Kevin Stallings
Kevin Stallings
Kevin E. Stallingsis an American basketball coach, currently serving as the head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, he served as head coach at Illinois State University and at Vanderbilt University. He was an assistant coach at Purdue University and the University of Kansas...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth1 October 1960
talked worked
It's not like we haven't worked on them, it's not like we haven't talked about them, it's not like we haven't drilled for it.
great last lost people pick players seem seems surprised
It's the same every year. People want to seem to pick (SEC) to be down, but it never really seems like we are. We lost some great players last year, but I think year-after-year you're going to have great players in this league. I'm not surprised in the least.
eventually foul free problems throws
Eventually the foul problems and the discrepancy in free throws just got us. It was too much for us to overcome.
against character great guys lesser panicked proud
It was a great game, obviously. I'm proud of our players. Guys with lesser character would have been too down to show up to play or would have panicked when things were going against us.
amount crazy drive effort forced talked
It's frustrating because of the amount we've talked about it and the amount of effort we put into it. They're not forced errors. They are unforced errors. Those are the things that drive you crazy as a coach.
confident continue difficult elevate embrace hopefully quality respond schedule since status team
It's as difficult a non-conference schedule as we've had since I've been here. As we continue to elevate the status of our program, we need to elevate the quality of our schedule. We feel confident that our team will embrace the difficult schedule and hopefully respond to the challenge.
difficult schedule since
It's as difficult a non-conference schedule as we've had since I've been here,
came chance control dominated finish game grab half hook second tale
It was a tale of two halves. We had a chance to grab control of the game and we didn't finish the first half well. We kind of let them off the hook a little bit. They came out and dominated the second half. They overpowered us inside.
chance control game grab half tale
It was a tale of two halves. We had a chance in the first half to grab control of the game and we didn't finish.
ball good taking
They were up on him and he was just taking the ball to the basket. He's just a really good player.
came chance either fact good leading less needed nowhere offense order win
It kind of came down to the fact our leading scorer was nowhere what we needed him to be in order to give us a chance to win on either end. He wasn't very good on offense and he was less than that on defense, unfortunately.
absolute ball challenge difficult gets nightmare playing trying
The real challenge is when the ball gets shot. Once it's up in the air, it's an absolute nightmare trying to keep them from getting to it. That's the most difficult thing about playing them.
anyone defensive good inside line looked offensive players quirky
We had a very good defensive stand. We didn't want anyone to be open. We were not to go inside the three-point line. It looked quirky with all the offensive players inside the line and all the defensive players outside.
loss mourn south team time
We had a very disappointing loss (to South Carolina) and it will be very interesting to see how our team handles it. In this league, you don't have time to mourn a loss.