Fran Dunphy
Fran Dunphy
Francis Joseph DunphyOctober 5, 1948) is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the head men's basketball coach at Temple University. He succeeded John Chaney in 2006...
critical early good guys job
It was critical for us. I thought our guys did a good job early on, but you know they are going to make a run.
beat few mix
They can beat you inside, or go outside. We are going to have to mix up a few defenses to try and get them off rhythm.
challenge game matter
It'll be a pro-Texas crowd, but it's a challenge no matter where the game is played.
college enjoy fortunate great hawaii history opportunity tradition
It's a great opportunity to come to Hawaii and not only enjoy the history and tradition of the place, but also to play college basketball. So we feel pretty fortunate to do both.
eight fit hour might practice seven situation six tuesday
We have a situation where we try to look at practice times that might fit for guys, who might have an hour on Tuesday or an hour on Wednesday. In that hour we may only get six or seven or eight guys.
opportunity
When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong.
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It is a daunting task to try to fill these shoes. To try to be a great representative of Temple University and to continue to be a great representative of Philadelphia college basketball.
good opportunity seize surround wonderful
This is a wonderful opportunity and now it's up to me to seize it and surround myself with some pretty good guys.
good separation
Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.
beat character good looks open separation team three
Defensively, we were about as good as we can be. When the separation occurred, we did things that were out of character for us. We had three open looks we didn't make. We had to have those to beat a team like Texas.
basketball bit half point ran settled struggling team
I thought Friedrich?s three-point play in the first half was huge. We were a struggling basketball team at that time. It really settled us. And from that point on, I thought we ran a little bit of a better offense.
ball credit good might
I think you might want to give Villanova credit for that, but we also had some pretty good looks, the ball just didn't go.
good
I thought they had some pretty good looks, and they just didn't go in the basket.
doubt dropping game gotta shots terrific timely win
I think we were timely in our shots dropping tonight, and that's what you gotta do if you're going to win a game like this on the road. It's a terrific win for us, no doubt about it.