Karl Hobbs
Karl Hobbs
Karl Hobbsis an American men's college basketball coach, currently the associate head coach at Rutgers University. He is the former head coach of the George Washington University Colonials men's basketball team. During his tenure, the Colonials won two Atlantic 10 Conference championships and made three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances from 2005-07. Hobbs is known for his high-energy, frenetic coaching style...
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We're not paying attention to any of that foolishness. What we're paying attention to is that we want Pops to get double-digit rebounds. I want J.R. to take better shots. I want (senior forward) Mike Hall to take control of this team defensively. I want (senior forward) Omar (Williams) to step it up and be more aggressive. We're not caring about being in the top 20. I want to make that clear.
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We had the ball inside and they took it from us. Pops had a couple of shots inside -- dunks he usually makes and he missed them. That really affected our shooting percentage. A large part of that had to do with their defense.
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We're a different team with Pops in the lineup. He creates so much attention just being on the floor.
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We're a different basketball team with Pops in the lineup. It makes a world of difference.
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I thought we got out of the gate pretty early. Pops established our inside presence, which is what we wanted to do tonight due to the lack of experience among their inside guys.
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We're just a different basketball team when Pops is in the lineup. Our offense is able to flow with just a little bit better fluidity with him out there because of all the attention he gets.
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We're just a different basketball team when Pops is in the lineup.
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We wanted to go into Pops and establish the inside position. We competed at all times, and at times our offense was magnificent.
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The guys had to respond because they were going into a situation where they hadn't been before. We never told them if Pops was coming back or not coming back.
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We started to make shots towards the end and we made some key stops. They were right in the ballgame until the four-minute mark.
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You guys are making it very difficult to try to match expectations now.
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We got the ball inside a lot, got some really good looks at the basket and the ball just wouldn't go down for us. We missed some lay-ups and missed a lot of short jumpers, and that was in large part because of their defense.
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We feel like right around the seven- or eight-minute mark is when the other team should be getting a little tired. That's when our depth, our fresh legs and our pressure defense really starts to come into effect.
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Either let them do it or don't. Don't tell them 'hey you can go do this' but not let them take any money.