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...
both duke group helped miss obviously opportunity sad school seniors special tradition win
It is very sad now. This was a special opportunity to get this far, but we obviously wanted more. The seniors were a special group both on and off the court. We will miss being around those seniors. We wanted to win for them. They helped the Duke tradition and made the school feel proud.
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.
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.
casual everybody sharper struggled trying weaknesses
I've got weaknesses and they're still there. One of the things I had struggled with was being casual with the ball. I'm trying to get sharper with that and get everybody on the same page.
battle both deserved game lose nobody shame teams
It was a battle for 40 minutes. Nobody quit. It was a shame that one of the teams had to lose because it that kind of game where both teams deserved to win.
ball
I wanted to make him put the ball on the floor.
collapse fight kick played screens tried zone
We tried to penetrate and then we'd kick it back out, fight through their screens and try to let their zone collapse but they played well on defense.
matter ready tougher understand
We're going to be ready to play, no matter who we play. As you keep going along, it's going to get tougher and tougher. We understand that.
ball easy free game games runs teams turning
We didn't let them get back in the game by turning the ball over. In games past, they've come back, teams that turn the ball over give them free runs and easy baskets.
athletic boston college dangerous fourth game great knew ncaa physical pulled tournament
Boston College is a great team. They're going to be very dangerous in the NCAA Tournament and we knew that game was going to be physical because they're such an athletic team, really physical on the inside, and it's the kind of game back and fourth and we pulled it out in the end.
everybody excited games momentum next playing showing win
We want to get going here, win the next two games and get some momentum before ACC play. We're excited to get back to playing and showing everybody what we can do.
confident couple far success
We've been there a couple of times this year, and we've had some success and we're pretty comfortable. It's not too far of a drive, and we feel pretty confident in that place with the set-up, the rims and the court, everything like that.