Keith Dambrot
Keith Dambrot
Keith B. Dambrotis an American college basketball coach and the current men's basketball head coach of the University of Akron. Dambrot also coached NBA Star, LeBron James, while serving as head coach of St. Vincent-St. Mary High School...
belief believe biggest close difference doubt games kids last season teams won
The biggest difference between the two teams isn't talent, it's that belief factor. Teams that haven't won have that doubt in their mind. We won a lot of close games last season and our kids believe in themselves.
chip last shoulder
They will come in with a chip on their shoulder after last year. But we have an incentive, too. It's going to be a big game. But all of them are big.
beat last monkey monkeys season taking
We need to beat them. You always want to get a monkey off your back. This season we got the 20-win monkey off of our back. Last season, we got to Cleveland. This season, we got the (first-round) bye. We need to just keep taking monkeys off of our back.
below caught good last ncaa played shot team top tough tournament
It was a tough game. They shot well, and we played below average. They have been to the NCAA Tournament the last two years and were an AP Top 25 team before the season. We caught them on a good night.
almost cost gets guys harder head jay last minutes played problem putting smith teams
I think we've had a problem putting teams away all year. They (CMU) played harder than us that last 15 minutes (of regulation) and it almost cost us. (CMU head coach) Jay Smith gets his guys to play hard for him.
knew people
I knew this was going to happen. They had some injuries, but when they got people back, they were going to be tough.
coach cyclical hard jay kids pieces smith university
If Jay Smith isn't the coach here, then this university doesn't know what it is doing. This is a cyclical league, and he has the pieces in place to get back to the top. You can see it with how hard his kids play even when they are down.
game looked
It looked like it was going to be a 6-0 game there for a while.
good hurt job none sure
We have to do a good job on their big three, and make sure none of their (other players) hurt us.
finish
We had them on the ropes and didn't finish them off.
dribble gotta guard
We gotta be able to guard their dribble penetration.
controlled game hammered missed open run slip
We controlled the game for most of it but let it slip away. We missed open looks. We could have hammered them. They got that little run and we never recovered.
bring four games locker minutes move room talked ten tough twelve until
Twelve minutes. We got into the locker room at 7:58, and we talked about until ten minutes after 8. That was it. I don't want to bring it up again. We have to move on because we have four tough games left.
depth hard leads negative people pure teams work
People can be negative about the leads we have lost, but I think a lot has to do with pure depth. We work hard to get the lead, but other teams have more depth and they come at you with that.