Marcus Williams
Marcus Williams
needed
We needed a break. Things hadn't been going our way.
faster grow needed
I think it made me grow up a lot faster than I wanted to, but I needed it.
confident hearts knew needed shown
We knew they were going to play their hearts out. Before the game, they said they packed two suits. They were confident about going to Sunday. That right there should have shown us we needed to come to play.
came coming knew missing needed whoever
We've needed that all year, coming and not missing a beat, so whoever came in we knew it was the same intensity.
few fight five last minutes ncaa needed next offense points seven six solid stick team wants
In the NCAA Tournament, no team is going to go away easy. Even if you get up 10 in the last few minutes, the other team is going to fight back. Everyone wants to get to the next round. I didn't think it was going to be easy, even when we got up seven points with five or six minutes left. We just needed to stick with our offense and play solid defense.
mind
The only thing that was on my mind was D.C.
designed good hands job whoever
The play wasn't designed to go to me, it was just whoever got open. They tripled-teamed me and did a good job of getting their hands on it.
luck prepare
When you prepare hard, luck comes to you.
bigger distribute easier great player
Without Hassan, it made me take a bigger role. I always could have done that, but when you have another great player with you, it's easier to distribute the points.
everybody hit hitting people playing raises shots
Without Hassan here, we need people to come in and hit big shots. When he's hitting shots and playing with confidence, it raises everybody else's level.
ball easy incredible ivan lay percentage shooting simplified
We are shooting an incredible percentage inside. When we got the ball in there we got easy dunks. Ivan got lay up after lay-up. We simplified the game.
attacked bad good happened ready statement
We attacked the ball, and things happened good for us and bad for them. We made a statement that we're ready to go.
coming game looked minutes since three tired toughest tv waited
This was probably the toughest game since I've been back. I was tired with like three minutes left. I kind of looked at him (Calhoun) for a sub and he said we had a TV timeout coming up. So I waited. I waited it out, but I was tired.
cannot
We cannot give up a 10-point lead, but we got the win, and that's what's important.