Herb Sendek
Herb Sendek
Herbert Joseph Sendekis an American college basketball coach and the current men's basketball coach at Santa Clara...
polls rankings
It's early, those polls and rankings are going to change.
attacking based guys measure number points team value
It's a team game. Those guys didn't take a lot of shots. We were attacking what we thought was there. We don't measure value based on the number of points a guy gets.
depth good parts playing quality seem
They have established themselves. They have quality depth and a lot of athleticism. They have a lot of good working parts and really seem to be playing together.
indication perform
There was no indication that we would perform the way we did tonight.
games took
There were games where we took 40 three-pointers. Who does that?
averages guys last points
There probably weren't many guys around the country, if any, who scored 41 points last weekend. Then you see he averages over 20 (points), averages over 10 (rebounds). Some guys can't get that in one game. He does it every night.
best homework lose variety
It's always challenging when you lose one of your best players. We have to prepare, certainly, for a variety of contingencies and that may make our homework a little more in-depth.
athletic caught eventually quick
They're just amazing, how quick and athletic they are. It eventually caught up to us.
basketball college
It was a really hard-fought college basketball game.
cal emotional great shot tough win
It was a tough way to lose, a hard-fought and very emotional game. And it was a great shot by Cal to win it.
mean taking
Even when we're taking 3s, that doesn't mean our mind-set isn't to go inside. It's not one or the other like that.
against assignment bit challenge defensive faced five good guys job last motion offense perhaps run second type week
They run a motion offense with five 3-point shooters on the floor, and they do a good job of spacing and screening. It will really challenge our guys to get down and guard, and perhaps have to do so for 35 second possessions. A really different type of defensive assignment than what we faced last week against Alabama, which was inside-oriented and spaced a little bit tighter.
equally guard guards inside special stopping trio
With their inside prowess, it makes it more challenging to guard them. What makes them so special is their balanced. Stopping that trio of guards is equally challenging.
brilliant connect dots hard help invaluable julius last meant overcome practice seen talking team terms wonder year
When you think of Tony, you think back to all that he's had to overcome in terms of injuries. What he's meant our team this year has really hard to calculate; he's been invaluable to us. Only now that we've seen how brilliant he has been you can't help but wonder what he could have meant to our team last year. In retrospect, we can now connect the dots and see what Julius was talking about when he could only practice with us that year.