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'm proud of our efforts. We worked hard, played hard, played against a very hard basketball team and did a great job.
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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.
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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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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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We had one stretch of very inconsistent offense, and making poor choices. You can't give that team a 21-point lead. We didn't shoot well, obviously, but it would be wrong if you didn't credit Villanova's defense for a lot of it.
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The guard play on both teams was, and is, extraordinary. The Nelson-West combination with Pat Carroll as a shooter was phenomenal. Villanova has great guard play, too. Neither one was a box of chocolates to play against. The knowledge of the game and the way they carry themselves is what you want to see.
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It was a fractured game because of all the fouling. There's not a good flow to the game, but you have to battle through it some time.
change period
Things change in a two-year period of time.
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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.
chance
I've got a chance to be reborn again.
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It's weighing on a lot of peoples' minds up at Cornell. I know coach Donahue is struggling with it, but I think he's doing a good job of trying to go on.
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It'll be a pro-Texas crowd, but it's a challenge no matter where the game is played.
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It was nice to see Oz make his first jumper of the game and have it be a three, and we put some space between us and them.
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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.