Herb Sendek
Herb Sendek
Herbert Joseph Sendekis an American college basketball coach and the current men's basketball coach at Santa Clara...
ready talked
We talked about being on our game. If you're not ready to play, you'll go down.
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We had the utmost respect for them coming in. We talked about the fact that we had to come ready and play excellent basketball tonight. I don't think for even one-half a second our guys took UNCG lightly, not even for one-half second.
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Obviously, in a situation like this, as you're well aware, we're really not at liberty to talk about it. Right now, he's practicing with our team. He's going to class. That's where I think we need to leave it.
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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.
far rather talk
We'd be far better to try to play our way rather than talk our way in.
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We always talk about (scoring in transition). We're fine scoring in transition if the opportunity presents itself. Sometimes it doesn't. Tonight our guys did a good job of getting some stops that led to some transition opportunities for us.
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We're really not at liberty to talk about it. What I can tell you is that Gavin is a true gentleman, and he is working hard to pursue his degree at N.C. State.
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I think they're playing very hard. They're really getting after it both defensively and on offense. Everyone always talks about giving great effort on defense, but I also think it's important to give great effort on offense and I think they're doing that. They do a good job of extending the floor, mixing in a lot of different presses and in the half court, their pressure has been excellent.
mind played
I kind of played Ping Pong in my mind with what to do.
defend difficult
It's so difficult to defend them. They are so talented.
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Each situation was different. There were a couple that we really did get some good looks and we just didn't cash them down. There were some that we didn't get nearly the look we would have liked and some others we didn't knock down.
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Everyone of those games that we've won we could have lost ... we've just had guys make plays. Our guys are doing what it takes right now.
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Not that I'm trying to put myself on the same plateau as coach Olson, but it struck me that he was very successful at Iowa, a well-established program in the Big Ten, and he made a quantum leap to Arizona at a similar stage in his career.
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The best part of our offense tonight, if you want to simplify it, is that we were able to score in a variety of ways. We have a balanced team.