Marty Simmons
Marty Simmons
Marty Simmonsis the head men's basketball coach at the University of Evansville. He was elected Mr. Illinois Basketball in 1983. He started his collegiate basketball career at Indiana University, before finishing up at the University of Evansville...
ball bit broke good open pack shot
(Johnson) had a pretty good look. He got the ball in the open court, and we wanted him to create. He broke away from the pack a little bit and got the shot up.
creating good guys job maybe scoring team
Maybe it is not scoring or rebounding. The guys are doing a good job defensively of creating good opportunities for their teammates. They are a good team to coach.
basketball best both good great inside jump knack knowledge leader might position shooter tim
Mike's a better perimeter shooter than Tim. Tim might be the best leader I've ever coached. But they both play the same position and have great knowledge of the game. Mike's kind of old-school. He's a basketball player. He has long arms, a good jump hook, good fakes inside and a knack around the basket.
coming good lifeblood players program recruiting team
We've got a good nucleus coming back. That's the lifeblood of any program --being able to get good players and make your team better through the recruiting process. That's our challenge.
crack dawn extremely good guys job late leave relating takes understand work
They're young guys who work extremely hard. They're in here at the crack of dawn and they leave late at night. They put so much into it. They've done a good job of relating to our guys and getting our guys to understand what it takes to be good at this level.
basketball feed good unselfish
They're a good basketball team. They're so unselfish and feed off each other so well.
extremely good unselfish weaknesses
They are a really good team. They play extremely hard, and they are a very unselfish team. I don't see a lot of weaknesses in them.
chance games good guys job putting title win
This is what you play for, a chance to win a divisional title with two games left. Our guys have done a good job with putting us in this position. Now it is up to us to find a way to win.
character good guys half locker plays
Our guys showed a lot of character and heart. It wasn't going to real good there at the beginning. But we made some plays at the end of the half to give us some momentum, a little feel-good going into the locker room.
aggressive ball good taking
He was aggressive at taking the ball to the basket. He was very good defensively.
blocking contest good guys happy hard job worked
The guys worked really hard to get out and contest shots, and we did a much better job of blocking out. We got off to a good start, which is always important. We're just happy to come away with a win.
beginning continue days desire goes improved month since
Ever since we got back Christmas, we have had our days where we haven't been very sharp, but there haven't been very many. That goes to them and their desire to get better. They really have improved a lot since the beginning of the season, but we have to continue to improve as we play the month of February.
create lets offense score trying variety
The thing about him is that he is very aggressive. He lets offense come to him. It's not like he is overzealous or over-aggressive in trying to create things. He can score in the variety of ways.
coming life
At that point, you could just see the life coming back into our bodies.