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...
exact guys needed screws turned yale
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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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.
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He'll have played against some of the best players in the country, so hopefully it will help his game as he plays the guys in our league as well.
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We took advantage of the fact that they had a couple of guys that didn't shoot it as well as they are capable of. For the most part, we did a pretty good job.
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I think our guys are pretty bright. They understand how important the game is and how Princeton is playing. They respect everybody in this league and understand how hard it is to win the league.
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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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For the most part, I was very proud of our effort. Before the game, we talked a little bit about having tremendous respect for this program, but we couldn't let that become a fear factor. I thought our guys did a pretty good job of understanding that concept.
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I'm guessing I just got divorced from those kids. And that's not an easy thing. And while I get divorced from those guys on one hand now I accept another group of guys with open arms and I will do my best to do everything I can to help you be better.
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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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.