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 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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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'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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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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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.
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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.
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I wish that was the only problem we had.
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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.