games. And if we don't do those certain things, we're not going to be able to win.
empty running straight towards
We went 15 straight weeks. We were kind of running on empty towards the end.
brown chance credit good lead needed second shot shots zone
We had the lead back-and-forth in the second half, and I thought we had a chance to win. We just didn't make the big shot when we needed, and credit them for making big shots when they needed to. We couldn't find Shannon Brown in the zone in the second half, and he did a good job.
against critical difference free lewis needed ron shots throws
We got our opportunities but we didn't make some critical shots and some critical free throws when we needed to. Ron Lewis made some big shots against us and that was the difference in the game.
challenged couple good guard hit job jump
We challenged their shooters well, (freshman guard Bobby) Riddell hit a couple at the end, but I think we did a good job of challenging their jump shooters.