Melvin Watkins
Melvin Watkins
Melvin Lenzo Watkinsis an American college basketball coach and former player. He is an assistant coach under Mike Anderson at the University of Arkansas. He has also been the associate head coach at the University of Missouri. He served as interim head coach during the end of the 2006 season, but returned to his former position when new coach Mike Anderson was hired...
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We're fragile, but what you saw today, there have been other teams that have come here and got spanked pretty good.
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I'm excited about the opportunity to be a part of what I feel is an exciting brand of basketball and a winning brand of basketball. How can you not want to be a part of this?
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We talked about, hey, whatever baggage we had, don't get on the plane with that. Leave it over in your dorms or apartments and when we come out there this is a fresh start.
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We tend to beat ourselves. We tend to get a little hesitant and I just can't figure out why.
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On game day, I expect the guys to have energy no matter who the coach is. We just didn't have it today. Kansas just took it to us and that's the way I'm going to look at it.
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I feel like I know better than anyone what needs to happen here in terms of the players we need to get in with what we've got returning. I'm going to have the upper hand on anyone in terms of trying to get this thing turned around and get it back in the right direction quicker than anyone that's out there. That's my opinion.
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They may be playing the best basketball in the conference right now. You are seeing a team grow up right before your eyes.
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It's all in our hands now. With Nebraska being that team standing in front of us, we better put a lot into us getting ourselves ready to play. If not, we'll be coming home.
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They're playing the best basketball in the conference right now. They're playing with a lot of confidence, hitting shots and playing very well as a team.
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It's a decision that he's been contemplating for some time. I do hope he would keep his options open.
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What he told us is, it's an opportunity to get back to playing basketball. All the speculation was a heavy burden.
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If you're talking to me, I want to be the head coach here.
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I maybe have a few years left in me. I enjoy this. I enjoy the kids. . . . Yes, I want to be a head coach. I was a head coach, and I want to continue to be a head coach.
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The external motivation lasts maybe one or two plays ? I?m just directing things a little bit. We needed to shake things up a bit and just get back to the basics and fundamentals.