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...
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I am excited about the opportunity to coach at Temple University and look forward to the challenges that lie ahead in keeping Owl basketball among the nation's elite programs.
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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.
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He has a great feel for the game. He knows where the ball is coming off the rim, and he has great hands.
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He's just a good basketball player, and the opportunity presented itself and he's done a good job with his opportunity. All you want from your young guys when they're given that chance is to play their very best. It looks like he's really stepped his game up.
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I'm proud of our efforts. We worked hard, played hard, played against a very hard basketball team and did a great job.
close last minutes needed
We just needed to close out the last 20 minutes and play it very much like the first 20 minutes.
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The Yale guys really turned up the screws defensively. We needed to be more patient. We needed to be exact in what we were doing.
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We went to Duke this year as decided underdogs. Our job is to prepare our guys; we watched a number of segments of film.
everybody
Sometimes it's contagious; you make them and everybody makes them.
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Everybody stepped up. That's what it would take to win a game like this.
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That's two real good wins for us, there's no question. We feel very fortunate to have won both games.
problem wish
I wish that was the only problem we had.
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I wish my job was that easy. The biggest quality of the Texas team is their balance, not just a few players.
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I think our shots were timely tonight. That's what you have to do to win a tough game like this on the road against a good team. You've got to be timely.