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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But we're a little bit different team than we were against Missouri and Nebraska. There's no secret that our guards are playing a lot better now that we have them all.
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We're playing good enough to win, and that's a great attribute to have. Our kids know how to win games.
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He was in a group that could have made it or not made it. But I said there's no way we're going out of this country playing on a team without P.J. Tucker. That's one of the things the USA teams have missed in the past. We've taken cookie-cutter kids instead of kids with big hearts who know how to win.
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Who knows what will happen in February? We dug ourselves into a hole early. But I like how we're playing heading into this stretch of the season.
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He's learned how to play under control. Early in the year, I didn't know what he was going to do. But now he's just playing at a nice pace. He doesn't get too ahead of himself.
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I'm proud of my guys for hanging in there. I leave here encouraged, playing in this environment, with that group of guards.
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Confidence is like a drug. Right now, we're playing with a lot of it.
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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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When North Carolina won the national championship last year, they had a lot of two-year players. You get them at the front end or back end. It just depends on how you want to look at it.
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We had a couple of sand bags in the dike, but it's just embarrassing. I don't know what else to say.
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This team desperately needs leadership. Coaches can fuel practice, but come game time, you've got to have kids that are more vocal, with more fire.
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This was really important. We could be 0-3, if Terrell doesn't hit that shot. But we could easily be 3-0, too. It was good to win this game and have a week off.
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UNCP is a very special place to me, and I'm honored to be involved in a campaign that is as important to Pembroke's future as this is. Athletics is a huge part of the total college experience ... it plays a huge role in molding character and creating tradition.
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We don't run a motion maybe in the pure sense. We run some sets, we run some continuity. We've been able to do it different ways.