Mike Montgomery
Mike Montgomery
Michael John Montgomeryis a retired American college basketball head coach, most recently at California of the Pac-12 Conference for six seasons. He is best-known as the head coach at Stanford for 18 seasons, from 1986 to 2004, where he succeeded Tom Davis. Before that, Montgomery was at the University of Montana for ten seasons, the last eight as head coach. He also led the Golden State Warriors of the NBA for two seasons, from 2004 to 2006...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth27 February 1947
CityLos Angeles, CA
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We scored nine points. We just started shooting threes. We got stagnant and the ball wasn't going down and we didn't guard Ray Allen and it was just a stretch where it was worse than that.
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That's probably the best he's played just in terms of getting to the boards, being active, finishing shots. And I thought our guards did a good job of getting the ball to him.
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I think you have to modify or put your offense in a position, again, to make your players comfortable. But you look at all these teams, they do everything. It's just that ... if they don't have Brad Miller passing the ball at the high post, they're not nearly as good...
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Ironic, isn't it?. But that's what happens at the end. Fundamentals, fundamental. You can't get breakdowns at the end. ...That was a ball we just had to rebound.
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He's been up and down like most young players, like everybody we have. He's made some nice corner jumpers for us ... He's driving the ball better lately. We're just trying to figure out what everybody can do and put them in the best position we can.
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If Josh consistently shoots the ball well, he'll be very, very hard to guard because that opens up his drives.
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We just got to do it with this group. Find out what our strengths are.
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We got stagnant with the ball. We got stuck in bad situations. They knew our tendencies and what we were going to do.
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We've looked surprisingly good, ... With only four starters back, we're basically a young team.
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I thought it was important for us to get a split, just so the kids get some confidence in themselves, in what we're doing. The effort was there, now we get some results.
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Typically, the aggressor gets the call, and I think that's what happened. We were a little disappointed in the foul shots. But like I said, the aggressor typically gets the calls, and we were not the aggressor.
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I don't know enough about the whole thing to know what playing would do. It's important for them to be with us. I think we need to teach them as much as we can, learn from the older players how to be a pro.
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McGrady just goes bang, bang, bang and hits those shots. (But) the odds, I guess, have to come back to you at some point.
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No. You're going to recruit the best player you possibly can. You can't predict what's going to happen with an NBA situation. Guys are going to take their chances.