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...
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Duke is the premier basketball program in the nation. For us, this is a great opportunity, and to me, it is an honor to go to Duke and play. Playing Duke will be a great experience for our kids and will certainly prepare us for the wars we are going to have to play in the Big Ten.
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Whoever got Mike Neal was getting an impact guard, and we obviously knew that coming in. A lot of times shooters are one-trick ponies. Michael is an outstanding shooter who happens to be a really good basketball player.
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I came to Indiana for one reason, I think you can win championships at Indiana. You think of Indiana basketball and you not only think of tradition but championship tradition.
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I just think for us to be the best we can be, Terrell has to be able to score, too. I'd like to pitch it up to him in transition so he can attack the basket then, and that's when Chris comes into play.
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Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.
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Indiana is one of those special places where you say 'basketball', and Indiana is an automatic word association. Every coach sees it as a great basketball state with tremendous high school coaches and players, and we will do our best to keep those players in the state.
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We just had to roll the dice and keep Terrell in there.
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We just gave them too many extra possessions. They kicked out butts on the boards and that doesn't happen very often.
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We lost a one-point game and a two-point game without our best shooter. I knew when we got him back we'd be a lot better shooting team.
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We had them at the end of the shot clock a lot tonight, but Jackson, he just made big plays. That's the sign of a good player.
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The second half, we did a great job of running our stuff. We had great movement, we set great screens.
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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.
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Is that good or bad? The league is so talented, I don't know what advantage it gives you. There are about four or five teams in this league that are good enough to win it.
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I see this as something like a snowball. Get it rolling, and it's got to start somewhere.