Mark Gottfried
Mark Gottfried
Mark Frederick Gottfried is an American men's college basketball coach and former player. He was named head coach of North Carolina State University on April 5, 2011...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth20 January 1964
ask everybody fun guy key team
The fun thing about our team right now is I think each guy is making key contributions at key times. You can go through everybody on our roster. They're all making key plays. That's all you can ask of them.
balance ball defense difference good half job kept minutes second taking tonight
The difference tonight was the defense in the first 15 minutes of the second half. I thought Auburn kept us off balance in the first half with the 1-3-1 zone. We weren't taking good shots. We didn't do a good job getting the ball around the basket. We didn't do a lot of things well.
defense difference minutes second
The difference tonight, I thought, was the defense in the first 15 minutes of the second half.
daily routine sure
All we want to do is get (the soldiers) out of their daily routine of what they're doing, ... But I'm sure they're going to play hard.
bench energy gave great hit lift senior somebody tonight
Alonzo gave us great energy, a great lift off the bench and hit some big shots. Sometimes on senior nights, it's somebody else who emerges, and tonight it was Alonzo.
alabama call continues needs night sat side sunday team until
Alabama needs to be a team that continues to play well. I've sat on every different side of this thing, guys. Until Sunday night when they call your name, nothing's for sure.
bad call regularly
And I feel bad about that because typically I'll call him more regularly than I have lately.
against averaged body buried felt four game games half holes last level mitchell needed points zone
The last four games, Darrel Mitchell has averaged about 26 or 27 points a game (actually 24.5), and we felt like against a zone he would find too many holes and get loose. We went to the zone once in the first half and he buried a 3 on us. I just felt like with Darrel Mitchell, right now, at the level he's been playing, we just needed to be body to body with him for 40 minutes.
basketball college fresh longest physically players season
College basketball is a long season, probably the longest season on a college campus. So when you get to the end of the season, you want your players to be fresh physically and mentally.
proud
It's disappointing to lose, but I'm proud of our team; I'm proud of the way we played.