Matt Brady
Matt Brady
Matt Bradyis an American college basketball coach and the former men's basketball coach at James Madison University. He was introduced at a press conference on March 26, 2008. Brady was formerly the head coach at Marist College, departing with a 73–50 record in four years. He took the Red Foxes to a MAAC regular-season championship in 2007. Marist then advanced to the NIT, where it defeated Oklahoma State in the first round. The NIT victory was the first ever postseason...
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Every game in this league is a battle. We've had some tough losses. We played well enough against Saint Peter's, Loyola and Iona at home to win the game. Those were three games we lost in the last 35 seconds. We're a resilient group.
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I think you have to win your home games in this league. I think this win establishes us as a good team. I only want to be concerned with stepping forward, playing better and getting contributions. I think the other teams in the league recognize it. ... Should we have some more wins, no doubt about it.
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Anytime you can win by that many points and get everybody in and get contributions from everybody is a great thing.
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Canisius hasn't played to their expectations. But I think they are a team that is going to catch fire and start winning games in this league.
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I've thought for three days now this was going to be another battle. I think we're learning how to win these close games. It requires a lot of energy on the defensive end and rebounding to make that happen.
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At some point people are going to stop being surprised by Jared. He's a pretty good player.
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We move him around the floor and put him in a lot of situations where he could score in a myriad of ways. I think it's harder to guard a guy like Ryan when he is developing his skills and he's never in the same place on consecutive possessions.
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We talked to this team over and over again about defensive intensity. They made some very difficult shots.
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We had some disagreements last season about how I thought the game should be played, and really about practice habits and such. In the spring we had a couple conversations, one on one, and I think he finally realized that he had to put more into everything in terms of being on the floor with the team.
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Liberty plays so hard. They run hard, they rebound hard, they post defend hard. If you have poise, you give yourself a better chance.
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I think his effort, his communication skills and his willingness to do all the little things has really helped our team immeasurably.
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Really, the thing I'm most proud about is, he continues to get better each year that he's been in college. He's a terrific kid, but he's a better teammate for our program.
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I think we just played the most talented team in the league on perhaps their best night of the year. I'm really proud of our effort.
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I think we played the most talented team of the year on perhaps their best night of the year.