Greg Paulus
Greg Paulus
Gregory Russell Paulusis an assistant coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team. Paulus is a former multi-sport athlete, playing college basketball as a point guard on the Duke University men's team and later football at Syracuse University as a quarterback after graduating from Duke...
football touch
A little two-hand touch football -- that's enough for me right now,
matter
You've got to win, or else you're going home. That's the No. 1 objective, and we got it. It doesn't matter if it's pretty or ugly, as long as you're surviving. That's what we need to be doing.
built defense taken time tonight
Defense is the foundation. It's what Duke's built on. It's taken us a little time to get on the same page, and tonight we were.
brother caught older
I think we caught them off-guard a little bit. It was kind of like an older brother/younger brother kind of thing.
against bit games noticing scouting seen struggled teams
I think we will see a little bit more of that now. Some of the games we've struggled in, we've seen match-up zones. So teams are scouting us, noticing that. But I think the more we see, the better we'll get against it.
expect four hit knew missed
J.J. is going to get the looks. Sure, he missed his first four 3-pointers, but we knew he'd come back and hit the shots. We expect him to hit them and we look for him all the time.
confident early feeling four great hit knew looks misses potential problems row whenever
He had some great looks early and he'll be the first one to tell you that. He has been feeling confident in practice, so we knew he was going to have a break-out game. Whenever he misses four in a row you know he has the potential to hit four in a row. We had no problems with his misses.
gave line
I actually thought they gave us the timeout. But I'll take J.J. at the line any time.
great knew
He knew that he was going to get the record, and so did we. He's such a great shooter, he was going to get that couple.
took
We took them out from what they wanted to do.
best defensive player
He's the best defensive player in the country.
considered great guess happens highest last time
If it happens for more years down the road, I guess it would be considered a rivalry. But they're a great team, and every time we play them, it's going down to the wire, to the last possession. It was intense; it was heated. It was at the highest level.
confident couple good
I'm excited. It's good for us. We've been there a couple of times and we've had success. We're pretty comfortable there. We feel confident in that place, with the setting, the rims, the court, everything.
bad coach couple decision demands guys stand talking
I let a couple of guys get by me, and then made a bad decision on offense. Coach isn't going to stand for that, and I don't want it either. He demands perfection, and I do, too. We were just talking about getting it together.