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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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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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.
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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.
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We had no answer for Blalock and Stinson. Iowa State has the two best guards on a single team in the Big 12.
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I've had some great conversations with these guys and I'm not trying to talk them in or talk them out of anything. I'm just trying to get to know them and trying to do that in the best way possible. You have to respect these kids. I'm also dealing with it on the other side (in Oklahoma), and it is sensitive.
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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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I'm going to be really patient, and I want to help them. But I want them to make a decision that is best for them. And I just want to facilitate it. It's not a hard sell. It's these kids' lives. And that's more important than anything else we're dealing with. The most important entity here is these kids and their decision, and I'm dealing with it on both sides.
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The important thing in all of these situations is that the player is happy. If this is what he thinks is the best thing for him, then I wish him the best.
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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 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.