Jeff Bzdelik
Jeff Bzdelik
Jeffrey Joseph Bzdelikis an American basketball coach who is associate head coach of the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. He was head coach of the Denver Nuggets in the NBA for slightly over two seasons, from 2002 until he was fired near the end of 2004...
allow pushing
When we allow them to have a day off, they get sluggish. It's interesting. You need to keep pushing them.
allow goal press
Our goal was not to allow the press to get to us; we accomplished that goal.
allowed ball carter catch good hand hurt knew shooter shots smith surprise
We knew what kind of shooter Smith was. That was no surprise to us. He made some unbelievable long-range shots with a hand in his face. And Carter hurt us in the first half. We allowed him to catch the ball in good position. We didn't play him properly.
allowed break came discussion finish half knew minutes reverse second team
There was about 3 1/2 to go in the half and we were up 16, and I told the team I wanted to finish the half strong. And the reverse happened. We allowed No. 21 (Utah's Shaun Green) to break loose. He was 1-for-1. We had a little discussion about that at the half. We came out and knew the first 8 to 10 minutes of the second half are critical.
brought fact good players
The players know this system, and they feel good about the fact that it's brought them success,
easy kept players
We kept them from getting the easy baskets, and I can't say enough about the intangibles these players have.
encouraged heck john miss shoot
We thought they would sag off of John and really try to clog the middle. We encouraged John to just shoot the basketball. If you miss it, shoot it again. He did a heck of a job.
bench hurt simply
We simply couldn't get enough stops. Simply put, they had some firepower off the bench that hurt us.
defensive offensive simply
We simply could not get enough defensive stops. They have a lot of offensive weapons.
against great tempo win
We had the tempo the way we wanted it. It was a great win against a great opponent.
left selection teams
We all know there are going to be teams left out and there are going to be discussions, and that's just part of the selection process. That's just part of sports.
talented
I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.
absolute game hoping left obviously played process selection spoil team teams wonderful worst year
Obviously we played our worst game at the absolute worst time, but we were hoping one game wasn't going to spoil all the wonderful things this team had done all year long. We all know there's going to be teams left out and there are going to be discussions. That's part of the selection process and sports.
happened last
Oh, without question. Look what happened last year.