Ilian Evtimov
Ilian Evtimov
Ilian Evtimov, is a professional basketball player for Élan Chalon of the French League. A French national, he is the youngest son of Bulgarian basketball star IlijaEvtimov and the brother of professional Euroleague player Vassil "Vasco" Evtimov. He is a 6 feet 7 inches tall, 215 pounds small forward-power forward...
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We know we didn't play well, North Carolina just whipped us tonight. It's going to take some character for us to come back. We're either going to respond or we're going to fold. We're going to have to come out smoking the next game.
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We have to go in and beat Wake Forest, that's all we can control right now.
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Instead of winning games by two or three points in double overtime, we can win those games by 10 or 15 points, you know?
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In this league, everybody knows Tony Bethel is going to hit 3s.
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I just tell them to keep their poise and composure. That's the key for us winning. Duke tries to get you out of your game, they like to pressure you, they like to deny you. On top of that they've got the fans that are trying to be as loud as they possibly can in that little arena they have. When all that's going against you, you've got to stay together and stay poised.
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Cameron had a terrific game; he did a great job on Justin Gray. He is a tremendous defensive player, and he did a great job on offense, posting up inside.
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I guess we're going to go in under the radar now. People are going to say that we're not playing real well. But that's not a bad situation to be in, knowing that you are a very good basketball team that's just going through a bad stretch.
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I don't know if it's a relief or not, because it's one and done at this point and you've got to put this win behind just like the losses you put behind. If you want to succeed on Sunday, you can't get too happy and you can't be satisfied. You've got to stay hungry. Like Julius (Hodge) said, 'When you're hungry, you eat.' And that's the mentality we've got to have right now.
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I don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight, but it's nothing but a bruise. We got the win, so it doesn't matter. I'll be fine two or three days from now.
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I didn't quite see what happened, but I'm sure the officials went over to the television and made the right call. I think we were all frustrated. But that's something we need to do a better job of handling ourselves.
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Gavin's been practicing really hard lately. He's really focusing more on defense and playing more aggressive than he had to this point in his career. I think when you do that in practice you can gain trust from Coach, and I think Coach trusts him enough now to put him in that situation.
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We just have not played good defense lately. That's not our character. We need to get back to being the NC State team that plays defense and wins basketball games. We can't rely on our offense to win games. Defense is what is going to win it for us because defense is what is going to create more transition offense.
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We've been sidelined for a while now, and it's affecting our chemistry on the court.
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We've got to be patient, and we've got to stay together and play together. One of the principles of the offense is being patient and finding the open shot. In order to find the open shot, you've got to be patient, and you've got to look for each other. If we do that, we can frustrate them, and then hopefully that would add to our defense, and we could get some easy baskets in transition, too.