Kelvin Sampson
Kelvin Sampson
Kelvin Matthew Sampsonis an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the Houston Cougars men's basketball team. He was a head coach at Montana Tech from 1981 to 1985, Washington State University from 1987 to 1994, the University of Oklahoma from 1994 to 2006, and Indiana University 2006 to 2008. He has also been an assistant coach for several NBA teams including the Milwaukee Bucks and Houston Rockets...
court left oklahoma remember
I've been at Oklahoma for 12 years, but I don't remember many times that I've left the court where I was embarrassed as I was tonight.
defensive good score trying
They are a good defensive team. We were trying to score as much as we could, but they just wouldn't let us.
gains gets good gotten great maturity player
As he's gotten healthy, he's gotten better and better. He's got a great feel for the game. He can do a lot more things than he's doing right now. As he gets older, gains maturity in this program, he's going to be a really good player in this league.
eddie people respect
People can say what they want and think what they want. I like Eddie Sutton. I respect Eddie Sutton.
great job running second
The second half, we did a great job of running our stuff. We had great movement, we set great screens.
front gets guy points strength team
The strength of the team is up front now. But we don't have a guy who you know can give you points when the going gets tough.
guide guys men motivation program relate serve source staff students tremendous understand values
I want a staff that could relate to young people, understand our values that our program will have and that will not only serve as a source of motivation but also guide young men to become better players, better students and better people. These two guys will be tremendous representatives of our program and our university.
best cannot difference rest separated team texas
Texas has kind of separated itself. They're the one team that cannot be at their best and win, because they're good. There's not that much difference between the rest of us right now. We're all searching.
feeling guy hop
Sometimes, you have to know when a guy is feeling it. You could just tell for some reason, he got his hop back.
feeling
Sometimes you have to go with who is feeling it.
best college either immediate junior next recruiting season source team
Sometimes recruiting is either through convenience or necessity. We can't go into next season with the team we have right now up front. We have to have some help. And if you need immediate help, the best source for that is junior college right now and that's where we'll go. We need some size.
defense man opponent tried worked zone
You would think we'd never, ever, ever scouted an opponent or worked on defense or any of those things. We tried to man them. We tried to zone them. We couldn't get them to miss.
good
We weren't as good as them for 38 minutes, but we were for 40.
ask great recruiting
When you ask how is recruiting going, I think it's going great because we're going to keep D.J.. To me, he was the most important recruit.